Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve only written one book so far, but I have also written a lot of short stories.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Inherited Magic was inspired by watching a show about string theory while seriously sleep deprived. I started daydreaming about different kinds of magic or different ways that magic would look if that was how it interacted with the world.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Unusual? There is not much that seems unusual to me, I work in a locked psychiatric unit. I generally sit around in my underwear and a t-shirt that says or implies something offensive to closed minds and type. My favorite shirt says “I read banned books” and it is shocking how many people look at me funny when I wear it.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Frank Herbert, Arthur C. Clark, Mark Twain, HG Wells
Really this could get very long…
What are you working on now?
I’m working on two things right now. A sequel to Inherited Magic that picks up several years later and takes on a larger scope of the overall story. I’m also working on an outline for a story about a serial killer and FBI agent that fall in love. There is a lot more to it other than that one line and I don’t want to give it away but it has been a lot of fun playing with.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am still learning that.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Shut up and write! The best way to get better is to keep doing it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t do THAT in public!
What are you reading now?
Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
I have always found science to be great source of inspiration and wonder. If reality is so amazing and wonderful, how can our dreams not be fantastic?
What’s next for you as a writer?
I have red note book full of ideas and madness that I want to write. I am going to work on the outlines for my serial killer/FBI love story and the sequel for Inherited Magic right away, but…
I keep going back to this space opera that has been unfolding in my brain for a couple of years now. It will be a challenge to write, but I really love the story and idea.
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?
A book about escaping desert islands?
I suppose I would take a volume of Shakespeare because putting on a one man show of the Tempest on a desert Island seems like a good way to kill time, and prove I’m not crazy. Cosmos by Carl Sagan because if my world is made so small and I am trapped, I want to be able to look at the stars and wonder. The complete works of Robert Frost because I look to poetry for solace. Last but not least, a choose your own adventure book so I won’t get bored.
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