tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50429043246486312332024-03-05T04:04:05.488-08:00You Are Entitled To My OpinionAn Interview BlogScott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-87497076028027421852015-06-24T16:25:00.001-07:002015-06-24T16:36:46.851-07:00Interview with Joe Powers.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Joe Powers</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve been called all kinds of things. Nothing that’s really stuck
though.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well, with a cool last name like “Powers”
there’s not a lot of room for improvement.<br />
</i>I’ll grant you that. Interestingly, when they gave me my grandfather’s
middle name instead of his first, I narrowly avoided becoming the original
Austin Powers.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That would’ve been shagadelic baby!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, an unfortunate coincidence.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace / Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Fredericton, NB to both. I’ve actually come full circle, in a way:
I’ve spent the last fifteen years living in the house I spent the first four
years of my life in.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve drifted around a little bit, but rarely very far, and I always
come back. It’s a great area in so many ways. It’ll always be home.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthday / Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">September 24<sup>th</sup>. I’ll be 44 this year.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Large, hairy, and unintentionally intimidating.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So, like a friendly bigfoot.</i><br />
That’s about right. One of my sister’s friends likes to claim there are several
sightings of me, but few clear photos.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve been described as a big, scary biker or Viking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The awful truth is that I’m just a big teddy
bear, for the most part.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Probably my hair. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a lot
of it, even after a recent shearing during which I shed probably six or eight
inches of it. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I guess you could call me a non-practicing Christian.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m superstitious to a point, but I certainly don’t go to ridiculous
extremes. For example, I’m a big hockey fan. I spent about a year in a couple
of sports writing gigs, in fact. Anyway, at one point early this season I
decided to spend an evening hanging out with my better half instead of catching
the game on TV or online, whatever. They won decisively, so we had a sort of
running joke all year that whenever the Islanders played I had to be with her,
and pay no attention to the game until it was over. It worked often enough that
we’ve had some fun with it. But realistically, if they’d lost that night, you
can bet I wouldn’t have insisted we avoid each other on game days. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you smoke/drink? If so, what? Any
bad habits?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Yes to both (update: I’m nearly two weeks smoke free as of mid-June). I’ve
always been a whiskey man, Canadian Club being the perennial favorite, though
in recent years my consumption has flagged considerably. Considering my once
near-heroic capacity for the stuff, that’s probably not a terrible thing. <br />
As for other bad habits: I’m a bit reactionary sometimes; I hear myself saying
things before I’ve really had a chance to think them over. This occasionally
has unpleasant results. Conversely, I also tend to overthink and overanalyze,
which can make things a lot more difficult than they need to be.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The first time I got drunk, it was on a
bottle of something I think was called “Canadian Rare”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a friend whose father owned a bunch of
properties and when the tenants left without notice, he’d keep their
liquor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a case of 48 different
bottles of alcohol locked in the attic, but we were teenagers, so a lock isn’t
much of an obstacle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We took a shot from
each bottle to try them out and them we each picked a favorite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m French-Canadian by descent, so I stuck
with the Canadian Rare and put down two 50/50 whiskey/root beers before the
alcohol caught up with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ended up
puking in the sink because my friend locked himself in the bathroom and I was
drunk for about a day and a half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But,
whatever doesn’t kill you…<br />
</i>That sounds like it might be R & R (Rich & Rare) Canadian Whiskey. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dandy stuff, that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell of a way to launch an alcohol-fueled
lifestyle. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kudos to your friend’s dad
for his enterprising nature. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first
go-around was a godawful substance called Five Star. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today that’s the name of a whiskey, but back
then it was rum. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it cost about
eight cents a bottle, and worth every penny. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The after effects of Five Star and Sprite
added the term “Five-Star Flu” to the vernacular of my little group.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m currently an aquaculture technician, which I’ll delve into more
later. The dream, of course, is to chuck the day job and write for a living.
Ideally towering best sellers, one after another, with fat royalty cheques
arriving like clockwork. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">When I leave the office, I leave whatever I was working on back there.
I’m not the type to bring it home with me, obsessing and agonizing over stuff
during my downtime. I spend a lot of time with Marsha and her daughter, doing
anything or nothing together. Just enjoying the time we have, and being
grateful for how much of it I get. Late nights are when I do most of my
writing. Thoughts and ideas come to me whenever they come, but I carry a little
recording device with me everywhere or I jot them down, and it’s only after the
lights go down and the rest of my world is asleep that I try to piece it all
together. <br />
That’s really my whole world in a nut’s shell these days. And I’m pretty lucky,
when I stop to think about it – which is often: I get to spend virtually all my
free time doing the things that I love to do the most.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I live in a pretty sparsely populated part of the world, that’s
uncomfortably cold nearly half the year. My best bet is to hole up and wait for
winter, when all the zombies either die off, or migrate to Florida. Either way I
like my chances. <br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’d suggest waiting a while before trying
to go to Florida.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Florida is fucked up
enough already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the zombie
apocalypse happens, that peninsula is going to go to hell a lot sooner than the
rest of the country.<br />
</i>Good point. Honestly, I have serious doubts zombies would survive a
Canadian winter anyway. This is maybe why we never see zombie movies based
here.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Against zombies, or in general?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b>I like bows, but when push comes to shove, I’ll take a good old baseball
bat any day. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I don’t know… I guess I’m moderately good at a lot of things. I’ve
been told I’m a fairly entertaining and compelling storyteller. After a
twenty-plus year hiatus I’m trying to pick up the guitar again. I assumed there
would be some muscle memory carryover, but apparently my muscles have developed
acute amnesia. That, or I just wasn’t as good back then as I thought I was.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I did two years of a business admin degree before deciding the hallowed
halls of academia were not for me. A few years later I reconsidered and
returned to college, where I studied broadcast journalism.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have a fourteen-year-old German Shepherd named Eddie, whose biggest
claim to fame is being born on the morning of 9/11. In an aquarium at my office
there’s a large algae eater named Zoidberg, but he doesn’t technically belong
to me. Fish are generally pretty terrible pets, but his one redeeming quality
is that he occasionally freaks out and cruises around the tank with his big
dorsal fin in the upright position.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve rarely met a dog I didn’t like, though I tend to prefer the large
breeds. But aside from that I’d have to go with bears. They’re big, highly intelligent,
solitary, misunderstood animals. I can relate to some of that. Even though I’m
under strict orders not to do anything risky around them anymore, I’ve always
felt a connection to the ones I’ve encountered in the wild.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“anymore”?</i><br />
Well, I’ve often sought them out, and I’ve gotten up close and personal with a
few of them along the way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t
scare me as much as they probably should. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a healthy respect for them, but little
or no fear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friends will sometimes
hesitantly tell me about bear sightings, ostensibly so I’ll be careful in those
areas but partly I think because they’re curious whether I’ll go looking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These days, with new parameters at play –
wife-to-be, impressionable nine-year-old – I’ve reluctantly agreed to rethink
my approach toward things that could, in theory at least, kill and eat me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"></span></i></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Bad grammar, and ad hominem arguments.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>They’re both extremely lazy and uncreative. It also bugs me when
people mispronounce common words, like supposedly or et cetera, as if they’ve
only ever heard them aloud and never seen them written correctly. Or make them
up entirely, like irregardless or alot.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">There’s a quote that’s often attributed to Mark Twain that I rather
like. It’s the one that says “Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” I think there’s a lot of truth in
that. People shouldn’t be afraid to take risks and try the things they’re
passionate about. If you fail, well… odds are good you’re going to fail at a
bunch of stuff in life anyway. At least this way when you succeed, you’ve
succeeded at something you enjoy. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Meeting my fiancée, Marsha. Hands down. It changed my life. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I had to think about this one a while. Lots of unpleasant things over
the years, but as for the absolute worst, it might have been the night I got
swarmed by seven guys who were far less drunk than I was. Ironically the only
real damage I suffered came when I slipped on the ice and broke my jaw in two
places. It sucked at the time, especially being wired shut for so long – over
Christmas, in fact - but now I kind of joke that I got into a fight with all
these guys and still had to kick my own ass. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">For sure. I think most of us have at one time or another. I generally
keep myself fairly guarded and protected against such things, but at the same
time when you’re going into a relationship you really have to put it all on the
line, or you’re beaten before you even get started. Not much in the way of
stories here; you put yourself into certain situations, go into things with expectations
high and defenses low. Sometimes it works out great. Other times it blows up in
your face. You do what you can to learn from it and apply the lessons moving
forward.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have, a couple of times I guess. In at least one case I did it for
the right reasons, even if it probably didn’t seem like it at the time.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>We’d been dating for a while, and she
was far more serious about it going forward than I was at the time. The final straw
for me was when she told me she was passing on going off to college in order to
stay home with me. There was no way I was going to let her do that, so I broke
it off. She was pretty devastated, but I understand she rebounded nicely and
got married a few years later, and remains so today. So, everything worked out
for the best in the long run.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I think this question and the next would probably be better answered
by those around me, whom I’ve affected in some way. But as for what I think the
best thing was, it has to be the night I proposed to Marsha. I’d been kind of
evasive and cryptic all day leading up to it and I think she might have been a
little afraid of what I was up to, like I was about to drop some nasty
bombshell on her or something. I won’t go into the squishy details, lest I ruin
my reputation as a scary badass, but I will say her reaction was one of the
best things I’ve ever seen.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Generally speaking, most of the worst things I’ve done have been to
myself. Again, I’m sure others could answer this one more accurately than me.
But in my mind, the worst thing – or at least the thing I regret the most - was
probably a fight I had with an old and dear friend. It made me bitter and angry
to the point where we lost contact for many years, close to twenty of them, in
fact. We’ve since mended fences and are on great terms again, but the fact that
I held a stupid grudge for so long and wasted so many years we could have had
together makes me a little sad. Sometimes more than a little. I try not to
dwell on it. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I work in the aquaculture field. The short version is, I work on the
design, layout and mechanics of fish hatcheries and the like. My primary focus
is water quality monitoring, and the various equipment and procedures that
entails.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">More or less by accident. I’d recently left college and had been
working in radio. I burned a couple of bridges in that industry and that,
coupled with my growing distaste for the reporting/newsgathering life, gave me
pause to reassess my career trajectory. An opportunity arose and, lacking a
better option at the time, I took it. I not only changed paths, I dove off the
path altogether and burst into the surrounding forest. It’s pretty far from
glamorous, but it’s paid the bills for the past nineteen years. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If we’re talking aquaculture, my advice would be: don’t. There’s an
old joke in the business: how do you make a small fortune in aquaculture? Start
with a big fortune. Seriously though, it’s a very risky industry with almost no
margin for error, in which fortunes are lost far more often than they’re made.<br />
If we’re talking about writing, I would wholeheartedly encourage anyone to go
for it. Write as much as you can, as often as you can, about whatever strikes
your fancy. Enjoy it, it can be a wonderful and rewarding experience even if it
never earns you a dime or nobody but you ever reads a word of it. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past? Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve written I don’t know how many stories, about a dozen of which
have been sold, with seven or eight published to date. I’m a little bit late to
the party; I’ve been writing since I was a kid, but later on I took an extended
hiatus and really only started taking it seriously in the last five years or
so. I decided the best way to get myself established and start carving out a
little name for myself in a timely way was to get a bunch of shorts published.
It hasn’t been all smooth sailing, but all things considered it’s gone fairly
well so far. I’ve gotten to know a number of publishers, editors and various people
in the industry, made some good friends and had a lot of great experiences.
I’ve learned an awful lot about the business in a relatively short time, and
thanks to some very kind and generous people I didn’t have to learn most of it
the hard way.<br />
I was invited to participate in a round robin novel project about a year ago by
a fellow named J. Richard Jacobs. He’s just about seen and done it all, and has
been writing and editing longer than I’ve been alive. J, incidentally, was also
the first editor to ever buy one of my stories. We’ve developed a friendship
and worked together a few times since. When he was putting together his roster
he invited me along, and I accepted. It’s still a work in progress, but I was
happy to contribute a chapter to it.<br />
That first story I mentioned appeared in an anthology called Twisted Tails VII.
It’s a long-running and successful series that, for me, was a huge first step
into the publishing world. It was the point at which I started to realize I
just might have enough talent and desire to find some success doing this.<br />
Somewhere in the middle of all of this I actually got the chance to put some of
my journalistic background to work, this time in sports writing. I spent a year
writing about the New York Islanders, first for a website under the Sports
Illustrated umbrella and later for another site we pioneered called Islanders
Insight that ultimately partnered with USA Today. My resurgence was relatively
brief, but this time I left on my own terms, voluntarily, with an open door offer
to return if I so choose down the road. One of my fondest memories will always
be logging into the SI website and seeing something I wrote there on their home
page. Who knows how many people read my articles? SI is read by millions. Kind
of cool to think about. Sadly, I have serious doubts my fiction will ever reach
anywhere near that large an audience. But hey, I had my fifteen minutes. And
some closure on the whole journalism career. I’m cool with that. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Most of my focus these days is on my first novel. It’s a paranormal
thriller with horror elements that I’m quite pleased with so far. Up until now
I’ve been focused almost entirely on short stories, so this is a whole new direction
for me.<br />
Along with that I’ve just finished compiling a collection of short stories,
tentatively entitled Night Terrors. I’ve sent out some feelers, testing the
waters for possible placement options. It’s my first “stand-alone” project, and
I’m fairly excited about it.<br />
Later this summer I’m collaborating with Marsha on an artist-in-residency
project. Basically we’ll be on display to the public, plying our respective
trades, answering questions and telling stories, combining writing and visual
art into what we hope will be something pretty cool. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Criminal Minds is one of the staples; it’s like comfort food for my
brain. I’ve recently discovered The Following, which despite some draggy
stretches I’m really enjoying.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>I’m
also slowly catching up on American Horror Story, which has such a cool
premise.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It varies a lot from day to day. Under the right circumstances, any
number of things can strike my fancy. Puttering around the studio the other
night we dusted off an old Collective Soul disk and gave it a spin. I’m also
experiencing a bit of a Led Zeppelin resurgence lately. When I’m driving, it’s
usually set to the Lithium station on XM. Pretty nice mix of grunge and
alternative staples, a lot of which I’d all but forgotten about. Offspring,
Smashing Pumpkins, Live, that sort of thing. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve been working my way through the Dark Tower series. I started them
back when the first couple of books were still pretty new, but took a long
break around the fourth one and for whatever reason never got back to them
until last fall. I’m just about to start into the last one, The Dark Tower.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Have you ever seen Akira Kurosawa’s Seven
Samurai?<br />
</i>Sadly, I have not. It’s on my to do list for sure. I’ve heard nothing but
good things, one of those must-see things that I, well, haven’t.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You definitely should see it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the premise is going to seem a
little familiar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book where the
Gunslingers are protecting a village from the Doom-Bots is lifted from Seven
Samurai.<br />
</i>So many things to catch up on, so little time. My pop culture awareness has
diminished greatly in recent years. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Probably Michael Crichton. He had a real knack for making the most
impossible scenarios seem at least plausible, whatever the subject matter. Also
he wrote Jurassic Park, one of my all-time favorite movies, so that’s a big
plus in my book. It’s hard to narrow it down to just one favorite book, but I
guess if you were to put a gun to my head I’d have to go not with something
from the Crichton library, but The Stand. I was in my teens the first time I
read it, and it was so unlike anything I’d ever read before, both in terms of
content and magnitude. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">That’s a tough one for me, since I listen to such a wide variety of stuff.
I was weaned on old twangy country music, but discovered and latched onto hard
rock/metal in my formative years. Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin begat Anthrax
and Metallica, then on to Godsmack, Pantera and Black Label Society, with a
detour into Southern rock, and most points in between. Even Elvis, Jim Reeves
and Johnny Cash find their way into my rotation. More recently I’ve been
exposed to a bunch of alternative stuff I, and probably most people, had never
heard of. It’s kind of hard to nail down where my preferences lie, even for me.
When I write I like quirky, eclectic stuff like Tori Amos or Steve Vai.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">This one’s kind of tough too, since if I don’t like a particular song
or artist, I tend not to listen to it. I could say I hate Justin Bieber, but
the truth is I’ve never really listened to him. It’s more the idea of him that
I don’t care for – the whole manufactured, doctored, sterilized and homogenized
sound that American Idol and all those type of shows have popularized. I don’t
mean to imply these people have no talent – many of them do – it’s more of an
indictment of the process by which they seek their recognition.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Well again, if I could make my living by writing, I would absolutely
do that. I was recently offered an opportunity to teach writing to kids, which
also sounds pretty cool to me. While I’m not entirely convinced I’m qualified
to do that, I’m more than willing to give it a shot. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Alive: Seth MacFarlane. I think we’re very similar in terms of humor,
both the source and how it manifests, and I’m pretty sure we’d either hit it
off incredibly well, or really dislike each other.<br />
Dead: My great-grandfather on my dad’s side. His origins are shrouded in
mystery – he seemingly appeared out of thin air one day, no paper trail, possibly
under an assumed name – and I’d like to get the answers to a hundred questions
I have for him. <br />
Fictional: Tony Soprano. As odd as it may sound, we share some character traits
too. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Years ago I worked for Elections Canada briefly, as an enumeration
supervisor. Basically, I got paid a ridiculous amount of money to send all of
the people who worked under me off to take stock of who lived in every house in
the province. Theoretically it was to give them an idea of how many potential
voters there were. Whatever their motivation, it was an easy gig that paid
well.<br />
The worst job would have to be when I was the target guy at a shooting range. I
can guess what sort of mental image that description brings to mind, and you’re
not far from right. Basically, a bunch of us huddled in a ditch behind the
targets they would shoot at. After each shot we’d have to drag the target down
with a chain lift sort of thing, take note of where the hit was, put a sticker
over the hole, and then send it back up for the next shot. Behind us was a big
metal barrier, angled toward the targets. Its purpose was to corral any stray
bullets, but this ingenious design would have deflected any errant shots
directly down into the pit, straight at us. Kind of like trench warfare, except
we were unarmed. It’s a miracle nobody was killed back there.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Despite my habit of answering direct questions honestly - sometimes
embarrassingly so – and my seemingly gregarious, outgoing style, I’m actually
quite a shy, introverted, intensely private person. I’ve come out of my shell a
little bit of late, and if you catch me in the right mood I’ll talk your ear
off well past the point where you’ve stopped caring, but it’s not uncommon for
me to go through long stretches of tight-lipped silence and one-word answers.
Some might (read: do) consider me on the moody side, which I guess is true to a
point. Maybe my biggest stumbling block is the idea of letting people get too
close, out of fear they’ll discover I’m not nearly as interesting as I may have
first appeared.<br />
I guess that’s not really a question, or the answer to one, is it? Let’s
pretend you asked me “Joe, what are some of your insecurities most people
really don’t know about you, and probably never will, at least until they read
this interview?”</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?<br />
Got any questions for me?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you haven’t already, you should reach out to our mutual friend Michael
Kanuckel. He’s an interesting guy with a penchant for straight-up honesty. I’d
love to see what he’d come up with in this type of interview.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m not saying you’re a bad friend for
not knowing I already interviewed him, but I am posting the link to the
interview I did with him here, just in case you haven’t read it yet.<br />
<a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/2014/01/interview-with-michael-kanuckel.html" target="_blank">http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/2014/01/interview-with-michael-kanuckel.html</a><br />
</i>I should have known you’d have gotten to him already. And I’ve read your
interview with Jay Wilburn also, so I won’t recommend him even though I would
have otherwise.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for letting me subject you to being
interviewed!<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Hey, my pleasure. Thanks for subjecting me to this!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Powers-Author/714034288655649" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Powers-Author/714034288655649</a>
<br />
Twitter: @Joe_SoWhatElse <br />
Website: <a href="http://www.joepowersauthor.com/" target="_blank">www.joepowersauthor.com</a> <br />
Amazon Author Page: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Powers/e/B00NPC57B2" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Powers/e/B00NPC57B2</a><br />
LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=96977547" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=96977547</a><br />
My collaborator/partner in crime: <a href="http://www.marshaclarkart.com/" target="_blank">http://www.marshaclarkart.com/</a>
<br />
Just because: <a href="http://islandersinsight.com/" target="_blank">http://islandersinsight.com/</a>
(thanks for the great times and memories, guys!)<br />
</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</b>Joe Powers is a Canadian horror writer with a fondness for literary
sleight-of-hand. He loves the idea of prompting a strong emotional reaction
using no more than words and his slightly off-center imagination, and delights
in taking the reader on journeys to previously unexplored regions. He is a
member of the Horror Writers’ Association, ArtsLink NB, the Writers' Federation
of New Brunswick, the NB Authors Portal and the Short Fiction Writers' Guild,
and is active in the local arts and writing communities. His work has appeared
in several anthologies and magazines. You can follow Joe at
<a href="http://www.joepowersauthor.com/" target="_blank">www.joepowersauthor.com</a><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly
because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></span></span></span></span></span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-54712800702617959902015-06-08T15:59:00.000-07:002015-06-08T16:21:25.037-07:00Interview with Alexander Zelenyj.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />Full
Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Alexander Zelenyj</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Do
you have a nickname or what do your friends call you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Alex, Al. My girlfriend calls me Xander. And Xand. And Xanadu.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Birthplace
/ Current hometown:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Windsor, Ontario, Canada.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Favorite
city and why?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I haven’t traveled too much, so I guess I’d have to say Windsor, although as
with a lot of places you have to take the terribly bad with the good. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like to live in the Muskokas, where it’s
green and quiet and there’s no trace of the chemical city-stink I’ve grown so
accustomed to here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Birthday
/ Age:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Old enough to cleverly avoid answering that question, ha ha.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">How
would you describe yourself physically?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Tall and lanky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">How
would someone else describe you physically?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
An Adonis-like physique, a marvel to the human eye and a testament to the
potential of the human body to be sculpted into a work of art. But more likely
“tall and lanky”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
first thing people notice about you is…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I honestly have no idea. My shyness maybe?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Religion,
if any?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I’m curious and hopeful. I’ll let you know what I find out on the subject.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Are
you superstitious? Any phobias?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Superstitious, yes, definitely. Phobic, not really.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So, what are some of your
superstitions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delve, damn it.<br />
</i>Well, for one thing, I believe that there are good numbers, and that there
are very, very bad numbers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In terms of
everyday scenarios, for example, if the numbers on a digital clock display are
the latter, whether in their individual digits or as the sum of those digits,
then I have to wait until a better number takes its place before even
attempting to go to sleep.<br />
Also, among my many weird little rituals is the following important one: the
final image in my mind before I turn out the light in any given room has to be
a positive one, whether it’s a person, a place, an object, whatever; if a
negative image is the final one I see as I shut off a light I must immediately
turn the light back on and repeat the process until I successfully envision
something good. This sometimes takes some doing.<br />
There are more, but that might be beyond the scope of this conversation, ha ha.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Do
you smoke/drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">I
don’t smoke. I drink socially, but I’m not picky about what I drink. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for bad habits...I eat an overabundance of
cookies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am the Cookie Monster. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there are worse vices, I guess. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could be the Cocaine Monster, for example.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
do you like to do when you’re not at work?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Read books, watch movies, spend time in forested areas and on islands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
is your zombie outbreak survival plan?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Now that I know I need one, I would say to retreat to a mountainous area in the
far north of Canada, and build a fortress there which, given its altitude,
would be easier to defend against all would-be invaders, both undead and human
alike. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Growing food would pose a
problem, though, now that I think about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could hunt mountain goats and birds? But
their populations would dwindle pretty quickly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hmm...I need to give this some more thought...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Weapon
of choice:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Human ingenuity, second only to killer robots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Do
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I’m a pretty formidable Dungeon Master.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The world needs more good Dungeon
Masters.<br />
</i>Absolutely! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the very least it
needs more Fighting Fantasy Game Book players. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you remember Fighting Fantasy books? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I swear some of them are actually impossible
to win, but no less fun to read for it.<br />
I don’t remember Fighting Fantasy books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But at least now I know what they are.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Fantasy</a><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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Yes, I graduated from the University of Windsor with a degree in English
Literature/Creative Writing & Psychology; I also have an Education degree
from the same school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Any
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their names?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Yes, we have two cats, Lucy(fur) and Callie.</span></span></div>
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is your favorite animal?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Extinct: the Ankylosaur<br />
Living: the turtle. But monkeys are awesome, too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Speaking
of pets, any pet peeves?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Nepotism, and the pretentious, self-absorbed people who reap its benefits
without deserving to.</span></span></div>
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is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Ray Bradbury: “Get your work done.” Exactly!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s great advice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m working on that as I type this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fell way behind on my interview homework.<br />
</i>Yeah, Sir Ray always was full of wisdoms.</span></span></div>
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Re-meeting the girl that would become my girlfriend over a decade after
originally meeting her. Aww...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
is the worst thing that ever happened to you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Having to wait through the above-mentioned decade to re-meet the girl who would
become my girlfriend. Aww...<br /></span></span><br />
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is the best thing you’ve ever done?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Writing-wise, one of the coolest things I’ve ever done happened a couple of
years ago, when I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute an essay to a book
called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Back To Frank Black: A Return To
Chris Carter’s Millennium</i>, about Chris Carter’s (creator of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">X-Files</i>) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Millennium</i> television series, which was published by the amazing
Fourth Horseman Press. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Millennium</i> is one of my all-time
favourite television series, and I was incredibly honoured to have been a part
of the project. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making it even better
was the fact that Chris Carter himself wrote the book’s introduction, and
series star Lance Henriksen contributed a foreword, and writer/producer Frank
Spotnitz also contributed a foreword.<br />
My editors sent me a picture of the actress Sarah Jane-Redmond (who played the
character Lucy Butler, about whom I wrote my essay) reading the book. That was
pretty fulfilling, to say the least.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
is the worst thing you’ve ever done?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Years ago, I wrote for a local magazine. I was given the job of writing an
ongoing serialized fiction piece that was published on a monthly basis. The
first couple of installments went okay but then the editors started doing
hack-job edits on my submissions, omitting huge chunks of content for space constraint
issues, making very questionable changes without asking me, and lots of other
things that basically made the installments incomprehensible and un-readable. I
stopped caring, though, and kept writing what I was writing, knowing that
although what I wrote was destined to be put into the world in a much more
awful version, I at least had my original version. So ultimately what was
printed was just trash, despite the original material being better than that.
The magazine was abysmal, though, so at least the editors helped sculpt my
contributions to be a nice match for it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
do you do?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I write; read; write; listen to music; read; write; escape into green places
whenever possible; read; write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">How
did you get started doing what you do?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I’ve always written fiction, as far back as I can recall. In the late ‘90s I
had my first short story published, and it made me realize there were people
out there who might enjoy my writing, so I began submitting my fiction to
different editors. Before long I’d had quite a few publications under my belt.
I’ve been going strong ever since.</span></span></div>
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is your advice to other people that want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
most important and obvious advice would be to write what you love, and to read
and write every day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
are some of the projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past? Give us a
little history if you will.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
In terms of bigger projects, I had my first book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Sunshine</i>, published by Fourth Horseman Press back in 2005. My
first short story collection, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Experiments
At 3 Billion A.M.</i>, was published by Eibonvale Press in 2009. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More recently, my fiction collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Songs For The Lost</i> was published by
Eibonvale Press, along with its companion volume, an essay and poetry
collection entitled, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ballads To The
Burning Twins: The Complete Songs Lyrics Of The Deathray Bradburys</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
projects are you working on now?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I recently finished work on two manuscripts – the first one is a novel
influenced heavily by magical realism; the second is a fiction collection in
much the same vein. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m really excited
about them – they’re a lot different from my previous books. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The surreal motifs are woven into the gritty,
realistic backdrop a lot more subtly.<br />
Also, I’m working on another collection that’s a little more in line with the type
of material of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Songs For The Lost</i> -
it’s very slipstream in style and takes in influences from a lot of different
genres. <br />
I’m also finishing up work on an expanded version of my first novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Sunshine</i>, which is tentatively
scheduled for re-issue later in the year as a collaborative release from Fourth
Horseman Press and Eibonvale Press.<br />
Eibonvale Press is also reissuing my first fiction collection, Experiments At 3
Billion A.M. in the weeks ahead, featuring new cover artwork by David Rix, a
new foreword by author/Fourth Horseman Press editor Brian A. Dixon, and revised
text by yours truly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I’ve also been given the great honour of editing a
forthcoming short story collection by the late, great Joel Lane, which is due
from Eibonvale Press in the near future. It’s called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scar City</i>, and it’s a great collection, and truly an honour to work
on. I’ll be providing a foreword to the book as well, another huge honour.</span></div>
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are you watching?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I just finished re-watching the X-Files in its entirety, in anticipation of Fox
renewing the series. The truth is out there.</span></span></div>
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are you listening to?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I’ve recently rediscovered my love of Sonic Youth, so I’ve been giving their
entire catalogue lots of play.</span></span></div>
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are you reading?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I’m currently reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2666</i> by Roberto
Bolaño, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bill, The Galactic Hero</i>
by Harry Harrison.</span></span></div>
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author / book?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
There are far too many to list, but a few of my favourites are Harlan Ellison,
Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Darcey Steinke, J.G.
Ballard, Richard Matheson, Raymond Carver, and Frank Belknap Long.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s a really decent list of authors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve read extensively from six of them.<br />
</i>Yeah, the list just goes on, and gets regularly updated. For the past few
months I’ve been obsessed with James Jones’ books, so I’d probably add some of
them to the list, like The Thin Red Line. If you asked me the same question in
a year there might be some new ones.</span></span><br />
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band / song?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
This is also very tough to narrow down to just one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you could indulge me and let me list a top
few here as well, they would be: Iron Maiden, Sonic Youth, The Gun Club, Black
Sabbath, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Tangerine Dream, the Stooges, the Misfits,
and the Pixies, Faith No More, among others.</span></span></div>
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favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Is
Mumford And Sons still allowed to make music?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ye gods, I hope not.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">If
you could do anything other than what you do now, what would you do?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I’d be a forest ranger. And I’d write <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">X-Files</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Millennium</i> comic books and
episode screenplays in my cabin in the woods.</span></span></div>
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would you want to meet that you haven’t met? You get three choices: Alive.
Dead. Fictional.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Alive: Steve Harris (bass player and chief songwriter of Iron Maiden)<br />
Dead: Robert E. Howard (author)<br />
Fictional: Frank Black (of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Millennium</i>)</span></span></div>
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the best and worst job you’ve ever had?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
The best: I was a puppeteer for six years, and helped put on educational
children’s shows at schools, libraries, summer camps, etc., and that was
amazing. <br />
The worst might have been when I worked as a resume writer/interview
coordinator for a couple years, and my boss revealed herself to be a demon from
the deepest bowels of Hell. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m lucky to
have survived, though I’m a changed man.</span></span></div>
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there any questions that I didn’t ask that you wished I had asked that you
would like to answer now?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I can’t think of any, but I’d be happy to answer any others you think of!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Anyone
you recommend I interview that you can put me in touch with?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
David Rix – writer, artist extraordinaire, and editor at Eibonvale Press;
Douglas Thompson, prolific author and part of the Eibonvale team; Brian A.
Dixon and Adam Chamberlain, writers and editors and the masterminds of Fourth
Horseman Press; and Elizabeth J.M. Walker, author of YA fantasy novels and
short stories.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If you’ll vouch for them I’ll let them
take a turn at bat.</i><br />
They won’t disappoint. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t think of
better interview subjects with more interesting and diverse backgrounds.</span></span></div>
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any questions for me?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
What made you decide to start this great site? Who would you most like to
interview who you haven’t yet had the opportunity to interview?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I was working on a
crowd-funded/crowd-sourced book project and I put out a press release to try to
generate some momentum behind it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It got
almost no response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was disappointed,
and thought it was unfair, so I decided to start a blog where I would interview
anyone about anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After some trial
and error, I developed a formula so it wouldn’t be a considerable drain on my
time and effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As long as they’re
willing to play along, I’ll take all comers.<br />
As for who I’d like to interview that I haven’t gotten to interview yet, I’d
like to interview some of the creative types whose work I enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henry Rollins, Bret Easton Ellis, Stephen
King, Clive Barker, David Lynch, David Cronenberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But since I don’t work for Rolling Stone, I don’t
really have any weight to push around.<br />
</i>Those would all be amazing interview subjects, for sure. I’m a fan of each
of their work, so hearing them talk is always enjoyable for me. They’re always
insightful and interesting conversations. Clive Barker always has something
interesting to say. He did this great and epic interview in the magazine
Amazing Heroes years ago, which confirmed in my mind how intelligent I’d always
thought he was based on reading his fiction.</span></span></div>
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for letting me subject you to being interviewed!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Thank you for subjecting yourself to my answers!</span></span></div>
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parade:<br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of them.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Websites:<br />
My author website: <a href="http://www.alexanderzelenyj.com/" target="_blank">www.alexanderzelenyj.com</a><br />
My publishers’ pages for my books:<br />
Eibonvale Press: <a href="http://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/books/books_songs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/books/books_songs.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/books/books_experiments.htm" target="_blank">http://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/books/books_experiments.htm</a><br />
Fourth Horseman Press: <a href="http://www.fourthhorsemanpress.com/BlackSunshine/" target="_blank">http://www.fourthhorsemanpress.com/BlackSunshine/</a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Interviewee:</b><br />
Alexander Zelenyj is the author of the books <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Songs For The Lost</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Experiments
At 3 Billion A.M.</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Sunshine</i>,
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ballads To The Burning Twins: The
Complete Song Lyrics Of The Deathray Bradburys</i>. His fiction and non-fiction
have been published in many different magazines and anthologies around the
world. <br />
He lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where the mothership is due to arrive in
the near future.</span></span></div>
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because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-86094161358980474302015-06-08T15:24:00.001-07:002015-06-08T15:31:41.920-07:00Interview with Mark Rigney.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Mark Rigney</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m tempted to say, “The call me Mr. Tibbs,” but that’s just not true.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friends call me Mark. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I meet people who turn out not to be
friends, I block their calls.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Urbana, Illinois.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Evansville, IN</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Oh, dear. Are we talking U.S.? For a big city, maybe Boston. Plenty of
culture, but I don’t feel trapped there, the way I do in Manhattan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a small city, maybe Flagstaff? Desert,
mountains, aridity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s not to love?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m the opposite when it comes to Boston
and Manhattan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boston feels like it was
built like a hedge maze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was brave
enough to go up a few times on my own when I was in college, armed with a map,
but I never really got out of the downtown hub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These days I don’t go there unless I’m going with someone else as a
guide. Manhattan is just a grid and the east/west streets are numbered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve only been lost in Manhattan once, and
then, it was only for a block.<br />
</i>Boston, seen from space, is indeed a hedge maze. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Minus, in most cases, hedges. But I don’t mind
being lost, and my approach to Boston is this: leave extraordinary amounts of
lead-time for even the shortest of journeys. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always bring a book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you get there early, read.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Fit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aging.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Not worth remarking on.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Well, I once had an orthodontist who claimed that the first thing people
would notice about me is my mouth, but I think he was self-interested: he
wanted my parents’ money.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Agnostic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yes, it is a
defensible position.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am interested in knowing your defense.<br />
</i>I’m limited by my perceptions, by my status as a single being who is really
(mostly) a host for an awful lot of bacteria. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since my perceptions are limited, I must admit
to a limited grasp of existential phenomena. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I see no viable evidence of the sort of
God revered by the Bible, etc. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Homo
sapiens </i>writ large), I’m also not fool enough to discount the concept out
of hand. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can blindfold a person, and
just like that, they won’t know where they are. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who’s to say I don’t spend my days blindfolded
in much the same way?</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m not at all superstitious. As for phobias, I’ve spent a long time
conquering my fears of the dark and deep water... but, having been swimming in
Lake Shasta at night, I believe I’ve got those under control.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you smoke/drink? If so, what? Any
bad habits?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My vice is soda. Yum.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Favorite brands/flavors?<br />
</i>This is a matter of great sensitivity. I’m afraid I’ll have to refer you to
the relevant departments at Halliburton and the CIA.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m a writer and an at-home father. I write plays. I write stories. I
write novels. I’ve had success in each form, though never enough.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m always at work. The trick is finding a time when I am in no way
working.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Denial.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Verbal pomposity, but only against zombies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other walks of life, I’m with John Lennon,
Ghandi, and all those silly peaceniks: love is the only weapon worth deploying.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">With a backhand, ruined knees and all, I can still send a 175 gram
Ultrastar disc (often erroneously referred to as a Frisbee) seventy yards. I
can also pull splinters out of a child’s foot with a minimum of screeching from
either one of us.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I went to college. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m still
not sure what for! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Officially, I have a
degree in government from Oberlin College, and an MFA from Columbia University.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This explains all the ivy that creeps
all over my house; I do battle with it every month of the year, and so far,
it’s a draw.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">No pets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No time for pets. I
used to work in a zoo, however, and I love animals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s partly why I don’t have any pets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been bitten by a nilgai. Perhaps this
makes me unusual. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or infected.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I had to Google what a nilgai even
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why I do these
interviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning!<br />
</i>I’ll say this for Nilgai: one knows them even better after one has been
bitten by one.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lemurs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All types. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love lemurs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long live lemurs.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Politicians who pander, talk in sound bites, spend all their time
fund-raising, and refuse to acknowledge that the issues with which they grapple
are difficult, nuanced, and ultimately non-partisan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next time I hear a politician sounding off
about “helping the middle class” instead of proposing actual, specific,
point-by-point policies, I shall TURN BLUE AND EXPLODE. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(After that, I’ll find a nilgai and yell,
“Sick ‘em!”)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I could eat Lebanese cuisine until the sun goes nova, or possibly
slightly afterward. Actually, I’ll eat pretty much anything. (Possibly not
bird’s nest soup. There are limits.)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Igor Stravinsky: “Even when I do not feel like work, I sit down to do
it just the same. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot wait for
inspiration, and inspiration at best is a force brought into action by
effort... Understanding is given only to those who make the active effort.”</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Aside from the stable marriage and the two growing children, which is
surely the correct but also the stock answer, I’d have to say maintaining my
sense of humor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so easy to lose.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lost my temper with my kids, who surely deserve better. (No, I didn’t
hit anyone. Sorry. I’m not that kind of so-called “grown up.”)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve known I would be a writer of some sort since college, and the way
to start being a writer is (wait for it) to write. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s that simple. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did kind of think I’d be a screenwriter, but
that form is very constricting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plays
and prose have more breathing room.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Keep your standards high, ‘cos if they aren’t, you’ll never know if
maybe you really should be taking “No” for an answer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Read John Gardner’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Art Of Fiction</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
read it again one year later. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Repeat, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ad nauseum</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not because you have to be a slave to what he
says, but because it’s the best, most challenging advice––and from the sternest
taskmaster––that you’re likely to find.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past? Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I started out trying to write exclusively literary fiction, but I
discovered that about half the stories I want to tell involve or invoke some
element of fantasy and the supernatural. So I write what I like, and then try
to find a market. In the lit world, I’ve had stories pop up in places like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bellevue Literary Review </i>(I’m up to
three stories with them), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Witness,
Ascent, THEMA, </i>etc.<br />
In the realm of dark fiction and horror, I’ve published stories in venues like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Talebones, Black Gate, Realms Of Fantasy, Escape
Clause, Betwixt, Unlikely Story, All Hallows, Day Terrors, Shadow Regions,
Shelter Of Daylight, Terror Train, </i>and more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve signed the contract for a new story to
appear, eventually, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cemetery Dance</i>,
but that might not show up until 2016...<br />
That short is part of an ongoing series of fictions about my semi-dynamic duo,
Renner & Quist, the former a Unitarian minister, the latter a retired
private eye, both of them unhappily attuned to all things that go bump in the
night. Samhain Publishing has published two Renner & Quist novellas, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Skates </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sleeping Bear</i>, and one novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Check-Out
Time</i>. The sequel to these will be out in or around September of this year
(2015), entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bonesy</i>.<br />
I also write plays for the stage, and while the horror genre and theater rarely
converge, my play <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ten Red Kings </i>(Playscripts,
Inc.) focuses on a young woman addicted to World Of Warcraft, and when she’s
sent to a wilderness camp to cut her ties to the ‘net, her avatars, including
not a few trolls, follow in her wake.<br />
Several of my disquieting, dark-of-the-soul fictions are available for free on
the web, and you can find links to many of these <span style="color: white;"><a href="http://www.markrigney.net/Rigney/Fiction.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I just finished up major revisions on a historical, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Copyist</i>, without a shred of fantasy
to be found anywhere in its pages. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
agent enjoyed round one (indeed, he seems very enthusiastic), and I’ll likely
hear something any day now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will he be
ready to take it out into the perilous marketplace? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows?<br />
And then I’m working hard on a new play, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Shout,</i> that will debut at Indianapolis’s Indy Fringe Festival this coming
August (2015). A long one-act, we’ve done a first and second) read-through, and
the cast and director are very enthusiastic. We’ve recruited a stage manager
and our regular composer and all around collaborator Jason Gresl. I’m very
optimistic—which is not my usual perspective at this point in any process. But
once in a while, the stars align; this looks to be a wonderful team of people
with whom to work.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I know it’s taking it in a different
direction, but I know that some of the readers of the blog are aspiring
authors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting represented by an agent
is something that most authors will have to deal with if they reach that level
of success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How did you go about it?<br />
</i>First, getting an agent is not essential to getting published. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Samhain titles are not work that even goes
through my agent, since Samhain pays per title sold, so there’s no advance from
which my agent can claim a cut. Also, I don’t have an agent for my stage plays.
Plays aren’t usually lucrative enough to draw representation, unless the writer
in question also works in episodic TV. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want to know why the quality of TV writing is
so exceptionally high these days? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because
those shows are scripted, more and more often, by experienced, talented
playwrights.<br />
Second, the best way to get an agent is to have a manuscript placed with a
publisher already. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That way, the agent
has a real incentive (and with very little effort on their part) to represent
you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It cuts out the whole “shop the
manuscript” process. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later on, when you
come back with a fresh manuscript, your agent will be happy to shop it because
you have a track record, and because you’ve already contributed to their bottom
line.<br />
This makes agents sound very mercenary, and that’s not really my intent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That said, they run their business <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like a business</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t contribute to that bottom line,
you’re no use. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do contribute, out
of the gate, you’re in the money. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it
were.<br />
So if you’ve got a saleable manuscript, my advice is: send it to publishing
houses that are willing to look at slush. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you can, identify a specific editor within
that publishing house and target them (“target”: makes it sound like you’re on
sniper duty, but: truth hurts). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, if
you’re lucky enough to garner a sale, ask the editor to recommend a reputable
editor or three. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk to more than one
if you can; choose the one you enjoyed speaking with most.<br />
Me, I got my agent through my friend and fellow author Howard Andrew Jones, who
did exactly what I just advised. He wrote a novel, pitched it to an editor
(whom he also met through a friend), got it accepted, and then went out on the
hunt for an agent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having found one, he
was kind enough to pass my name along as someone worth keeping an eye on,
despite the fact that I didn’t have an offer of publication on the table.<br />
What I did have was a contest-winner. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Most Unruly Gnome </i>won the Florida First Coast Novel Contest (now defunct,
sadly), and that helped get it through my agent’s door. Between that and
Howard’s say-so, it was a slam-dunk.<br />
But that was four years ago. More. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gnome </i>hasn’t
found a home—and my agent has tried, he really has. So now, we’re hoping <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Copyist </i>will turn the tide. But I’ve
learned not to expect good news, and the publishing world moves slowly. Even
Samhain, very efficient folks, take over nine months to bring a manuscript from
acceptance to finished product.<br />
The moral:<br />
If you’re an impatient sort, don’t become a prose writer. Or a playwright. You
won’t be happy.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Breaking Bad</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Might not make it past season three. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too many absolutely unbelievable plot holes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too bad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a well-acted show, and with such a fine,
squirm-inducing premise.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Kirsty MacColl. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much missed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only the good die young?</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I just finished George MacDonald Fraser’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flashman</i>. (I even posted a critique and review on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Gate</i>, feel free to visit! I blog
there on a bi-weekly basis.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next up,
either something by John Crowley or Thomas Pynchon’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">V</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also behind in my short story reading, and
I’ve got a back issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unlikely Story </i>here
on my desktop, and I love that publication.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">T.H. White, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Once and Future
King</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Crowley’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little, Big </i>runs a close second. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I
quote two authors with great (and perhaps greater than is good for me)
frequency: Lewis Carroll and A. A. Milne.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Oh, there’s no one favorite. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never
has been. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I spend a lot of time with
Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, the Waterboys, and Bruce Springsteen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Procol Harum’s “A Salty Dog” has been running
through my head for days.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Hmm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boy bands in general? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Air Supply?</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Hike.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Well, if I weren’t happily married, I’d set sail on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Serenity </i>and hang out with Kaylie. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know she’s not real, but still. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One can dream.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The worst job I ever had involved lying, and I can’t talk about that
without impugning and possibly indicting people who––well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s just let that “lie,” shall we?</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I can’t believe you’ve failed to ask me about my beer can collection. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I forgive you; after all, how could you
have known? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So yes, I collect old beer
cans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really old beer cans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cone tops, flat tops, zip tops,
instructionals, early ring pulls, straight steel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will buy cans and collections. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My specialties are cans from Ohio, Canada, the
U.K., and Scandinavia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I can supply
photos and images to prove these otherwise incredible statements!</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Possibly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Depends on how you
want to stretch the limits of horror. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>C.S.E.
Cooney is a writer to watch, and if you want to talk with editors, I’m friendly
with the folks at both <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unlikely Story </i>and
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Betwixt. <br />
Well, the blog is mostly an interview blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s not really a horror author blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ll interview anyone about anything as long as they’re willing to play
along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if they’re interested, feel
free to pass it along.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Got any questions for me?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever read any of Josh Rountree’s stuff?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have to admit I haven’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I were so predisposed, where would I
start?<br />
</i>I’m not sure what’s happened with Josh. I first met his fiction when we
each had stories in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shadow Regions</i>,
an ill-fated anthology where the publisher ran off with the money and the book
was never promoted. Too bad; the quality was high. Josh’s story “Only the
Young” freaks me out to this day, and I’m not easily disturbed.<br />
His one anthology is still in print: <a href="http://www.wheatlandpress.com/fadedlove/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.wheatlandpress.com/fadedlove/index.html</a><br />
But I honestly don’t know how to reach him. Probably his publisher does!<br />
And another question back to you: have you interviewed playwrights before? Or
are we a diverse and separate species?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I don’t really discriminate by
self-attributed job title, but since I’ve done almost two hundred of these
interviews, I’m sure there’s probably another playwright somewhere in there.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for letting me subject you to being
interviewed!<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The pleasure is mine.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Pitch parade:</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.rigney.5" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/mark.rigney.5</a><br />
Website:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.markrigney.net/Rigney/Home.html" target="_blank">http://www.markrigney.net/Rigney/Home.html</a><br />
Blog:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.markrigney.net/Rigney/Blog/Blog.html" target="_blank">http://www.markrigney.net/Rigney/Blog/Blog.html</a><br />
In the Mix: <a href="http://inthemixensemble.org/" target="_blank">http://inthemixensemble.org</a><br />
Samhain Publishing: <a href="https://www.samhainpublishing.com/book/5227/check-out-time" target="_blank">https://www.samhainpublishing.com/book/5227/check-out-time</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mark Rigney</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">’s
novellas and novels, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Skates, Sleeping
Bear, </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Check-Out Time </i>are
available from Samhain Publishing, with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bonesy
</i>to follow in 2015. His short fiction appears in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Witness, Ascent, Unlikely Story, </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, </i>among over fifty other
venues<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>In non-fiction, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets
and a Classic American Musical</i> (Gallaudet) remains happily in print. As a
playwright, he has won multiple prizes and had work produced in twenty-two U.S.
states, including off Broadway, along with Australia, and Canada. Published
plays include <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ten Red Kings </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Acts of God</i> (both from Playscripts,
Inc.) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bears </i>(IndieTheaterNow).
