Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I write science fiction, horror, and contemporary mainstream stories. My books include the novel In Human Form, short story collection The Moaning Rocks and Other Stories, and a Cliffs Notes on Willa Cather’s My Antonia. I’ve written hundreds of articles for the Midlands Business Journal, Nebraska Life, Humanities and other publications. I have a blackbelt in Goju-Ryu Karate and a CTM in Toastmasters International. My story “Ball of Fire” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I live in Lincoln, Nebraska.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
THE MOANING ROCKS AND OTHER STORIES. ELEVATOR contains four suspense and horror stories from that collection.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No unusual rituals. I just tend to procrastinate a little–but only a little!–when I sit down to write, and I need coffee to get my creative juices flowing.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway.
What are you working on now?
A young adult dystopian novel (working title EMPATH) about Kassidy Anne Lange, a young healer and empath who must hide her abilities because she lives in a society where having a mutation is punishable by exile or death, and the government has decreed that empathy is a the worst mutation of all because it can be hidden easily. It is loosely based my novelette A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, which was originally published in Space and Time magazine.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use social media.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Never give up–you can only fail at writing if you stop doing it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write as well as you can, and finish what you start–Hemingway.
What are you reading now?
A variety of horror stories to get me in the Halloween spirit.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I will keep writing. I have several projects–novels and short stories–going at the same time
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?
Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin, and 11/22/63 by Stephen King.
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