Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m the author of two independently publish novels, Khe, and Shadowline Drift. A follow-on book to Khe is now in the editing stage and will be published in early 2015. I lean toward stories that are slightly to the side of normal. My science fiction novel, Khe, has two alien species and no humans. It was challenging to write because I couldn’t use Earth references: a food couldn’t taste like a cross between and apple and a coconut, for example, because no one on that planet had ever seen or tasted an apple or a coconut. But it also was freeing to tell a story without human characters. Things happen to Khe that I’m not sure I could have written had she been human.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I’m character-driven as a writer. Shadowline Drift came about when the character of Jake Kendrick–a man who’d stopped his growth when he was five, had gone on to build a successful career as a negotiator, and finds himself facing a formidable foe as the story opens–showed up in my mind one April day. His nemesis, Mawgis, the chief of a small Amazonian tribe in possession of a mineral that could end world hunger, showed up at the same time. Both men have strong characters and want what they want. Writing their story was an adventure.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I can’t write if my desk is crowded. It restricts my creativity somehow.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
There are so many contemporary authors I admire: Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lehane, Donna Tartt, C.J. Cherryh, Walter Mosley–writers who know how to submerge you completely into the worlds they’ve created.
What are you working on now?
I’m in the editing stages of a follow-on book to Khe, called Ashes and Rain. I’m also working on as yet unnamed prequel to Khe.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
BookBub ads are by far the most effective way to promote that I’ve found.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read and write, write and read. You can’t do too much of either.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
This too shall pass.
What are you reading now?
Naked Determination: 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear by Gisela Hausmann
What’s next for you as a writer?
More writing. They’ll be a third Khe book, after the second and the prequel come out (I never can do anything in the proper order.) I’ve long wanted to write a historical novel set in the early 1900s in Oklahoma. I have an idea for a mystery with fantastic elements set in Athens, Greece with an ex-pat American “accidental detective.” There’s always another story to be told.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, Technicians of the Sacred, by Jerome Rothenberg, and The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver.
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