His ten-minute plays appear in the Smith & Kraus series, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Best Ten-Minute Plays </i>(2012, 2013,
and 2014)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> His website is <a href="http://www.markrigney.net/"><span style="color: #0d14e7;">www.markrigney.net</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly
because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></span></span></span></span></span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-18114427688541150532015-05-19T16:31:00.004-07:002015-05-19T16:43:10.737-07:00Interview with Sean Munger.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sean Munger.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Just Sean.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Southern California</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Eugene</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">, Oregon</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rome</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">. It’s
an absolutely magical place—a big bustling city filled with history, art,
ancient buildings, great food, great wine, friendly people, music and just
about everything else you’d ever want. London
and New York
have their charms, but Rome
just can’t be beat. Rome
is like a layer cake of time and history, everything from modern high-tech to
stone tunnels carved under the city in antiquity. It’s all just awesome.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthday / Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m 42, my birthday is in October.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Fatter than I used to be, which is rather a new experience, since I
spent almost all my youth being derided as “too skinny” and looking like a
death camp survivor.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Most people looking at me think I’m younger than I am, which at this
point in life is a great compliment. We’ll see how long that will last, though!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I get that a lot too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the topic of age comes up and I tell
people that I’m looking down the barrel of forty, they usually say that I look
like I’m in my mid-to-late twenties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d
chalk it up to flattery, but the people I speak about my age are rarely in a
position where flattering me would get them anything.<br />
</i>Yes, you get to be a certain age and getting carded at a bar or liquor
store is more of a compliment than an annoyance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am now that age.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Usually the hair.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What about your hair?<br />
</i>It’s long, though not as long as many of my friends’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m actually not too upset about starting to
find a few gray hairs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I do go
completely gray I’ll look like the guy from Saxon!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I went on a huge NWOBHM kick last year
and Saxon definitely made up a huge part of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those guys are unstoppable!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s your favorite Saxon song?<br />
</i>I love “747 (Strangers in the Night).” But there are few Saxon songs that I
don’t think are great.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sexual orientation?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Bisexual.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any? <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Jewish. I was a late bloomer, having been an atheist for most of my
life up until the age of 36.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s odd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the time the move is from theism to
atheism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What inspired your interest in
religion.<br />
</i>I came to realize that atheism was a belief system poorly equipped to
explain the universe as it really is. The bag of tools atheists bring to the
table—reason, rationality, empirical evidence, etc.—are vitally important to
understanding the world, but they’re not the whole story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reason and empirical evidence can’t explain
why a Turner or a Monet is beautiful, why Mozart symphonies sound perfect or
why French fries taste good. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If reason
can’t explain something small and simple like a Turner painting, how could you
possibly expect it to explain something as vast, complicated and irrational as
the nature of the universe and existence? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I realized this, most of the things I
used to believe as an atheist seemed pretty shallow and one-sided. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also came to realize that my view of what
religion and God really were was equally shallow and distorted. Judaism works
for me because it’s a faith that emphasizes questioning, debate and
uncertainty, especially about the big questions of what the universe and God
are all about.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I wouldn’t say it’s a phobia, but for my entire life I’ve suffered
from a recurring nightmare that I call my “Hitchcock dream,” where I’m accused
of something I didn’t do and it’s impossible to prove my innocence. That’s the
plot of about every third Hitchcock film.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m actually quite relieved by your
answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a set of recurring dreams
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them are like a television
series and the new one picks up where the last one left off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others are like I’m living a different life
while I’m asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brain has created
entire cities with recurring characters with individuated and unpredictable
personalities for me to experience while I’m asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most nights I don’t remember my dreams, but
sometimes I have precognitive dreams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s never anything like lottery numbers though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just brief periods of extreme déjà vu
when I know what’s going to happen or what someone is going to say as if I’m
remembering it for about a minute.<br />
</i>In talking about “dream cities” you’ve described something that’s happened
to me all my life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I continually have
dreams that take place at the same locations, imaginary, over and over again,
and the locations actually change over the years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance I’ve had many dreams that take
place in a location that resembles the high school I went to, except with a lot
of maze-like passages and other strange details, but about five years ago the
school got “remodeled” and became a shopping mall and trade mart, though traces
of the old location are still visible in many places. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s also a big labyrinth-like hotel I’ve
dreamed about for many years, again with maze-like rooms. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I call this “The Beige Corridor” and the
location actually made it into my book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Valley of Forever</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you smoke/drink? If so,
what? Any bad habits?<br />
</b>I love wine. Red wine is perhaps the most awesome invention of human
civilization. I enjoy many kinds of wine, but my favorites are zinfandel and
pinot noir. It’s definitely not a bad habit!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I agree, although I’m a bit more partial
to merlots and cabernet sauvignons.<br />
</i>I love cabernets, though merlots have a sort of sharp taste that disagrees
with me.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation: graduate student, teacher and writer.<br />
Dream job: history professor and writer. I’ll be that in a few years with a bit
of luck. This is my second career—I used to be a lawyer, and practiced real
estate law for more than a decade. My worst day as a historian is better than
my best day as a lawyer, so I definitely think I’m moving up in life.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Be with my husband, write, watch great movies, cook, eat, drink wine.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Humans are expendable. Great books and wines are not. Build a bunker
to protect them and let the humans sort themselves out.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">You mean in a zombie outbreak? Greek Fire. I wrote about that in my
book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zombies of Byzantium</i>.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Writing. You’d be surprised how difficult even good historians find
writing, so being able to do it well definitely qualifies as a special skill.<br />
I actually wouldn’t be surprised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
done enough ghost-writing to know that being able to transpose thoughts into
words is a valuable and marketable skill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What surprised me was how what I find easy others find difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought everyone knew how to read and write
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">You could say that, yes! I got my undergraduate degree (B.A.) in
history, then a law degree (J.D.), which led to an interesting and well-paying
career that succeeded in telling me that I was happier doing history. So now
I’m almost finished, God willing, with my Ph.D. in American history.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you went to college, did you manage to pay
off your student loans?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">No, but all my loans are nearly 20 years old—I haven’t had to borrow
anything to do my most recent round of schooling, which is definitely a plus.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Not yet, though my husband and I both want a dog. So far the
frontrunner for its name is Basil Ulysses Rose.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s a mouthful to call when you want
your dog to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would you shorten
it to?<br />
</i>Probably “Rosie,” if that wouldn’t harm his sensitive doggie masculinity.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The pug which most likely has not been born yet, but will be known as
Basil Ulysses Rose.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m annoyed when people put their Myers-Briggs initials in their
Twitter profiles. I really don’t care whether you’re an “INFP” or whatever the
hell those things are supposed to mean. I think Myers-Briggs is generally a
bunch of rubbish.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I didn’t realize that people did
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankfully so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not really a big fan of anyone that puts
their qualities in with their given name in their social media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am of the opinion that the quality of a
person’s work should speak for itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It takes more time and effort to establish oneself that way, but I
respect that a lot more than someone tagging “- Writer” or “- Artist” after
their name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I write and I make art, but
I’m an individual first and foremost and would rather be known for who I am and
the quality of my work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d rather be
given a title than claim it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for
personality tests, there’s a little bit of science behind them, but it’s quite
difficult to use the information in everyday life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not as wrong-headed as astrologically
derived personality predictors, but it’s just about as useful for predicting
behavior.<br />
</i>Honestly I think the Myers-Briggs initials stuff is sort of a geeky dating
thing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who believe in the test
evidently think they’re only compatible with others who have certain initials,
so it’s very similar to “swingers” back in the ‘70s who thought astrological
signs were a key part of romantic compatibility. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would imagine some social historian has done
some kind of study on this to explain why this sort of thing persists. <br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</b>There are too many great things to eat on this planet to settle on just one
favorite, but I do love an Indian dish called vindaloo, which is incredibly
spicy and also wonderfully flavorful. In restaurants you usually see it made
with chicken, but it’s much better with lamb or pork (I’ve even made it with
venison). I also love Kung Pao Chicken, but it’s much better homemade, and once
you cook it at home with proper ingredients you’ll never want to order it out
at a Chinese restaurant again.<br />
Least favorite, I’m really not fond of spaghetti squash.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Why can’t we let the universe have a few rough edges?” A famous rabbi
said this; I wrote down who it was but can’t recall his name off the top of my
head.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Meeting the man who would eventually become my husband.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The Great Recession wasn’t much fun, to be honest.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Yes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a story of course,
but whether I feel like telling it is another matter. All I’ll say about it is
that it happened many years ago, in Boston
in the month of January. Deep winter heartbreaks are the hardest to recover
from because the cold makes hearts very brittle.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I believe I have, though it wasn’t intentional. And it wasn’t in the
winter, thankfully.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I got married on a beach in Oregon.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I can’t tell you that, as we all have our secrets. I try to live with
as few regrets as possible, though, because regret makes life unlivable. That’s
not to say there are things I’m not proud of. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could kill one person, consequence
free, who would it be and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I wouldn’t kill anyone, especially if it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was</i> consequence free. If the death of a person would never change
anything, then the act of killing them would be meaningless.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you do? <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I teach, I write books and I do historical research. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Well, the writing is something I’ve done since very early childhood.
It just seemed natural to think up stories and try to tell them. It never
occurred to me that it was any kind of special skill; I thought everyone did
it. As for teaching and researching history, I’ve always been fascinated by
history and what happened in the past. Storytelling is an integral part of
history so they go together. When I was practicing law I got started teaching
some classes on a volunteer basis—for instance, I taught an informal course at
an adult Sunday school, and later did a series of lectures at a retirement
community. I found I loved teaching history so much that I decided that should
be my career. On my first day of school as a graduate student they (the history
department) thrust a syllabus into my hand, told me to go to a classroom and
teach early American history. One of the most terrifying moments of my life was
sitting in that classroom watching the students walk in right before class on
the first day. I was like, “What the hell am I doing here?” But it was also a
wonderful day too, because it was when I really started doing what I love as
part of a career.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">As with anything, make sure it’s what you really want to do, and then
persevere until you do it. Whether it’s writing and trying to get published, or
trying to get a degree or go into a particular career, do what you have to do
and keep trying. Ninety percent of anything is perseverance. Most people give
up before they succeed. If you hang in there long enough people will usually
give you a shot at what you want, if for no other reason because they’re amazed
that you’re still trying. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past? Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">In the recent past I’ve finished two books that have come out, or soon
will be coming out, from Samhain Horror. My novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doppelgänger</i>, a ghost story with a twist that’s set in Gilded Age
New York, came out this month (February 2015). The book I most recently
completed is called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rats of Midnight</i>
and will be out from Samhain in December 2015. It takes place in Portland, Oregon
in 1999 and was inspired by some of my experiences living there and practicing
law during the dot-com boom and bust. It’s sort of like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wolf of Wall Street</i> meets the Temple of Doom,
if that makes any sense. It should be a really fun book. I’ve also recently
finished a speculative fiction novel called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Valley of Forever</i> which I’ve been working on for over five years; I don’t
have a publisher for it yet but I’ll be beginning the search pretty soon.<br />
In 2014 my second zombie novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zombie
Rebellion</i>, came out, preceded in 2013 by my first book for Samhain, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zombies of Byzantium</i>. Before I hooked up
with Samhain I wrote a trilogy of science fiction novels, starting with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life Without Giamotti</i>, which has
something of a cult following. It’s been read at both poles of the Earth—I got
an email from someone at a scientific research station in Greenland
who was reading it, and a friend of mine who worked in Antarctica
took a copy down there as well. I understand that a copy of the second book in
the series, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All Giamotti’s Children</i>,
is (or was at one time) in the library at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m working on my dissertation, which is titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ten Years of Winter</i> and deals with environmental history of the
early 19th century. There was an intense period of temporary worldwide climate
change between 1810 and 1820 caused primarily by a series of volcanic
eruptions, and I’m researching how people reacted to these events and tried to
explain them. Hopefully this will be a book someday.<br />
I’m also working on another horror novel, this one involving wine, which takes
place in Romania.
The working title is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Impaler’s
Reserve</i>.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lots of movies. My husband and I have recently been reorganizing our DVD collection and archiving our movies into
digital files. In the process we’ve been discovering our inner film geeks.
We’ve been re-watching great old films we’ve seen before, but seeing them with
new eyes—Kaufman’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Right Stuff</i>,
Girard’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Red Violin</i>, the original
1972 Tarkovsky version of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Solaris</i>,
Ang Lee’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ice Storm</i>, even bizarre
guilty pleasures like Boorman’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zardoz</i>
or Chris Smith’s documentary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American
Movie</i>—we’ve really been enjoying sort of a rediscovery of great movies. I’m
waiting for the final half-season of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mad
Men</i> and the new (third) season of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House
of Cards</i>. Recently we watched Amazon’s show <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">TransParent</i>, which is nothing short of amazing, the kind of
storytelling and pushing-the-envelope shows that you can only do now in a
post-network, post-cable era of television.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I wanted to make the transition to
digital media when I realized it was a possibility around 2005, and I tried to
turn the trick when I moved out to Long
Island, New York in
2008.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bought a 1T external drive, but
trying to buy a converter to get the USB
output to plug into my S-Video/RCA TV was prohibitive, so I gave up on the
dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four years later I finally got a
lightweight flatscreen with a USB
input and I haven’t looked back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I
have more movies than I have ever owned before in a box the size of a boxed set
of DVDs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that as more people
realize the impending obsolescence of physical media and make the transition to
consuming digital media, there’s going to be a cultural change that is going to
have a beneficial impact on the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just think of all the cassette tapes and VHS tapes and CD crystal cases
that are taking up space in landfills!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even as I type this, I’m re-watching Breaking Bad for the fifth time in
the background at a friend’s house through his Roku box.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the world finally universally adopts
solar power so that we have unlimited, affordable, clean energy and the access
to media and information is free that it will have a generally positive effect
on the intellectual evolution of out species.<br />
The only problem, now that I have 6,000 movies in high-quality digital format
on a 3T external drive, is figuring out what to watch!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I binge-watched the first two seasons of
House Of Cards and it was a great experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m looking forward to getting into Season Three of House Of Cards after
I finish off re-watching the fifth season of Breaking Bad for the fifth
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started it, now I have to finish
it.<br />
Who do you like for film directors other than Tarkovsky and Lee?</i> <br />
Oh, many! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kubrick of course, but I’m one
of those contrarians who dislikes the really popular Kubrick films (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket</i>) while thinking
that the ones everybody hates, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Barry
Lyndon</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eyes Wide Shut</i>, are
his best work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s sort of the same
with Scorsese—his best film is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gangs of
New York</i>, but I’m not that partial to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taxi
Driver</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love just about everything
by Wes Anderson. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also fascinated by
“workhorse” directors, people who aren’t often thought of as auteurs like
Kubrick, but who have made some really amazing films—Sidney Lumet (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twelve Angry Men, Deathtrap, Murder on the
Orient Express</i>), Joseph Sargent (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Taking of Pelham One Two Three</i>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
directors made so many movies in their careers that they invariably wind up
making terrible moves too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lumet made <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wiz</i> and Sargent directed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jaws: The Revenge</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does this happen? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “distance” between a good movie and a bad
movie is extremely short in most cases. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus
bad movies also interest me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heaven’s Gate</i>, a dreadful film made by a
gifted director (Michael Cimino), be a million times “worse” than something like
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Robot Monster</i>, made by a talentless
hack? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoy hashing over these
questions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You got me off on a tangent!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sometimes it’s about the journey more
than the destination.<br />
</i>Agreed! Especially with movies, where you have your whole lifetime to
figure them out.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are you listening to?<br />
</b>Metal—but a lot of other stuff too. I’ve been a metalhead for 32 years, and
I always love the old classics from the ‘80s and ‘90s, Iron Maiden, Blind
Guardian, Judas Priest, Morbid Angel, etc. Those are always in my rotation, but
I always mix it up with some other stuff. Not long ago I found a Frank Sinatra
live album I really like, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Live at the
Sands</i>, recorded in 1966, which is wonderful. I also never get tired of
opera, my favorite one being Wagner’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Parsifal</i>,
which is absolutely heavy metal. I also listen to a lot of surf rock from the
1950s and 1960s—another kind of music very close in tone and spirit to metal,
stuff like Dick Dale, Link Wray (who was playing metal in 1958, eight years
before Black Sabbath), the Surfaris, the Ventures, etc.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh, man, you’re into the good surf
rock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bands you listed could easily
be my top five surf rock bands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
haven’t heard of The Mermen, you should check them out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have, like, ten CDs of music and as far
as I know it’s all good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my
favorite surf rock bands is The Fresh-O-Matics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think they only ever put out one seven-inch record, but someone was
cool enough to upload it to YouTube as a video.<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/AvvKgWXTk3Q" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/AvvKgWXTk3Q</a><br />
</i>I don’t know the Fresh-O-Matics, but the Mermen are awesome. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surf is such a great genre, and one often
overlooked by classic rock fans.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A lot of stuff! Recently I’ve really gotten into an author named
Edward Rowe Snow, who wrote a bunch of popular history books, many with a nautical
flavor, from the 1930s to the 1960s. “Spooky Tales of the New England Coast”
and things of this nature—shipwrecks, pirate treasures, Victorian-era murders,
Indian burial grounds, etc. This kind of thing was a popular genre in the
middle of the 20th century, and the history isn’t sterling but it’s very
enjoyable, kind of pulp history. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
also been reading Boris Pasternak’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doctor
Zhivago</i> which is every bit as wonderful as it’s cracked up to be. Also some
theological stuff, about Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism. Recently I finished
Robert Dallek’s biography of John F. Kennedy (one of my personal heroes) which
was wonderful.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I love stuff like the way you described
the Edward Rowe Snow stuff!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was asked
to write a regional paranormal book by a publisher, and when I was writing it,
I was willing to sacrifice solid research for a good story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My goal was to end up with something like the
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">This one is so hard to answer. I’d say probably my favorite author is
Jorge Luis Borges, whose short stories have been the bedrock of my inspiration
for writing ever since I encountered them in high school, in of all things my
Spanish class. (I don’t speak Spanish!) My favorite novel, however, would have
to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Name of the Rose</i> by Umberto
Eco, which sort of makes sense—Eco was a huge fan of Borges and his fiction
contains constant homages to Borges, for example the labyrinthian library in
the monastery in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Name of the Rose</i>,
which is modeled after Borges’s story “The Library of Babel.” Borges’s thing
was exploring the limits of human imagination, infinity, the eternal, and the
power of thought and consciousness. Eco does this too but he’s more rooted in
knowledge, especially Classical and medieval thought. Both are wonderful. I
also love Herman Wouk, whose novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Winds of War</i> I re-read just about every year. And ever since I’ve been a
kid I’ve loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books, which I read and re-read
over and over again. In 2013 I had the great honor to interview Edward Packard,
the co-founder of the Choose Your Own Adventure concept and author of some of
the best books. That interview appears on my blog. As it turns out Packard
himself is a big fan of Borges, and what I perceived to be certain “Borgesian”
concepts in a few of his books were not merely my imagination. That was really
cool to discover. I’d say my favorite book by Edward Packard is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Third Planet From Altair</i>, which I
first read when I was 8, and which I still love even though I’m in my 40s.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Those Choose Your Own Adventure books
were amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just think of the
implications of a generation raised on those books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my opinion it laid the foundation for
being able to experience books and literature as a malleable medium, and the
target market was young readers during their most impressionable years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that reading most of the books in
that series as a child definitely prepared me for discovering William S.
Burroughs and Paul Auster in college.<br />
</i>I couldn’t agree with you more here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Choose Your Own Adventure</i> style has crept into my own writing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Valley of Forever</i>, for instance, has seven mutually-exclusive endings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not an interactive story, but it has
multiple endings and plays with different points of view and the splintering of
plotlines in much the same way those books did.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Another question that’s super hard to answer. Iron Maiden would have
to come pretty close. With them it doesn’t get much better than “Aces High” or
“Fear of the Dark.” But narrowing it down to just one band or one song is
difficult and arbitrary. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Back in the day there was a band called Creed that I especially
disliked. I speak of them in the past tense because if they are still around I
don’t want to know about it. Fortunately I rarely have to listen to music I
don’t like. I haven’t listened to the radio in 15 years. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I would live in Rome
with my husband, in a little apartment near the Vatican Wall, and write books.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Alive—Mikhail Gorbachev. He’s a figure of world-historical status that
the world has largely forgotten, which is a terrible shame.<br />
Dead—Thomas Jefferson. But only if I could drink wine with him, specifically
wine from his cellar.<br />
Fictional—Pug Henry from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Winds of War</i>.
Having read the book dozens of times, I’m still not entirely sure what makes
him tick and it’d be interesting to find out.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The best job I’ve ever had is the one I have now, which is teaching
history to college undergraduates. I’m underpaid, unappreciated and in fact
egregiously abused—we recently had to go on strike to get basic benefits—but I
still love it.<br />
Worst job? That’s hard to answer. I vacuumed carpets at a department store at 4:00 in the morning for a summer, but
that was actually kind of cool. I have a vague memory of having practiced law
some years ago but that’s awfully hazy. Basically I don’t think much about past
jobs.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Nothing I can think of. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Stephen Graham Jones, fellow horror author; he just had a short story
collection nominated for a Stoker award. He’s on Twitter. Interesting guy.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I don’t Twitter, but if you know him and
are willing to subject him to the interview process, point him in my direction
and we’ll see where it goes.<br />
</i>I’ll see what I can do! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for
the interview opportunity.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for letting me subject you to being
interviewed!<br />
<br />
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sean-Munger/267079030087379" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sean-Munger/267079030087379</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/Sean_Munger" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/Sean_Munger</a><br />
Website/Blog: <a href="http://www.seanmunger.com/" target="_blank">http://www.seanmunger.com</a><br />
Amazon author page: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sean-Munger/e/B00J7EFWK8/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Sean-Munger/e/B00J7EFWK8/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sean Munger is an
author, historian and teacher. A former attorney, he is now researching
environmental history of the United
States in the Early Republic
period. His new book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doppelgänger</i> was
released by Samhain Horror on February
3, 2015. He has previously written two previous books for Samhain, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zombies of Byzantium</i> (2013) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zombie Rebellion</i> (2014). He is also the
author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life Without Giamotti</i>
(2006) and its two follow-ups, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All Giamotti’s
Children</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Giamotti in Winter</i>;
the medieval comedy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beowulf is Boring</i>,
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Romantic, Memoirs of a Great Liner</i>.
Sean’s website at <a href="http://www.seanmunger.com/" target="_blank">www.seanmunger.com</a> specializes in history, heavy metal, wine
and books. He also loves to connect with fans on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/Sean_Munger" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/Sean_Munger</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly
because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></span></span></span></span> </span><br />
<br />Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-6163790149368589722015-03-12T22:58:00.001-07:002015-03-12T23:19:04.441-07:00Interview with W. D. Gagliani.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">William Gagliani, but I write as W.D. Gagliani.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Bill (boring, I know). In my youth I was known more as Will, but that
one faded.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Kenosha, WI – but I grew up in the Northern Italian seaport, Genova,
until I was eight years old. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then a
three-week ocean voyage brought me back to my native land. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My parents were born in Italy, though, so I
grew up speaking Italian first, and have been bilingual forever. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve taken some of my parents’ experiences as
kids under Allied bombing and German occupation in WWII and folded it into the
parallel story that runs through several of my Lupo novels.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve been to New York seven times, but never long enough. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love NYC and would move there in a minute if
I could afford it! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever since I walked
42<sup>nd</sup> Street and stood on the outdoor observation deck of the World
Trade Center in the mid-70s (1975) I’ve been attracted to the city, and
Manhattan especially. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lately I’ve been
fascinated by Roosevelt Island. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love
the Park, Greenwich Village, Little Italy, Midtown… maybe it’s all the great
60s-70s movies that were set there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
also have a soft spot for Key West, where I spent a week a long time ago doing
the spring break thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never gone
back, even though I’ve been to Florida a number of times. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But basically I really like Milwaukee, too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s urban enough to be like a “big” city, but
it’s small enough to be calm and friendly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Birthday / Age:<br />
</b>In my 50s.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The result of too sedentary a life, though once I used to lift weights
and play racquetball. Nowadays I have to force myself to exercise daily, and
the whole time I wish I was doing something else, LOL. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus I’m Italian, so food and drink are part
of my requirements for a normal life.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You know why Italians wear gold chains
around their necks?<br />
So they know where to stop when shaving.<br />
</i>Heh, well not ALL Italians wear chains. And silver is popular, except with
werewolves.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">On the short side, but imposing…</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I still have most of my hair, and I wear it more or less like I did in
the 70s (longer than is typical). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just
don’t like haircuts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to wear a
ponytail (in the late 90s). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It probably
makes me look like one of those people who never grew out of that one style,
but at least I left the leisure suit behind… Otherwise, I don’t know – the fact
that I like to wear black and just solid colors for the most part.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sexual orientation?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I like to remain mysterious.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Recovered ex-Catholic.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fully recovered or do you still do the
honorary Easter/Christmas routine?<br />
</i>I attend only funerals these days, and very occasionally a wedding.
Paradoxically, I love churchy music – I love the pipe organ, and a Bach or
Handel piece, or a great old Christmas carol will still give me (secular)
shivers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I’m drawn to early
Genesis precisely because of Tony Banks using the organ as if he were still in
a “public” school chapel, playing those great old English hymns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pipe organ is very moving and powerful. If
anything good has come out of religion, it just might be some of the music.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I love myself some contrapuntal
Bach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also a sucker for a
harpsichord.<br />
</i>Absolutely, me too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very first
sound I ever tried to get on a synthesizer (in the days you had to move
parameters around just to get a sound) was harpsichord. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Bach was just cool. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the Bachs.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A little superstitious where the Goddess Fortuna is concerned! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a couple superstitions, I guess, but
nothing debilitating. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom always told
us to avoid opening an umbrella in the house, putting a hat on the bed, stuff
like that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might cop to still
following those, just because. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
hedging my bets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No major phobias, but
I’m no fan of insects.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you smoke/drink? If so, what? Any
bad habits?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I do not smoke (though my parents did). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really can’t stand to breathe in smoke of
any kind – it just impedes my breathing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’ve never met a good beer or a good
cocktail I didn’t like. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like craft
beers and European beers, but I’ve reduced my beer drinking tremendously since
college… now I stick to rum, brandy, whiskey, Campari, Vermouth, B&B,
classic cocktails like Manhattans, Crimson Slippers, Negroni, rum (or gin) &
tonic... an endless list, but I like to experiment a little, such as swapping
brandy for the rye whiskey or bourbon in the Manhattan (brandy is a Wisconsin
thing), adding Campari instead of bitters, and so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(In fact, my protagonist Nick Lupo takes
credit for inventing what he calls the Midtown Manhattan: brandy, sweet
Vermouth, a long dash of Campari, over rocks – olive or cherry optional.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Funny, up to a year ago I hated – really
hated! – gin, but I seem to have developed a taste for it now, thanks to trying
the classic Negroni, so now I don’t mind a gin & tonic, either. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In wine, I like almost anything, but lately
I’ve enjoyed Tuscan wines and Sicilian Nero D’Avola the best. As an Italian
nearly by birth, I like good food and good wine and drink, but not to
outrageous excess… still, empty calories are a (very) bad habit I really need
to kick. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But who wants to?</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m a long-time library supervisor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I would love to be making a living at writing novels. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve had that dream since I was about 5… I’ve
fulfilled the dream, at least the publication part, with seven novels under my
belt, but the making a living part eludes me still…<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s always the tough part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As if writing books isn’t hard enough, then
you have to find people to read them.<br />
</i>Even in this day and age of easy everything thanks to the Web, it still
amazes me that some novels are found by thousands of readers during a special
pricing event, while others are found by… dozens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heh, I leave you to figure out which are mine!</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Reading, writing, reviewing books (not so much these days due to time
constraints), watching movies and good TV, listening to progressive rock (fan),
messing around with synthesizers and things like a Theremin, and weapons (I use
a lot of weapons in my books, and therefore I have a strange little arsenal).<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Who do you like for prog rock?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been into King Crimson for a while and
lately I’ve been getting into stuff like High Tide, Hawkwind, and Goat.<br />
</i>You like some really niche music! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crimson
just misses my top 10, but I especially love the Larks’ Tongues and Starless
era. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes they’re a bit too
esoteric, but I can handle it -- I still need to hear the most recent stuff
they’ve been doing on their current tour. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll have to check out High Tide and Goat – I
had heard of them, but never listened to them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do remember seeing another Swedish band, the
legendary Anglagard, here in Milwaukee on one of their only one or three North
American gigs ever. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hawkwind I really
liked for a while, but then I lost track of them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their association with Michael Moorcock
tickled me in the late 70s, and I still have some on vinyl – my favorite
Hawkwind is Hall of the Mountain Grill.<br />
My own prog-rock favorites tend to lie in the “mainstream” of prog-rock:
Genesis, Yes, ELP, Floyd, Crimson, and less proggy bands like Tangerine Dream,
Kansas, and the Alan Parsons Project. I am a huge Steve Hackett fan and really
love his resurrection of Genesis classics on the last couple tours. I like
Spock’s Beard but mostly miss Neal Morse, and I’ve enjoyed Porcupine Tree/Steve
Wilson. I like a lot of solo work from people in those and other bands. I also
really like some venerable Italian prog bands: Goblin, PFM, Banco, etc. I’m a
sucker for any band that features keyboards… Hammond organ, pipe organ,
synthesizers, Mellotron, piano, Clavinet – you name it.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I do tend to listen to some niche
prog-rock, but I like what I like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
not like I’m going out of my way to listen to music that’s more obscure than
other people listen to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just always
looking for music that resonates with the hidden chord within me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to get into deep King Crimson, but
wasn’t up to the challenge, although I stand by In The Court Of The Crimson
King as a mandatory album for anyone’s music library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You mentioned the theremin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you actually play a theremin?<br />
</i>Not so’s you’d like to hear it! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
I can make noises that sound vaguely like music, yes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does that count?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For the purposes of this interview it
does.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Drive to the North Woods and hunker down on a lake somewhere.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have a variety, from tiny blades all the way to a 5.56mm Ruger
carbine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple crossbows, a replica
hand-and-a-half sword, etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess if I
had to pick functional favorites, my S&W old-school Model 10 revolver would
be great because it won’t jam. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
firepower, my Sig Sauer 9mm (and it also tends to live jam-free), and my Ruger
Mini-14.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Recently someone knocked Rick on The
Walking Dead for using a revolver, but that’s the good thing about a barrel
gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t have to worry about it
jamming.<br />
</i>Absolutely, it’s the perfect weapon of last resort. You can reload pretty
fast with speed-loaders, if you practice a little, but not if your hands shake.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grew up watching Starsky & Hutch
on TV and, despite the ridiculous nature of pretty much everything on that
show, I was tuning in for Hutch’s Colt Python and to a lesser extent for
Starsky’s Smith & Wesson Model 59 with the 14-round magazine, which was
unusual at the time (the first, I believe, for a double-action). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any case, revolvers don’t jam unless you
bathe them in mud.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I speak/read/write Italian fluently, but have forgotten most of the
German I ever learned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise,
besides writing and a pretty good editorial eye, I’d say I have a good
knowledge of arcane library collection maintenance skills.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>I’ve been complimented for
my natural shooting ability (home invaders, please note).</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I finished with a Geology and English double BA and later an MA in
English, creative writing concentration. (Long ago…)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Not any more.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Dogs, but I also highly respect wolves.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Too long a list, but I hate typical grammar errors: it’s/its,
there/their/they’re, etc.).<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s the easy ones that are the
worst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that it’s easy to get
tripped up with usage errors like “pedal”/“petal”/“peddle” and that most people
don’t know the proper spelling of straitjacket, but when I’m reading a
submission and they’re having problems with their its yours and theres, usually
it means I’m not going to be able to enjoy their submission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to be a carpenter, you have to
learn how to use the tools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing is
no different.<br />
</i>I hear you! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s off-putting to read
the same minor error over and over again, especially with all the tools at our
fingertips these days. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The web and the
Internet seem to have made us all sloppier writers, when really we should be
sharper.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I will always love pizza and bread (and pasta, I’m afraid). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m open-minded on food, but I tend to dislike
anything that blends fruits and nuts with meats. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I haven’t eaten red meat since the late
90s. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hm, overall least favorite is
probably some Thai, which is weird because I like Chinese… go figure. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something about the flavor profiles hits me
wrong, I guess. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not a sushi fan,
either, though I love fish and shellfish.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite quotation / motto /
saying?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Genesis: “Spring must strike again against the shield of winter.” (The
last week I was thinking about this one because of the deadly cold this
winter.) I’ve also been partial to the darkness of Floyd’s: “The sun is the
same in a relative way but you’re older, shorter of breath and one day closer
to death…”</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Meeting a certain someone.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>We’re
still together.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Better that than an uncertain
someone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Congratulations!<br />
</i>Thanks!<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</b>Watching my dad die.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I can’t judge.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I refuse to answer on the grounds that I may incriminate myself.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could kill one person, consequence
free, who would it be and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My attorney recommends I leave this one blank.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m a library Stacks Supervisor with delusions of literary abilities.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I fell into my day job as a student and worked my way up. I love books
and libraries, so it made sense.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Besides writing? What I do for a living will fade in the next couple
decades, as all human knowledge migrates online and paper books become curios.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>What I do is a job that won’t exist
then. So I have to recommend that people don’t get into my line of work.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past? Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I just turned in my 6<sup>th</sup> Nick Lupo horror-thriller, Wolf’s
Blind. Sometimes I’m amazed that Wolf’s Trap, my first novel, has been in print
pretty much continuously since it was first published in 2003.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently I co-wrote (with David Benton)
stories that were accepted in the anthologies THE X-FILES: TRUST NO ONE and
SNAFU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MILITARY HORROR, among others. One I’m really proud of
is the story we (as a team) had published in the final volume of the legendary
HOT BLOOD series (HOT BLOOD 13: DARK PASSIONS). Pretty much anyone I’ve ever
idolized had a story in one of those, so I felt we’d arrived when we made it.
Stephen King never had one in there, I think, but I covered that by having my
story “Icewall” appear in ROBERT BLOCH’S PSYCHOS, in which King had “Autopsy
Room 4.” That anthology was also translated into Italian (appropriate!) and
Japanese.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</b>I’m working on a novel with my frequent collaborator, David Benton.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>I’m piecing together the synopsis for
the 7<sup>th</sup> Lupo novel, while trying to finalize my long-delayed first Lupo
novella. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a few other long-term
projects in progress. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to keep a
lot of pots simmering. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I usually like to
say I have more burners on the stove than I can handle.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Movies, of course. On TV: House of Cards, Game of Thrones, Hemlock
Grove, Alpha House, NCIS, Justified, Grimm, Teen Wolf, Suits, House of Lies,
American Horror Story, Orange Is the New Black, Constantine, Real Time with
Bill Maher, Strike Back, Castle, Episodes, True Detective, Penny Dreadful, etc.
I’ve also enjoyed some shows that have ended, such as The Sopranos,
Californication, Burn Notice, Leverage, The Bridge… Also I’ve always been a
Bond fan, despite the glaring flaws in some of the franchise entries. I saw my
first Bond movie in 1964, Goldfinger dubbed into Italian. I was not overly
thrilled with Skyfall, but I have hopes for Spectre.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I just finished watching the first two
season of House Of Cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What an
amazing experience!<br />
</i>I’m actually stuck in season 2 at the moment, but I’m looking forward to
season 3! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the Machiavellian
subterfuge. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the winking asides. I
love to see characters with a well-developed evil side, although I also do like
to see them getting what’s coming to them sometimes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not always, though – I think it’s more
realistic when they get away with evil deeds.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I don’t mind a variety of things, but I listen mostly to progressive
rock, electronic music (old school, such as Tangerine Dream), so-called new
age, classic rock, cinema soundtrack music, classical/Renaissance. I also don’t
mind jazz and fusion, blues, r&b, folk, Rat Pack and the like, etc. Lately
when I write it’s been Jerry Goldsmith soundtracks (Our Man Flint, In Like
Flint, The Omen, etc.) and Tangerine Dream (I have about 70 recordings… and I
was recently devastated by the death of Edgar Froese).</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">John Sandford’s latest, Lee Child’s latest, catching up on Jeffery
Deaver’s Rhyme novels and Robert Crais’s Elvis Cole novels, a classic thriller
by Desmond Bagley (a reread), Joe Lansdale’s Cold in July (another reread), and
some friends’ upcoming novels.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>I
tend to read a half-dozen books concurrently.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Tim Powers: The Anubis Gates and The Stress of Her Regard (tie)</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Tie: Yes, ELP, Genesis, Tangerine Dream, Alan Parsons Project. Hard to
pick one song, but maybe “Awaken” by Yes. “And You and I,” by Yes. “Firth of
Fifth” by Genesis. “Old and Wise” by APP. I could keep listing songs as they
occur. Favorite album is probably Tarkus, by ELP.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anything too pop, too boring, too bubblegum, too simplistic.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It’d be fun to direct a movie, but I think I’d be bad at it.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ach, I’m terrible in one on one meetings. I’ve already met many of my
musician and writer idols. I guess I’d like to have a beer with Keith Emerson.
Have him let me mess around with his Moog modular synthesizer.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I worked at UPS for a couple months a long time ago (many, many years
ago) – I hated it. Best job is writing, followed by my day job: working with
students and maintaining a large book collection. Probably I’d like to have
worked for a publisher, maybe as editor, but only during the good old days,
when midlist writers were nurtured rather than cut off at the knees for not
being bestsellers.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">No, but I’m glad you didn’t ask me: “Why werewolves?”<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pfft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s an obvious one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because
werewolves.<br />
</i>Right! LOL… You’d be surprised (maybe not) at how much I get that one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mind you, I don’t mind telling it again, but
it’s out there in print already. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
also in love with thrillers, so I don’t HAVE to be a werewolf guy…<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anyone you recommend I interview that
you can put me in touch with?<br />
</b>Not off-hand, but I may think of some. Hmm, maybe the team of Tamara Thorne
and Alistair Cross, a couple of friends who have new collaborative work coming
soon.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you want to point them in my direction we’ll see where it goes.<br />
</i>I will. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tamara is one of my earliest
friends in the business. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An excellent writer – and a wonderful person!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Got any questions for me?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Not yet, but again thanks for having me spout off!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Thanks for letting me subject you to being interviewed!<br />
<br />
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>Facebook: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/wdgagliani" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">www.facebook.com/wdgagliani</span></a><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Twitter: @WDGagliani<br />
Amazon Author Page: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/W.-D.-Gagliani/e/B002BMHHPQ" target="_blank">www.amazon.com/W.-D.-Gagliani/e/B002BMHHPQ</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
Website: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.wdgagliani.com/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">www.wdgagliani.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> // </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.williamdgagliani.com/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">www.williamdgagliani.com</span></a><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Blog: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.wdgagliani.com/blog.htm" target="_blank">www.wdgagliani.com/blog.htm</a><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Next appearances: <br />
Barnes & Noble in Racine, WI – Saturday, April 4, 2015 (with David Benton,
Chris Larsen, and others)<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/2037" target="_blank">http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/2037</a><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">OdysseyCon in Madison, WI – Fri-Sun, April 10-12 (with David Benton,
John Everson, Jonathan Maberry, and many others)<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.odysseycon.org/" target="_blank">http://www.odysseycon.org/</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">W.D. Gagliani</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> is the author of the
novels <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>Wolf’s Trap</i> (a past Bram
Stoker Award nominee; Samhain)</span>,<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> <i>Wolf’s
Gambit</i> (47North)</span>,<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> <i>Wolf’s
Bluff</i> (47North)</span>,<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> <i>Wolf’s
Edge</i> (Samhain)</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>Wolf’s Cut</i>
(Samhain)</span>, <i>Wolf’s Blind</i> (upcoming, Samhain), and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i>Savage Nights</i> (Tarkus Press)</span>.<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span>Since 1986 he has published fiction and nonfiction in
numerous anthologies and publications such as <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Robert Bloch’s Psychos</span>, Undead Tales, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">More Monsters From Memphis</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Midnighters Club, and many more</span>.
His book reviews and nonfiction have been included in, among others, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Chizine</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">HorrorWorld</span>, Cemetery Dance, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hellnotes</span>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Science
Fiction Chronicle</span>, Flesh & Blood, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Scream Factory</span>, The Writer magazine, and the books
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads, They Bite, and On Writing Horror. Six of his short
stories have earned Honorable Mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror,
and some are collected in the book Shadowplays. He is an Active member of the
Horror Writers Association (HWA), the International Thriller Writers (ITW), and
the Authors Guild.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The team of</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">W.D. Gagliani & David Benton</b> has published fiction in venues
such as (upcoming) The X-Files: Trust No One (edited by Jonathan Maberry),
SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror, SNAFU: Wolves at the Door, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Dark Passions: Hot Blood XIII, </span>Zippered
Flesh 2, Masters of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Unreality </span>(Germany), <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Malpractice: An Anthology of Bedside Terror</span>, Splatterpunk
Zine, and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Dead Lines, along with
the Kindle Worlds Vampire Diaries tie-in “Voracious in Vegas.” Some of their
collaborations are available in the collection Mysteries & Mayhem</span>.
Together as “A.G. Kent” they have also written and published the middle grade
adventure novel I Was a Seventh Grade Monster Hunter.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly
because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></span></span></span> </span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-29969595900434231692015-03-12T04:25:00.002-07:002015-03-12T04:38:39.213-07:00Interview with Russell James.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name: <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Russell James</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m trying to get my wife to call me Master, like Barbara Eden in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Dream of Jeannie</i> but that doesn’t seem
to be working out so well.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Are you an astronaut?<br />
</i>No, but I flew helicopters in the Army for five years, and since I had a
uniform just like Major Healey, I figured that somehow… but no dice.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">California</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Central Florida</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">San Francisco. It had a great vibe, great memories, and the best
sourdough bread in the world.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthday / Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sept 14, 1962. Damn, how’d I get this old?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s what happens when you don’t
die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting older might suck a bit, but
I think it beats the alternative… until it doesn’t.<br />
</i>The funny thing is, old isn’t as old as it used to be. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought people over fifty were geezers when
I was growing up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now I see them
driving their golf carts up for the early bird special and think “Now there are
some cool dudes!”</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A 2015 F-22 Raptor fighter jet.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A 1939 DC-3 in an aviation boneyard.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How well I blend in.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m a horror writer. Every superstition and phobia are laid out for
all in black and white.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you smoke/drink? If so, what? Any
bad habits?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">No vices. Certified candidate for sainthood.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I am currently a technical writer for a Fortune 50 company. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing I’d give my job up for is to
write fiction full time.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Writing takes up almost all non-work time.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My wife and I steal about a 30 foot sailboat since I haven’t seen any
swimming zombies. We live off fish in the Florida Keys.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As much as I hate to be the one to break
it to you… <a href="http://youtu.be/uOSN2s8FY8Q" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/uOSN2s8FY8Q</a><br />
</i>Oh, hell. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I need a Plan B.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">M16A1 rifle with an M203 grenade launcher. I used to volunteer to run
qualification ranges with both of those.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve restored several classic 1970’s muscle cars.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What was your favorite one to restore and
why?<br />
</i>I’m almost done with a 1970 Corvette convertible. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that body style is one of the
prettiest ever made. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The driving
position is excellent because of the tilt/telescopic steering wheel (a big deal
in 1970) and the view down the long hood through the bulging fenders is
ultra-cool. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Damn near everything but the
frame is new, but I like knowing how the whole car was assembled.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have a Business BS from Cornell University and an MBA from Central
Florida University.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you went to college, did you manage to pay
off your student loans?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I worked my way through college and had an ROTC scholarship so had a
minimal student loan to pay off. How people can consciously saddle themselves
with some of the debt levels I hear about now is unbelievable. I mean $45K in
student loans when you are getting a job in a field that pays less than that
annually? What kind of investment is that?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s a good question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I attended college in the mid-nineties,
state school was about eight grand a year, and the median income for my chosen
field of study, psychology, was around fifteen to twenty thousand dollars a
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to be a psychologist and
just renting out office space and calling yourself a psychologist is frowned
upon, so I went to college because I was young and it seemed like a good
investment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took me five years to
finish my bachelor’s degree so I should have had forty-thousand in debt waiting
for me on the other end, but I was pretty aggressive in trying to gouge away at
the loans when I had the spare money to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since I maintained full-time employment for the duration, I usually had
the money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ended up on the other end
with around seventeen thousand, but paying off that last bit has taken me
twenty years and the balance has crept up to around twenty thousand, but,
that’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least I had the sense to
major in an area of study that can be used to augment a resume when applying
for a position in a career field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most
of the people I know that majored in film aren’t making movies.<br />
</i>Kudos for working full time through college. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow the idea that that is possible doesn’t
occur to a lot of people.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I know, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just couldn’t imagine not working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, I get that college is for drugs and
sex, but I managed to do all that and attend my classes and hold down a
full-time job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being said, it’s
definitely a young man’s game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I
tried to stick to the schedule I stuck to in college at my age it would probably
kill me.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Two lazy cats named Mallory and Sophie.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anything that won’t eat or poison me.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’d hate Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the only kind of animals they have.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Give me a week to get a good list together for you.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Keep me posted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no deadline for these interviews.</i><br />
</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</b>I can eat pizza until I am physically ill, and then eat one more piece.
Least favorite? If during the zombie apocalypse, brussel sprouts are all there
is to eat, I’m infecting myself and going cannibal.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’re, like, the third person in a row
to mention brussels sprouts, a food that, until last year I was aware of in
name only.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That kind of thing happens
sometimes with these interviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chalk
it up to the zeitgeist.<br />
</i>Try one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll be aware of them
forever after that.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I did last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were like wads of warm wet toilet
paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure that there’s a recipe
somewhere that makes them delicious, but I haven’t seen it yet.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“I wouldn’t join any club that would have me as a member.” - Groucho
Marx</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My wife will kill me if I don’t say getting married to her.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My wife’s response when she reads the previous question’s answer.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Absolutely to both. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will that
story be told here? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Absolutely not.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Reference candidate for sainthood answer above.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve been on two missionary trips constructing houses for the poor in
the Dominican Republic. If you ever want to appreciate everything you have and
how amazing America is, go do something like that.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Reference candidate for sainthood answer above AGAIN.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could kill one person, consequence
free, who would it be and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Adolph Hitler in a trench in World War I, just to see of the world
would be any better without World War II.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What if the world is worse without World
War II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What then?<br />
</i>I’d have to go back again, not kill Hitler, and send out about 60,000,000
apology letters.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I write novels.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I used to tell stories I thought up to my wife during long drives. She
started bugging me to write them down. I wrote a few. Then she got me two
online writing classes that helped me hone my skills.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What did you learn from the online
writing courses?<br />
</i>A lot about character creation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
always thought I knew the character in my head, but the classes were good at
showing me how to pass that knowledge on to the reader, to make them know that
person as well as I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also met all
the people in my critique group there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have been working together for years now and they really keep me on my toes,
make me think about what I’ve written. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
collaborate on all our benefit anthologies as well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul Siluch, Kelly Horn, Belinda Whitney,
Teresa Robeson, Janet Guy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Google ‘em.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Write every day until you are too tired to put down another word. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then read until bed. Rinse and repeat.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past? Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have five horror novels published through Samhain, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dark Inspiration, Sacrifice, Dark Vengeance,
Black Magic and Dreamwalker.</i> I have three short story collections, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Outer Rim (SF), Tales from Beyond, and
Deeper into Darkness</i>, the last two both horror. I am in three SF benefit
collections for Doctors Without Borders: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Out
of Time, Still Out of Time</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Centauri
Station.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Q Island</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> is a post-apocalyptic
tale about a virus turning Long Island, NY into a quarantine zone filled with
psychotic killers. A mother must escape with her son, but a cannibalistic crime
lord has his sights set on both of them. It’s pretty much a family-oriented
story. I envision Disney doing the movie version.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That sounds pretty interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lived on the island for a few years and
it’s interesting how one end of the island is urban and the other end is rural
and you’ve got every variety in between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let me know when you’re sending out ARC PDFs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That sounds like something I’d like to check
out.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My weight.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Classic rock from the 70s. Music jumped the shark when people stopped
having to read it to make it.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you reading?<br />
</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The Cure</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> by JG Faherty, an
excellent story about a woman who can cure with a touch, but then must pass the
disease on to another before she herself succumbs to it.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anything by Stephen King.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Boston / Don’t Look Back</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Country/western makes me want to tear my own ears off.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Not much. I have an amazing life that I am continually grateful for.
Seriously.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Alive. Jay Leno if it included a tour of his garage.<br />
Dead. Elvis, unless he qualifies in the category above.<br />
Fictional. Superman and we take a trip to the miniaturized city of Kandor.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What’s so great about Jay Leno’s garage?<br />
</i>He has hundreds of classic cars, most exceptionally rare. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like a museum, but he takes them out and
drives them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would be a great
afternoon. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or week.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">C’mon, I barely got through these.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any Samhain Horror author. They are a cool group.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If my e-mail inbox is any kind of indicator
it looks like I’ll be collecting them all in the next month or so, but thanks
for the recommendation.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for letting me subject you to being
interviewed!<br />
<br />
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Facebook:</span> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Russell-James-Author/172907172791996" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Russell-James-Author/172907172791996</a><br />
Twitter: twitter @rrjames14<br />
Website: <a href="http://www.russellrjames.com/" target="_blank">www.russellrjames.com</a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</b>Russell James grew up on Long Island, New York and spent too much time
watching Chiller, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and The Twilight Zone, despite
his parents' warnings. Bookshelves full of Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe
didn't make things better. He graduated from Cornell University and the
University of Central Florida.<br />
After a tour flying helicopters with the U.S. Army, he now spins twisted tales
best read in daylight. He has written the paranormal thrillers Dark
Inspiration, Sacrifice, Black Magic, Dark Vengeance, and Dreamwalker. He has
two horror short story collections, Tales from Beyond and Deeper into Darkness.
His next novel, Q Island, releases in 2015.<br />
His wife reads what he writes, rolls her eyes, and says "There is
something seriously wrong with you." <br />
Visit his website at <a href="http://www.russellrjames.com/" target="_blank">http://www.russellrjames.com</a> and read some free short
stories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Follow
on Twitter @RRJames14, or drop a line complaining about his writing to
rrj@russellrjames.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly
because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></span></span> </span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-88760566979881730812015-03-10T17:00:00.002-07:002015-03-10T17:10:10.912-07:00Interview with Tony Richards.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anthony Richards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you have a nickname or what do your
friends call you?<br />
</b>Tony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Birthplace:<br />
</b>London, England.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Current hometown:<br />
</b>London, England. Not in the same district that I was born, though. It’s a
big place.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favorite city and why?<br />
</b>Like most English people, I love Manhattan. I can fully see why L. Frank
Baum based the Emerald City on that place, it has an electrical magic. And
Paris still has its charms. I’ve been to Hong Kong twice and adore it … people
tend to think of it in terms of tall skyscrapers and crowds, but that’s just
the Central district of the city; there is huge diversity, much older areas,
markets and parks and antiquities and very tranquil places. And Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, is a fantastic city too, a huge mixture of old and new and a melting
pot for the world’s major cultures, and with very kind and friendly people.
