Q: Where did the idea for Alfheim come from?
A: I’ve had stories that spawned from the recognition of a single idea, but Alfheim was different. When I was 9 or 10, I had a dream about leprechaun-like creatures kidnapping me from my home and taking me to their world. While I don’t recall all the specifics, I definitely remember being brought back to my house around dawn and then waking up feeling desperate. I tried so hard to fall asleep again because I wanted to go back with them. What came from that was a lifelong love of fantasy and my desire to find a way back to another world.
Q: What is the key to moving an idea to the writing stage?
A: Writing starts as an exploration that begins with applying the words “what if” to the story idea. Nothing has ever been discovered or made that didn’t begin with the consideration of those two simple words: the most powerful question in any language.
Q: What writers had an influence on your desire to be a writer?
A: Though I have read many classics later in life, they were not the books that inspired me to be a writer. I was drawn to storytelling by reading Joan Aiken, Alfred Hitchcock mysteries, Agatha Christie, Stephen King, Clive Cussler, and Alistair MacLean. The display of craft between these writers was divergent, but each has a gift of storytelling. Then, of course, came J.K. Rowling and I realized that imagination was truly limitless.
Q: Is there any advice you would offer to someone who wants to be a writer?
A: Yes. First, I would say that in order to be a writer, it must come as a need. In fact, if you don’t find yourself frustrated over not putting words down, then you might not want to consider writing. Second, if you do possess the need, then whatever you write should come from a passion for the subject. Third, study writer’s craft. Fourth, learn patience and develop the hide of an armadillo.
Q: Do you have any new projects?
A: Yes. I tend to be fragmented from time to time. I am certainly working on the second volume of the Tales of Alfheim, but also at work on the re-writes to my first novel Flashback and development on a story called The Liberation of Devlan Calder.
A: I’ve had stories that spawned from the recognition of a single idea, but Alfheim was different. When I was 9 or 10, I had a dream about leprechaun-like creatures kidnapping me from my home and taking me to their world. While I don’t recall all the specifics, I definitely remember being brought back to my house around dawn and then waking up feeling desperate. I tried so hard to fall asleep again because I wanted to go back with them. What came from that was a lifelong love of fantasy and my desire to find a way back to another world.
Q: What is the key to moving an idea to the writing stage?
A: Writing starts as an exploration that begins with applying the words “what if” to the story idea. Nothing has ever been discovered or made that didn’t begin with the consideration of those two simple words: the most powerful question in any language.
Q: What writers had an influence on your desire to be a writer?
A: Though I have read many classics later in life, they were not the books that inspired me to be a writer. I was drawn to storytelling by reading Joan Aiken, Alfred Hitchcock mysteries, Agatha Christie, Stephen King, Clive Cussler, and Alistair MacLean. The display of craft between these writers was divergent, but each has a gift of storytelling. Then, of course, came J.K. Rowling and I realized that imagination was truly limitless.
Q: Is there any advice you would offer to someone who wants to be a writer?
A: Yes. First, I would say that in order to be a writer, it must come as a need. In fact, if you don’t find yourself frustrated over not putting words down, then you might not want to consider writing. Second, if you do possess the need, then whatever you write should come from a passion for the subject. Third, study writer’s craft. Fourth, learn patience and develop the hide of an armadillo.
Q: Do you have any new projects?
A: Yes. I tend to be fragmented from time to time. I am certainly working on the second volume of the Tales of Alfheim, but also at work on the re-writes to my first novel Flashback and development on a story called The Liberation of Devlan Calder.