Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve been writing since high school, albeit with many interruptions. My first completed rough draft was in 2003, but that one’s still waiting on revisions. That’s a story by itself.
For years I put notes together and started outlines, but things kept getting in the way.
In 2015 I came back to writing with a new determination. My first book Simon Rising, released 3/10/2017. Book two, Rectifier – The Electric Man, followed 4/20/18. Those are both standalone books in a superhero series, and I have at least six more mapped out for that world
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Many of them come from “what if” questions. My superhero world started by thinking about how with most superheroes writers will start with an origin story, but too often there’s no explanation for why powers exist in the world. So I started my world building from that.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I put a lot of time into character backgrounds. I use real estate sites to find a house or apartment for them. I find floorplans and figure out how they decorate. This let me to figure out one character played hockey in college.
What are you working on now?
The main series I’m working on right now, Riftworlds Online, is a seven-book LitRPG series. It’s partly a combination of Tron and Escape from New York. A gamer is recruited by the Secret Service when the President’s daughter is trapped with millions of other people inside an immersive virtual reality online roleplaying game. Now he must navigate the world to find and rescue her, and figure out what’s really going on to stop it.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m working towards the point where my writing can replace my day job. I want to write full time.
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