Truth is – as you’ve probably guessed by now – I have a lot of favorite cities.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Birthday / Age:<br />
</b>59 this summer … Jesus H.!!!</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</b>Slim and handsome.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</b>Thin and aging.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The first thing people notice about you
is…<br />
</b>I usually have a cigarette on the go.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Religion, if any?<br />
</b>I’m a born atheist. I never believed in any of that stuff even when I was a
little kid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Everyone is superstitious on some deep level – ‘There are no atheists
in foxholes.’<br />
Phobias? I have lots. Heights. Tight spaces. Unfamiliar dogs. Maybe that is why
I write a lot of horror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you smoke/drink? If so,
what? Any bad habits?<br />
</b>Yes and yes, wine mostly for the latter. And black coffee, lots. And sugar.
And stopping up very late at night streaming movies. No drugs, though. If I did
those as well, I’d be done for.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My current occupation is as a full-time freelance writer and –
difficult though it can be sometimes – it is my dream job.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What do you like to do when you’re not
at work?<br />
</b>I love to fish, but rarely get the chance to do it these days. Movies. Reading.
Cooking. Seeing friends. You know, the usual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is your zombie outbreak survival
plan?<br />
</b>Splash gray paint on myself, shamble around making moaning noises, and hope
they take me for one of their own. It would get pretty tedious after a while
though. I wouldn’t have much of a brain left to eat.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</b>My biting wit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</b>Apart from writing and cooking, I’m pretty terrible at most everything.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Did you go to college and, if so, what
for?<br />
</b>I studied law at college. Why? Other people told me that a law degree would
get me into almost any career. Hah! Upon leaving college, I decided to have a
go at getting a job in publishing, phoned up an employment agent who
specialized in that field, only to have him explode at me. “Do you know how
many idiots I get with law degrees who think that’ll get them into publishing?”
So I finally ended up with the world’s most boring job, at a law book
publishing firm editing – wait for it – legal forms. I stuck with that for 3
excruciating years until my stories finally started selling at a decent rate.
Moral of this story … most other people don’t really know what they’re talking
about, so take their advice with a hefty pinch of salt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Any pets? If so, what are
they and what are their names?<br />
</b>None, sadly. The opportunity has come up twice to buy a puppy from a woman
with two shih-tzus on our street, and they are so cute that it’s been really
tempting. But sadly, I travel a lot, and small effusive dogs and professional
writing do not really mix.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</b>My favorite animals are probably the birds in my back yard … we have a
robin and a blackbird who are so tame and calm around us that they almost count
as pets.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</b>So-called talent contests like The X Factor. They are rigged from start to
finish, and they’re killing modern music.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</b>Meatballs and pasta, I could live on that.<br />
Raw celery is vile, unless heavily coated in dressing in a Waldorf salad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is your favorite quotation / motto /
saying?<br />
</b>“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is the best thing that ever
happened to you?<br />
</b>Meeting my wife.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is the worst thing that ever
happened to you?<br />
</b>Short of money once, I took a part-time job cold calling firms and trying
to sell them accountancy software. Utter hell. When that job ended after a few
months, I walked out of the office very quickly and then ran the whole way to
the subway station.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>Marrying my wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever
done?<br />
</b>As the song goes, I have no regrets. It’s not that I’m perfect, but I do
things for a reason.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What do you do?<br />
</b>Write, obviously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How did you get started doing what you
do?<br />
</b>I’ve written ever since I was a kid. I used to create my own comic strips,
an activity hampered by the fact that I can’t draw particularly well. At high
school, I had an English teacher who recognized I had a talent for the written
word and did everything that he could to encourage me. About six months from
finishing my law degree, I realized that what I really wanted to do was write
professionally, got hold of a second-hand typewriter and started knocking out
stories. And the first one sold within a couple of months of my graduating.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is your advice to other people that
want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>Learn how to put together a professional manuscript – looks do count when
it comes to weary editors. Try your very best to get an agent. Other than that,
write what you really want to write rather than what you think you ought. What
you really want to write might change immensely down the years, but writing is
a learning process and you’ll find yourself constantly evolving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are some of the projects you’ve
worked on/finished in the past? Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</b>I’ve written 12 novels and novellas so far, most of them horror and dark
fantasy and including a series of 5 books – so far – set in the fictional town
of Raine’s Landing, Massachusetts. I’m really aching right now to sit down and
start on the sixth. But my most recent novel, published last December, was a
straightforward crime one, and I have plans to do some more in that direction.
I’ve also seen into print more than 100 short stories, enough to fill 7 collections,
four of them from Dark Regions Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</b>I’ve just finished a second crime novel with the same protagonist as the
one last year. It’s with my agent and she’s showing it around right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are you watching?<br />
</b>I’ve just discovered – online – the Sleepy Hollow TV series, and am
thoroughly enjoying it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are you listening to?<br />
</b>Usually jazz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are you reading?<br />
</b>I’m just about to start on John Connelly’s ‘Every Dead Thing,’ having never
read him before. And sitting on my shelves, waiting for a beach vacation, is
‘Sapphique,’ the sequel to ‘Incarceron.’ I think Catherine Fisher is a superb
writer, and so that should be a treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</b>Ray Bradbury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</b>Nirvana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</b>Spice Girls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If you could do anything other than what
you do now, what would you do?<br />
</b>Marine biologist … I love snorkeling so much that, once in, I almost have
to be physically dragged out of the ocean to get me back on dry land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Who would you want to meet that you
haven’t met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</b>Nelson Mandela. Dashiell Hammett. Krusty the Clown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve
ever had?<br />
</b>Writing.<br />
Cold calling/editing legal forms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Are there any questions that I didn’t
ask that you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</b>None that I can think of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anyone you recommend I interview that
you can put me in touch with?<br />
</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ramsey Campbell. John Langan. John
Skipp.<br />
Excellent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Point them in my direction if
you think that this is the kind of thing that you think that they’d be into
doing.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Got any questions for me?<br />
</b>What do you get out of interviewing people?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No one would interview me when I was
trying to establish myself as an author.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s the old paradox.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They won’t
interview someone they haven’t heard of before, and how is anyone going to hear
about me if I can’t get some media exposure?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I didn’t think that was fair, so I started the blog so there would be an
open forum for anyone that wanted to be interviewed about anything, as long as
they were willing to subject themselves to the interview process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put out three collections of interviews
from the blog thinking maybe they’d sell, and they didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a couple deals to syndicate the
interviews to online magazines that needed content but those deals fell
through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, most recently, my Google
AdSense registration was finally approved and I made $0.01 this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As sentimental as it’s going to sound, the
real reward is helping to give people a promotional tool and getting to know
some new acquaintances working in a variety of creative arts.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thanks for letting me subject you to
being interviewed!<br />
</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tony.richards.1217" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/tony.richards.1217</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyRichardsdfw" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/TonyRichardsdfw</a><br />
Website: <a href="http://www.richardsreality.com/" target="_blank">http://www.richardsreality.com</a><br />
Blog: <a href="http://raineslanding.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://raineslanding.blogspot.com</a><br />
Etc.: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=216438265" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=216438265</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</b>Born in London, England, Tony Richards is the author of 12 novels and over
100 short stories. His most recent books are Under the Ice and Hot Blood, both
from Samhain Publishing, The Universal and Other Terrors from Dark Regions
Press, and his first crime novel, The Desert Keeps Its Dead from Telos
Publishing. Widely travelled, he sets much of his fiction in locations he has
visited. He has been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker and British Fantasy
awards.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly
because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com </span></span></span></div>
Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-16190745500602002432015-02-27T07:48:00.004-08:002015-02-27T07:58:19.447-08:00Interview with Sèphera Girón.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sèphera Girón</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Seph<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Birthplace:<br />
</b>New Orleans<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I drove past New Orleans on my way to
Texas a couple times and didn’t have time for the detour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kind of wish I had made the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hear it’s a great place to go.<br />
</i>I’d never actually been until the WHC/HWA weekend a couple of years ago. I
spent more time drinking bourbon on Bourbon Street and dancing in the bars then
I did doing the convention!<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Current hometown:<br />
</b>Toronto<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I love Toronto!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been there four or five times on horror
business and always had a great time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s like a clean New York City where everyone is nice.</i><br />
I agree. I love Toronto as well.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Favorite city and why?<br />
</b>New York City. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first time I went
there when I was eighteen, I felt like I had come home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been many times since and love it. I also
fell in love with New Orleans when I went back for the first time for WHC/HWA
weekend a couple of years ago.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthday / Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">January 23, 1962</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Short, round.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">They would likely be kind and say, “voluptuous.”</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Boobs.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sexual orientation?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Bi.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">None proclaimed.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at all?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A little.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m not fond of birds. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a
fear of being in a tornado, so high winds freak me out. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m afraid of being eaten by a shark or other
scary sea monster. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fear of heights.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So, The Birds, The Wizard Of Oz, and Jaws
are actually horror movies to you.<br />
</i>Absolutely! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I blame <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wizard of Oz</i> for most of my
neurosis.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Witches, midgets, lions, tigers, bears,
etc.<br />
</i>Flying monkeys, tornadoes, green ladies...</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you smoke/drink? If so, what?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I love bourbon.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any bad habits?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ll never tell!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m a full-time freelance writer editor. My dream job is a rich
full-time writer, as in produce one book every couple of years! </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Dance, read, go to the movies, watch TV, hang out with friends.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I don’t have one. Do you think I should? Lol.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well, you might want to have one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could adapt if for if/when the economy
collapses and people start hunting each other for food.<br />
</i>I guess I’d better give it a bit more thought!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Gun of some sort. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One that
shoots a lot of bullets really fast but isn’t a bitch to carry.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Tarot reading, Reiki.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Arts Studies from York
University.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">All my pets are dead.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Apes, monkeys, dogs.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">This trend of all men of all ages growing beards. I like a
clean-shaven man.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I love medium rare bacon-wrapped filet mignon with garlic mashed
potatoes, and broccoli. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loathe Brussel
sprouts.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite quotation / motto /
saying?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Life is a cabaret!”</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Being a mom to two great sons.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Losing my way.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Did you find your way again?<br />
</i>I made it back from the wrong path though going forward, who knows what
lies in store?!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Yes, I’ve been divorced twice. No stories.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever broken someone’s heart? Not that I’m
aware of. Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Not that I’m aware of.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Staying alive.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lied.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could kill one person, consequence
free, who would it be and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I don’t believe in killing anyone in real life.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I wouldn’t.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve always enjoyed writing and telling stories. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read a lot and wrote a lot. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took courses, went to University. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized that it wasn’t insane to want to
submit my work to the publishing houses whose books I enjoyed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I studied writer’s guidelines, learned what I
could through writer magazines, hung out in the library, and submitted my work.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no internet in those days so
everything took forever and you had to be a detective to find out anything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially in Canada. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a tenacious little duck.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Read, write, edit, submit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Join writers organizations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go to readings and workshops. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Network. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t be a dick.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past? Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I wrote four books for Leisure which are now published with Necon
E-books.com<br />
<a href="http://neconebooks.com/downloads/house-of-pain-by-sephera-giron-2/" target="_blank">House of Pain</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<a href="http://neconebooks.com/downloads/borrowed-flesh-by-sephera-giron-2/" target="_blank">Borrowed Flesh</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<a href="http://neconebooks.com/downloads/the-birds-and-the-bees-by-sephera-giron-2/" target="_blank">The Birds and the Bees</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Mistress of the Dark</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Scarlett
Publishing<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Tales-Terror-Sephera-Giron-ebook/dp/B00BGFIB5Y/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1424731221&sr=8-3&keywords=weird+tales+of+terror" target="_blank">Weird Tales of Terror</a>, a collection of stories and a novel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Samhain
Horror Publishing<br />
<a href="https://www.samhainpublishing.com/book/4888/captured-souls" target="_blank">Captured Souls</a> <br />
<a href="https://www.samhainpublishing.com/book/5079/flesh-failure" target="_blank">Flesh Failure</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Experiments in Terror<br />
A Penny Saved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I
also dabble a bit in movies. I’m in Gregory Lamberson’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Killer Rack</i>, playing a tarot reader (coming out in 2015). I was
also in Lamberson’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Slime City Massacre</i>
as “Ruby” (2010).</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The Boys Club (horror novel).</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m eagerly awaiting the season premiere of Bates Motel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just got unhooked from American Horror
Story: FreakShow which had me binge-watch the first two seasons that I’d never
seen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like reality shows such as
Strange Addiction and Face Off.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Eminem, Lorde, Little Shop of Horrors, Quadrophenia.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Other people’s manuscripts for my editing jobs. Le sigh.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Stephen King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read The
Shining when it was published. It scared the hell out of me. Not sure if it
would today, but it sure did then.</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The Who<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>/ Dr. Jimmy/Mr. Jim</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Nickleback. Pick one! Ha!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Be a movie or TV star.</span></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stephen King and/or Roger
Daltrey<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dead.</b> Shirley Temple. I got her
autograph once but I’ve always just wanted to sit down over a drink and just
yak.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fictional:</b> Scarlett O’Hara, although
she’d likely rip my head off.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m living my dream, baby!<br />
The worst job, oh, there were a couple. Working retail in the jewelry and watch
department of a fancy store at Christmastime for minimum wage when I was broke
springs to mind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Merry F-ing Christmas
to You Too, Rich-Bitches!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Nope. I think we covered it all!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Monica O’Rourke, Gemma Files.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Point them in my direction and we’ll see
where it goes.<br />
</i>Will do!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Got any questions for me?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I know you’re swamped so nope!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m not that swamped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doing these interviews is an as-of-yet unpaid
endeavor so I don’t let it take up too much of my time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spend, maybe, a couple hours a day getting
caught up on my interview homework and then I’m onto other things.<br />
</i>That’s good!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for letting me subject you to being
interviewed!<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thank you so much for having me!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Pitch parade:</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</span></b><a href="http://www.twitter.com/sephera" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.twitter.com/sephera</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <br />
</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/sephera" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.youtube.com/sephera</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <br />
</span><a href="http://www.instagram.com/sepheragiron" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.instagram.com/sepheragiron</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <br />
</span><a href="http://sephwriter666.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://sephwriter666.blogspot.ca</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<a href="http://facebook.com/SepheraGironAuthor" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/SepheraGironAuthor</a><br />
<a href="http://tarotpaths.blogpost.ca/" target="_blank">http://tarotpaths.blogpost.ca</a><br />
<a href="http://scarlettediting.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">http://scarlettediting.blogspot.ca</a><br />
<a href="https://www.samhainpublishing.com/author/1786/sphera-girn" target="_blank">https://www.samhainpublishing.com/author/1786/sphera-girn</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sèphera Girón is a horror writer who lives in Toronto. Her horror
books include <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Experiments in Terror, A
Penny Saved, Flesh Failure, Captured Souls, House of Pain, Borrowed Flesh, The
Birds and the Bees, </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> House of
Pain. </i>Sèphera is also an actress who has appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Slime City Massacre</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Killer
Rack</i> among others. When she isn’t writing, editing, or acting, Sèphera is a
professional tarot reader.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly
because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com </span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full
Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ryan Charles Lieske</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Grand Rapids, Michigan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current
hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Grand Rapids, Michigan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite
city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Unfortunately, I haven't traveled nearly as much as I would like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, out of the places I have visited, I
really love New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's probably
the Woody Allen thing.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthday
/ Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">December 19<sup>th</sup>. I'm 41. And I'm still not used to saying
that.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How
would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Endearingly short and out of shape.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How
would someone else describe you physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The same, except drop the “endearingly”.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The
first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Do you sleep in that hat?”</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sexual
orientation?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Straight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, when I'm
writing or directing, I become bisexual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I feel I need to be in order to do the job right.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion,
if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I walked away from religion a long time ago, but it's still a subject
that fascinates me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there aspects
to a lot of faiths that I find beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course, there are just as many aspects that I find abhorrent.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are
you superstitious at all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I'm what you would call “half-assed superstitious”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And phobias?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, I have one real phobia, and that's my ridiculous fear of praying
mantises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will scream and run if I
encounter one.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You do know that they’re perfectly
harmless to humans though, right?<br />
</i>Oh, I know, it's completely stupid. But there's just something about them
that unnerves some primitive part of me, and makes my blood go cold when I see
one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brother, Josh, has the same
fear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess it wouldn't be much of a
phobia if it wasn't so irrational.</span><br />
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">
Do you smoke/drink?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I quit smoking about 5 years ago, by using nicotine gum. I then became
hooked on the gum. I quit that cold turkey, on my 41<sup>st</sup> birthday. I
used to drink a lot more, in my 20s and early 30s, but I've tapered off quite a
bit in the last few years.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If so,
what?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Whatever the cheapest beer is. I don't enjoy it enough to be a snob
about it.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Any bad habits?<br />
</b>How long do we have?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">As long as it takes.<br />
</i>I don't eat well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drink too much
soda. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chew my fingernails. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I generally jump to awful conclusions before
thinking things through properly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I buy
more books than I'll ever have time to read. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I trust people too easily (which is just about
the WORST thing you can do in the filmmaking business).</span><br />
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current
occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Currently, I work for a company that does closed captioning for movies
and other video programming, the majority of which is porn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also own my own movie production company,
which, if it ever actually made any money, would be my dream job.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When you subtitle porn, do you have to
figure out how to spell the orgasmic groans or do you just subtitle the groans,
sighs and moans with “orgasmic groan”.<br />
</i>Actually, that is the first question everyone asks when they find out what
I do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don't caption any of the
groaning or moaning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is what is
considered a “sound effect”, and in porn, that sound effect is <i>implied </i>by
the very fact that you're watching porn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do, however, have to caption
everything that is being said, <i>if</i> it concerns the “plot”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, if you're clearly seeing someone's mouth
making words in a close up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
most of the time we don't even script “oh, God” or “oh, fuck” because that,
too, is implied.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
What do you like to do when you’re not at work?<br />
</b>If I had any money, I would travel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But mostly, when not writing, or working on a movie, I like to read,
watch movies, hang out with my cats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes, I do all of that at once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Which probably explains a lot.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</b>Find the nearest Rite Aid or Walgreen's, and barricade myself in
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I figure, with most pharmacies,
you only have one entrance to worry about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Plus, all those medical and food supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And toys for the kids. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon
of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Can I have the EM-1 Railgun Arnold used in <i>Eraser</i>? Is that a
real gun?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For the purposes of this interview it is.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you
have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I cook a good steak, and I give good volley in tennis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm also told I have a good ear for dialogue.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Did
you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I did go to college, and I completely wasted my time there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I'd never gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long story.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’ve got time if you want to delve.<br />
</i>Well, in essence, I paid a lot to go to a good school, and then spent most
of my time skipping class, slacking off. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn't a partier, or anything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just simply didn't treat my time in higher
education with any respect. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sort of
coasted through it, with my eyes locked on some nebulous future that was
eventually going to sweep me off into success and fame and fortune. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn't slap my face and tell myself that in
order to get anywhere <i>near</i> that dream future I needed to <i>work for it</i>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm quite disappointed in myself for how
cavalier I was about my life back then. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took it for granted that I was going to be a
successful writer/director, and arrogantly told myself I was better than
everyone around me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which, really, was
just me overcompensating for the fact that I had no self-esteem whatsoever, and
very little faith in my own talents. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
figured if I faked enough, I'd achieve <i>something. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>God damn, if I could I'd go back and kick
my ass so hard. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you
went to college, did you manage to pay off your student loans?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I was lucky, and my father paid the loan off for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I owe him a shitload of money I'll never
live long enough to pay back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least
the harassing phone calls stopped.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I wish my step-dad would step up and
knock my loan out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would reset my
credit and I could work out some kind of payment plan where I paid them $100 a
week for the next 2,000 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just
hate paying the actual loan companies because with interest constantly accruing
it’s like taking one step forward and two steps back each time I make a
payment.<br />
</i>Tell me about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's like Sisyphus
dealing with all that bullshit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now all
I have to deal with is the guilt. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
I feel guilty about everything anyway, what's a little more going to do?<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Any pets? If so, what are
they and what are their names?<br />
</b>Two cats: Arbor and Karloff.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Karloff?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sidekick?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><a href="http://youtu.be/pVYPHx59JfA" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">http://youtu.be/pVYPHx59JfA</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
One of my Top 5 favorite films.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Currently, I love quokkas and red pandas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, and cats, of course.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</b>I'm a bit of a Grammar Nazi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Non
language-related peeves: I loathe baseless entitlement and possessive
boyfriends who glare at you if you even walk past their girlfriend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And anyone who encourages idiocy in
idiots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And don't get me started on those
young-earthers.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite
/ Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I've become a burgeoning foodie in my old age, and have been expanding
my palate as of late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing specific
comes to mind, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love pretty
much anything Italian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm obsessed with
cheese.<br />
Least favorite?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just cannot deal with
guacamole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At all.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</span></b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: white;">“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and
toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other
... except through faith.” - Stephen King</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
is the best thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Discovering the opposite sex.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
is the worst thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Discovering the opposite sex.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever
had your heart broken? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br /> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Oh,
yeah. At least three times. Maybe four.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever
broken someone’s heart? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br /> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Not
proud of it, but yes.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I haven't done it yet.</span><br />
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ignoring my depression for as long as I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a young man I romanticized it, and
flippantly dismissed those who offered me help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I got older, it got worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
then one day it hit me like a fist to the throat, and I completely broke down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took me years to recover from that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I know it would never have been preventable,
I do know I could have handled it better if I'd let myself learn how to handle
when I was younger.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
If you could kill one person, consequence free, who would it be and why?<br />
</b>If I told you, and then something <i>did</i> happen to that person, not
only would I become the prime suspect, I would also have given the
investigators a motive to hang me on.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’ve been getting that dodge a fair
amount these days so I think I’m going to pull that question from the
questionnaire.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I am a writer and filmmaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For the past several years, my emphasis has been on writing and
directing movies, but lately I've decided to devote more attention to fiction
writing.</span><br />
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How
did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I've loved to read all my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At some point when I was in junior high, I just straight up decided I
wanted to write books. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>I wrote my first novel when I was 14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A whopping 100-page epic!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I discovered film-making a few years later, in
high school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friends and I had video
cameras, so we'd spend our weekends making movies in our backyards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since that time, I've never thought of doing
anything else.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
is your advice to other people that want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you have the ambition, then do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Don't hesitate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't wait until
tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do it now, and give every
ounce of your talent, passion, and energy to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do NOT be passive in your ambitions.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
are some of the projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past? Give us a
little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have written and directed the acclaimed short films "Clean
Break", "Down to Sleep", "Abed" (based on the
controversial short story by Bram Stoker Award-winning writer Elizabeth Massie,
and produced by the late Fangoria scribe and novelist Philip Nutman), and
"Remotion: Prologue", along with a pair of videos for the synthpop
band Alexis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2010, I was brought in
as a cowriter on "Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption" for director Ryan
Thompson, and starring Fred Williamson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have also written the screenplays "Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth",
"Devils in the Darkness", and "An Anti-American" for
director Daniel E. Falicki, released through Chemical Burn Entertainment.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Currently, I am in production on a feature film called
“Remotion”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are shooting what we can
right now, with no money, and are trying to raise funds to complete it over the
summer of 2015 (knock on wood).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
also writing a series of films for Lighthouse Pictures (who is also producing
and distributing “Remotion”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the
writing side of things, I am working on several short stories, a novel, and
outlining a couple of future screenplays.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I'll pretty much watch anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Currently, I'm trying to get through all the TCM movies I have clogging
my DVR.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">When driving, I listen to NPR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, I lost 90% percent of my music collection when my
external hard drive was damaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I've
been bereft music for the last year or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sucks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much for the joys of
non-physical media.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You have to regularly back everything up,
and back up your back ups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a
nuisance, but you’ll be glad you did if you have another device shit the bed.<br />
</i>Yeah, I definitely learned my lesson on that one. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What
are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I generally read three or four books at a time, and, as with movies,
my tastes are all over the map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Currently, I'm reading <i>11/22/63</i> by Stephen King, <i>On the Beach</i>
by Nevil Shute, <i>Nausea </i>by Jean-Paul Sartre, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's
autobiography, <i>Total Recall</i>. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite
author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My favorite books are <i>It</i> by Stephen King, <i>Steppenwolf</i> by
Herman Hesse, and <i>Lord of the Flies</i> by William Golding. My favorite
authors are Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Kathe Koja, Brian Hodge, Whitley
Strieber, Herman Hesse, Clive Barker. The list could go on, I'll just stop
there.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite
band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My favorite band is Joy Division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I couldn't tell you a favorite song, though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It depends on my mood, where I'm at, how many
beers I've had...</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least
favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I dislike a lot of bands/musicians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I will tell you this: I absolutely fucking HATE that “No Rain” song
by Blind Melon. And “Come On, Eileen”, “Love Shack”, and “Don't Stop Believing”
can all fuck off, too.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you
could do anything other than what you do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Honestly, either an archaeologist, or an astronaut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm fascinated by ancient history and
space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, I'm not patient enough for
the former, nor smart enough for the latter.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who
would you want to meet that you haven’t met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">God, who is all three, depending on who you
ask.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s
the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Best job? Totally the one-hour photo lab I used to work at with
brother, back in the late 90s.<br />
Worst?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I worked for one whole day at an
ink factory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was awful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took me months to scrub all the ink off my
hands.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anyone
you recommend I interview that you can put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A couple of filmmakers/collaborators: Jason Roth and Tom Ashton<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Point them in my direction and we’ll see
where it goes.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Got
any questions for me?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Why do YOU like to write? And why do you like doing these interviews?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I like to write because I like to think
that it’s something that I’m good at, that comes easily to me, that other
people find difficult or impossible to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I used to be a voracious reader, and after reading a few thousand books,
I read a few that I wished had ended differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized that was the author’s job and
since I had the opinion that the story would have ended better differently, I
started to write my own stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
not entirely the truth, but the truth is long and boring and self-indulgent.<br />
As for why I like doing these interviews, I wouldn’t say I like doing
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would instead say that I like
being able to give people the opportunity to promote themselves and the
projects they’re working on and to be able to get to know some of my internet
acquaintances a bit better.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Well, I for one appreciate that you're doing
it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don't <i>have</i> to do it, but
you do, and I think that's a rare commodity in people these days. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially in this business. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'd be happy to help you on any projects I
can. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You only need to say the word. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you for allowing me the chance to do
this! </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks
for letting me subject you to being interviewed!</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Facebook: My personal Facebook: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ryan.lieske" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">www.facebook.com/ryan.lieske</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My production company: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/familiarproductions" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">www.facebook.com/familiarproductions</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The feature I'm currently shooting: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/RemotionFilm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">www.facebook.com/RemotionFilm</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/FamiliarProduct" target="_blank">twitter.com/FamiliarProduct</a><br />
Website/Blog: <a href="http://neparacoolmondo.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">neparacoolmondo.wordpress.com</a><br />
“Remotion: Prologue” trailer - </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9mEaaRPcu4" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9mEaaRPcu4</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Abed” trailer - </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxE7lAFxAqI" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxE7lAFxAqI</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Down to Sleep” trailer - </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1SEKzsofko" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1SEKzsofko</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My short film “Remotion: Prologue”, available to watch for free: </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/102258697" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">https://vimeo.com/102258697</span></a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">About
the Interviewee:<br />
</span></b><span style="color: white;">Ryan Lieske is a screenwriter, director, potential novelist, occasional short story writer, and freelance curiosity-seeker. He writes stuff. Sometimes he makes that stuff into movies. Sometimes he just lets it stay on the page. He like reading books, indiscriminately. Same with movies. He never lies, but sometimes he invents the truth. His three obsessions are Death, God, and Sex. He eats meat, despite feeling mildly guilty about it. He loves his cats. He loves collecting actual books and movies, not digital ones. Physically he's in his 40s, mentally he's in his 70s, and emotionally he's in his 20s. He doesn't sleep well at night.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly
because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com </span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-70719843364608759822015-02-26T01:09:00.002-08:002015-02-26T01:24:30.442-08:00Interview with Maynard Sims.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">We write as Maynard Sims but we are Len Maynard & Mick Sims -
that's two people. We did have one review that said they could spot the joins
but that was about a book that was written by one of so no joins, oh well. We
have enough differences in us to keep it fresh but enough symmetry to have
remained friends for fifty years. Appeals have always been declined by the
Governor.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I kind of got the sense that this one
might be a “twofer”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re a little
tougher than the standard variety, but thankfully this isn’t my first of its
kind.<br />
</i>When we do interviews we usually give separate
answers to most of the questions as we often have different views on things. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are different perceptions of past events
as well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we go to meetings or
events, conventions and the like we try to circulate separately as well, we
aren't joined at the hip or anywhere else.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">At school we probably had very rude nicknames but these days we answer
to granddad. Len is called Len by everyone to his face. Mick is called Mike by
family and Michael by a few. Even when he introduces himself as Mick people
often call him Mike and he still answers.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I never seem to mind what people call me
as long as they spell my name correctly on checks and pronounce it incorrectly
if they’re calling as a telemarketer.<br />
</i>It irritates me that people can't be bothered to
learn my name, when I've just told them it a moment ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Says more about them I hope than me - though
my lack of confidence generally often makes me assume I am so unmemorable that
they can't recall my name.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Len - Enfield, Middlesex<br />
Mick - New Cross, South London.<br />
We met in Enfield, at Ambrose Fleming school and lived there for years -
Enfield not the school - before moving to separate parts of Hertfordshire. Mick
was born at Kings College hospital London in the last great pea-souper fog
London had and he was three days old before his dad saw him because he couldn't
find the hospital in the smog.<br />
</span>Len: I was
born and brought up in Enfield. We went to the same school but were never
really in the same circles. Once we’d left school we got to know each other
through mutual friends. Once we got to know each other it became apparent that
we had similar literary interests; namely horror. From then on it was a
progression – first reading the same kind of stuff, to deciding we wanted to
write it. My first efforts were pretty poor, and a kind of friendly rivalry
sprang up, each of us writing, trying to out do the other. I wouldn’t say there
was a specific night when we suddenly decided we wanted to become writers, but
looking back now it seems almost inevitable that we did.<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mick – I was born in New Cross and
moved to Enfield when I was 4. I went to George Spicer Primary and Ambrose Fleming
Grammar, leaving after A Levels. Len went to Ambrose too. I regularly visit
Enfield now; my parents are both in the Crem, and I like to show my wife and
daughter my old ‘haunts’. We used to hang out with a crowd of boys and girls
and The Crown and Horseshoes at the end of Gentleman’s Row was a favourite pub.
One night it got late and we realised we were the last two of our crowd left.
We had been talking together on and off all night, which was unusual for us.
Then we realised we had lots more to say and so we went walking the streets. At
around 3 in the morning we decided it was time to quit but we’ve been talking
pretty much ever since.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You realize that since I am an uncultured
and boorish American, that some of this is going to be a bit wonky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know we use the same language, but it’s the
differences that throw me off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
know what a “Crem” is, but I hope it’s nice for the sake of your parents.<br />
</i>Americans I have met are like most other people in the world - some are
ignorant of other cultures but most are absolutely fine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crem is unfortunately short for crematorium as
both my parents are dead - dad at 59 from a heart attack and mum at 71
ultimately from Alzheimer's. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O levels
are exams you do at 16 and A's at 18 - not sure if there is a US equivalent.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I think the U.S. equivalent of the O
& A would be Driver’s License and registering for Selective Service.<br />
</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No, I think O and A levels exams are more the equivalent of high school
diplomas and what you call AP's. One is what you take around age 16 (O's in UK)
and the other around 18 (A's in UK) and they determine entrance to University.<br />
We take driver's tests here - a written exam and a practical driving test.
Driving lessons here cost about £20/£25 per hour (US$ 30 or so?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don't have anything like Selective Service
over here.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Current
hometown:<br />
</span></b></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Len
- Letchworth Garden City in a cottage with his guitars, books, and computers.<br />
Mick - Bishops Stortford in a house with his wife and dog and cat and
occasionally daughter and granddaughter - both are in Hertfordshire.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Favorite
city and why?<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Len
- London as it's close and buzzing .<br />
Mick - Rome as it was honeymoon destination and you can walk round it easily
although I prefer country and seaside to cities. I prefer it quiet and serene.
I've been to London, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Orlando, Toronto, Madrid,
Munich, Salzburg, but I'm not a lover of travel.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For someone that doesn’t love travel, you
seem to have done a fair amount of it.<br />
</i>Mainly because I live for my family and wife likes to travel, plus I think
it's important to show my daughter as much of the world as possible. They've
mostly been vacation trips although Chicago and Toronto were for WHC.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Birthday
/ Age:</b><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Len
- January 2 1953<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mick - December 7
1952<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- old farts these days although
the illusion of youth remains firmly embedded in our brains.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isn’t that the worst?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I feel like my body is
revolting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As in behaving
traitorously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it’s “revolting”.</i><br />
Bending down is okay it's the getting back up that is a struggle.</span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</b>Too much weight, not enough height - but handsome and awesome just the same.
Eat too much and exercise too little - the modern curse.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Old, fat, ugly, but when they take off their glasses it would be, tall,
dark and handsome.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God bless the vanity of near-sighted women.<br />
</i>It's been a blessing - that and alcohol.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</b>That there are two of us not one. With Len it is the beard, with Mick it is
the glasses, it's the way to tell us apart. And we tend to smile a lot as we
are generally happy people. Life is short, there's shit in it so you have to
make the best you can. We wished we had made it bigger in writing but the chip
on the shoulder is not noticeable.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Sexual orientation?<br />
</b>Love it. Straight, and at times in years gone past desperate and far too
pre-occupied with it. No problems with other orientation apart from
paedophiles.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Len – atheist.<br />
Mick - non-practicing Christian. My wife is a practicing Catholic and I respect
that.<br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at
all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Loads.<br />
Mick - From talking to my parents who visit me as blackbirds, to having an
almost obsessive need to repeat patterns of behaviour and ritual. Phobias - spiders,
heights, deep water, violence - it's a wonder I ever leave the house. <br />
Len - Spiders.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <br />
<br />
Do you smoke/drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?<br />
</b>Len - Smokes 300 cigarettes a day but drinks moderately apart from tea
which he ships in by the swimming pool load.<br />
Mick - Smokes nothing and the older I have got the less tolerant to alcohol I
am so drink very little - if you mean alcohol rather than coffee. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bad habits though would include a pathological
need to get things done right away. If it needs doing I can't wait and do it
later it has to be done right away.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Len, you can’t smoke three-hundred
cigarettes a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s five packs a
day the way they pack them on this side of the pond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s like two lighters a day.<br />
</i>True, it was a tongue-in-cheek exaggeration. I
started at school as a form of rebellion and the habit stuck. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tried to give up several times, tried e-cigs,
but it keeps dragging me back in gasping and choking - literally. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I probably smoke a pack a day these days.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</b>Full time writers both of us.<br />
Dream job - we are now doing it after 40+ years of holding down day jobs and
writing part time. We produced a hell of a lot considering we have been patchy
in our production and have had to do it evenings and weekends and around life
and family. There is always so much else that needs doing. For years Len wrote
on the train journey - a few hundred words a day. Mick has always written in
bursts - sometimes now 10,000 words a day but others nothings for days.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s such a relief to hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve interviewed a fair amount of authors and
most of them have a set amount of time or words that they write each day and
I’ve never been that kind of writer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
more the kind of writer that bunkers in and writes 10,000 words a day for three
days and comes out the other end of the tunnel not knowing what day it is.<br />
</i>Exactly the same. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resolutions to write daily and have a set
target is fine to advise people to do but it doesn't work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is too much in life that goes on to
distract. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially when writing is a
part time occupation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way I (Mick)
does it now is to have chapters be the same length, be it 2000, 3000, whatever
works for the book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then when I have a
writing day I push to write a chapter, and if it is going well and the day is
free of other stuff I try a second chapter and carry on if I can. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My 'record' is just over 10,000 words, usually
towards the end of a novel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's tiring
doing it that way as writing takes a lot of concentration and computers aren't
the most comfortable of companions for hours on end.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What do you like to do when you’re not at work?<br />
</b>Len - watch box sets, spend time with son and granddaughter, garden, think
about writing.<br />
Mick - spend time with wife, daughter and granddaughter, garden, think about
writing.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</b></span>Len – Run. Zombies
are dead slow.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Mick - We have only ever written one zombie story - Salvation - which
was in </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book Of All Flesh</i> anthology which has been reprinted in several languages.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Words. It should be tongue but neither of us is quick enough to come
up with a good response at the time - but get great replies when it is too
late. You can wound with words, really hurt someone, which is not to be
advocated. Violence of any sort is abhorrent and so there is no weapon on a
wish list. If threatened, or family was under attack, a nuclear bomb, an
assault rifle or an axe because all reason would go out of the window to
protect them.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Do you have any special skills?<br />
</b>Len plays guitar, is a master lapidary, gardens well, cooks, and a top
granddad.<br />
Mick does business coaching, gardens okay, and is a
top granddad whose granddaughter thinks he can fix everything.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</b>Len left at school at 16 with no qualifications. Didn't like or enjoy
school at secondary level and couldn't wait to leave. When I started work and
stayed there for 43 years I did sometimes wonder if I had done the right thing.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mick got O levels and A levels but
didn't go to college or university. It was only the really bright ones who went
in those days. Instead he started work for Lloyds Bank and managed to get away
with knowing very little for 40 years 1 month and 2 days before early
retirement.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
If you went to college, did you manage to pay off your student loans?<br />
</b>Mick's daughter is at University and will leave with loans of around £40k.
Horrendous.<br />
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Any pets? If so, what are they and what are their names?<br />
</b>Len used to have wives but that doesn't count I guess. Also cats. These
days it is granddaughter. Spiders enter his cottage but he has yet to befriend
them as he hates them. He does talk to his computer.<br />
Mick has a dog, Alfie and a cat, Riley. And a granddaughter, Macie but she is
not a pet as such. He has no pet names for parts of his anatomy so don't ask.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Len - cats. Imperious, loving and aware.<br />
Mick - elephants for their strength, long life, and memory.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</b>Far too many as you get older. Rudeness, litter, lateness, selfishness, ignorance,
violence, 'isms of most kinds, bad grammar, anger, swearing, and the fact that
our books don't sell more than they do.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</b>Len - Steak /curry. Can take or leave food as a passion.<br />
Mick - Chicken / Cream cheese. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
I eat most things and enjoy eating at home and going out. Holidays or days out
usually revolve around 'when are we eating?'.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
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What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</b>Len – I’ll do it tomorrow. <br />
Mick - have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to
change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.</span></span><br />
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What is the best thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</b>Len - Marriage, my son, my granddaughter and having everything I have
written get published.<br />
Mick - Marriage, my daughter, my granddaughter, and having everything I have
written get published.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Isn’t it great knowing that everything
you’ve written has been published?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
in that enviable position for a few years, getting invited to contribute
stories for anthologies and receiving regular publishing credits to bolster my
writing resume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hit a wall with my
first novel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t get any
publishers to consider it, much less make me an offer, so after five years of
sending it out to be ignored I decided to go the self-publishing route.<br />
I made about $5,000 in royalties from it over the past year or so, so I guess I
managed to self-publish myself into pro-rate and it’s considerably more than
any publisher would have offered me as an advance for the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being said, what are your opinions on
self-publishing versus legacy publishing?<br />
</i>We rarely get asked to contribute to anthologies
these days which does hurt a little bit after all these years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It happens sometimes, as we get asked very
occasionally to edit an anthology but we have become accustomed to being
overlooked.<br />
$5000 is a fantastic achievement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one
year, from one book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We haven't come
anywhere near that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be great to hear how
you promoted it.<br />
We self published three crime thrillers last year, using our Enigmatic Press
imprint as 'publisher' and with covers from photographs a friend took and Len's
son Iain did cover design. They look great, are good reads and have been well
received but sales are low. Many publishers outside the big few don't offer advances
these days anyway and to get in with them you need an agent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have had bad experiences with agents over
the years and have never had any work from any of them or been able to break
into the 'big league' with them.<br />
We don't think there is anything wrong with self-publishing as long as it is
done professionally. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is hard enough
but being a writer is something that far too many people think is an easy job. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's not, and getting a novel written and then
revised and then get the cover and layout right takes time and skill. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that it is marketing and promotion and
that is a whole different skill. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many
ways it is even harder than the writing part. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you make your book a success?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well, this is the book in
question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Torture-Murder-Sean-Douglas/dp/1493691104/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Torture-Murder-Sean-Douglas/dp/1493691104/</a>
]<br />
I decided to go with a simple cover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Red
text on a black cover and skip the back blurb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wanted it to look simple, elegant, and kind of ominous, like the cover
design for Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I worked a brand manager for a horror-genre merchandising company for
five years, so I was well familiar and comfortable with writing ad copy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time I published the book, under a pen
name, I wanted to act as if, I, the publisher had been given the book by my pen
name, who could act as a different persona writing torture porn, and in the
book, the book is given to an initial narrator, and the bulk is written by an
unnamed character.<br />
In addition to those considerations, I also spent about eight hours a night
posting offers to send interested readers a free PDF copy in exchange for a
review in Facebook groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I figured
that it wouldn’t sell any copies if no one knew about it, so I could afford to
give away a few dozen copies to help the book build some momentum and hopefully
after a while it would sell itself, and it did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, I’ve used the same marketing strategy for all of the
books I’ve released and this was the only one that really caught on and started
to sell itself without me constantly pushing it.<br />
I wish there was some magic method to selling books, but it really just boils
down to what always works in sales: perseverance.</i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</b>Len - Divorces, death of my father when I was very young, my mum's current
poor health, not becoming a bestseller and making millions.<br />
Mick - Divorce, death of my dad at 59 and then my mum later with Alzheimer's,
and also quite a few miscarriages. Any time my loved ones are hurt or sad is
the worst time at the time. And not making millions for writing.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I know that every author, no matter how
realistic, has the dream of making Stephen King money, but the fact that we’re
making royalties at all is pretty fortunate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m imaginary friends with a guy that has been doing this for two years
and has never received a royalty payment, which makes me thankful that anyone
considers my books worth reading.<br />
</i>Our royalties are more like your friends than
yours so you are doing really well. What is the secret?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If I really knew the answer, I’d
be doing this full-time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know a couple
authors that are making over $3,000 a month from their book royalties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their secret is that they spent years
building their fan base by maintaining blogs, doing interviews, attending
conventions to meet the target audience in person, and regularly releasing new
books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of them releases books that
add to a series that he writes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
other has a genre that he releases new books in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think what they have in common is the
quality that I mentioned earlier: perseverance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They wrote a book, promoted it, sent it out to get reviewed, then went
back and wrote another book and repeated the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be great to sell a hundred copies of
one of my books in a month, but if I can sell ten copies of ten different
books, the royalties end up equal and it’s a lot easier that way for whatever
reason.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Far too many times many years ago but a gentleman never lets slip
secrets about a lady. <br />
Mick - I fell in love with every girl I went out with which was immature and
did lead to constant heartache. Never mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Over it now - damn them.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>Always tried not to which means generally we've been the ones being dumped.</span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>Len - Leave work early so I can write whenever I want to. Plus my son Iain
who is an artist, and granddaughter Lilybet.<br />
Mick - Marrying Clare, having Emily, and Macie, and having the time now, at
last, to write all the time.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>Len - Too dire to tell.<br />
Mick - Try to fashion an interest in the day job long after it had ceased to be
fun. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Was it ever?)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I always say that anytime you’re going
someplace you’d rather not go to do something you’d rather not do it’s a bad
situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at least you’re both
finally in the place where you can do what you want to do with the rest of your
lives.</i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
If you could kill one person, consequence free, who would it be and why?<br />
</b>Len - Mick<br />
Mick - Len<br />
Only joking. There are far too many evil people in the world who hurt children,
women, animals, men and the environment for profit and selfish need - we would
have to kill them all.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What do you do?<br />
</b>About what? Work? We write. Ghost stories that appear in anthologies and
our collections. Novellas and novels. Supernatural standalones, and the
Department 18 series - now with Samhain. Crime thriller standalones and a new
Jack Callum crime series. Erotic romance under a pseudonym.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>We've won awards for screenplays but never had a movie made -
optioned loads of times but none made. Also edit when asked. Write some
freelance stuff including ghost writing, business plans and articles.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It actually seems like we’ve got a
similar model for our writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I write
and publish books and short stories and do a little ghost writing on the
side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve also written a few
screenplays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No movies yet, but I did
write the script for a music video that got made and went on to win some
awards, so I guess I get to call myself an award-winning writer of some
sort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not that it sells more books, but
it’s generally better to be loved than hated.<br />
</i>We don't lust after awards but it is nice to be
recognized and the screenplay award meant a presentation at a cinema complex in
Leicester Square London and a 'party' at the Hippodrome afterwards. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A short speech and reading as well, Mick wrote
a woman's life story as a novel and it was hard work because she had very
definite ideas that she wanted everything put in that had happened to her and
novels just don't work like that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
her life though and her money, so compromise was needed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We've both done some business-type freelancing
on the side - website copy, business plans, that kind of thing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not as enjoyable as our own writing but it's
still using the skill we love to use.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>Len wrote a short story back in 1974. Mick responded and we carried on from
there. We decided to collaborate and spent years polishing our style. Our first
story collection came out in 1979.<br />
</span>Mick – It was a painful
process to get to the fluent process we have now. Those early stories were all
a learning curve of course. What I don’t think we realised at the time was that
we were both not only learning to write – and all writers develop at different
speeds – but we were also learning to write with another person. Those two
things combined certainly made for a combustible mix. <br />
One way it would work was one would start a story, stop for a variety of
reasons, hand it over to the other for them to finish. We then had a jointly
written story. We decided very early on that each story should have one author
voice – by which I mean more than just a style, although a cohesive style was
important. Another way we did it was for one of us to completely write a story
and then hand it to the other to edit, revise, as needed. That was when a lot
of rows began. How dare he suggest changes to my precious story? We had a
meeting place by the river, near the pub, and after a row, sometimes hours
after, we would meet up there as if by pre-arrangement and come to an agreement
about the story. Pregnant pauses were our specialty, with silence as a weapon.<br />
Over the years we have smoothed it all out. We are open and honest with each
other, and no offence is taken when change is suggested. Taking it right up to
the present day, when we write as many novels as stories, we each write the
complete book/story and then hand it over to the other for revision which
includes proofing, copy editing, as well as revising if we feel it needs it.
With each book we spend days at the end reading it together, page by page, for
grammar, continuity, repetition and other flaws we find.<br />
With the novels, each has been different. We find it is important that a book
has a single voice – an author point of view, a narrative drive the reader can
connect with. Luckily our styles have developed over the years into a single
M&S style so there is never a case of anyone being able to see the joins.
We also got a review along the lines of – did it really take two of them to
write this pile of **** - which was one reason behind the change of name to
Maynard Sims.<br />
Len - We wrote as individuals for a while then realised that we would be
competing for the same markets, so the sensible thing seemed to be to pool our
resources. And we’ve been writing together ever since. Initially we would
finish each other's stories and argue about which version was better. We’d
spend hours discussing a single word if we felt passionately enough about it.<br />
We used to brainstorm, sometimes for weeks on end. I remember one novel we
planned early on in our careers was discussed at length and completely
story-boarded - a process that went on for weeks if not months. In fact it took
so long to plan we both ran out of steam on it and it was shelved. We refined
the process after that. I think we have been writing together for so long now
that we respect each other’s strengths and recognize each other’s weaknesses.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When you sit down to give the book a
final read, do you read it aloud?<br />
</i>We do that with certain passages but not the
whole thing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Short stories are obviously
easier to do than novels. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I (Mick) tends
to read 'aloud' in my head when I reading through. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We used to print the book off as well and
correct with red pen, but these days we computer proof and correct as we go
along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b>Write every day. Get
an agent early if you can. Never give up. Submit all the time. Be nice to
everyone because we all seem to know each other. And anyway it's better to be
nice than nasty.<br />
Len: Read, and then read some more. And it’s not
enough just to read a novel and enjoy it. Analyze what you are reading and try
to work out if the author has achieved what they set out to achieve, and if
not, why not? And if they have, try to figure out why you enjoyed it so much.<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mick – Be very patient. You will only
sell when you are good and that takes time. Not as long as we’ve taken
admittedly but you need to be resilient when the rejections come in, and they
will. Know the market you want to sell in. Know the subject you want to write
about. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to write in a specific
genre stick to it and don’t be diverted by books you read and want to write
them. Have faith in what you write and stick at it. Write every day if you can.
500 words a day is better than none.</span></span><br />
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What are some of the projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past? Give us a
little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Nine story collections -<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shadows At Midnight<br />
Echoes Of Darkness<br />
Incantations<br />
Secret Geography Of Nightmare<br />
Selling Dark Miracles<br />
Falling Into Heaven<br />
Flame and Other Enigmatic Tales<br />
Odd Ghosts<br />
A Haunting Of Ghosts</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Novellas
-<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hidden Language Of Demons<br />
The Seminar<br />
His Other Son<br />
The Curse Of The Mummy<br />
Convalescence</i> (due out from Samhain)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Supernatural
standalone novels -<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shelter<br />
Demon Eyes<br />
Nightmare City<br />
Stronghold<br />
Stillwater </i>(March 2015)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Department
18 series of novels -<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Cathedral<br />
Night Souls<br />
The Eighth Witch<br />
A Plague Of Echoes<br />
Mother Of Demons</i> (due 2015)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Standalone
crime thrillers -<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let Death Begin<br />
Through The Sad Heart<br />
Falling Apart At The Edges<br />
Dark Of the Sun</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: xx-small; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">As
editors -<br />
Enigmatic Tales 1 - 10<br />
Enigmatic Novellas 1 - 6<br />
Enigmatic Variations 1 - 5<br />
Enigmatic Electronic<br />
F20 1 & 2<br />
Darkness Rising 1 - 7<br />
Darkness Rising 2003<br />
Darkness Rising 2005<br />
Dead Water</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A new crime series set in England in the 1950's - the first novel is
written and being placed while the second has been started.<br />
A trilogy of adventure thrillers set in the Bahamas is completed recently and
being placed.<br />
Stories for our tenth collection.<br />
Co-editors for a crime/thriller anthology through ITW.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b>A new standalone crime novel.<br />
A new Department 18 novel.<br />
a new ghost story novel.<br />
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What are you watching?<br />
</b>Len – American Horror Story (Waiting for season four) A Touch of Frost.
