{"id":35630,"date":"2026-01-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35630"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:48:27","slug":"wotr26-authorinterview-thia-mackin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35630","title":{"rendered":"WOTR26 #AuthorInterview &#8211; Thia Mackin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-35088\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=474%2C248\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=1024%2C536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thia-Mackin.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35603\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thia-Mackin.jpg?resize=450%2C450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thia-Mackin.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thia-Mackin.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thia-Mackin.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#WOTR26 Author Interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">My name is Thia Mackin. I was born and raised in a small town in central Kentucky near the Bourbon Capital of the World. I&#8217;m a boring person who has experienced amazing things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you hear about this event?\u00a0 How many years have you attended?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Both readers and authors have told me great things about this event. I&#8217;ve been meaning to apply for a while, but this is my first year!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What genres do you write?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">I write Urban Fantasy Romance. My books are spicier than UF readers expect but less spicy than most paranormal readers want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a book of yours you wish more people read?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Omega is my favorite book I&#8217;ve ever written. When I saw the premade cover my artist dropped, I dreamed the entire book like a movie that night. Luckily, Alex hadn&#8217;t sold it! I absolutely fell in love with Omega. She&#8217;s a strong, independent woman who will do anything to save the world&#8211;even sacrifice herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one fun fact about you?\u00a0 It can be anything like food allergy, fear of something, weird way you broke a bone&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">I&#8217;m an adrenaline junkie&#8211;snorkeling with Caribbean reef sharks, ziplining over the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls, hiking volcanos! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your social links?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thia Mackin\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"474\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_6K2uVt7ViQkAKo&#038;asin=B07QFB2PJY&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#WOTR26 Author Interviews Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself. My name is Thia Mackin. I was born and raised in a small town in central Kentucky near the Bourbon Capital of the World. I&#8217;m a boring person who has experienced amazing things. &nbsp; How did you hear about this event?\u00a0 How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WOTR26 #AuthorInterview &#8211; Thia Mackin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-9gG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35633,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35630\/revisions\/35633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}