Interview With Author Emory Miklos
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a young author – I finished my first book in highschool, actually, and though I’m not through college yet, I recently finished my fourth book.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My most recent book is “The Hawk’s Maw”, and it’s the first book in a series I have planned. All of the books I’ve written so far all fit in with the same universe, just because that’s what I’m comfortable with and I think readers appreciate a bit of continuity, but this book and the ones I have planned after it are actually going to be part of one contiguous series with reoccurring characters. The inspiration for the themes and the plot in this most recent story are a culmination of the themes and lore of all of my previous writings, and in this story, I am attempting to reconcile with loneliness and how trauma impacts us as people while also having cool space stuff.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I start writing a book in about January and work solidly on it until finishing it up in August, then I’ve got a time until next January where I start a whole lot of projects I wind up never finishing. My computer desktop is a graveyard of cool ideas I simply never got more than twenty thousand words into.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
The Tripods books by John Christopher and the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov most inspire my current writing, although I can’t say my writing is informed by those texts.
What are you working on now?
A sequel to my most recent novel. In this one, I’m going to ramp up the secret plots and bloodshed by eleven.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I buy a bunch of author’s copies off of Amazon and hand them out to people I see on the street.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t plan anything out, because if you plan stuff out, you’re not going to do anything. Just write. Keep writing.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The first thing you write is going to be bad, so is the tenth, but if you write enough, you’ll eventually get good at it.
What are you reading now?
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m hopefully going to finish my fifth book before I finish getting my Bachelor’s degree, but after that, I’m hopefully going to finish my sixth book. I plan to keep writing in the fictional setting I have been in until I die or stop writing for whatever other reason, but I might make a few departures along the way.
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 bible and then probably three really thick books – like phonebooks – so I could use the paper as kindling.
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