Silent Witness. NCIS. Supernatural. Nashville.<br />
Mick - UK crime series on TV like Broadchurch and Silent witness and US
comedies like Big Bang Theory, Rules of Engagement and Two and Half Men<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What are you listening to?<br />
</b>Len – Currently listening to Quantum Jump, otherwise I have a very eclectic
taste in music. My current iTunes playlist ranges from Beyonce to Lonny
Donegan, taking in such delights as Mike Oldfied and Tennessee Ernie Ford.<br />
Mick - Eloy, Saga, Ozric Tentacles, Santana, Pink Floyd, and assorted artists
mixes.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What are you reading?<br />
</b>Len – Mainly non-fiction relating to Music Hall (vaudeville), and theatre,
and Joss Whedon’s biography. Holiday reading tends to be mostly thrillers.<br />
Mick - I never read when I am writing as I find it distracts me. I read loads
on holiday and often in bed at night to relax.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Favorite author / book?<br />
</b>Len - Jack Higgins / Any of them<br />
Mick - Ed McBain / 87th Precinct series</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Len – Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here .<br />
Mick - Soft Machine / Slightly All The Time<br />
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Least favorite band / song?<br />
</b>Len – Gary Glitter – anything that scumbag produced. <br />
Mick - I like a lot of different things but then I am not at all musical and
have no sense of beat, rhythm or whatever you need to appreciate music.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Len –<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Playing bass in a
rock band. Music was my first love, as the song goes.<br />
Mick - Writer is fine for me - I just wish I'd had the courage centuries ago to
do it full time as a job. Otherwise a primary school teacher.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Who would you want to meet that you haven’t met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</b>Len -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
Richard Matheson, Captain Abner Marsh (from George RR Martin’s Fevre Dream.<br />
Mick - Barry Manilow (for Clare) / Winston Churchill / Steve Carella</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Len – Writing (Best without a doubt). Paper round (all those early
mornings – shudder)<br />
Mick - Writer is easily the best and I only worked previously for a bank - some
of the jobs there were harder than others but I rarely hated going into work
unless I was on disciplinary for not selling enough PPI.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Len - No that seems a fairly long list<br />
Mick - I am not answering questions about the length of my manhood<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Anyone you recommend I interview that you can put me in touch with?<br />
</b>Loads - we have a lot of contacts gathered over the years. Let us know if
you have anyone you'd like to talk with.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There’s not anyone specific that I’m
looking to interview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you know anyone
that wants to subject themselves to the interview process, in exchange for a
bit of exposure, feel free to point them in my direction.<br />
</i>Will do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have lots of contacts at all levels of their careers so be glad to 'invite'
them to contact you.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Got any questions for me?<br />
</b>Don't tempt us. We saw that Michael Welch interviewed you so we picked up a
lot of information there. Long answers so we hope ours are long enough for you.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">*laughs* Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I said in that interview, I figured it was
a matter of time before someone decided to turn the tables and put me in the
spotlight, so around twenty-five interviews in he asked me to quid pro quo and
I figured it was best to do it once and for all and get it out of the way, but
as long as your answers are long enough to suit your purposes and give me a few
angles to hang follow-up questions on, which you did, the format seems to
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s nothing worse than in
interviewee that answers “Yes” or “No” for most of the survey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those interviews end up being a boring waste
of time and effort for everyone involved, but I post them anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh, okay, thanks for filling out the
interview survey like a government form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ll follow through and post it for you so that your target audience can
find out what an uninspiring dullard you are.”<br />
</i>Writers are like real people and some are idiots
just like in real life.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Thanks for letting me subject you to being interviewed!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The authors of supernatural thriller novels,
Shelter, Demon Eyes, Nightmare City, and Stronghold, the Department 18 books,
Black Cathedral, Night Souls, The Eighth Witch, and A Plague Of Echoes, and the
crime thrillers Dark Of The Sun, Let Death Begin, Through The Sad Heart, and
Falling Apart At The Edges. Two erotic romance novels, under a pseudonym, are
out in 2014 / 2015 from Siren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2015 will see Department 18 book 5, Mother Of
Demons, and a standalone ghost story, Stillwater, from Samhain. A Bahamas
trilogy of adventure novels will come out in 2015/2016 – Touching The Sun,
Calling Down The Lightning, and Raging Against The Storm. A new crime series,
featuring DCI Jack Callum, has been started and the first novel written, Three
Monkeys. Current work in progress includes a new standalone crime thriller, a
new supernatural novel, and further romances. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They have written screenplays. One, based on
the first two Department 18 books, won the 2013 British Horror Film Festival
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Numerous stories have been published in a
variety of anthologies and magazines. Collections include, Shadows At Midnight,
1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations,
2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews,
The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, Falling
Into Heaven 2004, The Odd Ghosts, 2011, and Flame And Other Enigmatic Tales,
and A Haunting Of Ghosts, both 2012. 2015 will see their tenth collection of
ghost stories and strange tales – The Dead Are Dancing Down Our Walls – which
will include all their recent new stories, many of them unpublished. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Novellas, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The
Seminar, and His Other Son have been published in 2002, 2003, and 2013
respectively. All their stories and novellas have been reprinted in eight
uniform volumes through The Maynard Sims Library in 2014. 2015 will see a new
novella from Samhain, Convalescence, and The Curse Of The Mummy from Hersham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They worked as editors on the nine volumes of
Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British
Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK,
which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They have written
essays. They still do commissioned editing projects, most recently Dead Water.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com </span></div>
Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-83879640694570992282015-02-25T23:51:00.003-08:002015-02-26T01:10:52.145-08:00Interview with Vic Kerry.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Vic Kerry</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Since Vic Kerry is a pen name, I suppose it’s like a nickname.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ah, so you’re one of those.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I write under a pen name too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you do your author interviews as the persona
of your pen name or is it just a different name?<br />
</i>It’s just a name. Mike Arnzen advised me to take on a pen name due to my
profession.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Alabama</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Oakman, Alabama. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Population of
like 900.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Google says “</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At
the 2000 census the population was 944.” But maybe they were including dogs,
chickens and cows.<br />
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I think that 2010
census dropped us down some folks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
are by no means Podunk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve got two
hair salons, a photography studio, a tax prep, a Dollar General, a tobacco
city, four eating establishment (two of which are in gas stations), two gas
stations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our high school is located on
Alabama Highway 69. When we were in school, we told people we were educated on
69. (We were geeks indeed.)</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite city that I’ve spent time in is Pittsburgh. I have a lot of
good friends in the Pittsburgh area. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being
Southern through and through, I found it rather hospitable as well.<br />
My favorite city I’ve lived in is Mobile, Alabama. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love fresh gulf seafood, I have wonderful friends
there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love Mardi Gras. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mobile is like New Orleans older, less slutty
sister.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">They should put that on the letterhead:
“Mobile: New Orleans’ older, less slutty sister.”</i><br />
I proposed that during the 300 year anniversary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They told me they’d stick to the Azalea City.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthday / Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">August 24. I am 35-years-old, and I’ve never lived in a van down by
the river.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m 39 and I have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, I used to sleep in a van over-looking
the ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not as bad as people
make it out to be.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Nondescript .</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Others have described me as looking a whole lot like Elton John.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Physically is that I wear glasses. Personality-wise is that I am
rather cynical, sarcastic, and will say just about anything.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sexual orientation?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Straight.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Pastafarian of the Potatotarian sect.<br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at
all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I don’t really have superstitions. I have only two phobias. I am
terrified of heights. Ironically, for a horror writer, I’m terrified of
chainsaws.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you smoke/drink? If so, what? Any
bad habits?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I don’t smoke or drink. I have a lot of bad habits. Biting my nails
comes to mind first. My wife would say I whistle and hum too much.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I am an inpatient psychiatric therapist working with the acutely and
chronically mentally ill. I’ve been at this for about 12 years. My dream job is
pretty much anything else. Burger King fry cook is a dream job when you live in
a world of psychosis and despair.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Beyond normal domestic life. I write.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Run just a little bit faster and a little bit longer than the slowest
guy.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</b>.9mm and an ax.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I can tell you if there is too much sodium in the food you are eating.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">By sight or by taste?<br />
</i>Definitely by taste, but I’ve read so many labels and nutrition guidelines
that I tell by product mostly.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">For a while, I could have been classified as a professional student. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to the University of Alabama studying
psychology and journalism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to
graduate school for clinical psychology at the University of South Alabama,
earning an MS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, I went to Seton
Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania to get my MFA in writing popular
fiction.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you went to college, did you manage to pay
off your student loans?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Still working on that. I am an underpaid public servant.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Pets? We have 5 dogs and a cat.<br />
Our dogs are: Emmy a 15-year-old mutt with a potato fetish; Hermes a lab mix,
Napoleon a half Jack Russell half whatever jumped the fence that lives up to
his name; Mr. Humphries a Heinz 57 that’s the best dog we have; Lady Jack
Ketchum is Napoleon’s offspring that has a serious eating disorder and is of
course the scariest dog in America.<br />
Daisy is our cat. She’s a cat.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Penguins.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Standing in line and ironically for where I live, rednecks who are
proud of being ignorant.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My favorite food would be fried chicken and mashed potatoes, which
cruel fate has forbidden me to eat. My least favorite food, coconut.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</b>“Ours is not to reason why. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ours is
but to do and die.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, “May fortune
favorite the foolish.” and “If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty
seconds worth of distance run. Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it,
and which is more, you’ll be a man my son.”</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It changes every day.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Almost dying at 34 of congestive heart failure that had been
misdiagnosed as pneumonia for a month and that no one can tell me why I have.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My dad had the same kind of thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had angina when he was in his late 20s /
early 30s and I think he had a quadruple bypass and lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was back in the 1970s when doctors were
allowed to smoke in the operating rooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I inherited the angina, but since I knew my dad had a risky ticker, I’ve
worked hard to keep my weight down and try to exercise a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haven’t fallen over yet, but I did have to
lie down and wonder if I’d see the white light once or twice.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Of course I’ve had a broken heart, but it’s just the same old story.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve never been a heart breaker. I look like
Elton John.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elton John has his fans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you seen the young men he runs around
with?<br />
</i>Money is an amazing aphrodisiac. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have none.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve saved lives.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve failed to save lives.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could kill one person, consequence
free, who would it be and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If I told you who I would kill, and they ended up dead then I’m the
prime suspect. Hypotheticals only work in fiction. They know who they are, and
they know why, Little Wayne.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">That’s a broad question. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
going to assume that means what do I do that might deserve an interview. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a horror writer.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The question is, I admit, intentionally
broad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always get confused when I’m
interviewing an author, artist, musician, film-maker or what-have-you and they
decide to use this question as an opportunity to talk about what their day job
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, that’s fine and well, if
that part of your identity over-shadows your dreams of self-actualization, but
it tends to make for a boring interview.<br />
</i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How did you get started doing what you
do?<br />
</b>I’ve always been a writer. I feel into horror because I live in a world surrounded
by psychosis and despair. That isn’t a fertile ground for producing light-hearted
comedy and romance.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There have been comedies written about
insane asylums, but they are few and far between in comparison.<br />
</i>Unfortunately I get more <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One Flew
over the Cuckoo’s Nest</i> than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dream
Team.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Get a thick skin and listen to those who have been at it longer.
Beginning writers think they know everything, and they aren’t even close.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let’s talk about that a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s your opinion on self-publishing versus
legacy publishing?<br />
</i>I want to discuss my comment about beginning writers a little further. What
I meant in that statement is that beginning writers often but not always think
they have nothing to learn. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regarding
self-publishing, I think that it may have its place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just not part of that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m too poor of a self-editor to self-publish.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past? Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Beyond numerous short stories. I published by debut novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Children of Lot</i> in 2013. I put out a
novella “Decoration Day” in 2014. My second novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revels Ending</i> is coming out in May of 2015.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I finished and submitted a novel set in the 1990s a few months ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m currently working on a piece about a
serial killer with a love of peppermint candy.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I only watch reruns and gameshows.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It would be interesting if you only
watched reruns of game shows.</i><br />
I love old Match Game reruns from the 1970s. <br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are you listening to?<br />
</b>I’m listening to books on tape. Right now I find music to be in a stagnant
doldrums that needs something to smash through and rid us of the dredges.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I love listening to books!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve got something like a month’s worth of
audio books I like to listen to when I go to bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like being read a bedtime story by my
computer.</i><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What are you reading?<br />
</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nos4A2 </i>by Joe Hill (It’s my read
at work book), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Whatever Happened to Baby
Jane?</i> by Henry Ferrell, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">20,000
Leagues under the Sea</i> by Jules Verne (It’s my classic), and different style
books.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My favorite horror author is Jack Ketchum. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Girl Next Door</i> is my favorite book by him. I also like
Christopher Moore. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fool </i>is his best
work in my opinion.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve never had anyone answer Jack Ketchum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever had the chance to meet “Jack”?<br />
</i>Jack is an acquired taste for some, and a politically incorrect choice for
others. He writes visceral stories and doesn’t make any qualms about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have met “Jack” in Austin, Texas. We
discussed shrimp po boys. I introduced him to my wife, who hates scary stuff. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Told him that she hated scary stuff and that I
had to introduce her to the scariest man in America. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said “Boo! I’m going to get you.” He’s a
great guy.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’ve met Jack a few times too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His books are hit or miss with me, but I am
still of the opinion that he’s a stand up guy.</i><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</b>Not shockingly, I love Elton John. It’s just a coincidence that I look like
him. “Tiny Dancer” would be my favorite song.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I slyly mentioned him earlier. Little Wayne. I’ve hated him since the
block was hot.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How long has the block been hot?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Hell
if I know. A long time. Sometime back in the late 1990s?</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I would be a full time writer. No doubt. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Alive: Elton John<br />
Dead: William Shakespeare<br />
Fictional: Count Dracula</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The best job I ever had was teaching adjunct in college.<br />
The worst job is probably the one I have now. The problem is I’m good at it.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I work in the field of mental health too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least one of my jobs is in that field at
least until tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s stressful,
but it’s also quite rewarding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
tough to explain to people that have never done it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, sometimes people are trying to kill
you, each other, or themselves, but in a strange way, you get used to it after
a while.<br />
</i>I remember one time my father came to have lunch with me when I worked
outpatient. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were leaving when a
patient passed by responding to internal stimuli aka talking to the voices. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad asked if he was listening to the radio.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said he was talking to himself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad asked if I found that strange. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him no. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gave me a strange look, and we went on
about our way.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m a virgo.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hey!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So am I!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Virgos FTW!</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for letting me subject you to being
interviewed!<br />
<br />
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Facebook: Vic Kerry.<br />
Twitter: @darklyvickerry. (FYI, I hate twitter)<br />
Website / Blog: <a href="http://www.vickerry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">www.vickerry.wordpress.com</a><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Vic Kerry lives in
Alabama with his wife, five dogs, and cat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By day, he is a mild mannered psychotherapist. By night, he writes
horror. Everything else seems frivolous to mention, but he is also a
narcissist, day and night. Vic has an MFA in writing popular fiction from Seton
Hill University and is haunted by the ghost of his dearly departed cat, Possum
H. Puss Lovecraff. That sums him up perfectly.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly
because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the
public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen
Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard
Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P.
Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spooky-Creepy-Island-Scott-Lefebvre/dp/076432814X" target="_blank"><i>Spooky Creepy Long Island</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495477185" target="_blank"><i>Condemned</i></a>; and a contributing author to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forrest-Ackermans-Anthology-Living-Dead/dp/0984213619" target="_blank"><i>Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fracas-A-Collection-Short-Friction/dp/1453771484" target="_blank"><i>Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction</i></a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-Lovecraft-Gregory-Norris/dp/0615643396" target="_blank"><i>The Call of Lovecraft</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cashiers-du-Cinemart-Mike-White/dp/1300351403/" target="_blank"><i>Cashiers du Cinemart</i></a>.<br />His
reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of
Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound
Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-32579494510692328282015-02-24T23:54:00.000-08:002015-02-24T23:58:15.583-08:00Interview with J G Faherty<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">James Gregory Faherty, but I go by JG Faherty for writing.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Greg<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Birthplace:<br />
</b>Olean, NY<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I almost drove through Olean once on one
of my trips to Toronto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was
pre-GPS, and the Mapquest directions weren’t really that reliable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taking the left at that split would have been
a hell of a detour.<br />
</i>Well, if you're into cow tipping, bars, and chicken wings, it's a helluva
place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, I can't talk badly
about it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had some great times there,
and on Wikipedia I'm listed as one of most notable people to come from Olean.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have been known to eat several dozen
chicken wings every now and again.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Garnerville, NY<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Favorite city and why?<br />
</b>I have several – Miami, Las Vegas, Ocean City MD. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like all of them for the same reason: they
are warm and have lots of things to do.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Birthday / Age:<br />
</b>01/27/1961 / I'm 54 (ugh, I hate saying that!)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well, getting older is what happens if
you keep living, so try to view it as a consolation prize for not being dead.</i><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</b>Average – height, weight, losing some hair, don't exercise enough but I eat
right, kind of, average.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
How would someone else describe you physically?<br />
</b>Probably average. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6', could still
lose 20 more lbs, brown hair, brown eyes.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</b>I have no idea. I've never asked anyone.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alright, well now you have some
homework.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next person you meet that
you’re meeting for the first time, and them what the first thing they notice
about you is and let me know.</i><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sexual orientation?<br />
</b>Straight.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lapsed catholic who believes all organized religions are just in it
for the money or power.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So, Easter/Christmas?</i><br />
Easter is just a nice meal with the family, and my mom still gives my wife and
I little baskets of chocolate. I like Christmas because I enjoy everyone
sitting around opening presents, the food, and even the whole atmosphere of
kindness surrounding the holiday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
hate the crowds at the stores, the endless holiday songs and commercials that
start in October, and the general greed of some people.<br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at
all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A little bit superstitious. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
phobias are heights (I hate going up on tall ladders or roofs, but I have no
problem flying) and being in crowded places (malls at Xmas, packed subways,
etc.). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But nothing to the point where it
prevents me from doing those things, I just get uncomfortable.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Do you smoke/drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?<br />
</b>I gave up partying when I turned 40. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now it's just the occasional glass of wine or
after dinner drink or a good pumpkin beer.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</b>My day job is I own a resume company (<a href="http://www.a-perfect-resume.com/" target="_blank">www.a-perfect-resume.com</a>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have done that for 15 years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wouldn't trade it for anything, except maybe
NY Times best-selling author!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Play guitar. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hike. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vacation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Concerts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fun things.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Electric, acoustic or both?<br />
</i>Both. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have 3 acoustics (2 at my
house, 1 at my parents') and 5 electrics (an old strat, 2 Gretsch semi-hollows,
a Gibson SG, and an Epiphone Les Paul). I still have a couple more I want to
buy, my 'dream' guitars. A Gibson Flying V and a Vox Phantom with all the built
in effects. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I wouldn't mind a Gibson
Les Paul or a Telecaster with humbucking pickups, either.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Find a small town with a reserve army base so I have a stronghold,
weapons, and lots of food without a lot of people around.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This questionnaire was adapted from a survey
I created for contributors to a post-apocalyptic zombie-epidemic book project I
was working on and the zombie questions just sort of stuck around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of the research I did for the book was
finding a map of where all of the military bases were because I also figured
that they’d be a pretty secure place to head for when the dead walk the earth.<br />
</i>We have a couple of closed ones near me; I'd guess they'd make good
strongholds.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">In general? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pistol.<br />
For a zombie outbreak? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Machine pistol
and machete backup.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Caliber preference?<br />
</i>For the pistols? None. Zombie heads appear to be pretty soft, so I'd worry
less about caliber and more about reliability and a decent length barrel to
make aiming easier. Probably 9mm, only because you'd want ammo to be very
plentiful. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And large clips, no revolvers
like that dumb-ass Rick uses in the Walking Dead.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">That would depend on the situation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What good is being a master carpenter in a
zombie outbreak? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or an artist if you're
stranded on an island?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Actually, I think that carpentry would be
a valuable skill to have in the event of a zombie outbreak or any kind of
apocalyptic scenario.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the art
historians of the world that are going to have to dig ditches and fill sandbags
if they want to earn their way in the wastelands.</i><br />
In my mind, things like hunting, trapping, and skinning wild animals (I can do
those, but I'm no expert), welding (never tried it), and repairing automobiles
(I haven't worked on a car myself since 1979) would be critical. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And survival tactics – how to purify water,
how to build a fire from scratch, etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've
camped, I have a background in ecology and biology, and I'm okay with a gun and
a knife. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'd survive against the
zombies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would probably be something
stupid – flu, bandits, etc. – that gets me.<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Did you go to college and, if so, what
for?<br />
</b>I have a BS in Biology.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why biology?<br />
</i>I've loved science and writing since I was a little kid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going into college, I thought I'd have a
better chance of making a living in the sciences. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to be a park ranger or work as a
curator in a zoo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Found out the money
was terrible and switched to medical technology. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the years, I worked in lab services,
R&D, and lab management before starting my current resume company.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Not any longer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last year our
dog Harley died at the age of 15, joining her sister who died the year before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a kid growing up, I had dogs and snakes.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">For a pet, a dog, followed by snakes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In general, wolves and tigers.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rude people, arrogant people, bullies, liars, thieves (small time and
corporate), politicians.... I guess, mostly people and the things they do.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite is tough, it changes from mood to mood: Pizza, burgers,
tacos, Chinese, chili...<br />
Least favorite is easy: Liver, followed by brussels sprouts.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I got talked into trying brussels sprouts
in recent memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me they just tasted
like warm wet wads of newspaper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
sure that there’s a way to make them palatable but I haven’t had them that way
yet.<br />
</i>I've hated them since I was a kid. Last year I tried them the 'new' way –
chopped and fried with bacon. Even bacon couldn't save them. To me, they taste
like they smell: farty.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If a foodstuff can’t be saved by being
teamed up with bacon it’s probably better left to its own devices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See also: okra<br />
</i>Yes, okra. Another unpalatable vegetable. I once bought a bag of what I
thought was frozen mixed veggies only to discover as I started eating them that
they had okra as one of the ingredients.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Non ci sono penguini in questa bosca. I said that as the toast at my
friend's wedding and it's stuck with me through out the years. Followed by, Fat
drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I had to resort to Babelfish,com for the
first one.<br />
“</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There are no penguins in this bansod.”?<br />
As for the second one, my advice to you is to start drinking heavily.<br />
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ha! It's a tough one
to translate. It's actually "There are no penguins in the forest." I
worked long and hard to find something for that toast that no one would
understand. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it turned out, I was
wrong. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend's grandparents spoke
Italian and wanted to know what the hell I was talking about.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<br />
What is the best thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Getting married.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Making the decision to put my dog down. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It still haunts me, even though everyone, even
the vet, agreed it was time.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I don't know what you mean by best. Saved a person's life? Saved an
animal's life? Writing my first novel?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The questions are open to
interpretation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It depends on what you
think is best in life.<br />
</i>I probably still can't answer that. I've worked in hospitals, so I've save
more than few lives, or at least helped to. I've run literacy programs, still
do. I've gotten married and we're still together and happy. I've had great
times with friends and family. I've had novels published, which I never thought
I would. I've traveled to some amazing places. I've worked as a photographer
and gotten to work with naked models. Things that seem 'the best' at the time
can often fade to great or good, or get replaced by another great thing later
on. Guess this is a crappy answer!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s not a crappy answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is kind of a trick question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because what is best in life is </i></span><span class="st"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">to
crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations
of their women!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><a href="http://youtu.be/6PQ6335puOc" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">http://youtu.be/6PQ6335puOc</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
You didn't say I had to answer as a barbarian!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I thought it was implied.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">As kids, my friends and I were really bad. Vandalism to the extreme. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We caused a lot of damage with our stupidity.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
If you could kill one person, consequence free, who would it be and why?<br />
</b>I can't answer that. What if I got the chance to do it? This would put me
on the suspect list.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I'm a writer, see job answer above. Plus, you know, the whole fiction
thing as well.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>Decided I was tired of working for others and decided to start my own
business. Lucky for me, it worked.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What is your advice to other people that want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>Don't bother. Find something else. It's an overcrowded field and for people
just coming into it, the money sucks. I got lucky and got established at a time
when there was no competition.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past? Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My first novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carnival of Fear</i>,
came out in 2010. By then I was already getting my short stories published in
horror and fantasy mags. In 2011, my 2nd novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ghosts of Coronado Bay</i>, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award
for YA Novel. Between 2011 and this year, I've had 3 other novels (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Burning Time, Cemetery Club, The Cure</i>)
and a lot of novellas (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Legacy, Cult of
the Black Jaguar, Castle by the Sea, The Cold Spot</i>, and others) come out.
With more on the way.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If you had to pick one thing for someone
to pick up as an introduction to your writing, which would you pick?</i><br />
For adult readers, I'd say either <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carnival
of Fear</i> or my collection of short stories, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Monster Inside.</i> Or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Cure</i>, when it comes out in May. For readers under the age of 15, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ghosts of Coronado Bay</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</b>I just finished the edits to my next novella, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Winterwood</i>, which comes out later this year. So I'm presently
working on some short stories and novel or two.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Right now, it's mostly Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls, and Justified
on regular TV and Haven on Netflix.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">When I write, nothing. When I'm doing the day job, it's Howard Stern
in the morning and then either new wave, classic rock, or hair metal in the
afternoon.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hair metal?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s your favorite hair metal band?<br />
</i>Hair Metal Band: Either Bon Jovi or Poison.<br />
Heavy Metal: Iron Maiden or Judas Priest<br />
Classic Rock: Blue Oyster Cult, Rainbow, UFO</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I can't list all the book titles, but I can give you the authors most
recently read: Chantal Noordeloos, Tim Waggoner, Catherine Cavendish, John
Palisano, Russell R. James, and some guy name Stephen King.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I hear that King fellow shows some
promise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully if he sticks with it
he’ll make it someday.<br />
</i>Him and that Straub fellow.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Insomnia by Stephen King</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Don't Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Too many to name. Put it this way: if you need autotune to sing, if
you don't play your own instruments, and if you can't perform live, I will most
likely hate you.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Wild animal rescuer/sanctuary owner, veterinarian, or park ranger. Or
fashion photographer.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> – Stephen King<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dead. </b>– Da Vinci<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fictional. </b>Spiderman/Peter Parker</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Best job is now. Worst job was working as a chemist in a makeup
company and I spilled hot wax all over my hand and came home every night
coughing up colored phlegm.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Nothing in particular, but I do run the Horror Writers Association's
literacy and library programs, so if you want me to talk about those, I can. I
also used to own a collection of deadly snakes, if that's of interest to
anyone.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What does running the Horror Writers
Association's literacy and library programs entail?<br />
And of course I want to know more about your deadly snakes!<br />
</i>The Library/Literacy program started almost three years ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We've developed a lot of resources for
libraries to use – lists of authors available for presentations, lists of
medium and small press books available for libraries to purchase, etc. –
because we found that libraries, for the most part, only stocked horror from
the 'big' publishers. Yet horror is the #1 genre for YA readers and #2 (after
romance) for adult readers. So libraries are always looking for more. The idea
is that if we get more kids to read, we'll end up with more adults who read,
which benefits libraries and writers alike. We've partnered with the American
Library Association on events, and now we even offer scholarships and promote
literacy at multiple conventions throughout the year. We've had people such as
Jonathan Maberry, Amber Benson, Richard Christy, and Nancy Holder involved in
the program in one way or another.<br />
In college, I was studying herpetology before lab technology. Reptiles and
amphibians. I also ran the school's reptile collection. Over the years, I
acquired a Chinese tree viper, 3 puff adders, a copperhead, and a rattlesnake
to go with my assortment of rat snakes, king snakes, and a 9 foot python. After
a few years, when everything started getting too large, I donated them to the
school. We used to have a great time at my house, though, betting on how fast
the snakes could kill their mice/rats on feeding days.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Other authors might be Chantal Noordeloos and Michael McBride.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I don’t think I’ve talked with Michael
McBride so if you want to point him in my direction feel free. Actually, I
checked, and we’re imaginary friends on Facebook, so maybe he’ll notice that
I’m doing interviews and maybe not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
imagine that not everyone that I’m imaginary friends with has me in their News
Feeds.<br />
</i>I'll drop Michael a line and tell him to contact you.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for letting me subject you to being interviewed!<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My pleasure!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/jgfaherty" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/jgfaherty</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/jgfaherty" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/jgfaherty</a><br />
Website: <a href="http://www.jgfaherty.com/" target="_blank">www.jgfaherty.com</a><br /><br />
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</b>A life-long resident of New York's haunted Hudson Valley, JG Faherty has
been a finalist for both the Bram Stoker Award® and ITW Thriller Award, and he
is the author of six novels, eight novellas, and more than 50 short stories. He
writes adult and YA dark fiction/sci-fi/fantasy, and his works range from quiet
suspense to over-the-top comic gruesomeness. He enjoys urban exploring,
photography, classic B-movies, good wine, and pumpkin beer. As a child, his
favorite playground was a 17th-century cemetery, which many people feel
explains a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b>About the Interviewer:</b><br />Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to write about.<br />Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public library.<br />His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.<br />He is the author of Spooky Creepy Long Island, and Condemned; and a contributing author to Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead, Fracas: A Collection of Short Friction, The Call of Lovecraft, and Cashiers du Cinemart.<br />His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror, and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.<br />Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br /><a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com </span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-31591185638673983782014-02-27T21:54:00.005-08:002014-02-27T22:05:58.505-08:00Interview with Patrick Freivald.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Patrick Freivald<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Do you have a nickname or what do your friends call you?<br />
</b>Nope.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We’re going to have to come up with one
then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure your students have a
nickname for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like maybe something
like “Mister Free-Balls”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, I know
they’re not your “friends” per se, but I’m trying to pad out your second answer
being “Nope.”.<br />
</i>Nope.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Birthplace:<br />
</b>I do not share this information, as it is often used as a security question
for credit agencies, and having had my identity stolen once already, I'm
gun-shy about it.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No love lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m too busy being me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t have the time to be you too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll just pretend you were born someplace
fictional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, keeping that in mind,
where would you like to say that you were born?<br />
</i>Everywhere, fourteen-ish billion years ago.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That counts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m totally stealing your identity now.</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Current hometown:<br />
</b>Canadice, NY (surrounded by 6000+ acres of state forest)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Favorite city and why?<br />
</b>New York City; it's the only large city I've ever really enjoyed, and the
diversity of food is delightful!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Birthday / Age:<br />
</b>37.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’re a year younger than me and you’ve
already got a book contract.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently
I fucked up somewhere along the way.<br />
</i>I started writing with an eye toward publication about five years ago. In
the past two years, I've had three books published—with a fourth coming in
May—and several short stories. Get crackin'!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nine books in the past four months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two more scheduled for this month and one for
each month lined up for 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I don’t
get signed this year it certainly won’t be for lack of trying.<br />
</i>You should let me chew on a 500-word sample of one for Word Soup!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’d love to do that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was just too shy to ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know you’re a pretty busy man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, I’m busy too, but being busy, I can
relate to being busy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually refer
to edits where I redline every other word a “boil” based on one of your blog
posts.</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</b>Not quite fat.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
How would someone else describe you physically?<br />
</b>Fat.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</b>I like to talk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About anything, but especially bees, science,
robotics, and politics—though I tend to avoid the latter online most of the
time.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yeah, religion and politics are two great
ways to spoil new acquaintances but also sometimes make for interesting
interviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was that about bees?<br />
</i>Yeah, you put your whole leg in your mouth recently, didn't y--Bees are
awesome. Everyone should keep at least a few colonies!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I more had everyone else’s arm jammed up
my ass and worked like a sexist misogynist rape-culture proliferating ventriloquist
dummy for a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t the reaction
to what I actually said that I found offensive as I would never say anything
that was opposed to my personal opinions in a public forum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I found offensive was all of the vile,
sexist, misogynistic, rape culture stuff that was attributed to me by way of
paraphrasing and attributional projection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think what was said “on my behalf” says a lot more about the people
saying those things than it says about me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m glad you stuck around as my imaginary friend despite the
blowback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a wild week, but I
think that some people over-estimate the effect that their opinion has on the
internet via social-media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of
people thought that they were ruining me both personally and professionally,
but the net loss has been about 30 imaginary friends from 1,800 and oddly, I
received a lot of new imaginary friend requests out of solidarity from people
that respect the fact that I stood my ground and defended my stated opinion so
it balanced out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people that I lost
were, for the most part, small-minded, bitter, spiteful, concrete-thinking
people unable to discuss a semiotic conjecture without disparaging the person
espousing that opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still get the
occasional “vagina dentata” comment and it will probably be a while before I
live that down, but by putting out a new book each month and an anthology of
the work of other authors I think that I’ll be able to move past it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re only as good or as bad as the last
thing you’ve done and people tend to have a short memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worst case scenario, being infamous has
almost been as stimulating for my public profile as being famous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I can’t be famous, I’ll settle for being
infamous.<br />
</i>I think you made a faux pas, and then handled the aftermath poorly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But hey, different strokes!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Catholish.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m an anti-theist, but “Catholish”
sounds like something I could get behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It sounds nice and warm and chocolaty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I bet no one tries to molest the altar boys in Catholishism.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b></i></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at
all? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I'm rather anti-superstitious. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that by and large you make your own
luck, but that your mind doesn't reach out and influence the universe except
insofar as what you do.<br />
Spiders sometimes freak me out more than they should, but other than that I
don't have any phobias—I like the dark, am not generally lonely when alone, and
rarely get creeped out.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I actually like being alone a lot of the
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, it’s not that great when
you’re having sex, but otherwise I rather like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t understand people that get
lonely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to, but now I don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure if that means I’m becoming a better
sociopath but humans in general are pretty disappointing as a species and most
days I think that the planet might be better off without us and seeing what the
cats and dogs would do with the world without us spaying and neutering
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for creepy places, the creepier
the better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abandoned mental
hospital?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes please!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You won’t get on that morgue tray and let us
close the door on you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wanna bet?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve worked third shift security in graveyards and gotten fired for
sleeping on the job, that’s how little creepy places creep me out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d love to live in a “haunted” house
someday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about you? <br />
</i>If there were such thing, that might be neat.<br />
As for not understanding people who get lonely: that's okay. They'll get lonely
anyway, and understanding isn't necessary for compassion.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Do you smoke / drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?<br />
</b>I've never smoked, and aside from underage drinking have never done an
illegal drug.<br />
I drink mostly beer, some hard liquor, wine as long as it tastes for the most
part like Kool Aid—and not a lot either way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like but rarely drink single-malt scotch, or
a very wet Manhattan with too many cherries.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How many cherries is too many cherries?</i><br />
Experiments have not yet determined that number.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I teach physics, robotics, and American Sign Language at the high
school and college level, and I love it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could see myself leaving teaching to become
a full-time author, or perhaps and only perhaps to work for FIRST (the
nonprofit that runs the competition robotics program that I coach), but not
much else. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that sense, my dream job
is my current job with more autonomy and the ability to buy whatever I want for
my classroom and team whenever I want.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There’s an “at the same time” joke in
there somewhere but physics and robotics are pretty close and American Sign
Language isn’t mutually exclusive to either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why did you study sign language?<br />
</i>For the same reason I've studied anything else: it interests me.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What do you like to do when you’re not at work?<br />
</b>I'm the president of the Ontario-Finger Lakes Beekeeping Association, and
going into winter had 38 colonies in two bee yards.<br />
I've played tabletop war games (especially Warhammer 40K) much of my life, and
am kind of glad that The Redhead(tm) doesn't realize just how much money is
tied up in little plastic and metal figures in the game room.<br />
My robotics team meets once a week all year, and five days a week
January-March, which keeps me awfully busy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But damn, it's awesome. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I won the lotto, I might quit my job, but
I'd still coach my team!<br />
I'm also on the Board of Education for the town I live in—next door to (that
is, only twenty miles from) the town in which I teach—and am the chair of my
teacher's union's Grievance Committee and a consulting member on the
Negotiating Committee.<br />
I also occasionally shore fish on the lake next to my house, take walks in the
woods, play with my dogs/cats/birds, and read a lot.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</b>People with actual zombie outbreak survival plans don't reveal their plans!<br />
In all seriousness, I've always been a bit of a paranoid when it comes to
doomsday scenarios, though I see complete economic collapse more likely than a
multiple-EMP attack compromising the electrical grid, and the EMPs more likely
than zombies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have contingencies in
place in case of partial or total societal collapse—those who need to know what
they are, know what they are!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Weapon of choice:<br />
</b>AR-15. If I have to get into a fight, I'd prefer it to not be the slightest
bit fair, in my favor.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Do you have any special skills?<br />
</b>I'd like to think so. I'm good enough an editor that I had to turn down
enough people who wanted to pay me to edit their work that I started a blog,
Word Soup, to teach people to do what I do.<br />
I write fiction that I would enjoy reading and has garnered some excellent
reviews (as well as a few delightfully vicious ones), I'm reasonably adept at
keeping bees alive despite everything conspiring to wipe them out these days, I
sing okay, am fluent in American Sign Language, design and build robots, tig
weld aluminum....<br />
As a co-worker once said, "Is there anything you won't half-ass?"<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What’s the link to Word Soup?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve found your editorial suggestions quite
helpful and would like to read more.<br />
</i>patrickfreivald.blogspot.com—it's robotics season, so I've neglected it of
late, but will get back into it sometime this month, and am always looking for
more volunteers!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</b>I have a BS in Physics with minors in English Literature, Linguistics, and
American Sign Language from the University of Rochester, and a Masters in
Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Concentration: Science Education)
from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute
of Technology.<br />
How's that for an earful?<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s quite an admirable earful.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
Indoor cats: Rusty, Harry, and Gunther (a girl).<br />
Outdoor cats: Rags (a rescue) and Charlie (a feral stray; mother of Harry and
Gunther).<br />
Dogs: Brutus and Harper, brothers from the same litter, half lab, half red bone
coon hound, 11 years old. Arya Underfoot, a spaniel mix we rescued last spring.<br />
Birds: Radagast, a male Solomons Islands Eclectus Parrot, 16 years old. Linus,
a cockatiel, five years old.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is your favorite animal?<br />
</b>I love parrots of all varieties, but don't make me choose between parrots
and dogs. I do like Raddy more than people, though.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</b>Not really. Things either roll off of me or enrage me; not much gets under
my skin. There are two major exceptions:<br />
I'm commonly irked by whiners who'd rather whine than pull up their big-boy
panties and just get the job done. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's
too common to enrage, and too annoying to roll off.<br />
I hate when my students call me "Freivald", with no "Mr."
in front of it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is common at my
school; indeed, teachers are often given nicknames against their will. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, it's not so much a matter of
disrespect in the traditional sense, as a very specific childhood trigger. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm a twin, and the second youngest of eleven
kids. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Growing up, people would call me
"Freivald" because they couldn't be bothered to learn who I was. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While this is not why my students (sometimes)
do it, it doesn't stop the visceral reaction of wanting to throat-punch them
for it.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</b>I don't understand why people think broccoli is food, and don't care for
cauliflower. Other than that, I love food. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Asparagus and Brussels sprouts and bacon and
shrimp and steak and moose and ostrich and butter and cheese and milk and
chocolate and sausage and...<br />
Yeah, I like to cook, I like to eat. I love spicy food, and do not have a
subtle palate. Big, bold flavors appeal to me, and I like almost everything I
try.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</b>Here are a few that stick with me:<br />
"Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from
magic." – Arthur C. Clark<br />
"It's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't work." – Mr. Danielewski,
father of the musician Poe and her brother, novelist Mark Z. Danielewski<br />
"</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Gentlemen, we are
going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it,
because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because
in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just
being good." –</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Vince Lombardi<br />
"I'm the bad guy? How did that happen?" –Michael Douglas, Falling
Down<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is the best thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</b>I was born a lower-middle-class white male in the United States of America.
That's the winning of life's lottery, right there!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</b>My brother's suicide.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>Yes, multiple times. Yes. Divorced at 25 is not something I every
predicted; I got over it and am quite happy now!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>Yes. Yes, but I'm not going to tell it.<br />
But I do have a good one about a breakup. I was dating this girl Josie in high
school—she went on to become a professional volleyball player, and is very
tall. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(This has nothing to do with the
story, I just like to brag.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was her
first boyfriend, she was not my first girlfriend. I figured out a few weeks in
that it just wasn't going to work, but didn't want to break her heart, so I
figured I'd wait it out and let her dump me when the time came. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of months later, I get "the
call". <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the most amiable
breakup ever—she anticipated breaking my heart and really didn't want that to
happen, and I was totally cool with it and gave her a hard time for being dense
enough not to see it earlier, in a nice sort of way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We laughed and chatted for a bit and went back
to being friends.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Geez.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wish more of my break-ups were that congenial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These restraining orders are really beginning
to pile up.</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>For me, the best thing I ever did was flip a mental switch in my head the
moment I walked into college, that toggled from "Nobody likes me," to
"Why would I give a shit what these people think?" <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found friends who liked me for who I was,
and stopped pretending to be anything for anyone.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Has it been difficult being an
iconoclast?</i><br />
I wouldn't know.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>As a schoolteacher and upstanding member of my community, that's not a
question I'm going to answer!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s more than fair.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
If you could kill one person, who would it be, and why?<br />
</b>Nobody. I have no issue with lethal force in defense of self and/or loved
ones, but there's nobody I'd go out of my way to kill just because I think the
world would be better off without them.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What do you do?<br />
</b>I think I answered this pretty well so far, but will play along in the next
question in regards to writing.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I appreciate you playing along and
apologize for the pre-fab format of the interview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve sent out something like a thousand interviews
and finished almost a hundred and fifty, so it’s tough to come up with a “one
size fits all” initial questionnaire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Any suggestions for edits to the survey would be most appreciated.</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>I've always done some level of creative writing, but it was my twin brother
Phil who decided that we should write a book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest is history—with three novels and
three short stories out this past year, and a five-book deal for my Matt Rowley
books (the first of which, Jade Sky, breaks in mid-May.)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tell us a bit more about that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that a lot of the aspiring authors
would like to know about the process involved in landing a book deal.<br />
</i>Work really hard, cultivate an inhuman level of patience, have no ego
whatsoever when it comes to critique of your writing, and goddamn it, find a
good editor and pay him/her to make you more better-er than you were before.<br />
I have no secrets on acquiring an agent or pitching a publisher, except to make
sure that it's not only your best work, it's a damned sight better than most
other work.</span><br />
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<br />
What is your advice to other people that want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>Teaching: Don't. Go do something else; you'll be happier that way.<br />
Beekeeping: Find a local group and get a mentor to show you the ropes.<br />
Writing: Write. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then write some more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then find people who will give you honest
opinions about what just utterly sucks about your writing, and seriously
consider what they say.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Developing reliable beta readers that
provide more constructive criticism than complimentary complements is vital to
the process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not trying to glamorize
the role of the writer as a solitary one constantly fighting against the blank
space at the end of the page, but it is true that most writing is done independently
and it’s impossible to be truly objective about one’s work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m always too close to my work to see the
obvious flaws.<br />
</i>I've never understood the writer-as-fighter analogy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it's not fun, why the hell would you do it?
(If the answer is money or fame, reevaluate your mental condition.)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What are some of the projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past?<br />
</b>I've got a slew of stories spanning several genres out now. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blood
List</i> is a thriller about a serial killer trying to save his father's life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twice
Shy</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Special Dead</i> are horror
YA about a closeted zombie trying to survive high school—I never intended them
to be straight YA, I intended them to be satire for adults, but they've turned
into both, which is pretty cool. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jade Sky</i> (aforementioned) is a thriller
about a commando with superhuman augmentations that hunts others of his kind on
behalf of the world government—it just went up for preorder on Amazon and
B+N.com!<br />
In addition to those novels, I've published short stories in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blood and Roses</i> by Scarlett River Press,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christmas Lites III</i> (a charity
anthology) edited by Amy Eye, and both <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Demonic
Visions</i> I and II edited by Chris Robertson.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Until robotics build season ends, I'm not writing anything.<br />
I have an upcoming comic in Dark Discoveries magazine, where I'm collaborating
with the awesome Joe McKinney to bring a bit more of the Jade Sky world to
life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Comics are a first for me, and
it's been a great learning experience.<br />
I have four more books in the Matt Rowley series to write, but they're due each
Halloween for the next four years, so I have a little time. (Right? Guys?
Right?!?)<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A book a year should be well within your
wheelhouse.<br />
</i>I'm going to shoot for two. We'll see how that goes.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Watch out guys, we're dealing with a
badass over here”</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What are you watching?<br />
</b>I don't watch much TV, but when I get hooked on something I tend to watch
all of it at once. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American Horror Story
and Sons of Anarchy are the two big ones so far. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started Hemlock Grove the other day, and I'm
not sure if I'm going to stick with it.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What are you listening to?<br />
</b>On the way home from work today? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Pitch Perfect soundtrack. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In general,
some bands/musicians I like in no particular order include but are not limited
to: Coheed and Cambria, Poe, Imogen Heap, Halestorm, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rush,
Iron Maiden, Celia Bartoli, The Wallflowers, Alice in Chains, Evanescence,
Peter Gabriel, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Bonamassa, Ladysmith Black Mambazo.... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What are you reading?<br />
</b>I've recently read a boatload of horror both excellent and not to recommend
(or not) for the Bram Stoker Awards. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the moment I'm working my way through <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Futility
Closet</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paddle Your Own Canoe</i>,
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crucial Conversations</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'll pick up another novel once build season
is over.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Favorite author / book?<br />
</b>I like lots of authors, most in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror
realms: C.S. Friedman, F. Paul Wilson, Kate Elliott, Dan Simmons, Stephen King,
Peter Straub, Larry Niven, Stephen Barnes, Jerry Pournelle. I've read some
fantastic books by up-and-comers lately, including Rena Mason's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Evolutionist</i>, Mercedes Murdock
Yardley's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apocalyptic Montessa And
Nuclear Lulu</i>—which is one of the best horror novels I've ever read,
hands-down—and Cynthia Tottleben's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Eye Unseen</i>.<br />
My favorite novels of all time are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lucifer's
Hammer</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mote In God's Eye</i>,
both by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Favorite band / song?<br />
</b>I can't pick. It's so mood dependent.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Least favorite band / song?<br />
</b>Most pop music, though sometimes something sticks with me and I like it in
spite of myself.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
If you could do anything other than what you do now, what would you do?<br />
</b>What I do now.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Who would you want to meet that you haven’t met?<br />
You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</b>Alive: Natalie Portman, though I'd make a drooling idiot out of myself.<br />
Dead: Richard Feynman, because, well, Richard Feynman.<br />
Fictional: I don't see the point in "meeting" a fictional character.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</b>Best: Teaching science and math at the California School for the Deaf in
Fremont, CA.<br />
Worst: Tossing hay bales on Clarence Becker's farm, when they outweighed me.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that you wished I had asked that you
would like to answer now?<br />
</b>Nope.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Anyone you recommend I interview that you can put me in touch with?<br />
</b>Maybe. I'm not sure who I know that you don't know!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have been pretty thorough as of
late.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just keep it in mind in case
anyone you know is willing to subject themselves to an interview in exchange
for a bit of free promotion.</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Got any questions for me?<br />
</b>All of the above.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I can always tell the truly selfless
interviewee when they ask me to do the survey myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kind of saw it coming when I started the
blog, so I got it out of the way in the first twenty-five.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re interested, you can check it out
here:<br />
<a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/2013/10/you-are-entitled-to-my-opinion_9724.html" target="_blank">http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/2013/10/you-are-entitled-to-my-opinion_9724.html</a><br />
But if you wanted to flip the interview for your blog, I’d be pleased to
revisit it.</i><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thanks for letting me subject you to
being interviewed!<br />
</b>You're most welcome! Thank you for the opportunity!</span><br />
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<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
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Twitter: @patrickfreivald<br />
Website: Hmm, ought to do that some time.<br />
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Etc.: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blood-List-Patrick-Freivald/dp/1936564912" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Blood-List-Patrick-Freivald/dp/1936564912</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Twice-Shy-Patrick-Freivald-ebook/dp/B009UETM7O/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Twice-Shy-Patrick-Freivald-ebook/dp/B009UETM7O/</a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">About the Interviewee:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Patrick Freivald is a 37-year-old identical twin, married to an identical twin,
who writes if, when, and whatever he feels like writing. This has him on
track for two novels a year into the foreseeable future. He lives in rural
Canadice, NY with his lovely The Redhead(tm), two birds, five cats, three dogs,
and several million stinging insects.</span></div>
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</b></span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-26549447891864030282014-02-26T15:27:00.000-08:002014-02-26T15:53:51.603-08:00Interview with Dane Hatchell.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Dane T. Hatchell</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Enad (my name spelled backwards because I think opposite of ‘normal’ people) or
Danebrammage.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Birthplace:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Baton Rouge </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Current hometown:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Baton Rouge</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite city and why?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Don’t have one. Every place becomes
boring after a short while.<br />
<i>I think that the locational cure rarely
solves anyone’s problems. Moving
somewhere else only means that you’re going to have to deal with a different
random selection of people that will probably mostly act the same way. And at the end of the day, you’ve still
brought yourself wherever you go.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Birthday / Age:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
I’ll turn 56 this year. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How would you describe yourself physically?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
More slim than fat, 6ft but shrinking.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How would someone else describe you
physically?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
How can that mannequin walk and talk and why doesn’t he open his eyes all the
way?<br />
<br />
<b>The first thing people notice about you
is…</b><br />
Whatever is behind me.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sexual orientation?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Is this a class I’m supposed to sign up for?<br />
<i>Nope.
