Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a professional writer for one of the world’s most prestigious scientific institutions. It’s dry work, though, and I scratch my creative itch by spending my free time writing creatively. I’ve written hundreds of books, the vast majority of which are sitting half finished on my computer.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
A Letter to My Son, on Why I Hate His Mother. My relationship with my son’s mother fell apart in the grand style. Though I would never give my son this book, I felt like I needed to write something to him, as an imaginary audience, that would explain why I am not able to be in his life the way I would want to.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
If drinking good whiskey while writing is unusual, that would be the thing.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Herman Melville and Friedrich Nietzsche. We’re in a time now where new spiritualities are required to confront the contemporary world. Nietzsche held the key, and Melville was the American Nietzsche, before Nietzsche was even born.
What are you working on now?
I have about a thousand book ideas. Currently, I’m going through them all and bringing them to completion.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
That remains to be seen.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
This has been said before. Writing is a need, not a desire. You can spend endless hours writing with nothing coming of it. But keep at it. Writing is a spiritual quest, and there are no guaranteed outcomes.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Inspiration will find you, but it has to find you working.
What are you reading now?
The Writer’s Journey.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Keep working on those old ideas and polishing those old manuscripts.
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?
Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
The Antichrist, by Friedrich Nietzsche
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