Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a neurotic college sophomore who fills entire notebooks with half finished stories, and I’ve only finished four– one of which I actually published which is The Road That Went Right.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My inspiration for The Road That Went Right comes from a number of things. I wanted to recapture the experience I had when reading The Hobbit and The Wind in The Willows, so I wove in a lot of those elements while crafting my own story. I also have a habit of meeting new people at college and going on sporadic adventures with them, making fast friends, and you’ll see that being a reoccurring thing in the Road That Went Right.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Haha, anyone who is overly serious about writing fiction has at least one of those. Mine has to do with role playing. When I was younger, I would roleplay without letting anyone in on what I was doing, and needless to say, my grade school teachers thought I was crazy. These days I find a place where I know no one will be watching, and I vocalize what I imagine my characters to be saying to one another, and I go back and forth between characters. I also close my eyes and tune out my surroundings until I’m surrounded in the fictional setting that I want to write about.
You asked, and now you know.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Well, apart from Lewis and Tolkien, what really got me into fiction/fantasy was a children’s book series called “The Secrets of Droon” by Tony Abbot. I don’t know how many of you have ever read those books, but they were about three kids who discover a portal to a secondary fantasy world, and I ate it all up when I was little. I’m just sad I never finished, there were so many!
What are you working on now?
I have two books that are still in the planning stage. One I have entitled “The Last Twenty Years,” it’s about a girl growing up and trying to live a normal life while a planetoid is scheduled to collide with earth within twenty years time– also her family is involved in criminal activity.
The second is an epic fantasy novel centered on the “Mean Old Hermit” who is featured in my published book “The Road That Went Right.” It will take place during his younger years as an action hero defending the world from the Emperor Across The Sea.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
… I dunno.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Never submit your manuscript to a self publishing agency. Those guys are crooks, and they’ll bleed your bank account dry.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
This one I got from Brandon Sanderson, the author of the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, and that’s that you should never wait for inspiration before you write; instead, you should write until you’re inspired. Regardless of whether or not my book is good, I would never have finished it without this advice.
What are you reading now?
I’m into Stephen King right now as well as Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” series. They’re all phenomenal.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Hopefully, I can crank out those two novels I mentioned earlier.
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?
1. There is an omnibus out there containing “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and that will definitely be with me.
2. All of the issues of the independent comic book series “Bone” by Jeff Smith are also in one volume. I don’t care where I am, so long as I have that.
3. I’ll have my trusty copy of the “Sword of Shanarra” Trilogy (also conveniently an omnibus).
4. Moby Dick.
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