I think you got an old interview survey.
I think I pulled that question from the most recent version of the
initial questionnaire because I stopped caring about pretending to be
interested in what people prefer to have sex with. I included the question initially because for
some people their sexuality is an integral part of their identity, but if
that’s the case it tends to come out in the rest of the interview anyway.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Religion, if any?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Christian Pantheist but not a pure Darwinist. <br />
<i> “Christian Pantheist”? That’s a new one to me. How would you describe that one?<br />
</i>I was introduced to the spiritual side life through Christianity. I do believe that God ‘has a plan.’ But the
creator is not removed from his creation. I recognize God through Christianity. But ultimately, creation can only come out of
God, thus we and everything else is part of God. Our spirits, the spark that animates all
living things, is a part of the spirit of God. Compartmentize in a vessel, limited by that
vessel, and thus being limited able to experience sensation. How else could a God experience sensation
unless it was to limit itself? </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are you superstitious at all?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
I believe if I fart and don’t say excuse me it’s rude to God and I will pay the
consequence.<br />
<i>Well, God is supposed to be everywhere at
the same time, so it is the polite thing to do.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Any phobias?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
I hate the thought of licking a razorblade.<br />
<i>Great.
Now I just imagined licking a razorblade. Thanks for that.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you smoke / drink?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">An occasional cigar.<br />
Beer almost daily with side orders of vodka and whiskey.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Supervisor at petro/chemical company. / Genetic engineer.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Take long drives and eat at hole in the wall restaurants. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Protect my wife and stop shooting at zombies when I’m down to two
rounds in my gun. Don’t miss when taking the next two shots.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Weapon of choice:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Colt AR15 hbar</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you have any special skills?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
I can suck the life out of any fun event.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Started college in hopes of becoming a psychologist. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you went to college, did you manage to pay
off your student loans?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Not in long enough to get in debt.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Three cats, Parker, Dexter, and Moo kitty. One chocolate Lab named Cocoa. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your favorite animal?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Manatee.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Distracted drivers. You know who you
are.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite / Least favorite Food:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Tacos. / Green peas and carrots mixed. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
What is the sound of one hand clapping? God
without man.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Meeting my wife of 36 years now. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Being the prodigy of the village idiot. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Yes, when my assholiness got to the point my wife left me for a short time. I learned my lesson. Mostly.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My wife’s. I’ll keep my shame
to myself. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Raised the best daughter in the world. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Some sins shall forever remain hidden. <br />
<i>No worries. I’ve got some secrets, and not all of them my
own, that I’m taking with me to the grave.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could kill one person, consequence
free, who would it be and why?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
With the NSA listening, there’s no such thing as consequence free thoughts. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What do you do?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Turn olefin into aldehyde and aldehyde into alcohol. Almost the same as what Jesus did. Well, maybe not…</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How did you get started doing what you do?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Best job available at the time for a high school graduate. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Stop thinking a company is going to pay you a hundred grand a year to sit on
your ass and play on your smart phone all day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Give us a little history if you will. : My biggest project was my first novel, <i>Resurrection X</i>. It’s 95,000 words long and took me two years
to write. From the very first draft of
each chapter I probably proofed each one over 10 times. Once the novel was finished, I completed 12
drafts of the novel. After that, I paid
to have it edited, then worked on two more drafts before submitting to
publication by Post Mortem Press. I had
to choose 15 of my bestest short stories to include in my collection <i>Mind Hemorrhages</i> published by Hazardous
Press. My other projects have involved
Bram Stoker Nominee Mark C. Scioneaux. Together
we wrote a shark/slasher novella titled <i>Slipway
Grey</i> published by Evil Jester Press. We have two other novels waiting to be placed
by our agent. <i>Insurgent Z</i> is a classic
zombie novel with some interesting twists and a forward by the great Joe
Mckinney. <i>Thrill Me Kill Me</i> blends serial killers with the supernatural for
wild ride down Interstate 10 to Los Angles.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could recommend one work of yours for
someone interested in checking out your work which would you recommend?<br />
</span></b><span class="null"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Resurrection X</span></i></span><span class="null"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">:<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-Zombie-Evolution-Dane-Hatchell-ebook/dp/B00873PANO/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-Zombie-Evolution-Dane-Hatchell-ebook/dp/B00873PANO/</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What projects are you working on now?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
I want to finish a bizzaro novella titled <i>I
Sing The Buttered Electrode</i> and decide where to go from there.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you watching?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Enlightened (HBO), True Detective (HBO), The Walking Dead.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you listening to?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Rush, Devo, Cake, Alice in Chains, Broken Bells.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you reading?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Etheridge</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite author / book?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Favorite author is Robert Crais, but Dune by Frank Hebert is my favorite book.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite band / song?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Rush is my favorite band, but Won’t Get Fooled Again is the greatest rock song
ever.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Least favorite band / song?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Urban hip hop. You know, the songs they
torture the inmates at Guantanamo Bay with.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Sleep, perchance to dream.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Quentin Tarantino , Paul of Tarsus, Paul Atreides (Dune).</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Current job is the best. The worst was
working as a Teamster back in the late ‘70s. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Am I going to change my name to Dane Gerous?<br />
The answer is no.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Mark Scioneaux. You can message him on
FB. Good guy. Good writer.<br />
<i>Excellent. Turns out we’re Facebook friends so I just
sent him a message.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Got any questions for me?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Would you like fries with that?<br />
<i>No thanks. I’m trying to watch my girlish figure. You know what they say, “A moment on the
lips, a lifetime on the hips.” On second
thought, I’m not trying to impress anyone.
Make with the fries.<br />
</i><br />
<b>Thanks for letting me subject you to
being interviewed!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dane.hatchell" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/dane.hatchell</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dane-Hatchell/e/B003KAR05K" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Dane-Hatchell/e/B003KAR05K</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/SLIPWAYGREY" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/SLIPWAYGREY</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ResurrectionXZombieEvolution" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ResurrectionXZombieEvolution</a><br />
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<b>About the Interviewee:</b><br />
Dane Hatchell was born and lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He works in the manufacturing industry by the
shores of the Mississippi River.<br />
He is the author of numerous short stores that have appeared in various horror
and science fiction anthologies over the past several years. His first novel <i>Resurrection X: Zombie Evolution</i> debuted
in 2012. His collection <i>Mind Hemorrhages</i>
is available, and he is the coauthor of the thrilling novella <i>Slipway Grey</i>.</span></span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-29208881461494300512014-02-26T11:44:00.002-08:002014-02-26T11:53:07.483-08:00Interview with William Esmont.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">William Esmont<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Birthplace:<br />
</b>The south.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Tucson, Arizona<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Favorite city and why?<br />
</b>Cuzco, Peru: Amazing mountains, cool sights, and the friendliest people on
earth.<br />
My runner up would be London for the awesome variety of Indian food. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the beer.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Birthday / Age:<br />
</b>Old enough that I remember when Stephen King was still a new writer.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe yourself physically?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
A well-dressed slob.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
How would someone else describe you physically?<br />
</b>Body of computer programmer with too much gray in his beard.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</b>My eyes.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Religion, if any?<br />
</b>Nope<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.<br />
</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at
all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Cockroaches. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hate them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hate them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hate them.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Do you smoke / drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?<br />
</b>Smoking – no. Drinking – not very much.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</b>Current: Software engineer.<br />
Dream job: Full time writer or paleontologist.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why a paleontologist?<br />
</i>Just imagine how cool it would be the first person to discover a dinosaur
no one had ever seen before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing
would compare.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plus I think you get to name it if you’re
the first person to discover it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
discovered a new dinosaur, what would you name it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it depends on what kind of dinosaur it
is and what kind of qualities it has, but if you want to make one up, that’s
fine with me.<br />
</i>Greatedaneosaurus. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In honor of my
dogs.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What do you like to do when you’re not at work?<br />
</b>Write. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ride my bike around Tucson. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hang out with my wife.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</b>I wish I could say I had a plan, but I think if it really went down I’d be
fucked. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the plus side, everyone in
Arizona carries a gun, so I’d have no trouble finding a weapon if I survived
that long.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m not entirely sure that everyone
having a weapon is going to be a boon in the event of a zombie outbreak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing more dangerous than the zombies
in a zombie outbreak scenario are the other survivors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With tempers raised due to everyone being
under unusual stress there’s bound to be some casualties of the non-zombie
variety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s one of the things that
interests me about post-apocalyptic scenarios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think it’s fascinating how quickly everything falls apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a feeling that Arizona would go “wild
west” fairly quickly.<br />
</i>Good point. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d be screwed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Better to stay away from the local population.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d probably grab my camping gear and
try to get up into the Santa Rita mountains, just south of Tucson. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s running water year-round and plenty of
wildlife to hunt up there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Odds are
though, given the number of armed citizens in my state, I’d run across some
weapons along the way, dropped by people who turned.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A pry-bar. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No need to reload
and you can also use it to open doors.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Agreed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not to flip the focus but I definitely made a crowbar mandatory
equipment for a main character in the post-apocalyptic zombie-epidemic boo
project I’m working on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of people
seem to favor crossbows and samurai swords but I blame The Walking Dead.</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Do you have any special skills?<br />
</b>I can root an Android phone in less than five minutes.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is that good?<br />
</i>Not in the zombie apocalypse, but in real life I’m a bit of tech-geek, and
I enjoy knowing how things work.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</b>Yes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got a B.S. in mountain biking
with a minor in Computer Science.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
If you went to college, did you manage to pay off your student loans?<br />
</b>Of course.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Any pets? If so, what are they and what are their names?<br />
</b>Yes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consuela – a two year old hen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also have two Great Danes, but they prefer
to remain anonymous, as does my cat.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The name Consuela reminds me of the joke
about the amputee prostitute.<br />
</i>I don’t think I’ve heard this one.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
</i><br />
What is your favorite animal?<br />
</b>Dogs rule, especially big ones.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</b>Old people driving their mobility scooters in the bike lanes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a Tucson thing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get out of the damned road and onto the
sidewalk before you get run over!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite: A tie between Drunken Noodles or Fish Vindaloo.<br />
Least Favorite: Anything with mayonnaise, artichokes, or Brussels sprouts.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</b>Stop complaining and just write the damned thing already.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s an excellent motto as far as
mottos go.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Meeting my wife while rock climbing.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is the worst thing that ever happened to you? <br />
</b>Taking a job that required traveling to Detroit every week. For a year.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I didn’t know that people actually went
to Detroit anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought these days
Detroit was more the kind of place that you had to fight to escape from like in
a post-apocalyptic film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t imagine
anyone going to Detroit voluntarily.<br />
</i>You’d be surprised at the insane shit you’ll do when you’re up to your
eyeballs in student loans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no
words to describe how glad I am to be past that phase of my life.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>I fostered a couple dozen rescue Great Danes.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>I once had to cut a chicken’s head off with a shovel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An animal broke into our coop in the middle of
the night and by the time I arrived on the scene, one of our girls was on the
edge of death. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than let her
suffer, I did the needful.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
If you could kill one person, who would it be, and why?<br />
</b>At the moment, my hit list is empty.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well here’s hoping they don’t find the
bodies.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What do you do?<br />
</b>I write zombie horror, espionage thrillers, and I’m dabbling in SciFi.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why those genres?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the attraction of those genres
compared to, say, romance or children’s books?<br />
</i>I’ve always enjoyed dark stories where the line between right and wrong is not
very well defined. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zombies are the
perfect vehicle to explore our collective fears of inevitability and
powerlessness in a society we can no longer comprehend. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My love of espionage thrillers comes from
growing up outside Washington, DC, where you’re bathed in politics and
international intrigue 24x7. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SciFi,
meanwhile, gives me a chance to explore complex issues without the constraints
of the modern world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, I like robots
and lasers.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve always been a voracious reader. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a string of particularly terrible books,
I decided I could do better. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turned
out to be a lot harder than I thought.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coincidentally, that’s why I re-entered
the game with my full attention as of late because I had read most of what I
wanted to read and couldn’t find the books I wanted to read so I decided to
start writing them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find that the best
writers were also avid readers before they decided to try their hand at writing
something themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you find each
book getting a little easier to write or is each one just as difficult for you?<br />
</i>On the contrary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find each book
more difficult than the last. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first
few books were difficult from a motivational and logistical standpoint, but now
that I have that part figured out, I’m focusing on the craft and realizing how
much more there is to learn.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Read constantly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Write every
day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t take no for an answer.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What are some of the projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past?<br />
Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</b>I just wrapped up the fourth episode in my Elements of the Undead series.<br />
At the moment, I’m working on the third book in my espionage thriller series. I
also have a temporarily abandoned SciFi series begging for my attention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
What projects are you working on now?<br />
</b>I’m hoping to have book #3 of my espionage thriller series out by
mid-summer. I’m also working on a serialized continuation of a SciFi series I
started in early 2013.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What are you watching?<br />
</b>Scandal and Downton Abbey. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t
laugh.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m not here to judge.<br />
</i>I also just finished the second season of House of Cards. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such amazing writing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m in awe.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What are you listening to?<br />
</b>The Shins and The Wrinkle Necked Mules.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What are you reading?<br />
</b>The n-Body Problem.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Favorite author / book?<br />
</b>Stephen King – The Stand.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s a frequent pick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was it about Stephen King and The Stand
that makes them your favorite author and book?</i> <br />
I think it has to do with my age when I first read it (the original, abridged
version). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was around thirteen or
fourteen years old, the cold war was raging, and the idea of some terrible
tragedy befalling the world seemed very real. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book had such an impact on me that when I
moved to Boulder, CO in my late twenties, the first thing I did was scout out
all the locations mentioned in the book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was my version of a holy pilgrimage.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">There are too many to list.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Least favorite band / song?<br />
</b>Van Morrison. Seriously. Every song of his sounds the same.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
If you could do anything other than what you do now, what would you do?<br />
</b>Count my lottery winnings.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If you won the lottery, would you take
the smaller lump payment, or would you opt for the larger yearly pay-out?<br />
</i>I would have to consult with my wife on this one. ;)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Who would you want to meet that you haven’t met?<br />
You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</b>Dead: George Orwell.<br />
Alive: Bill Clinton<br />
Fictional: Kate, from Lost.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Best – Managing a really strong group of young engineers. SO much
potential! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b>Worst – Bussing tables at an oyster bar right after college. I still can’t
eat oysters.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that you wished I had asked that you
would like to answer now?<br />
</b>No.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Anyone you recommend I interview that you can put me in touch with?<br />
</b>Keith Blackmore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wrote a killer
zombie series called Mountain Man. But you probably already know that.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I didn’t actually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll have to check him out.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Got any questions for me?<br />
</b>Not at the moment.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Thanks for letting me subject you to being interviewed!<br />
</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>Facebook: http://facebook.com/WilliamEsmont<br />
Twitter: http://twitter.com/WilliamEsmont<br />
Website: http://www.williamesmont.com</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">William Esmont is the
author of the post-apocalyptic Elements of the Undead series. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also writes the Reluctant Hero series of
espionage thrillers and sometimes dabbles in science fiction.<br />
He lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife and their two Great Danes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When not writing, you can find him riding his
bike around Tucson or grabbing a bite at his favorite New Mexican diner.</span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-14249081494315077252014-02-23T16:28:00.006-08:002014-02-23T16:44:31.793-08:00Interview with C. V. Hunt.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">C.V. Hunt (a.k.a Carrie Virginia Nicely)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Do you have a nickname or what do your friends call you?<br />
</b>The only nickname that ever stuck was Scary Carrie, but people rarely call
me that any more.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s actually kind of cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, I guess it depends on when people
were calling you that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you were a
little Wednesday Addams it might have been annoying, but if you picked it up
after you made the turn into adolescence there are far worse nicknames that
could have been hung on you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being
said, I have to ask, are you really scary?<br />
</i>I picked up the nickname as an adult. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I worked right beside another girl named
Carrie. There was a blot of confusion when someone would call the name. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One coworker dubbed me Scary Carrie because,
at the time, I wore horror movie T-shirts every day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m into horror, but I don’t think I’m really
that scary.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Low Moor, Virginia<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Current hometown:<br />
</b>Yellow Springs, Ohio<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Favorite city and why?<br />
</b>Seattle. I can’t really pick any one reason why I love it. I went there on
vacation a few years back and fell in love with it.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Birthday / Age:<br />
</b>Yikes! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m 34. My birthday is July
10, 1979.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Have you reached the point in your life
when you stop keeping track of your age and have to do the math when people ask
you?<br />
</i>Yes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When someone asks me I have to
think about it and a lot of times I round up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently if anyone asks my age I tell them
I’ll be 35 in July.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</b>Ugh.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
How would someone else describe you physically?<br />
</b>Usually they say, “You know... the girl with all the tattoos.”<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</b>I might have answered this with the previous question. But sometimes it’s
the septum piercing.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You do wear a pretty heavy gauge ring for
your nose-knocker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever had to take it
out or tuck it in for professional purposes?<br />
</i>Yes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually take it out daily
for my job. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I work in an office. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for anything else I usually just leave it
in. </span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">None.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at
all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’m not too superstitious in the traditional sense. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t like to talk about any book I’m
currently in the process of writing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don’t know why, but I get an overwhelming feeling the project is will fall
apart if I do.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s actually not that uncommon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My room-mate is the same way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hates talking about anything he’s working
on until it’s almost finished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
that stems from not wanting to jinx yourself into failing at what you’re trying
to accomplish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m kind of the opposite
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to say what I’m planning on
doing because then I have to walk the line I talk.<br />
</i>As for phobias? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m terrified of
maggots. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not very often I actually
see them, but when I do I freak out. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
make my skin crawl and I can’t stop thinking about what they represent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They eat feces and death. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just gross.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Do you smoke / drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?<br />
</b>Yes. Both. I actually quit smoking for seven years and started up again a
little over a year ago. I’m kicking myself for it now, but I was going through
a divorce and relocating and trying to find a job. Things were stressful. I
plan on quitting again sometime soon.<br />
I’ve been known to have a couple drinks on the weekends and at conventions. I
usually drink beer in the summer and Kracken rum mixed with diet Mt. Dew in the
winter.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why Diet Mountain Dew?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does it taste better or, you know, diet?<br />
</i>I have a crazy sweet tooth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
whatever odd reason, my taste buds think Diet Mountain Dew is the sweetest
soda. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’m at a bar I will ask for
Coke because I’m sure it’s ingrained into the bartenders DNA to mix rum with
Coke. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, I usually just ask for
Captain Morgan because most bars don’t carry Kracken.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I work as a data entry clerk. There might be about two hours out of
every day that there isn’t a computer in front of me.<br />
I’m not really sure what my dream job would be. I’ve always wanted to work with
animals... as long as it’s not maggots.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I don’t think maggots are animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You should be all set.</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What do you like to do when you’re not at work?<br />
</b>I like to listen to all types of music for the most part. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the weekends I usually watch a movie or
two. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the weather is nice I like to
walk around town. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s some hiking
and biking trails running through my town. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get a lot of my writing ideas in the middle
of wooded areas with no one else around.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</b>Well, if I had a basement I would probably barricade myself in there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s probably a bad idea though. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Night
of the Living Dead</i> taught us that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d probably get in my car and keep driving as
long as I could.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Weapon of choice:<br />
</b>Machete. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Do you have any special skills?<br />
</b>I’m ordained to solemnize marriages. I don’t know if that’s a special
skill. Ha ha. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</b>No. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I would have.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">College really only provides someone with
the opportunity to educate themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You didn’t miss out on much aside from a ton of debt that ruins your
credit for the rest of your life, a lot of recreational drug use and
promiscuous sex.<br />
</i>It sounds like I can get the college experience by taking a trip to Vegas.
Ha ha.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have a California King snake named Skully. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a Pueblan Milk snake named Hannibal, but
escaped from his terrarium about four months ago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m still waiting for him to reappear.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is your favorite animal?<br />
</b>This is a hard one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I like
insects in general. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s because female
insects are the larger and more colorful gender. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With mammals and birds it’s always the male
who’s colorful and the female is drab.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</b>I hate rude people.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</b>I have to admit I’m one of those foodie people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to try new stuff all the time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love potatoes and bread. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t found a type of bread I didn’t like.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I frequent Sushi, Indian, and Mexican
restaurants. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t think of any
certain foods that I hate, but I did just recently eat some olives stuffed with
garlic from the local deli and thought I was going to vomit.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?</b><br />
“The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or
fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.” –
Ernest Dimnet<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What is the best thing that ever
happened to you?<br />
</b>Meeting my boyfriend. He’s the first person who’s been 100% supportive of
my writing.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</b>I witnessed a fatal car accident and tried to help the person inside. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was traumatizing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a period of PTSD after.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’m not trying to re-open the wound, but
what was the PTSD like?<br />
</i>It was a weird time for me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was so
wrapped up in what happened and what I learned about the person. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The guy was 19 and he left behind a pregnant
fiancé. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily she wasn’t in the car. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just kept thinking about how even if you
have your whole life planned out it can all be snatched away in a heartbeat. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My thought processes were so screwed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept thinking everything was out of control.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the best way I can put it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is out of control and there is
nothing you can do to stop it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became
very paranoid, anxious, and extremely hyper vigilant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kept thinking something was going to happen
to me at any second and I was going to die. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I kept seeing the accident over and over. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized how precious life is then. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think people stop to think about that
very often. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also grew a new respect
for our soldiers who suffer through PTSD. I can imagine what they deal with is
a thousand times worse than what I went through.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>Proposed to both of my ex-husbands. Ha ha. <br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well at least you got what you wanted at
the time, so there is that.</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What do you do?<br />
</b>I have a day job and I write at night. I don’t like to technical call
myself a writer. I prefer to think of myself as a storyteller.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I sort of had an early midlife crisis. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was twenty-nine I started thinking
about how I was almost thirty and I hadn’t done anything with my life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow that snowballed into me thinking I
should write a book.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What is your advice to other people that want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>Write whatever you want to write. Don’t worry about what your family and
friends will think of it. And keep writing. Don’t give up.</span><br />
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What are some of the projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past?<br />
Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</b>I wrote a paranormal trilogy and published it independently: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Endlessly</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Legacy</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Phantom</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have three books published with Grindhouse
Press: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How To Kill Yourself</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zombieville</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Other People’s Shit</i>. And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thanks
For Ruining My Life</i> was published by Atlatl Press. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a short story, “Last Woman On Earth”,
available in digital formats. One of my short stories is in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spirits of St. Louis: Missouri Ghost Stories</i>
anthology published by Rocking Horse Publishing and some of my poetry made in
into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love Notes</i> by Vagabondage Press.
And I recently independently published a novelette titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baby Hater</i>.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If you could tell someone to pick up one
thing to get a taste for your work, which of the preceding would it be?</i><br />
I would probably suggest <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thanks For
Ruining My Life</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a good mix of
the different types of stories I write.<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Ruining-My-Life-Hunt/dp/0988348462/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Ruining-My-Life-Hunt/dp/0988348462/</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">That would jinx it!<br />
I’m currently writing a book and working on a collection of short stories and
flash fiction.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Currently, nothing. I just finished the third season of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Horror Story</i>. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I’ve really been into the bands Gesaffelstein and Little People
lately.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What are you reading?<br />
</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dickinstein: Emily
Dickinson - Mad Scientist by Shannon Yarbrough<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That sounds amazing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll have to check that out!</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It’s hard for me to narrow it down to one author. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like Bret Easton Ellis, Dennis Cooper and
David Sedaris. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favorite book is
always changing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s difficult to pick
one. Right now I’d say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lunar Park</i> by
Bret Easton Ellis. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But sometimes it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Psycho</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Succumbing to Gravity </i>by Richard Farnsworth or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fight Club</i> by Chuck Palahniuk.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I loved Lunar Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like Bret Easton Ellis in general, but I
read Lunar Park at a really important point in my life and it meant a lot more
to me because I thought that I wouldn’t have time to read many more books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did a HUGE write-up of Lunar Park and Chuck
Palahniuk’s Haunted.<br />
<a href="http://destroyallauthors.blogspot.com/2013/09/book-review-haunted-by-chuck-palahniuk.html" target="_blank">http://destroyallauthors.blogspot.com/2013/09/book-review-haunted-by-chuck-palahniuk.html</a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Favorite band / song?<br />
</b>“You Know You’re Right” by Nirvana<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
If you could do anything other than what you do now, what would you do?<br />
</b>I don’t know. I’d like to do something that involved traveling the world.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Who would you want to meet that you haven’t met?<br />
You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</b>Alive – Will Oldham.<br />
Dead – Jim Morrison.<br />
Fictional – Tyler Durden. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</b>The best job I had was working as stock room attendant for the engineering
department at a food manufacturing place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I liked the people I worked with, but hated
the extra paperwork and meetings I was required to attend. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had plenty of time to sneak some reading in
while doing that job. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The worst job I
ever had was being a waitress. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People
are rude and stubborn and you still had to serve them with a smile and be
polite.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
<br />
Thanks for letting me subject you to being interviewed!<br />
</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/verlorenfagan" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/verlorenfagan</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/CVHunt" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/CVHunt</a><br />
Website: <a href="https://www.authorcvhunt.com/" target="_blank">https://www.authorcvhunt.com</a><br />
Etc.: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/cvhunt" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/cvhunt</a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</b>C.V. Hunt is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How To
Kill Yourself</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Zombieville</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thanks For Ruining My</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Other People’s Shit</i>, and other unpopular books. She recently
published a digital novelette titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baby
Hater</i>. She lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.</span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-4132534954913643862014-02-21T10:40:00.001-08:002014-02-21T10:49:33.308-08:00Interview with Amy Hesketh.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Amy Hesketh</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No.<br />
<i>Well “Amy” is pretty short. Three letters, two syllables. Doesn’t really lend itself to abbreviation.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rural<b> </b>Maine, USA</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">La Paz, Bolivia<br />
<i>How did you get from Maine to Bolivia?<br />
</i>That’s a pretty long story, but to make it short. I lived in France for a while, then came back
to the US, then went to Bolivia as a tourist, was cast in a docudrama for
National Geographic that was produced by Jac Avila. <i><br />
</i>I saw his film Martyr in a film festival down here around the same time. He held a talk about low-budget digital
filmmaking at that festival. So, I felt
inspired to stay here and collaborate with him. We formed a production company together, and
have made several films. <i><br />
</i>It was a leap of faith, in a way. I think Jac thought I was a crazy person
at first. Apparently it’s not normal to
visit an exotic country, see a film, and then propose to form a company to make
whacky, controversial films. And then actually
do that.<br />
<i>Well, it is a bit unusual as most people
would probably opine.<br />
</i>I suppose so. I’m normally a very
pragmatic person, but sometimes you just have to take a risk. Especially in pursuing your dreams.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Paris. I spent some great times there, and lived there for a few
years. I also love La Paz, though, as
I’ve lived here for 8 years now, and am always inspired by it, every day.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Birthday / Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">May 3rd, the day that Bram Stoker’s Dracula opens.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Somewhat athletic. Petite.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’ve been described as a “girl next door” type. I don’t have tattoos and such. People have told me that I have an impression
of innocence, until I open my mouth.<br />
<i>What happens when you open your mouth?<br />
</i>My internal censor is broken most of the time, so I swear a lot, and say
really inappropriate things. I try not
to, but I have a compulsion to speak my mind all of the time, regardless of the
trouble it gets me into with others. I’m
not into small-talk. I’ve also nearly
been arrested several times. That’s when
the innocent look comes in handy… if I can keep my mouth shut.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The first thing people notice about you is… <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">People have told me I’m a bit “robotic”.<br />
<i>Are you a robot?<br />
</i>Shhhhh….</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hair Color / Eye Color / Race?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Brown, brown, Nordic/English.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sexual orientation?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Human beings.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">None.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are you superstitious at all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’m not a fan of having spiders on my person. I find superstitions illogical. However, I don’t celebrate anything about a
film until it’s done, even though that’s illogical.<br />
<i>Sounds perfectly logical to me. Are you Vulcan?<br />
</i>Are there Vulcan robots?<br />
<i>Yes.<br />
</i>If I had to be labeled, Vulcan Robot would be my top choice.<b><br />
<br />
Do you smoke / drink? If so, what?<br />
</b>I have a couple of beers on occasion. My favorite is a good IPA. I also like scotch, and dry martinis. I do not smoke. <b> </b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Any bad habits?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I talk to myself. But I don’t
think that’s bad, necessarily.<br />
<i>It’s really not. Most intelligent people do. People ask me if I’m ever bored when doing
something boring and I always reply, “I have a very active mental lifestyle.”<br />
</i>Nice! I’m never bored. But it’s also difficult to turn my brain off
sometimes, especially when I want to sleep.<br />
<i>I share the same problem. That’s why I don’t sleep much. I’d rather use the time working on
things. When my body wants sleep, it
falls asleep.<br />
</i>Yes, right?! I tend to be very
productive when I should be sleeping. I
have creative epiphanies when I’m lying awake at night, or in the shower. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’m a filmmaker.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I pretty much work all the time, but on the rare occasion I’m not, I
enjoy reading, seeing friends,<b> </b>listening
to music,<b> </b>cooking and baking, traveling,
and walking while letting my mind wander, idea gathering. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If I were at my house in Maine, I would be all set. I’d get right down to killing zombies, and
saving my friends and neighbors. Maybe
bake some bread, when I’m not killing zombies.<br />
The house where I live in Bolivia is pretty much zombie-proof as well. For some
reason all of the outer doors are lined with steel plates.<br />
<i>Is that a common thing in Bolivia?<br />
</i>Not that I’m aware of. Whoever built
the house was obviously a zombie-phobe. Perfectly rational.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For zombie killing, a<b> </b>Glock
357. They don’t have too much kick-back,
unlike a Detonics 949.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I can fix cars and motorcycles, build things, weld. I’m the person everyone else calls when they
need something done around their house. I
can accurately fire a weapon, I grew up doing that a lot, being from a rural
area. I can cook, and bake. These skills might also come in handy in the
zombie apocalypse.<br />
<i>They very well might at that.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I went to college for Fine Arts, Art History, Photography, and
Mathematics.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you went to college, did you manage to pay
off your student loans?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Yes, recently. That was nice.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I recently found a kitten in my garden, which I named Mitsou, after
the Balthus drawings.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mongoose.<br />
Why the mongoose?<br />
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Their risk-taking in pursuit of what they want most; tasty snakes.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A guy in a truck recently backed into me while I was crossing the
street, in a crosswalk. He was driving
in reverse the wrong way down a one way street. So you could say I have a pet peeve for bad
drivers. And jerks.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I love pickled herring, and molasses cookies (not together). I dislike tripe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your favorite quotation/motto/saying?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"If
I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to
satisfy them, they infect the whole soul." Jean-Paul Sartre<br />
<i>Love myself some Sartre.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
What is the best thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Realizing
my dream as a filmmaker.</span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My father getting sick, and dying of Pick’s disease. I had to do a lot of things, on my own (I’m an
only child), to take care of him and see to his needs. And watch him quickly decline, over two years,
into a vegetable.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story worth telling behind your
answer? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Yes. There are so many ways
that another person can break your heart.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’ve managed to remain friends with most of my exes, which is very
cool. I think when you make a connection
with someone like that, and you love them, it shouldn’t be thrown away just
because it didn’t work out for some reason.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Make films.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’ve never done anything that I’m particularly ashamed of, or that I
regret. It’s all part of the process.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could kill one person, consequence
free, who would it be and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The guy who backed into me with his truck. But I’m really a pacifist.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I make controversial, sexy films.<br />
<i>Those tend to be my favorite kinds of
films.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I began writing my first script back in 2001. Later on, in 2005 I met my (now) business
partner Jac Avila at a film festival in Oruro, Bolivia, where he was showing
his film, Martyr. I liked his film a
lot, and we’ve been collaborating ever since.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jump in and do it, you really have nothing to
lose. Make it happen, be creative. Creativity counts more than money.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past?<br />
Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sirwiñakuy (2010) (director, actress)<b><br />
</b>The Spectres of Blood Castle (no release date) (producer, actress)<b><br />
</b>Maleficarum (2011) (producer, actress)<b><br />
</b>Barbazul (2012) (director, actress)<b><br />
</b>Le Marquis de la Croix (2013) (director, actress)<b><br />
</b>Dead But Dreaming (2013) (producer, actress)<b><br />
</b>Olalla (in production) (director, actress)</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My feature film that we’re shooting now is called Olalla, based on the
Robert Louis Stevenson story, about an incestuous family of vampires.<br />
I’m directing a horror short as well, and finishing two scripts for two other
features.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">TV:<br />
Mad Men. I find Nihilism comforting.<br />
American Horror Story: Asylum. Sick, nice. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The new album by Ulver: Messe.<br />
<i>Ooh!
A fellow Ulver fan! We’re a rare
breed.<br />
Have you ever checked out Lustmord or Bohren & Der Club Of Gore?<br />
</i>Yes, good stuff! I also love
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.<br />
<i>Downloading their stuff to check it out
now.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’m working my way through C. Dean Andersson’s awesome books right
now. As well as some research for other
films .</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I can’t commit to one.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Again,<b> </b>can’t commit to just
one.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Anything repetitive, with uninspiring percussion.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Desert Island Music/Movies/Books: You know the
deal. Five of each.<br />
Music:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Ulver, Agalloch, Can, Alfred Schnittke, Frank Sinatra<br />
<b>Movies:</b> The Night Porter,
Possession, Belle de Jour, La Dolce Vita, Edipo Re<br />
<b>Books:</b> Gordon (Templeton), Pale Fire
(Nabokov), Ada (Nabokov), Buddenbrooks (Mann), A Moveable Feast (Hemingway)</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Travel in space.<br />
<i>Like an astronaut? Or like The Silver Surfer?<br />
</i>Silver Surfer. Imagine being surrounded by a vacuum and not dying!</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met? You get three choices:<br />
Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I hope to only meet people who are alive. Anyone who is alive is great. But if it has to be a dead person, Nikola
Tesla. If I met a fictional person it
might mean that I’ve completely lost my mind, so I hope that doesn’t happen.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My best “job” was when I worked for an old lady one summer when I was
15. She would make me read raunchy
romance novels to her out loud, sex bits and all. <br />
<i>Oh my…</i><br />
Worst job was pretty much anything where I had to sit at a desk and do
something banal. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jac Avila, he’s on FB.<br />
<i>Cool I found him and sent him a Friend
Request.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>Thanks for letting me subject you to
being interviewed!</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thank you very much for the interview!<b><br />
<br />
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>My Facebook: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://facebook.com/amyhesketh" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/amyhesketh</a><br />
FB Olalla: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OlallaTheMovie" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/OlallaTheMovie</a><br />
FB Barbazul: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/barbazulthemovie" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/barbazulthemovie </a><br />
FB Sirwiñakuy: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sirwinakuy" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/sirwinakuy</a><br />
FB Le Marquis de la Croix: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lemarquismovie" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/lemarquismovie</a><br />
FB Dead But Dreaming: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/deadbutdreamingmovie" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/deadbutdreamingmovie</a><br />
FB Maleficarum: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/maleficarumthemovie" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/maleficarumthemovie</a><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/Amy_Hesketh" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/Amy_Hesketh</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Websites: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://vermeerworks.com/">http://vermeerworks.com</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> ,
<a href="http://pachamamafilms.com/" target="_blank">http://pachamamafilms.com</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Blog: <a href="http://amyhesketh.com/" target="_blank">http://amyhesketh.com</a><br />
</span></span><br />
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<b>About the Interviewee:<br />
</b></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";">Described by
Fangoria Magazine as the “female Jess Franco”, Amy Hesketh is an award winning
director, actress, writer and producer, known for her controversial films, and
equally groundbreaking acting roles.<br />
Reactions to her work are a polemic of extremes, ranging from the positive (“a visual
genius” and “daring”) to the negative (“inhabits the last circle of hell”). Her first film played theatrically in Bolivia
to packed houses for five straight months.<br />
Originally from rural Maine, she currently lives in Bolivia.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif";"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">About
the Interviewer:</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to
write about.<br />
Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public
library.<br />
His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and
Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker,
Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.<br />
He is the author of Spooky Creepy Long Island, and a contributing author to
Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead, Fracas: A Collection of
Short Friction, The Call of Lovecraft, and Cashiers du Cinemart.<br />
He is currently working on ten novel-length book projects which will be
released in 2014.<br />
He also publishes themed collections of interviews from his interview blog <a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">You Are Entitled To My Opinion</a>.<br />
His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror,
and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.<br />
He is the Assistant Program Director for The Arkham Film Society and produces
electronic music under the names Master Control and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Lovecraftwork" target="_blank">LOVECRAFTWORK</a>.<br />
He is currently working on a novel-length expansion of a short-story titled,
"The End Of The World Is Nigh", a crowd-funded, crowd-sourced,
post-apocalyptic, zombie epidemic project.<br />
Check out the blog for the book here: <a href="http://theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com</a><br />
Check out the Facebook Fan Page for the project here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook</a><br />
Check his author profile at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G" target="_blank">www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G</a><br />
Follow him at GoodReads here:<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre" target="_blank">www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre</a><br />
Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />
Check out his videos at: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon</a><br />
Check out his IMDB profile here: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959" target="_blank">www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959</a><br />
Follow his Twitter here: <a href="http://twitter.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">twitter.com/TheLefebvre</a>
or @TheLefebvre<br />
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Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />
Join the group for The Arkham Film Society here:<br />
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Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />
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Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-1135996862338438332014-02-21T08:04:00.000-08:002014-02-21T09:05:11.511-08:00Interview with Kerry Lipp.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Full Name:<br />
</b>Kerry Michael Lipp</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</b>Lipp. Squid. Or Giant Squid.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Birthplace:<br />
</b>Celina, Ohio</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Current hometown:<br />
</b>Dayton, Ohio</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Favorite city and why?<br />
</b>Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s the
best and worst place on earth. I once
turned my last $5 into $1,500 and lost in all in the same night. The emotional highs and lows (not to mention
the free flowing booze) don’t come like that anywhere else.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Birthday / Age:<br />
</b>December 28, 1983. I just
turned 30.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</b>I can take my shirt off and still be wearing a sweater.<br />
<i>You should offer to shave logos into your
torso hair and sell the ad space in exchange for parading around on the beach
in the summertime.<br />
</i>The beach is one of my favorite travel destinations. You know anyone that might be interested? I’ll cut ‘em a deal. Actually a friend of mine in high school was
the kicker for the football team. He
used to shave goal posts on his chest before games. Maybe he’d be interested in being my designer.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</b>Probably smiley and approachable.
A lot of people think I’m skinny, but I just hide it well. If I don’t start working out/eating better
I’m in deep shit in the next few years.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</b>Smile, sense of humor, black baseball cap I always wear unless I absolutely
can’t get away with it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Religion, if any?<br />
</b>I was raised Methodist. I no
longer buy into Christianity although I think there is some value in some of
the principles it teaches. I think
there’s got to be something more than nothing out there somewhere, but I
believe in myself, working hard, and being good to others more than I believe
in god. I think that might technically
make me a Satanist. I’m cool with that.<br />
<i>You’d probably make a pretty good
Satanist.<br />
</i>Hey, I was always taught that if you’re good at something go for it!</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Are you superstitious at all? Any phobias?<br />
</b>I recently started living alone for the first time in my life. I like to sit on my bed Indian style and play
Xbox and I’m always scared when I look back into my doorway some silent creep
is going to be standing there watching me.
I also fear technology is dangerously close to destroying/enslaving the
human race. (Not a joke.)<br />
<i>If the technology we create leads to our
destruction, then we deserve whatever we get.
It will just be the next step in our evolution. A thinning of the herd. If cell phones give people brain cancer, then
the species will just move on and work with whoever’s left. This is not necessarily a bad thing.<br />
</i>Agreed. A friend of mine put up a
Facebook status a couple days ago that said something like “Do you think
historians will look back in 500 years at where we are now and call it a dark
age?” I thought it was an interesting
question. I’m pretty sure we’ll all be
dust by then, but who knows. But when
you think about it, a lot of the crazy science fiction from the past is
becoming true in one way or another. I’m
kind of curious where it’s going to go and what’s going to happen if it all
comes to a head. I also love the sort of
“digital wild west” it creates with how information and entertainment is
delivered. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Do you smoke / drink? If so, what? Any
bad habits?<br />
</b>I drink daily but only to excess a few times a year. I guess that’s good? I greatly prefer beer and vodka over whiskey
and wine. I smoked cigarettes for about
8 years, but I recently quit. It’s been
about three months and I rarely crave them anymore and I’m happy about that. Looking back now, the whole thing seems kind
of ridiculous. I’m a recovering bar/fast
food junkie just now learning how to cook.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</b>I’m a supervisor at a grocery store on an air force base. I work the night shift. I used to teach composition at a community
college, I miss it sometimes and would like to return to it someday in the near
future, but grading papers absolutely sucks.
Takes way too much time.
Composition courses need to figure out how to do a multiple choice test. Dream job would be sipping cocktails all day
poolside working on my next cult bestseller.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</b>Read and write for sure. I’m a
gamer. I like to go out for drinks with
friends or by myself. Being alone
doesn’t bother me as long as I’ve got a book or a laptop. I’m starting to learn how to cook, that’s
kind of cool. I’m actually enjoying it
more than I thought it would. I enjoy
traveling when my parents throw me a bone or when I can afford it myself.<br />
<i>My author icon pic is a picture of me at
a bar posing with Everything Is Under Control by Robert Anton Wilson. Because I’m the kind of guy that brings a
book to a bar. I like my ladies to be
more interesting than whatever I bring to the bar to read. If you can’t beat a book, we probably
shouldn’t practice making babies.<br />
</i>Funny you mention that. I’ve done a
large amount of reading and writing at bars.
A lot of people don’t get it.
Those people are dumb, (laughs) I’ve also been known to pick up a server
or bartender from time to time. Don’t’
try it, it never works out. Anyway, my
favorite line was always “If you’re going to stop me from reading, you’ve got
to be more interesting than the book.” Then you look them head to toe and add
“And it looks like you’re in deep shit.”
They’ll either flirt back or leave you alone. Win-win. <br />
Occasionally you get approached by a drunk idiot, but not too often. I get less distracted working in public than
I do at home. That’s just the way I am. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</b>Go as long as I can without dying.
Try and hole up in a liquor store or something with a stable of WWE
Divas. Maybe get ‘em drunk and see what
happens next. Go out with a “bang” so to
speak.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Weapon of choice:<br />
</b>Kitchen knife. Serrated. I’ve heard that makes it easier to work free.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Do you have any special skills?<br />
</b>I’m good at looking at things that most people see two sides of and
see eight sides. I’m pretty
charismatic. I can usually break through
to people and get them out of a shitty mood.
I also have a strong background in public speaking.<br />
<i>Tell us more about this “strong
background in public speaking”.<br />
</i>I think I was a junior in college when I got hired at a public speaking
teaching assistant. I wasn’t even old
enough to drink, greener than baby shit and I had to teach people my age and
older how to speak publicly. I learned
in a hurry and quickly fell in love with it. I taught public speaking for three
years and then composition for several more.
I think a lot of teachers look at it as just a job. With my background in public speaking and
with all that fear totally gone, I looked at it a little differently. I tried to take a subject most people hate,
English composition, and make it interesting and fun as well as informative. I learned that if you could make students laugh
and keep their interest and engage them in discussion for a class period,
they’d enjoy the learning, get more out of the class, show up, and WANT to do
better work. I’m sure a lot of people
would fight me on the “fun” approach, but it’s worked for me and I’ve got the
evaluations and the student progression to prove it. Damn.
Now I want to get back in the classroom! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</b>I did. I have a bachelor’s
degree in journalism. I realized I hated
it right before I finished my undergrad.
Then I went to grad school for English Literature. I’m just about the worst English major
(master technically) ever, I haven’t read many of the “classics” and don’t’
like many of the ones I have read.<br />
<i>The “classics” also often known as “the
western canon” are historically important to understand the evolution of the
written word. Every writer should read
the Modern Library Top 100 at some point in their writing career, just so they
can be familiar with what has already been done. You have to learn before you can
improvise. I hate self-professed or
aspiring authors that say they have “problems” with spelling and grammar. That’s like saying you’re a carpenter that
has a problem with hammers and sharp tools.
Spelling and grammar are the basic tools of the writer. At least familiarize yourself with the
elementary tools and when in doubt, spell-check is your best friend and
co-pilot.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve
got a pretty good grasp on spelling and grammar though I’m far from perfect. I just Googled the Modern Library Top
100. I’ve read 7 off The Board’s List
and 14 off The Reader’s List. But
“Guilty Pleasures” by Laurel K. Hamilton on that list? C’mon. I actually read that one to see what all the
fuss was about a year or two ago. I was
about 100 pages in when I had to decide. I either needed to put it down or blow my
brains out. As you can see, I’m still
alive for this interview. Honestly, I’d
never heard of that list until just now.
I have interest in reading a lot of these, I think the key word is MODERN. I took a Dickens seminar in college and
couldn’t get through more than a few hundred pages of the thousands we were
assigned. Although I did give like an
hour presentation on a book I hadn’t read.
I got an A. Thank you strong background
in public speaking!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you went to college, did you manage to pay
off your student loans?<br />
</b>I worked three jobs for all but my freshman year while I was in
school, and with occasional help from a pair of fantastic and financially wise
parents, I’m happy to say I made it through debt free. Since I taught, I even got paid to go to
school for my last year in grad school.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Any pets? If so, what are they and
what are their names?<br />
</b>No current pets. I can barely take care of myself.<br />
<i>I’m glad you have a solid sense of priorities.<br />
</i>Wake up. Eat. Make money.
Write. Don’t die. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is your favorite animal?<br />
</b>Squid. Frog. Bunny rabbit.
In that order.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</b>I don’t like lazy people. I
don’t like people who think that talking about something is the same as doing
it. People with low social
intelligence. I don’t like people who
use their cash on lottery tickets and cigarettes and their food stamps on Red
Bull and beef jerky. And I fucking hate
it when I’m moving or in a groove and people slow me down. And when McDonalds forgets the sauce you ask
for. That’s the worst.<br />
<i>Always check the contents of your bag
before driving away from the drive through window. It’s shit pay, so expect careless work. Don’t give them any shit, working at
McDonald’s is punishment enough. But do
check your order.<br />
</i>I can’t give them any shit. I work
third shift. McDonald’s is pretty much
the only place open if I want something quick after work. They know me, and I prefer my food spit free
haha. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</b>Pizza. Candy bars. Taco Bell.
I’ll eat just about anything except olives, mushrooms and rare cooked
meat. And oysters. I’ve tried ‘em every way they make them. I don’t get it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</b>Pretty much anything the band Hatebreed has ever said. And Eminem.
I love Eminem. The last verse of
the s<span style="color: white;">ong “Sing For The Moment” is some powerful shit. Also: “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the
right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you
can do is nothing.” – Teddy Roosevelt</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</b>My first story sale (and second publication) went to a collection
called <i>DOA2</i> from Blood Bound
Books. I found myself among authors that
I’d been reading for years. Authors like
Jack Ketchum and Wrath James White. A
lot of writers don’t publish or sell, even at a penny a word for years. I did, and about 4 months in. For better or for worse, that made me feel
like I was for real and that my time was being well spent. I honestly don’t know where I’d be today
without Blood Bound Books taking a chance on an unknown with ZERO publication
credits at the time they offered me a contract.
I got to meet the guys that run BBB at Killercon a few months ago. I got to thank them in person and we had a
few beers. That was pretty cool. Joe and Marc are really good guys.<br />
<i>They sound pretty cool. I like Ketchum, despite the fact that he
stole a girl out from under me at a convention one time a few years back. But if she was that easy to steal, he was
welcome to her. *laughs* No love lost.
You never forget your first time.
After I wrote my first book I built up my anthology credits and Amazon
bibliography for a few years and last fall I leaned back and realized I had
about ten books half written in various formats. I decided to focus on finishing a few novels
and putting them out myself since I was sick of shopping my work around to
publishers. Thus was born Burnt
Offerings Books. I published seven books
in the past two months and even started up a splinter imprint I’m calling
Radiation Sickness Books to publish more extreme and transgressive
fiction. I’m looking forward to
publishing some really vile, violent and transgressive fiction in 2014.<br />
</i>Haha, that’s funny about Ketchum.
Hey as us writerly types know, we can usually get over anything as long
as it leaves us with a story. The guys
at Blood Bound are really cool. I really
hope I get to work with them again. I’d
love to get a story in when DOA inevitably returns with volume 3. I also just submitted to Radiation Sickness
Books. Hopefully I can find a home
there, but even if not, I’m looking for some good things.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</b>I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve
experienced very little pain and very little tragedy in my life. All the obstacles I’ve faced have made me
stronger and don’t seem so bad when I look at them through the rearview. At least I think so. It’s hard telling how traumatic events shape
people. Maybe not facing any of that is
the worst thing that’s ever happened to me and when something really bad DOES
inevitably happen, it’s really going to mess me up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>More than once. Seems like it
happens at the end of every summer. I
wrote a story about a fairly recent one called “Don’t Call Me When He Tries To
Kill You.” It’s in an anthology from
Siren’s Call.<br />
<i>Damn it!
That sounds perfect for an anthology that I’m planning for
February! That’s okay, I’m not against
considering reprints.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve
got a few more in the cannon haha. I sent
a pretty sick erotica horror story to an erotica only market. I’m eagerly awaiting the response. I think it’s going to be hilarious. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer? </b>Yes and probably not, although there’s no real
way to not feel shitty about it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>I’ve talked more people off the ledge than I can count on both hands
and feet. I don’t mean this literally,
but I’ve talked people out of making horrible decisions, quitting their job,
quitting school, starting fights etc.<br />
<i>Good man.
