Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an Australian author and music producer from sunny Queensland. I write primarily fast-paced fantasy/sci-fi books, comics and graphic novels all with a weird fiction bent.
To date I’ve written five novels (most to be launched in 2022) with my first novel coming out in Nov 21.
I’ve also written 15 comic books, a graphic novella and I’m in the process of developing a further 10 comic books.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Whiplash! The book was inspired by my love of fantasy, but also my own impatience with the old school fantasy genre (slow, lumbering plot lines, three or four stories slowly progressing, chapter by chapter etc.). I love fantasy and I’m a huge fan of the classics, but I wanted to write something that was closer in kind to television or film than a traditional novel.
I love the idea of a fast-paced book which still has solid world building and an intriguing history behind it. Also, I love the idea of dreams intersecting with reality and wanted to explore a different magic system than what I’ve exprienced before. I also wrote the book in first person to really make a close connection between the protagonist and the reader.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Other than writing at 4am in my music studio, not really, no.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Jack Vance, China Mieville, Joe Aberchrombie, Robert Jordan, Philip K Dick – and so many more!
What are you working on now?
Book 4 in the Whiplash series, a spin of novel “Absinthe Annie” based on one of the main characters in the Rust Chronicles world, 2 x comic scripts for projects with other creators (a vampire/crime book and a gritty post-apocalyptic survival story), 4 of my own comic scripts, …oh, and a new novel/comic entitled We Eat the Young, with an urban fantasy, horror vibe.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The aim is to get everything going through my main website (https://www.morganquaid.com/), but you know how it is…I’m on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, everywhere really. Wherever people want to get in touch, I’m there! Just excited to have people reading what I’m writing, if I’m honest 🙂
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Learn from others, but don’t be afraid to forge your own path. It’s important to leverage off the experience of those that have gone before, but don’t let that deter you from trying something new and different. There’s always a first!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Writing is like boxing, if you step into the ring expect to get hit.
What are you reading now?
Low Town by Daniel Polanski,
Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
What’s next for you as a writer?
PROMOTION!!! I’ve spent so long writing, planning, finding a publisher etc.
Now, with 5 novels and 10 comics landing in the next year, I need to promote and connect with readers (the second bit I love, the first….not so much).
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?
Probably the largest Fantasy/sci-fi books I could find. Maybe something by George R R Martin, or Robert Jordan. Definitely a copy of Dune. I’d have to include Perdido St Station or Kraken from China Mieville.
Honestly though, a desert island? For how long? Is there wifi? Do I have a laptop and some source of power?
I’m starting to hyperventilate!
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