Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve written dozens, but only recently started publishing. My most recent work is my most complete and mature – I’m just getting started with real stories. Though writing is where I feel most myself, I also develop video games and make music.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Adventures in the Light & Dark is the result of the last several years of my life. There’s a part of town where I walk in the evening, it’s really quiet and spooky. This place inspired some of my best ideas. The story feels very much like home.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I cannot write in silence.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Hundreds, even if I haven’t read them all. Largely, though, I can thank Madeleine L’Engle, Mary Pope Osborne, and Kathryn Lasky for fueling my childhood imagination. I can thank Jack London for conditioning me with prose and description.
What are you working on now?
I’ve already got my next two books in mind and have been noting them out, as well as continuing work on video games.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still figuring this out.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Get the damn thing on paper. Then go at it some more. Do it again. Edit. Rip. Clean. Rewrite. Snip. Erase. Scribble. Eat, get some sleep. Keep going.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Learn.
What are you reading now?
I’ve had my eye on Artemis by Andy Weir for a while. I should probably open it.
What’s next for you as a writer?
More writing.
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?
Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, Jack London’s White Fang, and Peter Abraham’s Down the Rabbit Hole.
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