I’ve talked a couple shotgun barrels out of a couple times in my time
too. I’m of the opinion that if your
life is really so bad that death would be better I’ll help you figure out how
to go out with the least amount of pain and mess. But if you need someone to talk you out of a
bad place I’m a pretty good guy to know.<br />
</i>It’s a good quality to have. It’s a
good feeling to help someone through something tough, and develop a strong
bond. It’s a great way to build loyalty
and trust and people don’t forget stuff like that.<br />
<i>Oh, I don’t know about that whole “strong
bond” thing. I don’t even talk to most
people that I talked off the ledge anymore.
People change and time destroys everything. It’s not the people that say that they’re
going to kill themselves that you have to worry about. It’s the people that you wonder years later
what the hell ever happened to them. The
people that make their suicide other people’s business usually end up talking
themselves out of it or being talked out of it by someone else. Like most things in life, it’s the quiet ones
you’ve got to watch out for.<br />
</i>I agree that time erodes most things, but I also think that if it’s that
significant, whether or not they would’ve talked themselves out of it, you did
it and helped them out of that funk a little bit sooner. Also agree about looking out for the quiet
ones. You hear something like that
almost every day. Somebody loses their
shit and does something bad, or when they catch a serial killer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>This is going to sound like a joke, but it’s absolutely serious. I was at King’s Island with my family. My little nephew was like 4 and he was on a
kiddie rollercoaster. I went to win him
a stuffed animal while he was riding. I
played one of those squirt gun races. I
was the only one playing and I told the guy to start and he said ok. At the last second a little girl and her dad
sat down and I beat them both and walked away with the stuffed animal. I know that sounds like nothing, but I’ve
felt bad about it ever since. That was
like 2 years ago and I still think about it. Also, I wrote a story called “Precious Damaged
Cargo” that went personal places I never should’ve gone, but that’s also the
story that started it all for me. It
took me a while to make peace with myself after what I did with that story. I’ve sent some awful text messages to
people. Done some bad things drunk. But nothing the world remembers later on down
the line. At least I don’t think so…</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you could kill one person, who would it be,
and why?<br />
</b>I hate to be a question dodger, but even if I got away with it legally
and the person I killed totally deserved it, I think it’d haunt me too
much. Here’s a vague real answer:
Critics who have never created anything.<br />
<i>I’ve never found the actual quote from
Hemingway, so the Henry Rollins paraphrasing will have to suffice, “Critics are
like people that watch a battle from a safe distance and then come in and kill
the survivors.”<br />
</i>Haha. I’ve never heard that quote,
but it’s so fucking true. What a bunch
of assholes. It’s fine if you don’t like
something, I have no problem with that, just don’t be smug about it. I’m pretty sure smugness is like the absolute
worst personality trait out there.<br />
<i>I do review books, but if I can’t think
of anything nice to say, I won’t publish a review. That being said, if I publish a review where
I congratulate the author on being able to put words together into sentences,
and sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters until they ended up
with a book, but I don’t mention anything about the content of the book, then it
probably wasn’t a very good one. I’ve
had to message a few authors and tell them privately that their book was
unreadable, but I prefer to do that privately so they can hate me in private
rather than have to try to make up for any embarrassment they might feel in a
public forum. No one wins in that
scenario.<br />
</i>Makes sense. I don’t review often,
usually only the stuff that I really like.
And I’ve been on the verge of posting some one star reviews on Amazon,
but never go through with it. Although I
probably should. Someone needs to stop
the 5 star reviews self-published writers are getting from their family and
friends or social media contacts on that shitty first draft they didn’t even
glance over before heading straight to KDP.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What do you do?<br />
</b>I work full time third shift. I try and work on my writing career for
at least 1-2 hours a day minimum.
Sometimes it’s new stuff, sometimes revision, sometimes it’s researching
and submitting, sometimes it’s interviews like this, but I always try to do
something.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>I took a lot of creative writing courses in college and loved it. I got to study under a great writer named
Brady Allen. I did a little bit of
decent work. But without the grade gun
to my head, I only wrote 3 stories in about 4 years after I graduated. Pathetic for someone that wanted to be a
writer. I read like a fiend though,
burned through books and audiobooks at a rate of about 100 per year all genres,
all authors, fiction and non-fiction.
Finally one day I was halfway through a book, and a slammed it shut and
yelled fuck this. After I got off work
that night/morning I took a case of beer, my ipod, and my laptop out to my
front porch. 14 hours, 20 or so beers,
and about 10,000 words later I had two very rough drafts of the two best things
I think I’ve written to date. I don’t
think I’ll ever have a session that good again, but that was the fuse, the bomb
exploded, lots of fictional people died, and I haven’t stopped killing them.<br />
<i>I love stories like that. I went nuclear last October. I started typing paragraphs in what I call
“The World Of Nigh” on a thread on Facebook, using my phone while bored at
work. I realized I had accidentally
written enough for a short, I decided it was time to write that book. I launched a crowd-funding campaign to see if
it had legs. I didn’t meet my goal, but
I made enough to justify writing the book, and I found that I liked writing it
and savored the challenge. I took a look
around my old files and realized I had at least five or six books mostly
written so I decided to go for broke.
Twelve in Twelve in 2014. Try to
keep up.<br />
</i>I’ve seen some of your posts about 12 in 12 on Facebook. I wish you all the best. That is insanity. I still haven’t found my feet on longer works
so that’s tough for me to wrap my head around, but I think Bradbury said
something like “write a story a week for a year, it’s impossible to write 52
crappy ones in a row.” That’s pretty
good advice.<br />
I was talking with another guy the other day who said “I should start writing
poetry again, but I don’t’ have anything to say.”<br />
My answer was “Maybe you need to write a bunch of poems to find what you
actually need to say. And hell, maybe
when you look back, you’ll realize you’ve been saying some good shit all
along.” The ONLY way to do it, is to
just fucking do it.<br />
<i>I totally agree. I often tell people that the only thing
stopping them from writing is themselves.
I get that people have obligations, but if you can’t find time to wrote
at least a thousand words a day then you really don’t want it badly
enough. I mean, this interviews alone is
almost 7,000 words which is the outside limit of what is conventionally
accepted as short-story length. If you
want to write, you will write. </i>Someone
on my Facebook linked an article about comedian Jerry Seinfeld the other day
too. It said a lot of the same
stuff. Work and work everyday
consistently without sweating the results.
Love him or hate him, I’d say he knows what he’s talking about.<br />
<i>I think that’s going to be my plan for
2015. 2014 is going to be my year of
writing a book a month. For 2015 I want
to use one of those “365 Day Song Challenges” and instead of picking a song to
post on my Facebook wall, I’ll write a story using the prompts. That way I’ll have 365 stories that I can
expand into books. Maybe I can hook up
with a talented photographer doing a “Picture A Day For A Year Challenge” and
try to use their daily image and the “365 Day Song Challenge” suggestion and
see if any synchronicity happens. But
that’s 2015 and about a year away. I
know a guy that used to use a random story idea generator. He’d have three lists of twenty themes each
and he’d roll a twenty-sided die three times and whatever he rolled he’d
write. It’s an interesting idea, but
unfortunately that guy was a total hack, a Juggalo, and barely literate. But there’s all sorts of ways you can find
inspiration for stories. You can pick a
book off of your shelf and open it up at random and whatever line you point to,
that’s the first line of the story that you write that day. Or the last line. But what it boils down to is that if there’s
something you’d rather be doing than writing, you’ll end up doing that
thing. If you want to write, you’ll
write. If you don’t you won’t. And no amount of inspirational memes about
writing will write your book for you.
You want to finish writing your book?
Get the fuck off of Facebook and write.
Only use the internet to Google information for your book and
write. That’s how I’ve been writing a
book a month. It’s the only way I know
how. One word at a time, to the
exclusion of everything else.<br />
</i>I’m a self-confessed “facebook and other shit while I write guy.” But, I’ve been living without internet for
almost a month now. A few days ago I
tried something I’d heard about. I left
my phone downstairs and put a Post-it note over my clock and my word
count. It was the first time I’ve been
all alone with my work in months. I did
1,800 words in a little over an hour. I
think I’m going to stick with that method for a while.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also
I love your idea about inspiration coming from everywhere and trying new
things. As we’ve seen in the last 10
years, the concept of the books is changing a little bit. Lots of opportunity for success especially exploring
unexplored territory.<br />
<i>I often tell the story of what I did
while writing my first book. I put a
piece of masking tape across the top of my TV that read “Would you rather be
entertained or would you rather be famous?”.
Each time I went to fire up the X-Box or put in a DVD I’d see that
message and work on a chapter of my book instead. I don’t need the piece of tape anymore since
that work ethic is now ingrained in my mind.
When I finish all of the books I want to write and all of the projects I
want to work on, then there will be time for video games. I still cheat and watch a movie in the
background every now and then, but while I’m watching a movie, I’m still
working on projects.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>Just because you wrote something, it doesn’t matter how long or how
good you think it is, no one, not editors, not publishers, not readers, no one
owes you SHIT. You’re on your own. Get ready for rejection and more rejection
and don’t take it personally, learn, move on and keep writing and keep
submitting. Try and make all the friends
you can and be nice to everybody unless they are a total asswipe. And for the record, an editor that rejected
your story is NOT an asswipe. Write more,
get better. Don’t wait on stories that
are out there, write more and submit more.
Try and have 5-10 stories submitted at any given time and be writing and
submitting while you’re waiting. Don’t
wait. Don’t quit.<br />
<i>That’s one of the best answers I’ve
gotten from a writer. It’s all
true. As an author, you are your own
brand. Write. Write some more. Write better every time. Submit everywhere you can. All the time.
If you want it bad enough. You
can have it. But you have to want it bad
enough.<br />
</i>Thanks. I appreciate that. I blog about writing for <a href="http://www.horrortree.com/">www.horrortree.com</a> and have talked about
this and lots of other aspects of writing at length. Writing posts about writing helps me
understand the whole mess a lot better and helps others understand as well. It’s been a fantastic experience. I try and to as honest as possible.</span></span><br />
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on/finished in the past?<br />
Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</b>Well, I’ve got 10-45k word starts on about 6 various novels. Still haven’t finished one. I really like short stories but I’m trying to
focus on finishing a novel at the moment.
Most of the stuff I write has roots in reality and stays that way. I’m much more interested in what humans are
capable of when pushed or trapped in ridiculous circumstances. I’ve got a lot more in common with Jack
Ketchum than Clive Barker. I’m not a big
fan of the supernatural. But , that
said, I’ve also written giant monster frog stories and rewritten fairy tales
and stuff like that. I try and stay
diverse. I was writing a lot of funny
stuff and wanted to get away from that so I wrote a story called “Misery.” I remember crying my eyes out as I typed the
last few paragraphs. It had the same
affect on a few people that read it.
Making them cry made me feel good.
I don’t want to be a one trick pony.<br />
<i>Great.
Now I want to read that. How am I
supposed to work on my own stuff when I’m reading yours? Damn you, you literary succubus! DAMN YOU!!!<br />
But, seriously, finish some of those novels.
If you can wrap six books this year you’re doing more work than most
people out there and I like people that set the baseline.<br />
</i>That’s the worst isn’t it? It’s so
much easier to read than write and there’s so much good stuff out there! That story is actually available for free in
audio format. Check out The Wicked
Library podcast if you haven’t before.
They do a great job. “Misery” is
episode 303. I’ve also got another story
with them in episode 213. And I’d love to clean some house and take care of
unfinished business in 2014. Having
someone a little interested might be the shove I need!</span></span><br />
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</b>I’m about 65,000 words into a novel.
It’s hardcore horror set firmly in reality with no supernatural
elements. I’d also really like to
negotiate/submit/publish a short story collection in 2014. I’ve got the rights to almost all my stories
and I’d like to put ‘em together with some stuff that no one has seen yet. I’ve even got the perfect title, (I think)
but I don’t want to mention it quite yet.<br />
<i>If no one bites, I’ll put it out through
Burnt Offerings Books. No advance, but a
better royalty split than any other indie and I cover the edit, formatting,
cover-design and publishing. I’ve published
eight books in the past three months, but I don’t want my imprint to end up
being a vanity press. You write ‘em,
I’ll publish ‘em. Let’s make awesome.<br />
</i>I’d love to make some awesome. I’ll
keep you posted! Thank you. </span></span><br />
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</b>I currently have no Internet or dvds.
The only movie I have access to on my laptop is Pineapple Express. I watch about half of it every day when I eat
dinner. This has been going on for a few
weeks now.<br />
<i>I recommend Apocalypse Now on a
loop. That’s what I usually use for
background when I’m on a writing jag.<br />
</i>I’ve never seen it. I’m like the
worst movie person ever. I’ve also never
seen any of the Star Wars or Godfather movies.
The list goes on and on.<br />
<i>Well, now you know what you need to do to
get your writing finished. Apocalypse
Now on a loop, until you finish all six of them.<br />
</i>I promise you will track down Apocalypse Now. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What are you listening to?<br />
</b>Usually podcasts like The Wicked Library, Pseudopod, Tales to Terrify,
or The Self-Publishing Podcast. I also
really like talk radio. 700 WLW is my
favorite. Music wise, I’ve pretty much reached the age
where I don’t like a lot of new stuff and I listen to a lot of the same bands
over and over. Luckily for me most of
them have decent sized catalogues. I
recently discovered Spotify, I think that’s pretty cool. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What are you reading?<br />
</b>I’m currently reading my contributor copy of Attack of the B-Movie
Monsters from Grinning Skull Press. I’m about 3 or 4 stories in. Killer potatoes spliced with giant squid
genes. The rest practically writes
itself. Good stuff. A good friend of mine that I’ve never met
sent me a Kindle copy of The Book Thief for Christmas/my birthday. That’s the next novel I plan to dig into.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Favorite author / book?<br />
</b>Authors: Laymon, Ketchum, King, Curran, Maberry. And a thriller/crime writer that’s sold a lot
of books yet no one seems to have heard of him.
His name is Linwood Barclay.<br />
Fiction: Battle Royale<br />
Non-fiction: The 50th Law.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Favorite band / song?<br />
</b>Chimaira, Devil Driver, Lollipop Lust Kill, Nothingface, Spineshank,
Hatebreed, Eminem. They play a lot of country
and pop at work too, so I also really like Pink and The Band Perry (at least
their hits). <br />
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Least favorite band / song?<br />
</b>I’m about over male fronted country music.
I like beer and trucks and hot chicks as much as anybody, but I try and
branch out just a little bit. I don’t
know how people are dumb enough to keep buying the same songs over and over
again. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do? </b>Probably
dump third shift for first shift and pursue a more active social/dating lifestyle.<br />
<i>Dating is over-rated. Focus on your writing. First you write the books. Then you get published. Then you get the women. At least that’s how I think it works. At least I fucking hope so, because if not
I’m doing it all wrong.<br />
</i>Well, a lot of the chicks that have read my stuff I usually end up in bed
with. And then I get dumped a few weeks
later. It’d be nice to be in control and
on the other side of things. *laughs*</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met?<br />
You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</b>Damn, this is a tough one.<br />
Stephen King/Bree Olson<br />
Richard Laymon<br />
Randy Marsh/Jack Bauer</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</b>I moved furniture during the summer from ages 16-22. I made a lot of money, at least for someone
that age and that job really reinforced the concept of hard work, but it WAS
hard work. I don’t remember it being so
bad (outside of a couple days) but I helped my roommate move out a few weeks
ago and we handled a fraction of what I handled during a day on that job and I
still thought I was going to die. I
don’t know how I did it 60-80 hours a week in 90+ degree heat for entire
summers without flinching. That’s
crazytown.<br />
Best job is writing and trying to sell myself on social media, hopefully one of
these days it pays a little more. I also
used to be a giant seagull mascot and go to parades and fairs and stuff. That was wild.<b><br />
</b><i>Best story from your giant seagull
days… go!<br />
</i>Sadly I have no good stories from those days. But that job did inspire the only zombie
story I ever wrote. Zombie apocalypse
happens while you’re in a seagull suit during a parade and can’t take it off.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</b>Nothing appropriate. Haha.<b><br />
</b><i>Fine then, how about inappropriate
questions?<br />
</i>Nah, I think you covered things quite nicely. Let me also say that I enjoy the bounce back
aspect of this interview as opposed to just answer questions and post. This is like a conversations or something. Holy shit! People should try it sometime.<br />
<i>Not everyone gets that. If someone’s so boring that I can’t think of
any follow-up questions or comments, as long as they fill out most of the
interview and include a bio at the end then I’ll run the interview because
that’s about what you get with most interviews, including most of the ones that
I’ve been asked to participate in, or, rather, asked to be interviewed
for. I much prefer when the interviewee
give me something I can work with and takes the questions and runs with
them. If you can’t be interesting, at
least be funny. I know you may not smoke
or drink, but answering “No. / No.” is a waste of time for everyone
involved. It’s a waste of time sending
you the interview, you answering it with a boring one word answer, my having to
read your boring response and unfair to the world in general to have to read
your boring fucking interview. That
being said, I can’t make people be interesting and I wouldn’t if I couldn’t. I’ve got my own writing to do at the end of
the day, and I can’t be bothered to teach people how to be interviewed. If you don’t know how to be interviewed, then
go off and read a few interviews and figure it out and then come back and ask
to be interviewed.<br />
</i>Ok. Cool. <br />
I’m kidding. I’ve definitely enjoyed the
process. Keep it up. And best of luck
will all of your projects. I hope our
paths cross often. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?<br />
</b>I’ve got a couple writer buddies Marta Salek, Kevin Bufton and a
co-author Ken MacGregor who are all doing good things with a keyboard. They’d probably be happy to talk with you.<br />
<i>You make the introductions and I’ll
handle the follow-through.</i> <br />
I’d be happy to.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Got any questions for me?<br />
</b>Do you think you could kill someone and get away with it?<br />
<i>Absolutely. I’m the kind of guy that makes mental notes
of decent body dump spots when driving around.
I haven’t killed anyone yet, and don’t intend to anytime soon. But if I ever have to, no one will ever know
except for me and thee, and dead men tell no tales. Also I’ve read a fair amount of true crime
and Henry C. Lee books. Like all of
life’s adventures, solid planning prevents future failure.<br />
</i>I’ve got a few ideas myself. Not
sure if I should say this out loud, but I think I’d got an idea to blow up an
airplane despite current national security settings. Obviously I’d never do it. Not sure if I could get arrested for even
thinking about it or I should call somebody and tell them or just wait and use
it in a book. I mean I watch the show
24, it’s my favorite and they come up with wild shit like this all the
time. It almost begs the question, do
the writers report their ideas or just write ‘em and consequences be damned. Can of worms = open. <br />
<br />
<b>Thanks for letting me subject you to
being interviewed!<br />
</b>Thank you! I can’t tell you how much
I appreciate the opportunity! This has been fun.<br />
<b><br />
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>Facebook: kerry giantsquid lipp or
new world horror – kerry g.s. lipp<br />
Twitter: @kerrylipp<br />
Website: <a href="http://www.newworldhorror.com/">www.newworldhorror.com</a>
will launch one of these days.<br />
Here’s a link to my amazon page:<br />
http://www.amazon.com/Kerry-G.S.-Lipp/e/B00DTKTM1G/<br />
Blog: I guest blog at <a href="http://www.horrortree.com/">www.horrortree.com</a>
when I’ve got something to say.<br />
E-mail: <a href="mailto:newworldhorror@gmail.com">newworldhorror@gmail.com</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>About the Interviewee:<br />
</b>Kerry
G.S. Lipp teaches English at a community college by evening and writes horrible
things by night. He hates the sun. His parents started reading his stories and
now he’s out of the will. Kerry's work appears in several anthologies
including <i>DOA2 </i>from Blood Bound Books,
and <i>Attack of the B-Movie Monsters </i>from
Grinning Skull Press. He has
stories in several more forthcoming anthologies. His story “Smoke” was
adapted for podcast via The Wicked Library episode 213, and pioneered TWL’s
inaugural explicit content warning. KGSL blogs at <a href="http://www.horrortree.com/">www.HorrorTree.com</a>
and will launch his own website <a href="http://www.newworldhorror.com/">www.newworldhorror.com</a>
sometime in 2014. Say hi on Twitter @kerrylipp or his Facebook page: New
World Horror – Kerry G.S. Lipp.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to
write about.<br />
Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public
library.<br />
His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and
Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker,
Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.<br />
He is the author of Spooky Creepy Long Island, and a contributing author to
Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead, Fracas: A Collection of
Short Friction, The Call of Lovecraft, and Cashiers du Cinemart.<br />
He is currently working on ten novel-length book projects which will be
released in 2014.<br />
He also publishes themed collections of interviews from his interview blog <a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">You Are Entitled To My Opinion</a>.<br />
His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror,
and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.<br />
He is the Assistant Program Director for The Arkham Film Society and produces
electronic music under the names Master Control and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Lovecraftwork" target="_blank">LOVECRAFTWORK</a>.<br />
He is currently working on a novel-length expansion of a short-story titled,
"The End Of The World Is Nigh", a crowd-funded, crowd-sourced,
post-apocalyptic, zombie epidemic project.<br />
Check out the blog for the book here: <a href="http://theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com</a><br />
Check out the Facebook Fan Page for the project here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook</a><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full
Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sean T. Smith</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do
you have a nickname or what do your friends call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My kids call me “Daddy Bear.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Chapel Hill NC.
I lived in Canada until I was ten, then my family moved to Miami.<br />
<i>That must have been quite the adjustment
to move from the north pole to the tropics!</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Yeah,
there was a bit of culture shock. In
Canada, the kids all played hockey during recess. In Miami, it was basketball and palm trees. But I consider myself a “Florida Boy” now. I loathe cold weather.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Current
hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jacksonville, Florida</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite
city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">San Francisco.
Although I've only been there once, I was amazed by the beauty of the
place. Great weather, proximity to the
mountains and the ocean, fantastic restaurants.
But my family is all on the east coast.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Birthday
/ Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">July 31, 1968.
I'm forty-five.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How
would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Over the hill.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How
would someone else describe you physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Big.
Imposing. I'm six-four,
two-hundred sixty pounds.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My height.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Religion,
if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Southern Baptist with a Liberal bent and a
propensity for backsliding. I'm working
on that.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are
you superstitious at all?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Any
phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No.
Although I hate spiders. Not a
phobia, but if there is one in the house, he doesn't get put outside gently.<br />
<i>I never understood that. Don’t people know that if you let a spider go
outside that it will just find another spider and make more spiders?</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Exactly.
My wife will pick one up with a tissue
and put it outside. She's a better
person than I am.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<b>Do you smoke / drink? If so, what?<br />
</b>Yes and yes. Cigarettes and beer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Any
bad habits?<br />
*</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">laughs*
Cigarettes and beer. And the use
of the word “that.” I like the word too
much. Oh, and long paragraphs.<br />
<i>An author friend of mine suggested that
if you find yourself over-using a word you can run an auto-replace and replace
it with something ridiculous as a reminder to replace it with something
different. Haven’t tried it yet, but it
sounds like a pretty neat trick in theory.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That's
an interesting idea. *grins* See? I can't help myself.<i><br />
<br />
</i><b>Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</b>I own a small food wholesale company.
Which is a euphemistic way of saying I'm a “meat-man.” I've done it for twenty years because it
gives me a great deal of freedom, and at this point I may be unemployable. My dream job is to write full time.<br />
<i>What steps are you taking towards
achieving your goal?</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Good
question. That's where the rubber meets
the road, right? I'm disciplined about
my writing. While I may go for an entire
week without cranking out pages, but I'm outlining or doing research during
that time. When I'm driving, the radio
is generally off so that I can think about whatever it is I'm working on. And then at the end of that “down time” sometimes
I'm able to binge-write for a couple of days, where I get up at seven and stay
at my desk until two in the morning, fueled by coffee, totally immersed in my
work. I love those days. So I guess, the answer is, I'm working very
hard to get to where I want to be. I've
got this trilogy coming out, and I'm well under my way on my fourth book. I'm focused now on the writing, not on the
marketing and promotion, and that will be a weakness for me. I figure the most important thing is to write
true, and hopefully someone will notice.<br />
<i>That’s the most important part, but the
promotion part is important too. As an
author, you are your brand. You can’t
just wait for someone to come along and discover and celebrate your work. You have to spend almost as much time
promoting your work as you do writing it.
It’s a dirty deal, but it’s the only one available.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
do you like to do when you’re not at work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I love the outdoors, so hiking, fishing, canoeing,
and diving are at the top of the list. I
like to hang out with my kids. I love
long walks with my wife at the beach, watching the dolphins and whales
offshore. The afternoon every blue moon
when we can go and listen to some live music by the water.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I have none.
One of my writer colleagues said he was cultivating slow friends. I'd say that's a good idea.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Weapon
of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In the event of an apocalypse? M-4 carbine with an under barrel M-203
grenade launcher. Fitted with a
suppressor and starlight scope.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you
have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I'm a halfway decent guitar player and songwriter.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Did
you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I attended the University of Florida, and I'm not
sure what for. <b>*</b>chuckles<b>* </b>I majored in Political Science, dreamed
of becoming a U.S. Senator. Let's just
say I lacked the requisite discipline to make that happen.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If
you went to college, did you manage to pay off your student loans?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No loans, thank God. I paid off my library late fees last year.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Any
pets? If so, what are they and what are their names?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My Alaskan Malamute Beowulf died a couple of years
ago. He was the greatest dog ever. My dog now is Puck, a Newfie/retriever mix
with the saddest eyes I've ever seen.
He's a rescue dog; one look at him and that was that. We also have a cat named Missy, but I
generally don't claim her, and the feeling is mutual. She belongs to the women in the house.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Wolves. Or
dolphins. I can't pick one.<br />
<i>We’ll see if we can get them to
cross-breed so you can have a pet wolphin.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That
would be a noble creature. Scary
looking, but noble.<br />
<i>Plus they’d probably shed all over your
pool. Maybe we should rethink this.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Speaking
of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Falseness.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite
/ Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">All things Italian. I hate liver.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is your favorite quotation / motto / saying? <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“You may destroy me, but you will never defeat
me.” - Hemingway, from <i>The Old Man And
The Sea</i>. It's hard to live up to,
but I try.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is the best thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My two sons. Being a dad makes me a better man. It's the best thing about me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is the worst thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That first smoke.<br />
<i>Do you remember your first?</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Yep. Drinking on a fake ID at a heavy-metal club in
Miami with my Cousin. I felt cool. Of course, I wasn't. I was nineteen.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ever
had your heart broken? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A life without heartbreak was never a life at
all. I've been lucky enough to love and
be loved by some incredible women. But
I've been happily married for ten years now, and I've got to make sure I'm not
sleeping on the sofa tonight.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ever
broken someone’s heart? Is there a story
worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Yes. There
are many stories; some are true and some are lies I still tell myself. I've hurt people who trusted me with their
hearts. The hearts we break are the ones
we shouldn't, and the ones we regret shattering are the ones that matter the
most.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When my boys jump into the bed in the morning with
my wife and me and they chortle “Daddy, let's snuggle,” I think to myself, “How
did I deserve this?” That sounds
cheesy, but it's true. It's not just one
thing, it's a process, I guess. Being a
family, though, that's the best thing. It's the most important thing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are you kidding me?<br />
<i>Nope.
The response on that one is about 50/50.
And even then the answer is usually kind of glib. But when people answer honestly it makes for
an interesting interview question. It
takes a fair amount of courage and self-knowledge to admit the worst thing
you’ve ever done. I understand if you’re
not up for the challenge.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Well,
there are no bodies, but there are skeletons. A truthful answer is that while I consider myself
to be a decent, fiercely loyal person, I have had times when I was neither, and
this has hurt people I loved. I almost
died a few years ago. I was septic with
pneumonia. Lying there in a hospital bed
with the white sheets and the beeping sounds and antiseptic smells blending
with the scent of sickness and death, I looked back at my life and choices. And somehow, I managed to reach all the wrong
conclusions. I decided I had sacrificed
too much for others, that it was time to take care of “me.”. I twisted something good into something
selfish. That might not be the kind of
answer you are looking for, since it's not just one thing. But somewhere along the line, there was a
shift in me I embraced. It was a change
I should have examined and rejected after some clear introspection. Not having that discussion with myself until
it was almost too late is the worst thing I've ever done.<br />
<i>That’s a much more satisfactory answer.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If
you could kill one person, who would it be, and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">There is no one I'd like to kill. I'm pretty sure I have it in me if my family
were under threat, though. I don't think
I would lose sleep over it. I hope I never
find out.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I write books.
*sniff* That felt good to
say. <i>Objects
of Wrath</i> comes out in February with Permuted Press. It is the first book in a trilogy spanning
four generations, and begins now, with World War III. The books are dark, because that's what the
apocalypse is, but even in the maelstrom, there is hope, love, and
rebirth. I try to write characters that
are nuanced, flawed, and believable.
There are firefights, tank battles, and HALO jumps, but the story is
about humanity. The constant battle
between good and evil raging in all of us, the part of our collective soul
which refuses to be defeated, and how faith, loyalty, and love stand toe-to-toe
with the darkness. Darkness is hungry,
but light will always banish dark.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How
did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My father takes the blame. Dad read stories, from Lord of the Rings, to Dune,
to Nine Princes in Amber out loud to me and my brother and sister and
mother. We didn't have a television, (no
joke) but my father read every night for years to us for hours. He was a carpenter, law-student,
attorney, writer, and always an inspiration. When I decided to move to Nashville and write
songs, he and Mom were cheerleaders. “Go
for it!” And I did, then spent more than
ten years in Music City learning lyric and melody and humility. So it had already started then, but “what I do” was not quite in full swing. I hadn't met the right girl yet, and life
wasn't done with the kicks to the teeth life seems to excel at. I knew I needed to write for my own sanity,
and I'd been writing songs from Florida.
Then, my father had two strokes.
Shook me to my core. Dad
was in the hospital, and I wanted to give him something to cheer him up, and I
started writing this extended card. I
cut and pasted pictures, and I wrote a narrative of how I felt without the
constraints of rhyme and meter. I wrote
something true, and that resonated in my soul, and that night I started my
first novel. Long answer to the
question, and one I hadn't really thought about until now.<br />
<i>Long answers usually make better
interviews. I hate it when I get back
an initial questionnaire full of “Yes.” and “No.” and one sentence
answers. It makes for a boring interview
that no one wants to read. Although I’ve
only abandoned, maybe, five interviews for being so boring that I didn’t want
to subject them on the world at large.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
is your advice to other people that want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Place butt in chair... start writing. I hear folks complaining about writer’s
block, unfinished projects, books that linger for years. The thing is to sit down and do it, rather
than talk about doing it. I've got a
whole lot to learn about the business and the craft and I'm probably the last
person to ask.<br />
<i>But I like to write while lying in bed
propped up on a pile of pillows. Am I
doing it wrong? All kidding aside, that’s
what most of the writers that have managed to figure out how to support
themselves with their writing suggest.
It all boils down to two words: “Writers write.” You want to procrastinate or whine about how
tough it is? The world is filled with
whining procrastinators that aren’t up to the challenge. If you want to write, write… just don’t
expect to get rich off of it while you’re still alive. Those famous authors that every writer wants
to be? They’re like people that won a
lottery, and then another lottery that only winners of the preceding lottery
are allowed to play in. But instead of
it being a lottery, you have to write a book, then write another, and another,
and keep writing them for the rest of your life. So, yeah, it’s not for everyone.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No,
it's not for everyone. In fact, I
sometimes wish, in darker moments, that I lacked the compulsion to write. But the fact is, I can't <i>not </i>write. It doesn't work. If I never make a living, then so be it. I love writing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
are some of the projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I finished the last book in the Wrath Trilogy last
month. I finished two books last year, <i>Children Of Wrath</i>, and <i>Wrath And Redemption</i>. My first book comes out next month, <i>Objects Of Wrath</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Give
us a little history if you will. What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Aside from anxiously awaiting the release of my
debut novel <i>Objects Of Wrath</i>, I'm
about a quarter of the way through my next book, <i>The Tears Of Abraham</i>, which deals with the next American Civil
War. I'm not sure whether it will be a
stand-alone or whether it will evolve into a series. It's about a Special
Forces soldier trying to make it across the country to his wife as war breaks
out all over the United States.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I watch very little television. I like <i>The Walking Dead</i>, <i>Justified,
</i>and <i>Breaking Bad</i>. The last
movie I watched was <i>Absolute Clear,</i> a documentary about the second war
in Iraq.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Some acoustic singer songwriter stuff. Bluebird Cafe live.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What
are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Generation Kill. I just finished it, and it's a
taut, disturbing portrayal of an elite Recon Marine unit in the second Iraq
war. I read it for research, but it was a fantastic book.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite
author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Steinbeck, <i>East
of Eden</i>. The man was a genius. Hemingway comes in right behind him.<br />
<i>Favorite book by Hemingway? I’m awful partial to Garden Of Eden.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">That's
the second-hardest question you've asked. Hmm. <i>To
Have and Have not. </i>Harry Morgan is
one of my all time favorite characters. A good man doing shady things to feed his
family; yeah, it speaks to me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite
band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Springsteen, <i>Badlands.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Least
favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Anything that calls itself “country rap.”<br />
<i>I just discovered that was a thing
recently while doing these interviews. I
don’t think that should be allowed to be a thing.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Precisely.
Country rap is an abomination.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If
you could do anything other than what you do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I'd write full time and never get out of my cozy
pants except to go fishing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Who
would you want to meet that you haven’t met?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You
get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Jesus Christ.<br />
<i>If that’s your answer to all three
choices, I say well-played, sir.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Well,
what's the setting? If we're sitting
down to have a drink in a dark, smokey pub... Dead: Leonardo da Vinci. Alive: Springsteen. Fictional: Gandalf
(because that might lead to one hell of a journey!)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What’s
the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Best job:
Writing for Permuted Press.<br />
Worst job: One weekend over
Thanksgiving I worked in a dog kennel.
Not only was it disgusting, it was heartbreaking.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are
there any questions that I didn’t ask that you wished I had asked that you
would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No.<br />
<i>Fair enough. Let me know if you change your mind. I can always add stuff in later.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Anyone
you recommend I interview that you can put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I'll put the word out at Permuted.<br />
<i>Please do. I think I already have a few of their authors
in my collection, and I think I messaged whoever moderates their Facebook presence
about offering to interview their authors, but if they made a general
announcement about anyone wanting to be interviewed to contact me I don’t know
about it.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Got
any questions for me?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">No.<br />
<i>You’re a “writer”. Make one up.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If
you had one wish from a benign genie, what would it be?<br />
<i>Oh!
A benign genie! I didn’t know
they had those kinds of genies! Oksy,
I’d ask to have my writing career fast-tracked so I could just stay at home and
make a decent living supporting myself writing.
Nothing too extravagant. I just
want to be able to afford a car and a hose and maybe have a fenced in yard
where I can let a couple dogs run around so I don’t have to walk them. I don’t have extravagant tastes.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thanks
for letting me subject you to being interviewed!<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thank you!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Pitch
parade:<br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of them.<br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">About
the Interviewee:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Originally
from Miami, Florida, Sean moved to Nashville after sporadically attending
college at the University of Florida.
The record deal fell through, and Sean was alarmed to discover he was
not Garth Brooks, nor would he ever be.
He spent the next decade writing songs in Music City, mentored by some
great writers Like Jon Robbin, Ralph Murphy, and Bob Alan. After moving to
Jacksonville and starting a family, Sean turned to writing fiction. <i>Objects
Of Wrath</i> will be available February 25 from Permuted press; it can be
purchased through the Permuted website, from Amazon, Barnes & Noble (for
Nook), and Audible.com.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">About
the Interviewer:</span></b></span></span></div>
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write about.<br />
Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public
library.<br />
His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and
Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker,
Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.<br />
He is the author of Spooky Creepy Long Island, and a contributing author to
Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead, Fracas: A Collection of
Short Friction, The Call of Lovecraft, and Cashiers du Cinemart.<br />
He is currently working on ten novel-length book projects which will be
released in 2014.<br />
He also publishes themed collections of interviews from his interview blog <a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">You Are Entitled To My Opinion</a>.<br />
His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror,
and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.<br />
He is the Assistant Program Director for The Arkham Film Society and produces
electronic music under the names Master Control and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Lovecraftwork" target="_blank">LOVECRAFTWORK</a>.<br />
He is currently working on a novel-length expansion of a short-story titled,
"The End Of The World Is Nigh", a crowd-funded, crowd-sourced,
post-apocalyptic, zombie epidemic project.<br />
Check out the blog for the book here: <a href="http://theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com</a><br />
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Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />
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Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-14458738621950666992014-02-17T18:07:00.001-08:002014-02-17T18:21:43.897-08:00Interview with Bryan Way.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bryan Geoffrey Way</span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<br />
Do you have a nickname or what do your friends call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Never earned one worth remembering.<br />
<i>You should join a band. Usually if you’re in a band, people tend to
call you by your first name and your band name.
You should start a band called “The Coming Apocalypse” and then people
will start calling you Bryan Apocalypse which would be pretty cool. I’m going to pretend that all of that
happened and from now on I will refer to you as “Bryan Apocalypse”.</i> <br />
No arguments here, as long as I don’t have to adopt a look involving eye makeup
and chains!<br />
<i>Eye make-up and chains are optional. Although if people are going to call you
Bryan Apocalypse you’re probably going to have to rock a mohawk. At least long enough to have your profile pic
taken.<br />
</i>I’m now going to get a reverse Mohawk and spend an inordinate amount of
time trying to convince people of my edginess.<b><i><br />
</i><br />
Birthplace:<br />
</b>Upland, PA. <b><br />
<br />
Current hometown:<br />
</b>Newtown Square, PA.<b><br />
<br />
Favorite city and why?<br />
</b>It’s tough, but Philadelphia.
I have a few of my best and worst
memories from college, Flyers games, Ritz theatres, South Street, restaurants,
bars… few places make me more nostalgic, and that’s a feeling I love.<br />
<i>I spent some time in Philadelphia and I liked the time I spent
there. Although there’s no denying that
Philly’s a tough town. Not as tough as Pittsburgh, but few are.<br />
</i>I can only imagine how tough Pittsburgh
must be. So many fair-weather sports fans.<b><i><br />
</i><br />
Birthday / Age:<br />
</b>March 14, 1985. I’m 28.<b><br />
<br />
How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</b>Tall, unfit, and self-assured. I
know the last one sounds a tad counterintuitive, but I’m frequently told I
carry myself with confidence.<br />
<i>I can totally relate. I used to work in mental health services with
troubled adolescents. A few years of
that and you’ve heard everything insulting that could possibly be said to
you. These days, it’s pretty tough to
offend me. I take more offense at the
person’s intentions in trying to offend me than anything they could possibly
say. Of course, with the internet, one
is always voluntarily subjecting oneself to people that don’t know you forming
an opinion of who you are without actually having met you in person. Thankfully you can block people that are more
trouble than they’re worth. Not
everyone’s going to get along, but that’s the way of the world.<br />
</i>Absolutely. One of my vices is
involving myself in random debates with people online. There’s an XKCD webcomic where the protagonist
is furiously typing away at a keyboard, telling his significant other “Someone
is <u>wrong</u> on the internet.” I’m
absolutely that guy.<br />
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How would someone else describe you physically?<br />
</b>I try to draw conclusions about myself based on other people, so I’m going
to go for the same three self descriptors. Adding, of course, that I have a giant ass!<br />
<i>Do you really have a giant ass? Like walk through doorways sideways giant?<br />
</i>It’s not like I have the elephant man’s cranium hanging off the back of my
hips, but compared to most relatively skinny white people, I’m donked out.<br />
<i>Badonkadonk!</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The first thing people notice about you is…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <br />
My glasses. I always assume, however,
that they first notice I am a human male.<b><br />
<br />
Religion, if any?<br />
</b>No thanks!<br />
<i>Just figured I’d offer.<br />
</i>I didn’t realize you were making an offer. What’s your solution?<br />
<i>Bushido.
The code of the samurai. More of
a philosophy than a religion, but if you’re looking for metaphysics it
certainly beats any of the “invisible man that lives in the sky” ones.<br />
</i>I’m intrigued by the concept of moral or ethical codes. It’s a shame that
the golden rule doesn’t have the same drawing power as Christianity.<br />
<i>I think that the great thing about The
Golden Rule, if we’re talking about “Do unto others as you would have them do
unto you.” Is not philosophically irreconcilable with Satanism. Satanists certainly believe in the concept of
doing unto others as others have done unto</i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span>them. One of my
favorite lines is, “If someone smites your cheek, then smash theirs.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes
may not be the same” was Shaw’s permutation. Too many words, and it
starts to become gobbledygook. Which is kind of how I feel about most
religious/spiritual writing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Are you superstitious
at all? Any phobias?</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’m insanely superstitious. Bad
enough that I carefully select the clothes I wear when the Philadelphia Flyers
are playing. I also occasionally feel
like I’m being watched, and thought it was a singular feeling until I saw <i>The Truman Show</i>. I’m a little touchy with heights, but I have
serious limnophobia: fear of lakes. <i>Creature from the Black Lagoon</i> must have
messed me up for life.<br />
<i>That’s unusual. I get a lot of people that are scared of the
ocean because of sharks, because of jaws.
But you’re the first person I’ve interviewed that’s afraid of lakes
because of The Creature From The Black Lagoon.
We’re going to get along just fine.<br />
</i>I realize how completely insane it is. But every time I set foot in still water, I
imagine being dragged beneath the surface by some creature that has inhabited
the bottom for centuries. Even worse, I
imagine the authorities would come to the conclusion that I drowned. I’d be comforted in some way if I could know
that they’d find this cryptozoological entity as a result of my death.<b><br />
<br />
Do you smoke / drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?<br />
</b>Yes on both! I only smoke hookah and
have a particular preference for Starbuzz shisha, particularly Blue Mist. Anything else is too tough on the ‘ol asthma
pipes. As far as alcohol is concerned,
I’m a serious bourbon aficionado. Jack
Daniel’s, Bulleit, and Maker’s Mark are my favorites, and I prefer them with
Coke Zero and a lime, unless they’re aged. As far as bad habits are concerned? I probably drink too much.<b><br />
<br />
Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</b>I work at a video store. But it is a
wonderful video store, well befitting my eclectic tastes! My dream job is to be a script doctor, and I
believe working on screenplays is my primary forte. With enough clout at that position, I could
occasionally direct films or write novels as I saw fit.<br />
<i>Script doctoring is a tough career field
to break into. I’ve done some
ghost-writing and punch up work but the payment hasn’t exactly been
spectacular. I’ve actually got some punch-up
and re-formatting work-for-hire I have to handle after I finish my interview
homework. I don’t know how far along you
are on your script-doctoring career path, but, like most careers, it seems like
you have to work cheaply until you establish yourself and the quality of your
work, creating relationships, and then word gets around. One satisfied client recommends another, and
you develop enough work that you don’t have the time to handle all of the
incoming work at which point you can either shop out your surplus or raise your
rates.<br />
</i>I’m nowhere at the moment. I’ve
worked on scripts for a few clients, but they’ve really been more exercises to
expand my range than opportunities to get paid. I don’t regret it. Since I read professional spec scripts for a
time, I feel I can identify a lot of problems and fix them. Particularly dialogue. It seems everyone these days wants to be
Quentin Tarantino or Aaron Sorkin. It’s
unfathomably annoying. Good dialogue
comes from good characters, plain and simple. Being smart and cute with words just pisses
people off.<br />
<i>I’m all for a witty turn of phrase, but a
casebook problem with writers is when they pile their screenplays impenetrable
with bon mots and wry replies. Sometimes
you just have to use plain speech to move the story forward.<br />
</i>I expect it of action films. Nothing
better than post-John Woo films that make such writing the rule rather than the
exception! Screenplays are visual by
their nature, and sometimes even professional writers forget that many lines of
dialogue can just as easily be accomplished with a look.<br />
<i>True, but as a screen-writer, you have to
watch out for that too. You have to be
careful not to write in too many line read instructions and
“exasperated/wry/frustrated looks”.<br />
</i>Absolutely. It’s a creative work to
be interpreted by other people, and too much of that is essentially mailing
them directions.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What do you like to do when you’re not at
work?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I spend time with my girlfriend, watch movies, play the occasional
video game, but I definitely spend most of my time writing and editing. At any given time, I have at least five
writing projects going, so that helps keep me busy and scare off writer’s
block!<br />
<i>I try to keep a calendar/list of future
writing projects so I have a sense of when I want the projects to be completed
and have a release schedule. An
ambitious one, true, but I wouldn’t schedule my projects for a tighter schedule
than I think I can accomplish. Do you
find it difficult to push a project to completion when there are at least four
other projects that you’re working on at the same time?<br />
</i>Not really. I’m rarely bound to the
parameters of a given project, since I don’t have to actually produce anything.
All of the books and screenplays I have
completed were at one point unfinished, but I’m able to divine a way forward
early on in the process. Even if I can’t
finish it in one pass, I’m supremely confident that it will come to me
eventually, and it tends to come naturally. Little ideas will poke out here and there, and
sooner or later they’ll coalesce into a coherent whole. But even when it’s done, I still go back and
toughen it up.<b><br />
<br />
What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</b>Improvise! I’d love to say I have a
reinforced basement with a generator and my own personal arsenal, but I’m a
realist. Odds on I’ll be at home when it
happens, but if I’m not, I value being able to adapt to both my surroundings
and the people around me. I’d probably
just follow whichever evacuation orders I got and end up dying in a rescue
center!<br />
<i>I’m working on a post-apocalyptic zombie-epidemic
epic-length book project, and I’ve integrated the concept of there being
heavily defended refugee centers to gather survivors from different catchment
areas. There are a lot of semi-secret
population relocation plans that FEMA has put together and part of what I’m
trying to do is raise awareness that there are creepy plans for managing
refugee populace already in place. It’s
good to know that, well, I’m hesitant to say “Great minds think alike.” because
I’ve never thought of myself as having a great mind, so let’s just say
“Interesting minds think accordingly.”<b><br />
</b></i>Someone else would have to confirm that we have great minds. There are plenty of people who operate under
the assumption that they’re brilliant, particularly when it comes to their art,
but those who second guess and find moments to stare into the abyss of their
own mediocrity are harsher critics of their own work. Charlie Kaufman made an excellent point of
that in <i>Adaptation</i>.<br />
<i>A lot of my confidence is bluster and
bravado. The whole “If you don’t buy
your bullshit, how do you expect anyone else to buy it?” deal. I’m just as critical of my work as anyone
else and I’m truly grateful that anyone spent the time and effort to read it,
or even better yet, to buy it AND read it.
