Interview With Author Erin Louis
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a former stripper or exotic dancer if that phrase suits you better. I have always had a love of books and reading. My reading tastes took a turn for the macabre around the time I hit junior high. Because reading was such an escape from the social pressures of school, authors were like rock stars in my eyes. My heroes. And while I dreamed of joining them one day, it seemed like a pipe dream.
And then in 2015 I published my first book.
Warned as a kid in the 80s about drugs, what I found much more addicting was writing. A liberating and often cathartic activity, writing hooked me faster than any drug Nancy Reagan could have dreamed of. Currently I have published 3 nonfiction books, 3 horror novels, a horror novella, a book of short erotica stories, 4 short horror stories, and have contributed numerous articles to various online and print publications.
Maybe I should get some help?
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is Colleen published by Hellbound Books LLC. Inspired by a conversation by a friend about the origins of our names, Colleen sounded like it would be a good name for a Succubus. She was flattered, I promise.
My thoughts took me to what it would be like to have a succubus as a friend, but as I looked into the origins of succubae, I discovered that they weren’t always heterosexual. And the whole thing snowballed from there. They also tend to kill their victims, so I was able to inject some dark humor as well as the implied erotica.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I guess my unusual habits, would be that I don’t have any writing habits. I have a day job, am an active advocate and volunteer and run a household, so I write when I can. I write when the ideas become overwhelming and the best option for everyone around me, is too sit down and get it all out before I become the problem.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Stephen King. Cliche, I know, but it is the cold hard truth. Lois Duncan when I was younger, but also Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Brian Keene, Carol Goodman, plus a plethora of non fiction authors. Penn Jillette maybe the most influential of those, due to his blunt and no bulls**t writing style.
What are you working on now?
Currently, I am letting the demons in my head duke it out for my next project. When there is only one left standing, I’ll let you know.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Social media
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just write.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Your second book will sell your first book.
What are you reading now?
I am listening to Go ask Alice by Rick Emerson on Audible and My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I wish I knew.
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?
This is an unnecessarily cruel question. But I guess I might say, It by Stephen King, the Bachman books also by SK, Mister B Gone by Clive Barker, and a book about how to get off a desert island.
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