Tell us about yourself and what inspired you to start writing.
After I graduated with my BA in theatre, I started getting really into books. One night I had a very vivid dream and knew I had to get it down on paper. It was a disastrous attempt, but my love for writing grew and I have tons of stories that I want to share with others.
Describe your writing process? Is there anything unique about it?
When an idea presents itself, I let it stew on the back burner of my mind as more and more of the story gets revealed to me. I explore the idea and do necessary research surrounding the topics of the story and once I feel I have the major parts of the story cemented in my mind, I start on the journey of writing it all down. The hardest part is always getting started. You have to start from scratch and create the world of the story you’re trying to tell, until it takes on a life of its own and you can let it lead you down the road it wants to go, sparking new ideas and situations you never would have dreamed of during the planning process, leaving you wondering if it truly was you’re idea or if some mysterious creative force whispered it in your ear.
Have you published any books or do you have a desire to do so?
I currently only have one book out on the market. “The Best Laid Traps” Is an action adventure/thriller about a young man, Edward Dalton, who’s been bullied all his life and gets run off the road and left for dead in the Appalachian wilderness. He spends 6 years battling starvation, local wildlife, and his own poisoned mind to survive. After he makes a valuable discovery in his wooded sanctuary, he decides to leave the forest and go back to civilization to carry out his wildest dreams of revenge on the three people who had left him to die. He soon finds that fate has been kind to his bullies while he was away and Edward plans and waits for 10 years until he can orchestrate the perfect moment to brutally take them down and show to the world just how horrible they really are.
I’m all over the map when it comes to genre. Currently I’m working on a dark fantasy, but I have written horror, sci-fi, even a full length fan fiction novel surrounding the characters of “The Hunger Games” series that I hope one day to get permission to publish.
Do you have any favorite poets or authors?
I have many favorite authors who’s works I constantly re-read every chance I get, but the two at the very top of my list are Micheal Crichton and Stephen King.
Do you have a favorite book of poetry or poems?
I absolutely love the Jurassic Park stories as well as other cornerstones such as “Congo” and “The Sphere.” But My absolute favorite book comes from America’s Boogeyman, called “Duma Key,” but I have yet to come across a King story that I haven’t read multiple times.
What are you reading now?
I’m going through “The Dark Tower” series for what seems like the 100th time.
What do you like to do when you’re not writing? Full-time job, pets, hobbies?
I have a full-time job as a knight at Medieval Times. I absolutely love my job (which is why I’ve been doing it for the past 15 years), but it does take up most of my time and writing takes up most of the rest. In the rare amount of free time, I like to make things. I make random aspects (furniture or decor) for my wizard-like dwelling of a tiny house, or more likely working on whatever costume I’ve taken into my head to build. I also go to the gym at least five times a week
Are you working on a current project?
I’m currently halfway through the first draft of a new novel. It centers around the characters from L. Frank Baum’s original novel of “The Wizard of Oz.” It takes place many years after the story and paints a different picture of what happened at the end of L. Frank Baum’s version. Instead of sending her home, Glinda traps Dorothy to keep her in stasis while she deals with a mysterious gloom or poisoning of the land of Oz, stemming from the great wizard himself. Glinda disappears and Dorothy finally breaks out and must take up Glinda’s mantle to try and put everything back to rights. It’s kind of like “Wizard of Oz” meets “Shutter Island” and has been very exciting to write because it has so many huge twists and turns and an ending that I think will blow your mind, at least it did for me.
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