I also appreciate constructive criticism a lot more than complementary
compliments. Sometimes my line of verbal
swagger comes back to bit me in the ass, but more often than not I can walk the
line I talk. When I don’t, I like to be
called out on it. I have high expectations
of myself and the people I work with.<br />
</i>Absolutely agreed. I’m immensely
pleased with my experiences in film school, because writing classes unfailingly
ladled a heaping helping of criticism on the writer. More important than improving one’s writing is
improving one’s ability to absorb criticism. I’m now at a point where I can sort out
objective and subjective criticism with ease, but I’m finding more and more
that those dishing the criticism have a hard time accepting disagreements with
aspects of their critique. It’s a
vicious cycle.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’d probably be most comfortable with a bō. If I could pick a realistic weapon, it’d be a Winchester rifle. If I could pick an unrealistic one, it’d most
definitely be the ZF-1.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I have a hard time with questions like this. I’m a second degree black belt in Taekwondo, I
play piano (poorly, in my estimation), and I have a fairly shocking ability to
retain information that pertains to my interests, but none of those really feel
like ‘special skills’ to me. I have two
hitchhiker’s thumbs, though!<b><br />
<br />
Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</b>I went to Temple
University and graduated
with a degree in Film and Media Arts with a minor in English. Looking back, I wish I’d minored in something
practical.<br />
<i>A degree in Film and Media Arts can be
practical… if you use it to pursue a career in Film and Media. Have you tried to pursue a career in Film and
Media?<br />
</i>I’m about the luckiest son of a bitch in the world on that front. My internships in Los Angeles took place in the summer of 2007,
several months before the WGA strike. Almost no one in my class got a job that
summer. I’ve tried chipping away at it
ever since, but I’m just not prepared to make the personal sacrifices necessary
to get a film financed.<b><i><br />
</i><br />
If you went to college, did you manage to pay off your student loans?<br />
</b>Mom and dad take care of that department! <b><br />
<br />
Any pets? If so, what are they and what are their names?<br />
</b>The closest I am to owning a pet is my parent’s dog Riley, a miniature
pinscher.<b><br />
<br />
What is your favorite animal?<br />
</b>Tough question… I like both cats and dogs, but I’m especially partial to
sugar gliders.<b><br />
<br />
Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</b>Scores. Bad drivers, faux pas, denseness,
take your pick. I compare myself
unfavorably with Larry David on this front.<b><br />
<br />
Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</b>Pan seared, medium rare filet mignon is easily my favorite meal. I’m having a hard time thinking of anything
that truly repulses me, but peas are suitably nauseating.<b><br />
<br />
What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</b>It’s sad that this is the most difficult question for me to answer. In a pinch, I’ll go with “Men are jerks. Women
are psychotic.” from Kurt Vonnegut’s <i>Timequake</i>.<b><br />
<br />
What is the best thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</b>My current girlfriend!<b><br />
<br />
What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</b>It’s pretty lame. The director of a
senior project film I was helping produce spent an hour blaming me for
production spiraling out of control and obliquely threatened to fire me, which
would have thusly damned my graduation. Half
an hour later, my girlfriend of two and a half years said we should ‘separate’
and her inability to present the situation as a clean break cost me a year of
my sanity. Considering that I wasn’t
diagnosed with a terminal illness and no one close to me died, that’s pretty
good for a worst day ever!<b> <br />
<br />
Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>Oh, definitely. By almost everyone
I’ve dated. Any story worth telling
would necessitate a novel.<br />
<i>Write those novels then. You write ‘em, I’ll read ‘em.<br />
</i>I’ve told the stories so many times that I’m becoming bored on behalf of
other people. I can’t just supply
crucial details, I always have to build layer after layer of context before
delivering the cumulative punch, all viewed through the lens of my personal
bias. Just ask my girlfriend. I spent our entire first date telling her all
my hangups with my ex!<br />
<i>And she didn’t block your number
afterwards? She’s a keeper!<br />
</i>Though it was undoubtedly a gigantic turnoff, it allowed us to engage each
other on a completely honest level. Walking
around her neighborhood until 6:00am has an almost <i>Before Sunrise</i>
quality in my memory.<b><br />
<br />
Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>Not counting casual dating relationships that got way too seriously
emotional, I’ve only done it once. I was
too much of a coward to break up with one high school girlfriend, who called me
at 2:00am on New Year’s Day while I was drunk with my friends. When she asked why I hadn’t spoken to her in
awhile, I replied “Because I don’t like you anymore.” The next hour saw her lady friends taking
turns to belittle me on the phone while I just sat there feeling like a jerk.<b><br />
<br />
What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>Another tough one! Is it best because
it gave me the most satisfaction, or best because it was the most helpful in a
more global sense?<br />
<i>You can take the question both ways if
you like. More is usually better for the
interview.<br />
</i>Fair enough! The most satisfaction I
got was from finally self-publishing my novel. CreateSpace did the final assembly,
but I did the dirty work. I edited,
spell-checked, formatted headers, footers, widows, orphans, selected fonts from
a free library, conceived the cover design, chose the book size and page color,
called and e-mailed the companies whose products I mentioned… I took on the
onus for the final product myself, and I’m immensely satisfied with it.<br />
In a global sense, probably feeding the homeless every Friday evening while I
was in college. Unsurprisingly, they
have a lot to say, and their cautionary tales are such that any normal person
should be shaken to the core.<br />
<i>I used to work in Methadone maintenance
counseling so I know those stories. I
don’t mind giving money to homeless people, but I always make them tell me why
they need it first. Even if it’s a lie,
it’s usually an interesting lie.<br />
</i>I can’t give money anymore, even for the most finely tuned bullshit story. One indigent fellow pointed out to me that few
showed up to the event on the Friday following the first of every month. The reason? They just received either food stamps, vet
benefits, unemployment, or some other form of government aid that they then
promptly flipped for hard drugs. On the
other hand, I have no problem heading into a restaurant or fast-food location
and bringing someone a full order of whatever they’d like.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Orchestrated a hated neighbor’s front porch and exterior doors being
soaked through with urine, and at least one other substance.<b><br />
<br />
If you could kill one person, who would it be, and why?<br />
</b>Haven’t met them yet! Whomever it
is, whenever I do meet them, will have to really, <i>really</i> be asking for it.<b><br />
<br />
What do you do?<br />
</b>Is this an existential question? *laughs* I suppose I write! I’ll write anything and everything… drama,
comedy, horror, sci-fi, romance, journalism, novels, screenplays, articles,
essays, poems, short stories, and songs.<b><br />
<br />
How did you get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>I’ve done it since I could remember. I wanted to be a variety of things growing up…
Ghostbuster, Paleontologist, Meteorologist, hockey player, filmmaker… I
realized early on that I had a rich fantasy life, so the best way to live it
was through writing.<b><br />
<br />
What is your advice to other people that want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>Keep doing it, every day. Doesn’t
matter what it is you write, whether you’re starting the great American novel
or just a few observations from the day. Those observations may be perverted for the
sake of your work, or leave you searching for the right word to describe them. Finding out if other people feel the same way
or discovering the perfect word in a dictionary helps the whole process.<b><br />
<br />
What are some of the projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past?<br />
</b><i>Life After: The Arising</i> is my
crowning achievement at the moment, in that it’s the first thing I’ve written
to be properly published. It’s the story
of a college student who returns home and ends up at ground zero of a zombie
uprising. The catch is that he’s seen
all the movies and read all the books, believing he has what it takes to keep
his group of survivors alive. The
reality, however, is much more complicated than that. The novel is told in first-person limited and
unfolds over the course of eleven days without serious ellipsis. The entire project lasted a decade and still
continues; the <i>Life After</i> story lives
in five short stories, two novels, and a rather expansive fake medical
document, and I aim to continue growing the story. The short stories are little snippets that
feature characters or events that have something to do with the main storyline
for <i>Life After: The Arising</i>,
occasionally revealing something about the greater arc. The medical document is a 60 page report by
the CDC on the undead in the world of Life After, and I wrote it to be as
realistic as possible. I’ve even tricked
a few people into believing it!<br />
The only other thing I’ve written that I’m selling is a short story called <i>Hosts</i>, which is a soft sci-fi account of
a psychologist treating a set of patients whose links to reality are broken. Completed without seeing the light of day are
a romantic comedy screenplay, a post-apocalyptic screenplay, and two video game
adaptations. I’m also working on a
remake of a ‘50s horror movie that is giving me some trouble, but I still quite
like.<br />
<i>I did the same thing with The End Of The
World Is Nigh that you did with Life After: The Arising. Well, not exactly, obviously, but the part
about writing vignettes to accompany the main work that take place in the same
fictional world. Sometimes you create an
interesting character and you want to explore that character’s back story and
that exploration doesn’t necessarily serve the purposes of the main project,
but it’s a great way to write a short story or novelette to expand upon the
world.<br />
</i>Absolutely! I’ve spent long enough
with the protagonist of <i>Life After: The
Arisin</i>g that I find him boring. Also,
as someone who has grown up on Wikipedia, IMDB, and DVD special features, I
love hearing background tidbits. Anyone
who reads my book understands the story, but I love the idea that there is
another story behind it; maybe the zombie one character kills occupies no more
than a sentence in the novel, but that former human may have been in love. For years. And maybe the crisis was the moment they
decided to confess their feelings. So
they track down the person they cared for, only to discover that they’re
already a zombie. Unable to process
their obsession in this state, they merely succumb to the intimate contact of
this imagined lover as they sink their teeth in. Then that line in the book becomes
heartbreaking.<br />
<i>Oh my.
You just outlined the titular story I’m building my next anthology
around.<br />
But, yeah, you could probably string out the back-stories that take place in
that world for book after work. It’s a
shame the zombie-genre market is so over-saturated these days. It makes it really hard to stand out these
days as an author working in the genre.
I’m sure that everyone has the best intentions, but it would be nice if
the writing and the cover design matched their intentions.<br />
</i>You’re right. The good thing is that
the demand is high, and I’ve received largely positive feedback from both
zombie and non-zombie fans. My weakness
is properly branding myself. I have no
website, and I’m not prolific when it comes to finished work, even if I do have
stories available free on Homepage of the Dead. I need a hype man.<br />
<i>You should call Flavor Flav. He’s an amazing hype man. You can have him just follow you around and
follow up everything you say with “Yeah boyee!”<br />
</i>And I can follow that up with uncomfortable laughter!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The sequel to <i>Life After: The
Arising</i> is the one garnering the largest portion of my attention. I’m also working on a short story about the
fate of the police in the opening days of the zombie epidemic shown in <i>Life After: The Arising</i>. I should have that finished in March. I hope.<b><br />
<br />
What are you watching?<br />
</b>I’m trying to catch up on all the Oscar nominees! I’ve been dying to see <i>12 Years A Slave</i> as I’m a huge Steve McQueen fan, and I’m also
looking forward to <i>Her</i>. When I need to shut my brain down for 20
minutes or so, I’m watching <i>Frasier</i>.<b><br />
<br />
What are you listening to?<br />
</b>I go through phases of listening to nothing other than NPR, then phases of
burning through one album after another. Right now NPR is the order of the day, but Pink
Floyd ends up in my brain two or three times a day.<b><br />
<br />
What are you reading?<br />
</b>This is my darkest secret: I rarely read. I’ve probably polished off between 50-100
books my entire life. I either feel like
I should spend my leisure hours writing, or I worry that I’ll subconsciously
lift subplots and themes from better authors. So, at the moment, I’m stuck with the news and
periodicals.<br />
<i>That is an interesting problem for
writers. I’ve been interviewing a lot of
writers recently and I usually end up receiving their books in PDF format. I always appreciate being given someone’s
writing to read, but with the production schedule I’ve set for myself for this
year, I can either be writing my own stuff or reading someone else’s and
finishing my own work takes precedence.
Plus I’m planning on putting out a series of monthly themed anthologies
through Burnt Offerings Books for 2014 and trying to put out a novel of my own
work and a novel by another author through the imprint, so my time for leisure
reading is practically nonexistent. Once
I get caught up on all of my projects, I’m going to tear through a dozen books
in a row and update my book review blog, unless there’s a website that’s
interested in picking up some of my reviews.<br />
</i>I wish I could even function on that level. I’m pathetic. If I hadn’t spent much of my youth reading
dictionaries, I probably wouldn’t be capable of stringing together a sentence
in print.<br />
<i>How many of the 50-100 books you have
read in your entire life were dictionaries?<br />
</i>Probably two. The one I read most
extensively was a pocket dictionary I carried around in middle school.<b><i><br />
</i><br />
Favorite author / book?<br />
</b>Vonnegut is probably my favorite author, but my favorite book is a tie
between Joe Haldeman’s <i>The Forever War</i>
and George R. Stewart’s <i>The Earth Abides</i>.
<b><br />
<br />
Favorite band / song?<br />
</b>Pink Floyd is definitely on top of my favorites, and the favorite song
depends on my mood. Either ‘Echoes’ off <i>Meddle</i> or ‘Time’ off <i>Dark Side of the Moon</i>.<b><br />
<br />
Least favorite band / song?<br />
</b>At the moment, it’s Lorde and ‘Royals’. I’m just so tired of hearing so much buzz
about this rather ordinary sounding pop. Not exactly nails on a chalkboard, though.<b><br />
<br />
If you could do anything other than what you do now, what would you do?<br />
</b>I’d be successful!<b><br />
<br />
Who would you want to meet that you haven’t met?<br />
You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</b>This is tough.<br />
Alive? I’d probably meet Dan Aykroyd. I
have an idea for another Ghostbusters movie I just want to be able to tell him.<br />
Dead? Rick Wright of Pink Floyd. Inasmuch as I am a terrible piano player, I’ve
based almost all of my playing off him, so I’d like to soak up as much as I
could and hear his history of the band.<br />
Fictional? Maybe Data from Star Trek.<b><br />
<br />
What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</b>Worst: I worked as a stocker at Borders. The book dust made me sick, I had to be at
work every morning at 7:00am, the company was tanking, and I developed no
rapport with my co-workers. I was just
miserable.<br />
Best job? I was an intern for a talent manager in Hollywood. I read scripts for his clients, frequently got
taken out to swanky bars and had my tab covered, and I got a VIP, all-access
trip to the <i>Transformers</i> premiere.<b><br />
<br />
Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that you wished I had asked that you
would like to answer now?<br />
</b>What I’d do with a trillion dollars! I’d give 75% to NASA immediately and tell them
to get us to Mars, or Europa. I would
use the remainder to set up a trust that pairs successful authors and
screenwriters with struggling ones. I
feel this would create a natural fusion of new ideas with professional advice
and connections. Yearly contests would
be held for work in each field and genre, and those judged as the best get
their work financed. I feel the influx
of new ideas and stories would help shake up the occasional stodgy
repetitiveness of film in particular. Naturally
I’d finance some projects of my own as well. Whatever’s left over goes, again, to NASA.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Anyone you recommend I interview that
you can put me in touch with?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
From the looks of our mutual friends, there’s no one left over!<br />
<i>Yeah, I have been pretty comprehensive as
of late. To be honest, that was my goal. I kind of wanted to run
out of mutual acquaintances and then just handle whatever requests trickle in
based on the pre-existing interviews so I can spend more time working on my own
stuff. I think I’m just about at the point so it’s kind of a relief.<br />
</i>Then I must be an inconvenient distraction.<br />
<i>Nah. No one’s making me do these
interviews. I stand by what I’ve always said. If anyone wants to
subject themselves to the interview process I’m willing to interview
them. When I need a break, I take a break. And when I’m not feeling
up to editing interviews, I don’t. I usually get in the mood and knock
out a dozen or so and then run out of steam. My “To Edit” queue is down
to sixteen, including yours so I hope to clean out the Inbox tonight, but life
distracts and even if it doesn’t seem like a lot of work keeping up my end of
the conversation I do try to be engaging and not make my end of the
conversation entirely about myself and my self-promotion.<br />
</i>I empathize, as I tend to let a backlog reach entropy before an explosive
burst of work. Nothing quite like pure inspiration.<br />
<br />
<b>Got any questions for me?</b><br />
I do, and I’d like the opportunity to sit you down for an interview on Zombie
Pop without spoiling any of the surprises!<br />
<i>I’m looking forward to having the tables
turned on me. Be careful what you wish for. My interviews tend to
be pretty epic.<br />
</i>I always try to aim for expansive talks with topics owing to my own
curiosity or ones that I think my subject would like to expand upon. I’m
already curious about what types of questions you’d like to be asked?<br />
<i>Oh my. I really don’t know.
That’s why I use a standard interview questionnaire for my first-pass
interviews and the try to riff from there based on the first round
answers. Some people get put off that I didn’t put together a custom
survey for them and ask them questions specifically about their work, but, and
this might sound strange, I usually don’t know much about anyone I interview
going into the interview. There are a couple people that I’ve interviewed
whose work I was passing familiar with, but they were rare exceptions. I
think that’s what makes my interviews interesting. They’re not your usual
fan-gasm promotional puff-pieces with soft-pitch questions.<br />
Interviewer: “Why are you so awesome? You do know how awesome you are,
right?”<br />
Interviewee: “Oh, well thanks for saying so. You’ve got great taste!”<br />
Instead, everyone gets a level playing field. It doesn’t matter if you’re
promoting your first project or your hundred-and-first, everyone gets the same
chance to be interesting and engaging. You’d be surprised at the people
that have turned me down or blown off their interviews. I think that once
someone gets to a certain point in their career they feel that they don’t have
to prove themselves anymore and that my style of interview isn’t promotionally
driven enough. That’s fine. I’ll just interview someone that
actually wants to be interviewed. Sometimes I ask people if they want to
be interviewed. Sometimes they ask me if I’ll interview them. But I
never chase anyone about their interview. I’ll usually send them one
reminder as a courtesy, but after that I let it lie. I’ve got my own
projects I could be working on instead and I’m not desperate for new
interviews. That being said, it is nice to have a tool to use to make new
friends and get to know my imaginary friends on Facebook a bit better.
Plus some excellent networking opportunities have arisen as a result of doing
the blog and I like helping people to promote their work since nobody would
help me promote my first project.<br />
</i>If nothing else, it’s great to have variety in the types of interviewers
one encounters. I’ve conducted a few interviews, and I’m rarely aware of
the subject’s work, but I try to develop somewhere in the neighborhood of ten
questions based on three premises: what intrigues me about their work, what
questions haven’t they answered satisfactorily, and what aspiring writers might
like to know about the author in question.<br />
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<b>Thanks for letting me subject you to
being interviewed!</b><br />
It was a pleasure!<br />
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<b>Pitch parade:<br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.</b><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LifeAfterNovel" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/LifeAfterNovel</a><br />
Twitter: @TheBryanWay<br />
Website: <a href="http://www.zombiepop.net/author/bryanway/" target="_blank">http://www.zombiepop.net/author/bryanway/</a><br />
Blog: Not yet!<br />
Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bryan-Way/e/B00E2PNMT0/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Bryan-Way/e/B00E2PNMT0/</a><br />
Free Life After short stories: <a href="http://bit.ly/14pshT0" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/14pshT0</a></span></span></div>
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Though I grew up on the outskirts of Philadelphia,
I never really grew up. This I owe to a lifelong fixation on fantasy that saw
me aspiring to be a Ghostbuster, paleontologist, storm chasing meteorologist,
and a hockey color analyst before realizing I could be anything I wanted if I
became a writer, which, incidentally, I already was.<br />
With higher education practically a prerequisite in my family, I graduated from
Temple University in 2007 having majored in film and minored in English, all
the while having worked on a series of books, screenplays, short stories,
poetry, essays, songs, and articles I refused to show to anyone until I started
writing about online relationships for Examiner.com, eventually graduating to
the local film post.<br />
It wasn't until 2013 that I finally decided one of the dozen projects I'd been
working on needed to be released for me to call myself a writer. Life After:
The Arising, the first novel in a long-gestating series of zombie short stories
and documents, had been completed in 2004 but I continued revising it
periodically while I grew the story and learned to be a better writer. It was
my first published work when the pre-release came out in June of 2013.<br />
I continue to live on the outskirts of Philadelphia,
and I never intend to grow up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to
write about.<br />
Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public
library.<br />
His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and
Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker,
Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.<br />
He is the author of Spooky Creepy Long Island, and a contributing author to
Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead, Fracas: A Collection of
Short Friction, The Call of Lovecraft, and Cashiers du Cinemart.<br />
He is currently working on ten novel-length book projects which will be
released in 2014.<br />
He also publishes themed collections of interviews from his interview blog <a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">You Are Entitled To My Opinion</a>.<br />
His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror,
and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.<br />
He is the Assistant Program Director for The Arkham Film Society and produces
electronic music under the names Master Control and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Lovecraftwork" target="_blank">LOVECRAFTWORK</a>.<br />
He is currently working on a novel-length expansion of a short-story titled,
"The End Of The World Is Nigh", a crowd-funded, crowd-sourced,
post-apocalyptic, zombie epidemic project.<br />
Check out the blog for the book here: <a href="http://theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com</a><br />
Check out the Facebook Fan Page for the project here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook</a><br />
Check his author profile at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G" target="_blank">www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G</a><br />
Follow him at GoodReads here:<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre" target="_blank">www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre</a><br />
Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />
Check out his videos at: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon</a><br />
Check out his IMDB profile here: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959" target="_blank">www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959</a><br />
Follow his Twitter here: <a href="http://twitter.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">twitter.com/TheLefebvre</a>
or @TheLefebvre<br />
Follow his Tumblr here: <a href="http://thelefebvre.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">thelefebvre.tumblr.com</a><br />
Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />
Join the group for The Arkham Film Society here:<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/arkhamscreenings" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/groups/arkhamscreenings</a><br />
Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />
E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Alexander Steven Johnson</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a nickname or what do your friends
call you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lemmy calls me “Teach,” so that has kind of stuck.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wait… Lemmy Kilmister?<br />
</i>The one and only. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a few
claims to fame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*laughs*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay, that makes it sound like we’re best
mates, and the truth is less grandiose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
interviewed him three times over the years—first for Metal Hammer, then for
Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles, and the third time for Metal Maniacs in its
online manifestation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third time I
asked him some different types of questions, such as his views on education. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I told him I taught English, he started
to laugh and said “Yes, Teach.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So my
friends started calling me “Teach.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
it is a legitimate nickname.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s pretty fucking cool any way you
slice it.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthplace:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">San Francisco, California.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sacramento</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Los Angeles, because of the incredibly rich and diverse cultures that
thrive separately and blend together there.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I loved Los Angeles the weekend I spent
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then again it was an all-expenses
paid business trip and I was treated like a prince so my experience was
probably a bit different than most people’s.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Birthday / Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">October 31. 47.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is it as awesome having your birthday
on Halloween as I think it is?<br />
</i>It is fully as awesome as people might think. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Halloween has always been my favorite holiday,
and I’m sure it still would be had I been born some other day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s something magical about it, the
barriers between this world and others are lifted and for 24 hours, we’re
permitted to go beyond the mundane and play act our roles instead of being
zipped into them. I think we need more Halloweens on the calendar. <br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Halloween’s the only holiday I refuse to
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if I’m doing nothing but
hanging out by myself, watching the Universal Monster movies, like I do most
years, that night’s mine to do with as I please, and if you think I’m coming in
to work on Halloween night, you’d better have a back up plan, because I’m not
coming in.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Fun-sized.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">That would depend a lot on the person. Big people think I’m small.
Small people think I’m big.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I get that a lot too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes girls ask me to walk them to their
car, and I always think, and sometimes say, “That’s all fine and well, but
who’s going to walk me back?”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all
relative.<br />
</i>Like I said above about being zipped into roles, having to play a part just
because it has been hammered into the social code quickly becomes tiresome. That
applies to gender roles and body shape as much as anything. It is all relative
and it depends on who’s making the call. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">People tend to see in terms of the next immediate stereotype, so, a lot
of people see me as a mild mannered academic.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh, if they only knew…<br />
</i>I’m not physically threatening and I don’t like to raise my voice unless I
absolutely have to, so I get this ‘mild-mannered’ shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*sighs*</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I find organized religion to be mostly a waste of time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to cultivate some spiritual disciplines
that don’t require me to believe irrational bullshit.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are you superstitious at all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I try not to be superstitious. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m afraid of stupidity.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you smoke / drink? If so, what? Any
bad habits?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Yes to the smoking, I don’t drink. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have some bad habits, yes—inflexibility,
laziness.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I am currently unemployed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
dream job would be to work as a full-time creator of texts, art, music, memes, films
and artistic hybrids.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I wrote my first book while on
unemployment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a great opportunity
having the rent taken care of and kicking back while I took back a little of
what I had paid into the system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
didn’t mind it at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then by going to
a horror convention I landed one of the coolest jobs I ever had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So all things considered, getting fired was a
pretty positive career move for me.<br />
</i>Okay, now we’re getting on to you, Scott, which is a relief. Please tell me
more about your book, the horror convention and your job. I would love to know.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh, man, are you sure?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do tend to take over interviews a bit and
make my interviewees take them back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
recognize it’s a bit of a dick move sometimes, but I do it to try to get a
conversation going, like we’re getting to know each other over a few
beers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know what I mean?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you really want to know, I’ll tell you but
I don’t think your interview is really the place to shoe-horn in my life’s
story.<br />
</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What do you like to do when you’re
not at work?<br />
</b>I’m always working when I’m not asleep.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Fuck a zombie outbreak.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yeah!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What he said!</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Mind.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">None to speak of.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’re a writer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make one up.<br />
</i>Gryphon riding. <br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s much better.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have a Master’s degree in English Literature which I obtained to get
employment as a composition instructor.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you went to college, did you manage to pay
off your student loans?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I worked and paid as I went.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite animal?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I like dogs, bears, tigers, hawks and wolves.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So do I, but only at the same time… in a
cage match.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise they’re kind of
boring.<br />
</i>I also dig squirrels. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re
fascinating to watch. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like if you
whittled animal nature down to the relentless quest for food and took away
memory, you’d have squirrels. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
they’re so fucking cute!<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I love the black squirrels they have in
Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re so fucking metal!<br />
</i>Without Canadian black squirrels the world would be listening to Miley
Cyrus.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">People who don’t know anything about me trying to define me to myself.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That really gives me the urge to
chump-wax.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I am quite fond of pepperoni pizza. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not so fond of tough, fibrous vegetables or
any food that takes an hour to eat.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What food even takes an hour to eat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, are we talking about a bag of
pistachios?<br />
</i>Did you ever see the sketch Christopher Walken did on SNL where he plays a
mundane psychic? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You will buy a bag of
pistachios. You will get a bad nut.”<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I did not, but now it’s on my list of
things to do for tonight.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Hunter S. Thompson: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Forming an alliance with Charie D. La Marr.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing that ever happened to
you?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Getting married.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Creating Special Snowflakes and the Heartcore benefit anthology.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I took a job for a substantial amount of money up front and didn’t
finish it, but kept the money.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could kill one person, who would it be,
and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I would love to put my ex-father-in-law in front of a firing squad,
mostly for wasting my time and being a pointless ass hat.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I write and edit.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">How did you get started doing what you do?<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
</i></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Since I was about 18 I have made sporadic attempts to write and
publish weird fiction. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first major
editing job was heading up <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Juggernaut:
The Magazine of Extreme Music</i>. My first short fiction horror sale was to
Bloodsongs in 1998.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What is your advice to other people that want
to get started doing what you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Don’t.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are some of the projects you’ve worked
on/finished in the past?<br />
Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">My weird western, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bad Sunset</i>,
was published last year by Chupa Cabra House.The novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Death Moon</i>, published by Black Flame Press in 2005. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five chapbooks of fiction and prose poetry—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Tongues<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the Illuminati</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doctor Flesh and the Doom Hippies</i>, published by Dynatox Ministries
in extremely limited editions in 2013. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Akashic Shotgun</i>, a poetry chapbook
published by Scars Publications in 2013. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Matador of Mirrors</i>, a chapbook collection of weird/Lucid fiction published
by Lucid Play in 2013. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Death Jazz</i>, a full-length collection
of poetry and flash fiction, published by The Shwibly Press in 2013.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I am finalizing a new collection of funny horror fiction, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wicked Candy</i>, for MorbidbookS. I am
currently editing two volumes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Axes of
Evil</i>, a heavy metal themed horror anthology. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also editing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heartcore</i>, a benefit anthology, with Charie D. La Marr and Timm
Tayshun for Chupa Cabra House.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I forgot you were the Axes Of Evil guy! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I appreciate the invite to participate in the
next one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I invited a few like-minded
writer-types to check out the event page and I intend to put something together
for it, but it’s going to be kind of a big production, because I was dead
serious about throwing all of the metal band/album/song names into a document
and pushing the words around and seeing if anything appears through the process
of black alchemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if that fails I’ll
just write a story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just want to try
the first method first.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you watching?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have a lot of movies in the queue. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Trainspotting and Apocalypse Now are
due for another spin.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apocalypse Now is one of the films I’ve
watched at least two hundred times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Don’t get me wrong, I’ve watched Trainspotting a bunch of times too, but
Apocalypse Now at least two hundred times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No joke.<br />
</i>Charlie don’t surf!</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Black Metal by Venom.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What are you reading?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. Skagboys by Irvine Welsh.
Fatal Journeys by Lucy Taylor. </span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Manowar, “Kill with Power.”</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Least favorite band / song?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">That fucking “My House” song from the 80’s.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I would love to practice law and defend serial killers.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That’s an… interesting answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why that?<br />
</i>I love exercising my brain in the defense of the indefensible, which is one
of the reasons I adore satire. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
found that if you interrogate any one “truth” long enough, it will turn into
another equally valid-feeling “truth.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the people I most admire was a guy
named Jacques Verges, who died last year in August. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the lawyer who defended Klaus Barbie
and Idi Amin. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because he could. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The French government created this showcase
trial of Barbie which was supposed to represent the triumph of democracy and
freedom over the evils of fascism and Nazism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Verges, who grew up in Algiers, turned the
tables on the French by putting the government on trial for the racist
atrocities committed against the Muslim world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s balls.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">That guy must have had to have his pants
custom tailored to accommodate those huge balls of his.</i></span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Who would you want to meet that you haven’t
met?<br />
You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Marilyn Manson. Hunter S. Thompson. Holden Caulfield.</span><br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I spent five years as the most incompetent accounting temp in the
history of temporary work and accounting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best job I ever had was working for EDA
Business Support Services in Torrance, where I was put in charge of editing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Seeing Lessons</i>, a New York Times
bestseller by Tom Sullivan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love
teaching college English.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I expect we will sort that out as we throw the interview back and
forth.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I expect we will.</i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Anyone you recommend I interview that you can
put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Charie D. La Marr.<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You make the introduction and I’ll handle
the follow-through. <br />
</i>Will do.</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Thanks for letting me subject you to being interviewed!<br />
</b>The pleasure is all mine, Scott.</span><br />
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Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Bad Sunset:<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Sunset-Alex-Johnson-ebook/dp/B00GS16E0K/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Sunset-Alex-Johnson-ebook/dp/B00GS16E0K/</a></span><br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Wicked Candy:<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Candy-Alex-Johnson-ebook/dp/B00I0ZF9J4/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Candy-Alex-Johnson-ebook/dp/B00I0ZF9J4/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">
Zeno Comes to Town:<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zeno-Comes-Town-Alex-Johnson-ebook/dp/B00GT0G0G8/" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Zeno-Comes-Town-Alex-Johnson-ebook/dp/B00GT0G0G8/</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">About the Interviewee:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I would dearly love to know as much as I can about the interviewee. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the grisly bits.</span>Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-91859575366487026522014-02-03T00:38:00.001-08:002014-02-03T01:02:32.764-08:00Interview with Paul Mannering.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Full
Name:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Paul Mannering</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Do
you have a nickname or what do your friends call you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
My friends call me “Sir.”<br />
<i>Like you’ve been knighted?<br />
</i>Like I outrank them.<br />
<i>Well played… sir.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Birthplace:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Kaikoura, New Zealand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Current
hometown:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Wellington, New Zealand</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Favorite
city and why?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Christchurch, New Zealand. My family
lives there, I lived there for 20 years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Birthday
/ Age:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
November 30, 1971 *counts on fingers* 42?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">How
would you describe yourself physically?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Like Jabba The Hutt with better skin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">How
would someone else describe you physically?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Intimidating.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
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That I have shaved my beard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Sexual
orientation?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Hetero</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Religion,
if any?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
None.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Are
you superstitious at all? Any phobias?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Wind, earthquakes, and the Wizard of Oz.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Do you
smoke/drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Non-smoker (15 years) occasional drinker.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Current
occupation / Dream job:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Current occupation: IT Programme Coordinator for NZ Govt department.<br />
Dream job: Anything not involving IT, programme management and the NZ
government.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
do you like to do when you’re not at work?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
is your zombie outbreak survival plan?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Get bitten. Seems so much easier that way.<br />
<i>You’ll be in good company. About a quarter of my interviewees opt for
the “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em and eat everyone else that doesn’t join
‘em.” option.</i></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Weapon
of choice:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Sword.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Do
you have any special skills?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I can shear sheep.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Did
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Yes. Nursing and welding.<br />
<i>Hopefully at the same time. Please say it was at the same time.<br />
</i>Sure, at the same time. It was a technical college…<br /><i>I'm not sure if you get where I was going with that. I was kind of hoping that you were studying towards your degree as a robot surgeon.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">If
you went to college, did you manage to pay off your student loans?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Yes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Any
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Two cats, Wendigo Phatfoot and Phoebe Princess Puss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
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The Naked Mole Rat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Speaking
of pets, any pet peeves?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Ignorance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Favorite
/ Least favorite Food:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Chocolate / Anything not meat.<br />
<i>Chocolate’s not meat. Unless it’s that chocolate with bacon in the
middle of it.<br />
</i>Chocolate stands alone as its own unquantifiable food group. There is chocolate and there is everything
else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
“There are none so blind as those that cannot see.”<br />
<i>“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed
man is king.”<br />
</i>He’s also the guy who gets to walk around naked all the time.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
is the best thing that ever happened to you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Becoming a dad/meeting my wife (12 years apart)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
is the worst thing that ever happened to you?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Being raped at age eight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Ever
had your heart broken? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">
Hehehee…. *sigh*… No, probably not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Ever
broken someone’s heart? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I hope not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
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Been a dad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
is the worst thing you’ve ever done?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Not been a better dad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">If you could kill one person, consequence free, who would
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Stupid car drivers.<br />
<i>Yeah!
They should really be driving smart cars.<br />
</i>They should be in the back seat of those smart cars.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
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I write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">How
did you get started doing what you do?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I grew up on a farm. We had no TV. So I read a lot of very strange books. Then I started writing my own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
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Stop reading this. Go and start writing
– right now!<br />
<i>He’s just kidding folks. Finish reading the interview… then go start
writing.</i></span></span></div>
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Give us a little history if you will.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Tankbread , Tankbread 2: Immortal (Permuted Press, 2013)<br />
Engines of Empathy (Paper Road Press, 2013)<br />
“The Man Who Could Not Climb Stairs and Other Strange Stories” (self pubbed, 2011)<br />
BrokenSea Audio Productions (co-founder, March 2007 – present)<br />
Dozens of short stories, radio plays, edited two anthologies.</span></span><br />
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Tankbread
3: Deadland (Permuted Press, 2014)<b><br />
</b>Dead! Dead! Dead! (Permuted Press,
2014)<b><br />
</b>Fat Zombie anthology (Permuted Press, 2014, editor)<b><br />
</b>The third book of the Engines trilogy (Heroes of Heresy)<b><br />
</b>A supernatural horror novel, “Shame”.<br />
<i>So YOU’RE the Tankbread guy! We’re members of and cut & paste spam a
lot of the same writing/author/books groups on Facebook! *laughs*
Nice to make your acquaintance! If
you have a PDF of the first book you’d be cool with sending over I’d love to
add it to my review queue for my book review site.<br />
</i>I’ll get my publisher to send you a copy.</span></span></div>
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The cranes working on the Wellington waterfront from my desk.</span></span></div>
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Song of Joy” from Murder Ballads.<br />
<i>Ooh! A fellow Nick Cave fan! Well-met!</i><br />
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<b>What are you reading?</b><br />
Government project reports.</span></span></div>
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All of them. Currently Neil Gaiman, The Ocean At The End of The Lane.</span></span></div>
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Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt” by Trent Reznor (NIN).</span></span></div>
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I’d go home and write another chapter.</span></span></div>
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You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
My grandfather (mother’s side). He died in WW2.</span></span></div>
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I was a Nightsoil truck driver. Ten gallon buckets of raw sewerage. </span></span></div>
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there any questions that I didn’t ask that you wished I had asked that you
would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">I’m
left handed.</span></span></div>
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you recommend I interview that you can put me in touch with?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Sean
Leibling <br />
<i>Cool!
You handle the introductions and I’ll handle the follow-through.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b>Thanks for letting me subject you to
being interviewed!</b><br />
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<b>Pitch parade:<br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.</b><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NZPaulBooks" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/NZPaulBooks</a><br />
Website: <a href="http://www.manneringbooks.com/" target="_blank">www.manneringbooks.com</a> (under construction)<br />
Blog: <a href="http://www.paulmannering.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">www.paulmannering.wordpress.com</a>
(under construction)<br />
<a href="http://www.brokensea.com/" target="_blank">www.brokensea.com</a><br />
Permuted Press information page:<br />
<a href="http://permutedpress.com/authors/paul-mannering" target="_blank">http://permutedpress.com/authors/paul-mannering</a><br />
Paper Road Press (Engines of Empathy)
first promo:<br />
<a href="http://paperroadpress.co.nz/1900/01/01/engines-of-empathy-paul-mannering/" target="_blank">http://paperroadpress.co.nz/1900/01/01/engines-of-empathy-paul-mannering/</a></span></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Paul
Mannering is an award winning writer living in Wellington, New Zealand.<br />
Paul has published dozens of short stories and radio plays in a range of genres
across many different international markets. He has edited a collection of horror fiction,
published his own collection and has published the Tankbread trilogy through
Permuted Press.<br />
In 2007 he co-founded BrokenSea Audio Productions, which podcasts free audio
drama each week to an audience of millions. Paul lives with his wife Damaris and their two
cats.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to
write about.<br />
Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public
library.<br />
His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and
Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker,
Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.<br />
He is the author of Spooky Creepy Long Island, and a contributing author to
Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead, Fracas: A Collection of
Short Friction, The Call of Lovecraft, and Cashiers du Cinemart.<br />
He is currently working on ten novel-length book projects which will be
released in 2014.<br />
He also publishes themed collections of interviews from his interview blog <a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">You Are Entitled To My Opinion</a>.<br />
His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror,
and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.<br />
He is the Assistant Program Director for The Arkham Film Society and produces
electronic music under the names Master Control and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Lovecraftwork" target="_blank">LOVECRAFTWORK</a>.<br />
He is currently working on a novel-length expansion of a short-story titled,
"The End Of The World Is Nigh", a crowd-funded, crowd-sourced,
post-apocalyptic, zombie epidemic project.<br />
Check out the blog for the book here: <a href="http://theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com</a><br />
Check out the Facebook Fan Page for the project here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook</a><br />
Check his author profile at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G" target="_blank">www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G</a><br />
Follow him at GoodReads here:<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre" target="_blank">www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre</a><br />
Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />
Check out his videos at: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon</a><br />
Check out his IMDB profile here: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959" target="_blank">www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959</a><br />
Follow his Twitter here: <a href="http://twitter.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">twitter.com/TheLefebvre</a>
or @TheLefebvre<br />
Follow his Tumblr here: <a href="http://thelefebvre.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">thelefebvre.tumblr.com</a><br />
Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />
Join the group for The Arkham Film Society here:<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/arkhamscreenings" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/groups/arkhamscreenings</a><br />
Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />
E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></div>
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Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-5934488239443647302014-01-30T23:01:00.001-08:002014-01-30T23:49:05.111-08:00Interview with Linda Cleary.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Linda Patricia Cleary<br />
<br />
<b>Do you have a nickname or what do your
friends call you? <br />
</b>Nope, just Linda…I like spelling my name, Linduh or LinDawg or sometimes my
science fiction name Lindar at the end of emails just to throw people off.<br />
<i>Whatever works for you, keep doing it,
Lindawg!</i><br />
<b><br />
Birthplace:<br />
</b>Seoul, Korea, but I was born on a military base so I’m a legitimate US
Citizen… just in case I run for presidency they won’t question it.<br />
<b><br />
Current hometown:<br />
</b>El Cerrito, CA<b><br />
<br />
Favorite city and why? <br />
</b>Hard to say… I love Seoul because that’s where I grew up. I also lived in Tokyo, Japan for some of my
childhood and I love the structure of that city and that they have awesome
restrooms. Some of the toilets play
music while you poop and have robotic built in bidets. I also love London. I was accepted to go to school there but I’ve
never been. It’s been a place that I
have imagined myself in my fantasy future.
Maybe I lived there in a past life.<b><br />
</b><i>The whole idea of musical toilets
weirds me out. I don’t think my bowel
movements need to have a soundtrack.
Unless it’s the Jurassic Park soundtrack.<br />
</i>It works when you’re one of those people who get insecure while pooping in
public. I love the bidets though!<br />
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<b>Birthday / Age:<br />
</b>9/11/1978 35, I think.<br />
<i>I stopped keeping track at 30. Now I just mark the decades.<br />
</i>Yeah, 30 seems to be the point where I lost track too.<b><br />
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How would you describe yourself physically?
<br />
</b>A half Taiwanese short girl.<b><br />
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How would someone else describe you physically?
<br />
</b>A short girl with questionable heritage.<b><br />
<br />
The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</b>Probably how short I am…geez, I haven’t thought about my height in ages!<br />
<i>That’s three in a row about your
height. How short are you?<br />
</i>Actually, I’m pretty average for my ethnicity. I’m 5 foot.
I think it’s other people who point it out to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>Religion, if any? <br />
</b>If I had to choose, it’d be Buddhism.
I was raised Buddhist by a single Irish/Hungarian father.<br />
<i>You don’t have to choose, or you could
even just pick “None of the above.” But
now I have to ask since you were raised by a single Irish/Hungarian father, are
you a gypsy?<br />
</i>My dad told me I was half Vulcan, half Human when I was little and I
believed him! My mom wasn’t around to
argue with his tall tales!<br />
<i>Live long and prosper!<br />
</i>I’m glad humans are still using our logical phrases. Your enthusiasm is acceptable under the
circumstances.<br />
<br />
<b>Are you superstitious at all? Any
phobias?<br />
</b>I’m not really superstitious, maybe along the surface. I have tons of phobias though. I am terrified of squirrels and of my own
body. Not sure how to explain the second
one…I guess I’m a bit of a hypochondriac.
I’ve been told that I’m never allowed to look at sites like WebMD ever
again. I’m convinced I’m dying of
everything.<br />
<i>I’m scared of squirrels and my own
body. I hope the twain shall never
meet. Separately? AH, I can take the or leave them. What you’re referring to is Medical Students’
Disease.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students%27_disease" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students%27_disease</a><br />
Yes, it has a name, so now hopefully you won’t feel so alone in the world.<br />
</i>Thank you! I feel validated now.<br />
<b><br />
Do you smoke / drink? If so, what? Any bad habits? <br />
</b>I’ve been in the process of quitting smoking forever. I smoke very infrequently these days. I don’t touch alcohol. I drank a lot while growing up in Korea
because of the easy access to bars, but now if I have a drink I’m like,
“Goodnight!” <br />
<i>I’m always in the process of quitting
smoking forever… one pack at a time.<br />
</i>Don’t be a quitter!<br />
<i>Probably not in this lifetime, or at
least not this year.<br />
</i>I’m doing a pretty good job with cutting the bad stuff out. I haven’t consumed coffee in almost a
year…and that one was an accident! Not
that coffee is really bad. Soda on the
other hand…haven’t touched that stuff in years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Current occupation / Dream job: <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The one I have now. I make
monsters! I’m the owner of Ghoulie
Girls. I create monsters and make them
into functional accessories like purses, fanny packs, journals, wallets,
etc. I used to teach at a Montessori
School and one of the parents said that I could probably sew monsters for a
living, so I opened up my etsy shop, <a href="http://www.shopghouliegirls.etsy.com/" target="_blank">http://www.shopghouliegirls.etsy.com</a>
and quit my teaching job. I now do
shows, consign at shops and have a great time.
I’m also my own boss so I have plenty of time to do the other things I
love doing, like write my SF/Fantasy YA novels, perform improv, film my SF
puppet show Commander Quacks and paint a painting every day for a year (which
is what you are interviewing me for!).<br />
<i>Actually, you can feel free to talk about
whatever you want to. I don’t mind. You can take it in whatever direction you
want to. It’s your interview, take it
where you want it to go. I stopped by
your Etsy and gave it a Favorite, B. T. Dubs.
I love how you model your own stuff.
You looks like a little Asian lady about to be devoured by muppets.<br />
</i>Being devoured by muppets is actually one of my dreams! You read my mind.<br />
<br />
<b>What do you like to do when you’re not
at work? <br />
</b>I’m always working…sometimes I like to accidentally buy houses. Ha! No,
that was just one house this week. I
also write music while I’m not creating monsters, puppets, stories and
paintings.<br />
<i>What kind of music?<br />
</i>It’s hard to explain the style.
Electro/Indie/Pop? My husband and
I also played in a band called Fake French… we did shoegazer-esque electronic
indie rock type stuff. Here’s the link
to my music on soundcloud. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/scared-girl" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/scared-girl</a><br />
<i>Followed!
I’m Master_Control. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />
</i>Thanks! I’m a total follower. Well…you know what I mean.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’m already collecting cans of corned beef hash for the
apocalypse. I think I’ve decided to go
straight to Costco. They have everything
to be able to survive for a long time.
I’d rather have an alien apocalypse because it’d be way more appealing
in so many ways. Even if I died, I’d be
thinking, “OH MY GOD…ALIENS!! They’re REAL!”<br />
<i>Aliens are already real. <a href="http://youtu.be/7vyVe-6YdUk" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/7vyVe-6YdUk</a><br />
</i>“I’m not saying it’s aliens…but it’s probably aliens.” I love that show Ancient Aliens. It took me about three episodes to decide I
was an ancient alien theorist.<br />
<i>Be careful, it’s a slippery slope. It’s easy to find yourself a lot further down
the rabbit hole than you intend to go.<br />
</i>Oh I know…I know.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>Weapon of choice:<br />
</b>Emergency axe or machete.<br />
<i>Or emergency machete. “But aren’t all machetes emergency machetes?” Well-played, voice inside my head. Well-played.<br />
</i>Good one. <br />
<b><br />
Do you have any special skills? <br />
</b>Yes. For the apocalypse? Or just in
general? A fair amount for both.<br />
<i>Like what?<br />
</i>I sew…so I could sew clothing or flesh.<br />
<i>Alright, you can be on my team.<br />
</i>Great! Do we have a name yet?<br />
<i>Yes, “Team Fuck Your Stupid Team
Name”. Now we just need t-shirts!<br />
</i>It’s all about marketing.<br />
<b><br />
Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</b>I went to college for film.<br />
<b><br />
If you went to college, did you manage to pay off your student loans? <br />
</b>I didn’t finish so yes…well, my dad paid it off.<br />
<b><br />
Any pets? If so, what are they and what are their names? <br />
</b>Yes! Two frankenmutts…Taco and Lexi.</span><br />
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</b>Pet-wise, dogs. In general the
Tibetan Sand Fox. Have you seen their
faces? It’s like they’re staring into
your soul!<br />
<i>I YouTubed them. They look pretty rad. <a href="http://youtu.be/N301BQtZezs" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/N301BQtZezs</a> Apparently they have a “curious body shape”. I can relate.<br />
</i>Now I need to go look at a picture of you.<br />
<i>Here you go. I’m unphotographable.<br />
<a href="https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/998610_10151610152462906_1551888047_n.jpg" target="_blank">https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/998610_10151610152462906_1551888047_n.jpg</a><br />
</i>Like a vampire? Or is that just
mirrors?<br />
<i>The world is a vampire.<br />
</i>Wereworld… that’s the name of my screenplay for my crappy SyFy movie I’m
writing as soon as I’m done with this interview.<br />
<i>That’s amazing! Let me know if you need a writing
partner. We can bundle it up with the
screenplay for Mummy Apocalypse I’m working on.<br />
</i><br />
<b>Speaking of pets, any pet peeves?<br />
</b>Wow, so many. Bad grammar and
spelling…especially on Facebook and In this day and age. People who litter out of their car
windows…really? I could write a paper on
pet peeves. I’ll stop there though.<br />
<i>I wrote one for you… and then made an
animated panda read it to take some of the edge off. <a href="http://youtu.be/BzxVBlc4uIM" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/BzxVBlc4uIM</a> *Don’t take the pet part personally.*<br />
</i>Thank you for doing that! I feel
much better now.<br />
<b><br />
Favorite / Least favorite Food: <br />
</b>I have so many favorite foods. I
love sushi and chicken fried steak (I know, weird contrast there). Least favorite…durian. That Asian fruit that Mother Nature obviously
is telling the world to leave alone.
It’s covered in spikes and when you cut it open it literally smells like
two week old rotting garbage or corpses, take your pick. No offense to durian lovers out there. Fruit of the Gods my ass.<br />
<i>Yeah, southern-fried skunk assholes might
be better than calamari rings but I’ll never know. It’s like when someone tastes something and
makes a horrid face and then offers it to you and says, “Hey, taste this?” Fuck no!
What do you think I’m stupid? “Is
this milk sour?” Does it smell
sour? Then don’t use it, but leave me
out of it. I’m not the Hercule Poirot of
shelf-life, you can Sherlock that shit for yourself thanks very much!<br />
</i>I know what you mean! Hey taste
this, it tastes like crap! No, thank
you. I forgot to mention that I don’t
like sea urchin either. Poopoo!<br />
<i>I ordered sea urchin at a sushi
restaurant once. Once… Never again.<br />
</i>Yeah, I think it’s the texture…I even ate live octopus and squid and didn’t
have a problem with those.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">What
is your favorite quotation / motto / saying?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> <br />
“That which does not kill you makes you stronger.” - Friedrich Nietzsche<br />
And that quote from Frank Herbert’s Dune- “I must not fear. Fear is the
mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face
my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone
past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there
will be nothing. Only I will remain.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><i>“That which does not kill you makes you
stronger… except the thing that kills you. That just kills you.” – Scott
Lefebvre<br />
I’ve been getting a lot of Dune answers lately. Or it could just be
because I always filter every interview through my glowing blue Fremen filter.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I should use that filter while writing.<br />
<i>I highly recommend it. Because my name is a killing word.<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/j9a4K3481B0" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/j9a4K3481B0</a><br />
</i>My name brings people back to life. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><b>What is the best thing that ever
happened to you?<br />
</b>Meeting my husband and getting back into theater and improvisation. Oh and buying this house…that’s happening
now! And adopting my dogs.<br />
<i>YOU CAN’T HAVE THREE BEST THINGS! IT DEFEATS THE PURPOSE OF THE CONCEPT OF ANY
ONE THING BEING BEST!!! Okay, for you
I’ll make an exception. You, and you
alone, can have three best things.<br />
</i>I’m just a positive person! I think
everything is the best.<br />
<i>I envy you your positivity.<br />
</i>Fake it til’ you believe it. It
works!<br />
<b><br />
What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?<br />
</b>Getting deathly ill when I was in my mid-twenties and my mother died last
year. 2013 sucked. Lots of friends and family passed away and
I’m ready for more life and creation this year.<br />
<b><br />
Ever had your heart broken? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>Hasn’t everyone? And no, nothing
really interview worthy behind that one.<br />
<i>You’d be surprised. People who have never had their heart broken
usually make for boring interviews.
They’re like the people you went to high school that try to add you as a
friend on Facebook. Haven’t you made any
friends since high school? If we really
got along that well back then we’d still be in touch. If I wasn’t really into you back then, I
probably won’t be into you now. You
probably didn’t get any more awesome in the past eighteen years. Unless you’re a girl that used to flirt with
me. I don’t mind playing
“coulda-shoulda” every now and then.
Unless you’re married.<br />
</i>You’re funny.<br />
<i>I have my moments…</i><b><br />
<br />
Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>I’m pretty sure I have… nothing interesting. I’ve stayed friends with almost every single
one of my exes. I’m pretty drama free in
that department. They may disagree and
be writing a book on the subject right this second though.<br />
<i>That would probably make for an
interesting read. I always wanted to do
a series of interviews with all of the girls I’ve dated and try to write a book
about it. It doesn’t help that most of
us have each other blocked on every form of social media. That kind of throws a spanner in those gears.<br />
</i>Yeah, sometimes I think it’s weird that I get along with my exes… I guess I
make it a point not to date someone unless I know we’ll stay friends. Well, I’m married now so it all doesn’t
matter anymore.<br />
<b><br />
What is the best thing you’ve ever done?
