Interview With Author Sima Moussavian
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Even though nowadays reading isn´t really a thing anymore, I strongly believe in the power of words and get the biggest pleasure out of beautifully written prose. In the past years wrote 7 novels and novellas under my own name. Apart from that, I wrote and consulted on more than 20 novel projects of clients such as German actor Ralf Scharrer.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I just recently published “They way they leave”, a murder mystery about geoengineer Aaron Curbler. The book is a deep dive into trauma and trauma-related guilt. It explores the delusions we choose to believe in in order to integrate traumatic events into our life. What inspired it was, for one, the need I felt to shed a light on geoengineering, a nowadays really relevant topic that is still being muted by the media. But that I started writing it was inspired by the saying “The way they leave tells you everything”, which I consider absolutely accurate. How someone leaves you reveals everything about the person they are, about who you are to them and about the relationship you have or had with them. The day I started writing the book I was thinking about this intensely, because I realised that I for once had people in my life who I knew would never just walk out of it without even so much as a goodbye.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not very unusual ones, but I prewrite my books in my head on my daily runs. Apart from that I only really write in the middle of the night. I feel like when no one else is awake, the great thoughts are still available, just out there somewhere for me to grab them, and cannot be taken away by someone else.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
The person whose style has influenced me most is probably Charles Bukowki. I consider everything he ever wrote exceptional, so touching and raw, so honest. There is nothing that speaks to me like his writing. Apart from him Friedrich Nietzsche was a big influence. His thoughts are up there with the best thoughts I believe anyone has ever had. Moreover, there are a few linguists whose theories were important to my writing and thinking, for example Lakoff and Johnson and their “Metaphors we live by”.
What are you working on now?
I am actually writing the sequel to “The way they leave” at the moment. While the first book out of the series is exploring consequences of trauma such as trauma-related guilt, the second one will explore the getting over trauma, the redemption, so to speak.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I do a lot of promotion on my facebook page and it has worked out for me so far.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
I would like to go with the advice I lived by and that is a quote by Charales Bukowski: “Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don’t do it. Unless the sun inside you is burning your gut,
don’t do it. When it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. There is no other way. And there never was.”
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I´ve ever heard was to question things. Yourself, the world around you, the news you hear, by God, even the laws of nature. Question because if you don´t, then how can you be sure that you aren´t living a lie?
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