Interview With Author Ed Sorensen
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I wrote my first anything about 12 years ago. I have had three novels published and am working on another. What makes me rather unusual as a new writer is I only started writing when I was 73 years old. A curmudgeon come lately. I take my vitamins, eat, and exercise reasonably so there are many more stories for me to tell.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The First Child. Released March 30, 2024. I had been a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children that had been removed and in the care of Social Services. The main character in this story is a young 15-year-old foster child who had spent her life in foster care. She ran away(again) and ended up being attacked by a rogue vampire and became one herself
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Darn right, I have habits. Most are not mentionable. I do not have a set routine. I will be at one of my computers and just decide to take a break and will pull up a blank page and start writing whatever comes to mind. I do not set out a plot line. I don’t think of a novel title and try to wrap a story around it. I will have a character in mind and create a story around that person. Sometimes I think that the words just come dribbling off the ends of my fingers. Really. Many times I will finish a few pages and when I re-read it I think to myself, “Where did that come from, I like it.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
The Barsoom (Mars) and Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Tolkien.
The many books by L.L. Baum – Oz.
Giles Goat Boy by John Barth (I went to Penn State).
Asimov, Heinlein, It’s a Long List.
What are you working on now?
The fourth book incorporates many of the characters of all the earlier novels. It isn’t really a series it is just that I will bring forward characters from previous stories because they are like my children.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just sit down and write. It doesn’t make any difference the characters or story at the time as you write your mind will start to go in a direction that uses some of the plot or characters you have created. The entire beginning 10 or 80 pages may eventually get scrapped but at one point you will have a core foundation of the story you eventually tell.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t quit your day job. It will take years before you finish your first novel. The first finished book will take more years to get published, marketed, and a following established. Income will be very dodgy in the beginning. That Porsche will not be an overnight dream come true.
What are you reading now?
A lot of authors are in my general genre, paranormal, and fantasy. New authors or ones that I haven’t already read. There are a lot more out there than I knew just a year ago
What’s next for you as a writer?
Not trying to change my style in any way. I have re-read every one of my books several times over. Even the first one which was by someone who had no education or experience in writing stories, ME. I get weepy at the tender parts, I get anxious at the tense situations. I have never lost my emotions in those sections even though I wrote them and have re-read them over and over.
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?
Netters Atlas of Human AnatomyThe full series by Douglas AdamsThe complete CD set of Monty Python and John Cleese’s movies.
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