<br />
</b>I can’t really pick. Humanitarian
wise, helped my mom while she was sick, been there for family and friends, rescued
my dogs. Creativity wise, I love
performing with my performance lab group at the Berkeley School of
Theater. <br />
<b><br />
What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?
<br />
</b>Slapped a hooker…but she kind of deserved it and shoplifted bubblegum when
I was nine.<br />
<i>Wait, slow down. You don’t just get to drop that gem and
drift. Elaborate please.<br />
</i>My friends and I were out drinking in Itaewon (a shopping district in
Seoul, Korea) and this prostitute kept following us around all night. She was high or drunk and kept talking to me
and pulling at my clothes. This went on
for hours. She was showing me some medal
she had around her neck and was playing with my hair. After a time, I lost my cool and slapped
her. I felt horrible, but she finally
lost interest and left us alone. What
was weird was that she didn’t seem phased that I had slapped her. I’m a terrible person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could kill one person, who would it be,
and why? <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kim Jong Un, because someone should.
I would feed him to ravenous dogs…since that’s what he did to his uncle.<br />
<i>I can eat it?<br />
</i>Sure.<br />
<i>I believe the correct answer is, “Please,
sir, no.”<br />
<a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hungry-kim-jong-un" target="_blank">http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hungry-kim-jong-un</a><br />
</i>Please, sir…NO!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What do you do? <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I paint, write, create creatures, make music, beat up raccoons and eat
sandwiches.<br />
<i>…at the same time!<br />
</i>Well, all of those while eating a sandwich maybe. I can do all of the above (except beat up a
raccoon) and watch TV however.<b><br />
<br />
How did you get started doing what you do?
<br />
</b>I started pretty young. I’ve always
known that I wanted to be a “maker” or “creator” of awesome things. I sometimes get overwhelmed with how much I
want to create. Too many projects, too
little time. That’s probably why I
suffer from anxiety.<br />
<b><br />
What is your advice to other people that want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>You must have motivation. No one
will tell you to keep going except yourself.
I think that’s what people see (besides just talent). They see the confidence and drive in
people. Whether your dream is to paint,
write novels, breed rabbits it doesn’t matter unless you have ambition and set
goals and challenges for yourself.
Actually, I take that back. Not
challenges…opportunities!<br />
This Day of the Artist project is teaching me discipline and motivation. It all comes from within.<br />
<i>Tell us a bit more about this “Day of the
Artist” project you speak of.<br />
</i>Last year, after seeing my friend Josiah’s painting a day project, I
decided I would do that starting this year.
Then I was inspired to not only do a painting a day, but do one in the
style of a different artist a day. My
OCD kicked in and I got pretty excited.
I told my ever-encouraging husband about the project and he actually
said, “I don’t know…that seems kind of crazy.”
The fact that it seemed a little impossible and challenging is what
pushed me to do it. And now I’m on day
eighteen! We’ll see how things go when I
have to start packing and moving into my new house. I am NOT looking forward to that. The paints and canvases will be the last to
go. <br />
<b><br />
What are some of the projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past?<br />
Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</b>I’ve written a number of books and am in the process of work-shopping them
with my writing group. They’ll probably
get published in 2476, which is when one of series is set in.<br />
<i>I look forward to reading them. You’re allowed to set the alarm on my
cryogenic tube for the release date.
Because then they’ll have a cure for everything… and I can have my own
air chariot. <a href="http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/86/airchariot/" target="_blank">http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/86/airchariot/</a><br />
</i>I’ll unlock your cryogenic tube after I get released from mine. They’ll be present day novels by then. Really bad present day novels. Kind of like when you watch futuristic movies
from the 80’s. I just watched Robocop
the other night and it was hilarious.
It’s still a great movie (to me), but I think it’s hilarious that they
are wearing Cosby sweaters and have feathered hair. Total Recall is another great example. Oh and Babylon 5!<br />
My friends (and husband) and I made an entire 13 episode season of a puppet
science fiction show called, <i>Commander
Quacks Protector of the Future</i>. It’s
very campy, fun and genuine. We
improvised the first few episodes and really knew nothing about filming in
front of a green screen and doing special effects… it gradually got better as
we went along. I like that we wrote a
serious story arc for the series, but it could never be taken that seriously
since all the actors are puppets. We are
currently preparing for Season 2…the first episode is a musical!<br />
You can view Season 1 here: http://commanderquacks.tumblr.com<br />
<i>Thank you for introducing me to my new
favorite thing.<br />
</i>Yay, that means we have a whole ten fans now. The tumblr blog is new, thanks for following
us! We’re revving up for Season 2. It’s going to be awesome.<br />
I’m constantly sewing monsters for Ghoulie Girls.<br />
<i>I like to follow blogs on Tumblr. Mostly because I’m not exactly sure what
Tumblr is for yet and I’m hoping someone will help me figure it out. Because as far as I can tell it’s mostly an
online digital scrapbook for awkward teenaged girls… and me.<br />
</i>I feel the same way. I have some
things on tumblr, but then decided to grow up and move to wordpress. That was mean sounding…I apologize. I still have Quacks and Ghoulie Girls tumblr
sites, but for more advanced blogging it doesn’t serve my purposes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What projects are you working on now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I’m currently painting a painting a day in the style of various artists. I’m doing it every day for a year. I’m hoping that by the end of the year that I
can put together an art show…I’m not sure at this point yet. I’ve been at it for two whole weeks so far
and I hope I don’t have a nervous breakdown.
It’s really teaching me to be disciplined with my artwork. It’s also been teaching me about success and
failure. I’ve had to stifle the
perfectionist in myself and say, “Hey, it’s okay. There are going to be
paintings that turn out awesome and some that are going to be epic failures,
but it’s the process that’s important.”
This project and improvisation teaches me to fail graciously and be okay
with not being okay. It’s been an
artistic journey as well as a psychological one! I can’t wait for Bob Ross day. I’m going to dress like him and wear a
fro-wig and have my friend film an entire episode in the style of his
show. I’m pretty excited.<br />
I perform every few weeks with my improvisation class, The Bakery Badasses at
The Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre.
And am forming a comedy/sketch/improv duo with my friend from the
class. Hopefully, we get some material
together and can perform live shows sometime soon.<br />
I’m also wanting to direct/film some shorts that are improvised. Other than that, just sewing monsters and
writing my books that will be published in space.<br />
<i>If you’re looking for artists for the
roster, you can add me to the list.
You’re going to have to smoke a lot and listen to black metal and hate
everything while you paint though. It
might be the one that breaks you.<br />
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</i><br />
Ooooh! I’m totally adding you. Also, I’m going to have no problem listening
to Black Metal. I went through that
phase. I’ll just throw on some Burzum
and Dimmu Borgir and go crazy.<br />
<i>Black metal is NOT a phase! It’s a way of life! Now go wash that corpse paint off unless
you’re on your way to burn down a church!
And this… <br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/l24MRTxgvRE" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/l24MRTxgvRE</a><br />
</i>You’re right. My love for black
metal is still pumping deep down inside my soul… pulling at my heart with flesh
hooks. I’ve always wanted to play
keyboards for a Black Metal band. Maybe
we can do a long-distance collaboration.
Ha!<br />
<i>I think you’re onto something, but what
will our band name be?<br />
</i>Anything in Norwegian or Icelandic would work. Heimurinn er vampire? The world is a vampire (in Icelandic).<br />
I looked up “Heimurinn – Band” on the Googles and nothing came up so it looks
like we’re in the clear. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I'll put together a bunch of samples
from my Black Metal music and we can do an electronic Black Metal music EP. You
know, because we both have so much spare time and aren't busy working on
anything else. *laughs*</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you watching? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
I’m a TV junkie. I watch almost every
science fiction/paranormal/fantasy show out there…including the really crappy
ones. I just finished re-watching
Farscape. I can safely say that show was
made just for me. Puppets in space!<br />
<b><br />
What are you listening to? </b><br />
These days I’ve been listening to folky stuff like Iron & Wine and Bon Iver
with a little Magma and Bjork thrown in.<br />
<b><br />
What are you reading?<br />
</b>Some teenage cyborg apocalypse love story… I can’t remember the series
name. I read tons of YA fantasy and
science fiction since that’s what I write.<br />
<b><br />
Favorite author / book? <br />
</b>Way too many! Frank Herbert, Ursula
LeGuin, Haruki Murakami, Walter Moers, Michael J. Sullivan…seriously, I could
go on for days.<br />
<i>Go on for days! I dare you!
On second thought… this will do.</i><br />
<b><br />
Favorite band / song? <br />
</b>I really go back and forth on this one. Maybe I’m too old for this question.<br />
<i>If you’re too old for this question, then
I should probably be too dead for this question.<br />
</i>Yeah, it’s always a hard question for me to answer. I guess I don’t have an ultimate answer. It always changes.<br />
<i>This is my favorite band / song. <a href="http://youtu.be/DyPJIz-ZnA4" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/DyPJIz-ZnA4</a><br />
</i>Nice… still can’t think of one. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Least favorite band / song? <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Anything by the Insane Clown Posse?
I don’t spend a lot of time even thinking about bad music…I just avoid
it. Also, I don’t think it’s the music
that I hate, but the intentions behind the music.<br />
<i>Good choice nonetheless. Thanks for playing along.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could do anything other than what you
do now, what would you do?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Become a playwright and live in England or perform in plays in
England. And wear awesome coats.<br />
<i>It’s never too late. Until it’s too late. Then it’s too late.<br />
</i>I can also just live where I live and wear awesome coats and put on plays.<br />
<i>That’s a decent compromise… for now.<br />
</i>Thanks… I’d also like to be a space-ship science officer. I was going to say captain, but that seems
too stressful.<br />
<b><br />
Who would you want to meet that you haven’t met?<br />
You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</b>Alive- Patrick Stewart (Almost did when I went to go see No Man’s Land)<b><br />
</b>Dead- Edgar Allen Poe<b><br />
</b>Fictional- Captain Jean Luc Picard…wait, does Patrick Stewart count?<br />
<i>No, Patrick Stewart isn’t a fictional
character. If you met Patrick Stewart as
Captain Jean Luc Picard as your fictional wish he’d have to stay in character
and pretend he expected to get teleported back up to the Enterprise at any
moment and keep asking you “What have you done with my ship?”<br />
</i>That would be dreamy. Then I would
calm him down, put him in some Enterprise-futuristic pajamas and make him a cup
of Earl Grey tea, hot.<br />
<br />
<b>What’s the best and worst job you’ve
ever had?<br />
</b>Best job: What I do now.<b><br />
</b>Worst: I worked at a retail shop called Headlines (Headliners?) in San
Francisco when I was 19. I worked in the
head/sex shop downstairs. I worked with
an entire staff of drag queens (which I loved). I was usually high on pot rice
crispy treats and covered in glitter from some rave I had been to in some
derelict warehouse in Oakland the night before.<br />
<i>I’m not quite sure you understand the
meaning of the word “worst” because that sounds like a pretty awesome job.<br />
</i>I may have enjoyed it back then…but now it sounds like a nightmare. I don’t think I can go back to retail anymore
even if I could work with drag queens.<br />
<br />
<b>Are there any questions that I didn’t
ask that you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</b>Not really, but please ask more if you want. You were pretty thorough.<br />
<br />
<b>Anyone you recommend I interview that
you can put me in touch with?<br />
</b>Michael Kupperman… he’s a genius and my friend. Look him up and if you’re interested I can
connect you on Facebook.<br />
<i>I appreciate the offer! You make the introduction and I’ll handle the
follow-through.<br />
</i>Sounds good.<br />
<b><br />
Got any questions for me?<br />
</b>If you could kill anyone who would it be?<br />
<i>Anyone?
Everyone. I’d pull the plug on
the human experiment. I’d like to see
what the planet would look like without us smart monkeys ruining everything.<br />
Earth makes oil and we make weapons to kill each other over it. The planet makes plutonium and we make
nuclear bombs. Hopefully house cats will
develop opposable thumbs and enslave the human race, and woe to canine-kind on
that fateful day!<br />
</i>Just like in Red Dwarf!<br />
<i>Exactly!<br />
</i>Another one of my favorite things!<br />
<b><br />
Thanks for letting me subject you to being interviewed!</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Pitch parade:<br />
</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Give me all of your links
for things you want to promote. All of them.<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lindapcleary" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/lindapcleary</a><br />
Ghoulie Girls: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheGhoulieGirl" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/TheGhoulieGirl</a><br />
Ghoulie Girls Etsy Shop: <a href="http://www.shopghouliegirls.etsy.com/" target="_blank">http://www.shopghouliegirls.etsy.com</a><br />
Commander Quacks: <a href="http://commanderquacks.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://commanderquacks.tumblr.com</a><br />
Day of the Artist:<br />
Website: <a href="http://www.dayoftheartist.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dayoftheartist.com</a><br />
Blog: <a href="http://www.dayoftheartist.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dayoftheartist.com</a></span></span><br />
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the Interviewee:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I’m Linda P. Cleary, artist, monster maker, crafter, puppeteer, musician,
improviser, writer, doggie mama, bath-taker and sandwich lover. I’m
afraid of squirrels.<br />
(Please email me if you want me to elaborate on my bio…I’m horrible at writing
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<i>(I’m going to leave it exactly like that,
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Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-23692245261495418602014-01-30T22:54:00.002-08:002014-01-30T23:35:34.546-08:00Interview with Michael Kanuckel.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full Name:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Michael Kanuckel<b><br />
<br />
Do you have a nickname or what do your friends call you?<br />
</b>Usually just Mike. My sons call me
Dagga, but that’s not a nickname- it’s their parlance for Dad.<b><br />
<br />
Birthplace:<br />
</b>Barberton, Ohio</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Current hometown:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Killbuck, Ohio</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite city and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I fell in love with Boston- hard.
It’s so full of history, and easy to get around, and there are whole
streets full of old book shops and bars.
I could wander downtown, around the common and Harvard, for days and not
get sick of it.<br />
<i>I used to take the train up to Boston to
visit the Museum of Fine Arts. It was a
regular pilgrimage but as of late finances forbid.</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Birthday / Age:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">April 6th, 1978, making me an old man at 35.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How would you describe yourself physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A gorilla with the power of speech.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How would someone else describe you
physically?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“That big hairy guy with the tattoos.”<b><br />
<br />
The first thing people notice about you is…<br />
</b>See above.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Religion, if any?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I don’t do religion.<br />
<i>Neither do I. But sometimes people do. That can be awkward sometimes.</i><b><br />
</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are you superstitious at
all? Any phobias?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I would like to say no, but I will try to avoid crossing paths with
black cats. And, while I don’t believe
it’s really bad luck, I do make sure I don’t open an umbrella indoors or walk
under ladders. As for phobias, I don’t
know what it’s called but I’m deathly afraid of open water.<br />
<b><br />
Do you smoke / drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?<br />
</b>Oh, yes. Vice, after all, is what
separates us from the lower animals. I’m
a non-filtered cigarette smoking, whiskey drinking, fast-food eating fool.<br />
<i>Oh my!
You sound like Stephen King before he cleaned his act up!</i><br />
I’ve been getting a lot of King references lately. I’ll take it!<br />
<b><br />
Current occupation / Dream job:<br />
</b>Currently, I’ve got a soulcrusher of a job at Burger King. My dream job is to write for a living, and
I’m working on making that happen.<br />
<i>I like your moxie! What are you doing to make it happen?</i><br />
Writing and publishing! And promoting,
we can’t forget that. Like P.T. Barnum
said: “A terrible thing happens when you don’t promote - nothing!”<br />
<b><br />
What do you like to do when you’re not at work?<br />
</b>I’m a lover of books, first and foremost- and Z-grade cinema. And I’m not talking about, “Oh, I saw
Birdemic!” No, I’m talking “Manos”: The
Hands of Fate, Yor, the Hunter from the Future, and Troll 2 - that kind of
madness.<br />
<b><br />
What is your zombie outbreak survival plan?<br />
</b>Our house is a two storey affair, so my plan is get everything upstairs,
break the stairs, and fill the bathtub with fresh water. With any luck, the horde will move right on
by without ever noticing us.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Weapon of choice:<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If I had any sense it would be a shotgun, but I have no firearms. I have a sword though, a big Scottish
Claymore- and it never runs out of ammo.<br />
<i>Isn’t a claymore a bit unwieldy? Or are you one of those big bastards that can
one-hand a claymore?</i><br />
Did you see my physical description above?<br />
<i>I did indeed, sir, which is why I asked,
you big beautiful one-handed claymore wielding bastard!</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you have any special skills?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Other than the ability to take blank paper and turn it into a living,
breathing world? No.<br />
<i>I think that’s a special skill. Or at least one that deserves
compensation. A lot of people think that
writing isn’t work because it’s something that anyone can do. My response is always, “Oh really? Let me know when you finish that first book
and we’ll have ourselves a little chat about how easy writing is.” You’re blessed that you can do with relative
ease what some people can’t do at all.
Never forget that.</i><br />
Thank you.<br />
<b><br />
Did you go to college and, if so, what for?<br />
</b>I started, but couldn’t afford it.<b><br />
<br />
Any pets? If so, what are they and what are their names?<br />
</b>We have no pets. We used to have a
cage full of dwarf hamsters, which are adorable little creatures, but it turns
out they are also the most vicious little buggers ever to roam the earth. I had to wear an oven mitt to feed them. As soon as the top opened and my hand went
inside, all of them swarmed it and took hold with their little razor teeth.<br />
<b><br />
What is your favorite animal?<br />
</b>I’ve always been in awe of elephants - they’re just so huge! Also whales.
And in the opposite direction, I’m terrified of almost anything that
swims the seas - especially sharks.
Sharks are like The Grudge - they simply do not care who you are, they
are going to kill you.<br />
<b><br />
Speaking of pets, any pet peeves? <br />
</b>My biggest pet peeve is the inability of people to correctly use “they’re”,
“there”, and “their” correctly- also “your” and “you’re”, and ect…<br />
<i>Mine too.
Well, I have a laundry list of things about humans that irritate me, but
that tops the list for authors. Oh,
you’re not good at the whole spelling/grammar thing? Well, perhaps you should put a little time
into learning that stuff. If not you’re
like a carpenter that doesn’t know how to use a hammer.</i><br />
Exactly!<br />
<br />
<b>Favorite / Least favorite Food:<br />
</b>My favorite food is that American stuff we call “Chinese” - you know, sweet and sour chicken, crab
Rangoon, that stuff. <br />
Least favorite? Probably liver and
onions.<br />
<br />
<b>What is your favorite quotation / motto /
saying?<br />
</b>Klaatu Barada Nikto.<br />
<br />
<b>What is the best thing that ever
happened to you?<br />
</b>That very first published short story, that was a hell of a feeling. And finishing my first novel. And seeing my sons coming into the
world. Life is full of “best”
things. I couldn’t really pick just one.<br />
<br />
<b>What is the worst thing that ever
happened to you?<br />
</b>That’s easier. Getting divorced.<br />
<br />
<b>Ever had your heart broken? Is there a
story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>I did, and it’s a long story. Is it
worth telling? I don’t know. You could hear it in any bar across this
great nation, on a greasy juke box with a busted plastic bubble for a window
and Hank Williams records on the turntable.<br />
<br />
<b>Ever broken someone’s heart? Is there a
story worth telling behind your answer?<br />
</b>I may have, though I don’t know for sure.
If I did, I’m pretty sure she’s over it by now. High School was a long time ago.<br />
<br />
<b>What is the best thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>Writing. Without a doubt. It’s what I was meant to do.<b><br />
<br />
What is the worst thing you’ve ever done?<br />
</b>That’s a tough one… I was a stupid kid and I did a lot of stupid
things. Probably the worst was getting in
an actual fight with my dad, or something else I don’t even remember now.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could kill one person, who would it be,
and why?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Only one? Hmmm. I think that I would travel back in time and
kill George Lucas, right after Willow came out.
I would save us all from the Star Wars prequels and India Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. You’re
welcome.<br />
<i>Yeah, but if you had done that, I’d have
no idea what you were talking about aside from someone killing George Lucas
right after Willow came out. Paradoxes.</i><br />
Which is why I don’t mess in with wibbly-wobbly things like time and space.<br />
<br />
<b>What do you do?<br />
</b>I write fiction, mostly fantasy in genre, with shades of horror and science
fiction.<br />
<br />
<b>How did you get started doing what you
do?<br />
</b>I started writing stories when I was in Kindergarten. Being a writer has always been my dream. I never went through a fireman or astronaut
phase. This has always been my
goal. I write.<b><br />
<br />
What is your advice to other people that want to get started doing what you do?<br />
</b>If you want to be a writer, you must write.
And read! Like Stephen King said,
if you don’t have time to read you don’t have time to write. Simple as that.<br />
<i>I agree with that. But I’ve done my reading. Now I’m focusing on writing.</i><br />
<br />
<b>What are some of the projects you’ve
worked on/finished in the past?<br />
Give us a little history if you will.<br />
</b>Well, I’ve written several short stories, some appearing in print and some
not. My first novel, <i>Winter’s Heart</i>, is self-published
through Amazon and doing fairly well, considering the fact that I really have
no idea what I’m doing. And I just
signed a contract with J Ellington Ashton Press for my new book, <i>Agent White</i>, which will be out sometime
in the near future.<br />
<i>J Ellington Ashton Press are good people
and they do a lot of good for new / up-and-coming authors. In addition to that, I haven’t heard anyone
that had anything bad to say about them.</i><br />
I’m thrilled they’ve picked me up!<br />
<br />
<b>What projects are you working on now?<br />
</b>Currently, I’m working on book one of a nine book fantasy series that will
pretty much be my life’s work. I would
need a lot more time to tell you all about it.
Let’s just say it’s big.<br />
<br />
<b>What are you watching?<br />
</b>I don’t really watch television.
Usually when I watch something, it’s a movie or an episode of Mystery
Science Theater 3000 on my computer.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you listening to?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I also don’t really listen to a lot of music- just whatever’s on the
radio when I’m driving somewhere.
Classic rock, eighties pop, you know.<br />
<br />
<b>What are you reading?<br />
</b>I just finished Doctor Sleep. I
honestly wasn’t that enthused about it when I first heard of it, I mean, a
sequel to The Shining? Come on. But it turned out to be a very good read.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite author / book?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Okay, that’s an impossible question.
There’s no way to choose ONE favorite author or book. If I had to?
The Lord of the Rings. But I have
many favorite books- and really, Stephen King would be my favorite author.<br />
<br />
<b>Favorite band / song?<br />
</b>If you had asked me twenty years ago, my answer would have immediately been
Nirvana. Now? Don’t really have one.<br />
<br />
<b>Least favorite band / song?<br />
</b>All modern pop. It’s garbage.<br />
<br />
<b>If you could do anything other than what
you do now, what would you do?<br />
</b>If I had gone to college, I would be an English teacher. And hopefully I would still have a passion
for the written word all of these years later, that I could share with my
students.<br />
<br />
<b>Who would you want to meet that you
haven’t met?<br />
You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.<br />
</b>Alive: Stephen King.<br />
Dead: Charles Dickens.<br />
Fictional: Allan Quatermain.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What’s the best and worst job you’ve ever had?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The best job I’ve ever had is what I’m doing right now: writing. The pay ain’t so great, but it’s my dream.<br />
The worst job I’ve ever had is what I’m doing right now: working at Burger
King. The pay ain’t so great, and it’s
crushing my soul.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are there any questions that I didn’t ask that
you wished I had asked that you would like to answer now?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The ghost of Ricardo Montalban.
That is my answer to the question you didn’t ask.<br />
<br />
<b>Anyone you recommend I interview that
you can put me in touch with?<br />
</b>I think you’ve already interviewed the people I know - my circle’s pretty
small right now.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Got any questions for me?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ah, the table have turned!<br />
Just tell me one thing, friend: Is it safe? (the real question is, who gets
that reference?)<br />
<i>You mean this? *takes the one ring out
from the collar of his shirt*</i><br />
Well played, friend- but I was actually referencing “Marathon Man”.<br />
<i>Well, it was a pretty broad reference.</i><b><br />
<br />
Thanks for letting me subject you to being interviewed!<br />
</b>You’re welcome! It was quite
painless.<br />
<b><br />
<u>Pitch parade:</u><br />
Give me all of your links for things you want to promote. All of
them.<br />
</b>Facebook:</span> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/michaelkanuckelauthor" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/michaelkanuckelauthor</a><br />
Twitter:</span> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">h<a href="ttps://twitter.com/MichaelKanuckel" target="_blank">ttps://twitter.com/MichaelKanuckel</a><br />
Website:</span> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">h<a href="ttp://www.amazon.com/Michael-Kanuckel/e/B00F1PTRSA" target="_blank">ttp://www.amazon.com/Michael-Kanuckel/e/B00F1PTRSA</a><br />
Blog:</span> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7264569.Michael_Kanuckel/blog" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7264569.Michael_Kanuckel/blog</a><br />
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>About the Interviewee:<br />
</b>Michael Kanuckel is an author of fantasy fiction. He lives in the middle of Ohio with his two
sons and the books that will one day fall over and bury him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to
write about.<br />
Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public
library.<br />
His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and
Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker,
Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.<br />
He is the author of Spooky Creepy Long Island, and a contributing author to
Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead, Fracas: A Collection of
Short Friction, The Call of Lovecraft, and Cashiers du Cinemart.<br />
He is currently working on ten novel-length book projects which will be
released in 2014.<br />
He also publishes themed collections of interviews from his interview blog <a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">You Are Entitled To My Opinion</a>.<br />
His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror,
and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.<br />
He is the Assistant Program Director for The Arkham Film Society and produces
electronic music under the names Master Control and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Lovecraftwork" target="_blank">LOVECRAFTWORK</a>.<br />
He is currently working on a novel-length expansion of a short-story titled,
"The End Of The World Is Nigh", a crowd-funded, crowd-sourced,
post-apocalyptic, zombie epidemic project.<br />
Check out the blog for the book here: <a href="http://theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com</a><br />
Check out the Facebook Fan Page for the project here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook</a><br />
Check his author profile at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G" target="_blank">www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G</a><br />
Follow him at GoodReads here:<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre" target="_blank">www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre</a><br />
Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />
Check out his videos at: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon</a><br />
Check out his IMDB profile here: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959" target="_blank">www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959</a><br />
Follow his Twitter here: <a href="http://twitter.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">twitter.com/TheLefebvre</a>
or @TheLefebvre<br />
Follow his Tumblr here: <a href="http://thelefebvre.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">thelefebvre.tumblr.com</a><br />
Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />
Join the group for The Arkham Film Society here:<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/arkhamscreenings" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/groups/arkhamscreenings</a><br />
Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />
E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></div>
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Scott Lefebvrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00490310187609788660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042904324648631233.post-44396839307749802972014-01-30T17:21:00.000-08:002014-01-30T17:59:16.870-08:00Interview wth Anthony Teth.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full Name:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Anthony
Teth. The “Teth” part is a pseudonym.<br />
<i>You go by a variety of names. Anthony Teth. Zavier Drake. Why is that?
What is the significance of the pseudonyms?<br />
</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I suppose it’s a
combination of things. People constantly
mispronounce my real last name of Geremia, so that might be part of it. Teth is a handle I used on a bunch of
mysticism forums that's quick and easy to pronounce, and simultaneously has a
lot of qabalistic weight to it. It means
“Serpent”, but is associated with the zodiac sign of Leo as well as the tarot
trump known as “Strength”, “Fortitude” or “Lust”, depending upon the deck. The Zavier Drake thing is a longer story. I had created that pseudonym for a writing
project I never started and had ultimately forgotten about. Back in the day, I used my personal Facebook
account for promoting a local bar night I worked, and would regularly post
Frank Frazetta paintings as part of said promotion. However, even though they were classic
paintings, they were flagged as pornography, and the account was shut down. I then stumbled upon the forgotten Zavier Drake
account, and here we are.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<b>Do you have
a nickname or what do your friends call you?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
have had a bunch of nicknames over the years. I suppose “Metal” or “Metal Anthony” might be
my most enduring. “Fuzzy” was one of my older ones, but fell into disfavor
after I started shaving my head. Another group of friends occasionally call me
“Smarty Pecs” while snickering. Only my
gamer friends call me Tony. When I
worked as a bouncer, I'm sure there were some less savory ones passed around.<br />
<i>*snickers*</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<b>Birthplace:</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Candlebattle,
Rogues Island and Proper-dunce Plantations, USA</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<b>Current hometown:</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Bucket.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<b>Favorite city and why?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
do love Providence something fierce. Perfect
mix of colonial architecture, ocean vistas, weird history, and small-town
dynamics. I've done some traveling in
the past, and have really enjoyed visiting places like Koln, Irun, La Rochelle,
Innsbruck, Cork, Trondheim, Talin, Lisbon and Barcelona, but don't know them
well enough to judge. I have a blast
whenever I visit New York City, but I'd never want to live there. My fiancée loves Seattle, but I've never been.<br />
<i>Perhaps it’s time to go.<br />
</i>Perhaps indeed.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<b>Birthday / Age:</b><br />
August 15<sup>th</sup>. Currently 34.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<b>How would you describe yourself
physically?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Shaven-headed,
bearded, broad-shouldered, and Roman-nosed. On the shorter side of average
height.<br />
<i>Yeah, but you’ve got a big
personality. That adds a few inches.</i> <br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Alas, my personality does
not influence most instruments of measurement.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
<b>How would someone else describe you
physically?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
suppose that depends on who's looking. Could
be anything from “dorky metalhead” to “tattooed knuckle-dragger”. Usually “Mediterranean” gets thrown somewhere
in the mix. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The first thing people
notice about you is…</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Probably
my head. It can be pretty shiny at
times.<br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hair Color / Eye Color /
Race?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mottled to
dark brown beard, head usually shaved, hazel eyes. The concept of race is an unfortunately
still-propagated myth that needs to be destroyed.<br />
<i>I agree with the last. When asked about my race and if I can get
away with shining off the answer I answer “Human”. I just keep it in there because a lot of
people are really tied to their racial identity. Plus this is an older version of the first
round questionnaire because you took your sweet time about getting it back to
me.<br />
</i>Definitely. When one examines the
myriad fallacies contained within Social Darwinism (where most race theory
derives from), the misperceptions concerning evolution in general, and the fact
that most terms like “Semitic” and “Indo-European” only account for language. It is more and more evident that race is
little more than a highly-damaging and
ill-conceived construct. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Sexual orientation?</span></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Hetero,
but not normative. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Religion, if any?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Short
answer: Secular Hermetic Humanist Agnostic. However, I practice a varied potpourri of
psycho-spiritual exercises that embrace Thelemic, Buddhist, Gnostic, Taoist,
Thanateric and Pantheistic philosophies.<br />
<i>That’s the short answer? *laughs*
What’s the long answer?<br />
</i>It would probably involve explaining all of the terms that follow the short
answer, beginning with “However”.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are you superstitious at
all? Any phobias?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Somewhat,
but not really. I've thrown fallen table
salt over my shoulder ever since I saw it in a Warner Brothers cartoon when I
was a child, and I avoid walking under ladders for more practical reasons (like
falling tools). I'm not great with
heights, but I've worked a few roofing jobs in the past without incident. I currently have a respect for sharks that
borders on phobia, and anytime I'm in the ocean I perpetually scan for dorsal
fins. I blame my father for letting me
watch Jaws at age 4 in a dark room while suddenly leaping out and screaming
whenever someone got eaten. Needless to
say, a solid decade of shark nightmares ensued to reinforce my fears. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you
smoke/drink? If so, what? Any bad habits?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I don't
really drink much anymore. Maybe a beer
or two if I'm out with some friends, or some wine at home. I enjoy cannabis these days, and am partial to
Indica strains.<br />
<i>I forgot that you became a pot-head when
I wasn’t paying attention. Why cannabis?<br />
</i>“Pothead” is an unfortunate term due to its association with stupidity and
cloudy thinking. Amusingly, I tend to use
cannabis for more intellectual purposes. I've found that my mind responds well to THC,
and that it helps me focus on certain things I might normally have trouble
with. For example, when I was finishing
my History degree, I needed to fill a science requirement. I love science, but have a history of math
difficulty. Considering just how much
math is involved in even the most basic of scientific operations, I was having
issues in the classroom. I think it was
partly the nervousness associated with a lifetime of math problems (pun
intended), and the subsequent disappointment of my Math-teacher Mother during
key developmental stages, and partly my internal dialog – I'm constantly
over-thinking and cross-referencing things in my head, usually when I should be
listening. My first exam grade after
extra credit was an 83, which I found unacceptable. So, I decided to smoke up before class and
bring a bunch of snacks with me. Automatically, I was calmer walking in, and my
inner dialog quieted considerably. I
became a sponge, and was able to easily absorb the information that I was
having difficulty with beforehand while taking voracious notes. Simultaneously, I was reinforcing positive
psychological connections with science/mathematics through not only the gentle
euphoria of the cannabis but also the tasty rewards of my snacks. My second exam grade plus extra credit was
110, and I believe I ended up with one of, if not the highest grade in the
class by the end of that semester. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Current occupation:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Waiter / Bartender
/ Writer / Art Consultant / Convention Co-Organizer.<br />
<i>Alright, tell us a bit about the
preceding. Not so much the
“Waiter/Bartender” part. I think that
people get those two, but what about the rest of them? A bit of elaboration perhaps?<br />
</i>I enjoy writing, and have been mostly writing essays about certain mystical
and/or historical subjects that interest me. I've written some short fiction in the past,
but I began my first novel, Providence Noir, as a serial with somewhat staccato
installments on the Necronomicon Providence website.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Art
Consultant” references my work with Jay Gidwitz in the Dream Logic Tarot. Jay is both classically trained as an artist
and very tech-savvy. I am an amateur
artist who knows a fair amount about Hermeticism, Renaissance Neoplatonists,
the tarot and its various connected philosophies. Jay's occult specialties lie in NLP and other
non-traditional psychological approaches, so we complement each other nicely. I do a lot of little artistic things here and
there in the card-creation process, but the bulk of the piece is created by
Jay, with me acting as a foreman of sorts, looking over his shoulder and saying annoying things like “more blue over
here”, or “lets blur that background and add this fractal over it”, or “have
him hold the sword like this”, “that orange is too bright”, etc.<br />
There are so many little things involved in Co-Organizing a convention that I
don't know where to begin, frankly, but I feel like I had it easy in comparison
to the workload Niels and Carmen had to deal with.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dream Job:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">World-Traveling
Writer/Educator with a metal band and some bizarre/fun projects on the side. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What do you like to do
when you’re not at work?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Read,
write, study, exercise/yoga/martial arts, meditate, play guitar, sing, hike,
camp, draw, etc. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your zombie
outbreak survival plan?</span></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Collect
my closest family, friends, and a ton of supplies, find a spot out in the
boonies to hunker down until the outbreak has been contained, and decapitate
anything that gets in our way. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Weapon of choice:</span></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
mind, body, and my surroundings, of course. For firearms, I'm most comfortable with
handguns in the 9mm to .45 range and 12 gauge shotguns. For blades, I like various broadswords, sabers, rapiers, kindjals,
kukris, gladii, and Bowie knives. Cudgels,
escrima sticks and staves in a pinch. I
like archery, but I'm not very good at the moment. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Do you have any special
skills?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
can make a mean pasta sauce.<br />
<i>I remember coming back from a Nile show
in Worcester and keeping Liz amused for half the ride by acting out the
conversation between you and Tony from Vital Remains as you bantered over the
pizza he bought for the ride home.
“Hey! Tony! You want a slice a this here pizza?” “What me?
Fuhgetaboutit! I had pizza for
lunch and I’m having pasta for dinner!”
“Ay! Oh! Pasta fazool!”<br />
</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Amusingly, Tony from
Vital Remains is of Portuguese descent, not Italian. If you'd like, I could ask
him for his home made codfish recipe.<br />
<i>Sure, Johnny
Joke-killer. Have him send it over.<br />
<br />
</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Did you go to college
and, if so, what for?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">History
with a focus on Western Occultism and Mysticism. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you went to college,
did you manage to pay off your student loans?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Not
yet, but soon. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Any pets? If
so, what are they and what are their names?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
have formally adopted my fiancée’s two cats. Their names are Nero Ladyparts Meowmalade and
Nolan Spazoid McFluffnugget, respectively. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your favorite
animal?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I'm an animal
nut who watches a lot of nature documentaries, so I can't narrow it down to
just one. I love felines, crocodilians,
raptors, canidae, bovidae, cephalopods and many more.<br />
<i>I always figured you for something
mythical.<br />
</i>I didn't realize that was fair game in this question. However, I feel the
myriad creatures on this planet are pretty damn amazing in their own right,
without any additional mystical properties. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Speaking of pets, any
pet peeves?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rudeness.
Ignorance. Callous Disregard. Heavy footfalls. Excessive perfume/cologne. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite Foods:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Homemade
Italian, Indian, Mexican, Syrian, Greek, Thai, Cambodian, Chinese, Ethiopian,
American fusion, etc.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Least favorite Food:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Raw
celery. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your favorite
quotation/motto/saying?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Currently:
“I intend to live forever or die trying.” -Groucho Marx. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the best thing
that ever happened to you?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
started dating my fiancée. <br />
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</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the worst thing
that ever happened to you?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
feel like I live a pretty charmed life at times. None of the bad shit in the past bothers me
enough to matter, anymore, so I've no reason to ponder “the worst” of it. As much as I might play the perpetual
curmudgeon on occasion, I'm quite the optimist at heart.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ever had your heart
broken? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Everyone's
had their heart broken in one way or another. In the typical manner, I've fallen in love
with a lie, been betrayed by friends and/or lovers, and have watched meaningful
relationships wither and fall apart. It
sucks, but “them's the breaks”. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ever broken someone’s
heart? Is there a story worth telling behind your answer?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Probably,
but never with intent or betrayal in mind. Some relationships simply end, and it can be a
rough process. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the best thing
you’ve ever done?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Helped
some friends when they were in need. <br />
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</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is the worst thing
you’ve ever done?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ignored
a friend in need because I didn't know how to help them. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could kill one
person, consequence free, who would it be and why?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
suppose someone who tortures, maims and/or kills the innocent. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What do you do? </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
try to learn, do, and experience as much as I can.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How did you get started
doing what you do?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
woke up hungry for knowledge. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What is your advice to
other people that want to get started doing what you do?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Somewhat
typically: Don't sweat the small stuff, and persist daily.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are some of the
projects you’ve worked on/finished in the past?<br />
Give us a little history if you will.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Well, with Niels, Carmen, and an awesome cadre of friends (including yourself),
we were able to pull off the Necronomicon, a pretty big H.P. Lovecraft convention
– the biggest I've ever heard of, truth be told. I collaborate regularly with artist Jay
Gidwitz. I've written a few articles for
the Witches' Almanac over the years, and have a website that showcases some of
my occult ramblings. Back in the day, I used
to play in a few metal bands.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What projects are you
working on now?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;">Jay Gidwitz and I are currently creating <i>The Dream Logic
Tarot</i>, which will be a fully-functional and esoterically relevant tarot
deck created through digital media, and I'm writing a book that explains the
system and symbolism of tarot. I'm also
writing <i>Providence Noir</i>, an horror/occult/mystery that I began as a
serial, and have been writing some short stories inspired by Cook and Germain's
<i>Numenera</i> RPG. Also, we're
thinking of bringing back the Necronomicon in 2015.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i>Are we?
I haven’t gotten the memo. I
think Niels might be mad at me. One of
the vendors included the tax man in our little adventure and the resolution of
that was a bit messy. Keep in mind that
taxation is an issue that even conventions that are well-established have
issues with. In my former career as a
convention vendor for a horror-genre merchandising company I can’t count the
number of times I was given tax forms and no one bothered to come by to pick
them up at the end of the show so I just drove home and pitched the tax
documents at the first available trash receptacle. I coordinated two conventions in Los Angeles,
and a month after the first one, my employers asked me to contact all of the
celebrities so that they could get their tax information and send them tax
documents. My reply was, “You’re
kidding, right? Why didn’t you tell me
about that while they were still here?
You seriously think I’m going to be able to just call up Bruce Campbell
and Clive Barker and ask them for their social security numbers and not be told
to fuck right off? I’ll try, but don’t
expect this to turn out very well.” And
it didn’t.<br />
</i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He hasn't spoken to me about
any tax problems yet, though a non-profit status might have complicated an
already tedious process. We should be having a meeting in the next few weeks
and I'll try to get to the bottom of things. <br />
<i>That’s fair. If I’m out, I’m out. No love lost.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you watching?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Currently
Mythbusters, Various Nature Documentaries (mostly BBC stuff), Poirot,
Hyperdrive, MST3K, Daily Show & Colbert. <br />
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</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you listening
to?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Currently Melechesh, Electric Wizard, High On Fire, Blut Aus Nord, Tyr, Black
Sabbath & Windir.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What are you reading?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Astrology,
Aleister and Aeon</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> by
Charles Kipp, <i>Indestructible Truth</i> by Reginald A. Ray, <i>War With the
Newts</i> by Karel Capek, <i>Tales From the Ninth World</i> by Monte Cook and
Shanna Germain, <i>The Canon</i> by William Stirling, <i>Everything is Under
Control</i> by Robert Anton Wilson, and <i>You Can Have An Amazing Memory</i>
by Dominic O'Brien.<br />
<i>I loved Everything Is Under Control. As a result of that book and your
recommendations I downloaded a huge torrent of collected Robert Anton Wilson
recordings including an audio book adaptation of The Illuminatus Trilogy, and
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying them. My
“Author Photo” is a picture of me posing with Everything Is Under Control at
Dusk, taken by Lisa Gourley, because I’m the kind of guy that brings a book to
a bar.<br />
</i>Lisa Gourley snapping photos? Never.
(For those of you who haven't spent time
in Providence bars or clubs, Lisa is wonderful. She's also never without at least two, if not
three cameras on her person at all times snapping photos constantly. If she wasn't such a total sweetheart, she
could probably be making millions in blackmail revenue alone.) I am also the kind of guy who brings a book to
a bar. Frankly, I rarely go anywhere
without a book, kindle, or notepad of some kind within easy reach. Bob's lectures are, to me, just as wonderful
as his writing. Weird and rambling, but
the longer they persist, the more you realize that all of those disparate
topics he's been yapping about are all interconnected and about to come to a
rather startling convergence. I suppose
Everything... is far more of a reference work, but each entry has those
tell-tale marks of Wilson's prodigious wit, as if he's smirking the whole way
through.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite author / book?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
adore the writings of R.A. Wilson, William Blake, Barry Strauss, Lon DuQuette,
Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Regardie, Crowley, Ecco, Pratchett, Abnett,
Lovecraft, Howard, and many others. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Favorite band / song?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
dunno. Iron Maiden, maybe. There are so many awesome bands, and as you might
have guessed, my tastes fluctuate with my mood. I'll say Iron Maiden now, but later
it might be Crowbar or Akercocke or High On Fire or Immolation or something. <br />
<br />
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Least favorite band / song?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Pretty
much all of the soulless corporate shit that's come out in the past 30 years. <br />
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Desert Island
Music/Movies/Books: You know the deal. Five of each.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Music:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Chemical Wedding</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> by Bruce Dickinson</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Come
My Fanatics </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">by Electric Wizard</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dreams
of the Carrion Kind </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">by Disincarnate</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Epigenesis </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">by
Melechesh</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Death
is This Communion</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> by High On Fire.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Movies:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Conan
the Barbarian</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> (Original)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Godfather</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Holy Mountain</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dragonslayer</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
the Mouth of Madness</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Books:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Complete
Works of William Blake</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Complete
Works of H.P. Lovecraft</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Occult Philosophy </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">by Agrippa</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Survival</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> by McCullough</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Pocket
Ref</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> by
Thomas J. Glover</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you could do anything
other than what you do now, what would you do?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Travel
more.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Who would you want to
meet that you haven’t met?<br />
You get three choices: Alive. Dead. Fictional.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Alive:
Umberto Ecco</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dead:
John Dee</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Fictional:
Sherlock Holmes<br />
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worst job you’ve ever had?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Though
the last few days were harrowing as hell, in hindsight I'd say the “convention
co-organizer” thing was pretty awesome, though there were aspects of touring
with a band that were pretty badass. Worst
job by far was selling memberships for a gym in Los Angeles via a glorified
telemarketing approach. That was fucking
dismal. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Are there any questions
that I didn’t ask that you wished I had asked that you would like to answer
now?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Not that I know of.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Anyone you recommend I
interview that you can put me in touch with?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I'll
have to think on that one. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Got any questions for
me?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How ya doin'
big guy?<br />
<i>Ha!
A lot of people aren’t going to get why that’s funny. Allow me to explain to those that don’t know
us personally and are reading this interview by chance. Anthony is built like if you cross-bred a
pitbull and a tank. I’m in the kind of
shape that a cardboard box is if left outside from fall through spring. I’m doing okay I guess. Trying to launch my writing career, but it’s
an uphill battle against an army of hacks throwing rocks down behind them but
I’m determined to stick with it until I decide not to. My goal for 2014 is to write a novel-length
book a month in what I’m calling the “twelve in twelve” challenge. I figure if I can write twelve books in
twelve months, and I can, then if that doesn’t launch my writing career, or at
least get me some recognition then I’m surrendering to a life of unrecorded
mediocrity like everyone else. I’ve also
been pretty busy with my interview blog You Are Entitled To My Opinion. I started it on October 1st, 2013, and it’s
January, 11th as I type this and I’ve completed and published 106 interviews
and we’re somewhere between nine and ten thousand page views, so at least it
hasn’t been a complete waste of the time of everyone involved. Not too shabby for three months work. I’ve published two collections of interviews
from the blog on my self-publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books, and I’m
working on a third, and I’ve published two books. R/T/M by Sean Douglas and
Dead Letter Depot by myself. I’m almost
finished my third book, which will be a paranormal horror novel titled Abandon,
and I’m working on a post-apocalyptic zombie-epidemic book project that I
already have around 65,000 words written towards. My goal is to shoot for 400,000 words because
that’s about what Stephen King’s The Stand clocked in at and I think that I can
do the same if I just stick with it.<br />
</i>Sounds rather harrowing. I'd say
best of luck, but I know you're good for it.
I certainly envy your work ethic, and to a lesser extent, your
insomnia. Though, the “How ya doin' big
guy?” was not meant to be sarcastic.
Your personality “adds a few inches” as well, and I always say one
should never confuse size with stature.
Also, it reminded me of an episode of The Tick cartoon series (The Tick
vs. The Proto-Clown), where Tick had an inner journey and stumbled into a
hidden section of his psyche. He was
able to have answered any one question he wished, no matter how difficult. He asked: “How ya doin?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thanks for letting me subject you to being
interviewed!<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thanks
a bunch for having me, brother. This was fun.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Scott Lefebvre can write about whatever you want him to
write about.<br />
Mostly because when he was grounded for his outlandish behavior as a
hyperactive school child, the only place he was allowed to go was the public
library.<br />
His literary tastes were forged by the works of Helen Hoke, Alvin Schwartz and
Stephen Gammell, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker,
Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft.<br />
He is the author of Spooky Creepy Long Island, and a contributing author to
Forrest J. Ackerman’s Anthology of the Living Dead, Fracas: A Collection of
Short Friction, The Call of Lovecraft, and Cashiers du Cinemart.<br />
He is currently working on ten novel-length book projects which will be
released in 2014.<br />
He also publishes themed collections of interviews from his interview blog <a href="http://youareentitledtomyopinioninterviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">You Are Entitled To My Opinion</a>.<br />
His reviews have been published by a variety of in print and online media
including Scars Magazine, Icons of Fright, Fatally Yours and Screams of Terror,
and he has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue and HorrorHound Magazine.<br />
He is the Assistant Program Director for The Arkham Film Society and produces
electronic music under the names Master Control and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Lovecraftwork" target="_blank">LOVECRAFTWORK</a>.<br />
He is currently working on a novel-length expansion of a short-story titled,
"The End Of The World Is Nigh", a crowd-funded, crowd-sourced,
post-apocalyptic, zombie epidemic project.<br />
Check out the blog for the book here: <a href="http://theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">theendoftheworldisnighbook.blogspot.com</a><br />
Check out the Facebook Fan Page for the project here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheEndOfTheWorldIsNighBook</a><br />
Check his author profile at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G" target="_blank">www.amazon.com/Scott-Lefebvre/e/B001TQ2W9G</a><br />
Follow him at GoodReads here:<br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre" target="_blank">www.goodreads.com/author/show/1617246.Scott_Lefebvre</a><br />
Check out his publishing imprint Burnt Offerings Books here:<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Burnt-Offerings-Books/1408858196016246</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://burntofferingsbooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Check out his electronic music here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/master_control" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/master_control</a><br />
And here: <a href="http://master-control.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">master-control.bandcamp.com</a><br />
Check out his videos at: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/user/doctornapoleon</a><br />
Check out his IMDB profile here: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959" target="_blank">www.imdb.com/name/nm3678959</a><br />
Follow his Twitter here: <a href="http://twitter.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">twitter.com/TheLefebvre</a>
or @TheLefebvre<br />
Follow his Tumblr here: <a href="http://thelefebvre.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">thelefebvre.tumblr.com</a><br />
Check out his Etsy here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt" target="_blank">www.etsy.com/shop/ScottLefebvreArt</a><br />
Join the group for The Arkham Film Society here:<br />
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Stalk his Facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/TheLefebvre</a><br />
E-mail him at: Scott_Lefebvre@hotmail.com</span></span></span></div>
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