Category: Author Interview
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William C. Tracy, author of Tuning the Symphony
When and why did you begin writing? My first story was in third grade, where Mario, Link, and Zelda had to stop an evil wizard. Sadly, I never finished it. As a teenager, I wrote a narrative/humorous diary of a few family vacations. Then I started on a novel, which was terrible, put it down,…
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Phillip Vega, author of Last Exit to Montauk
What made you decide to sit down and actually start writing this book? Sitting down and writing a book was never on my radar. It just happened. In the latter part of a rainy August 2015 afternoon, after putting away the groceries, my wife turned in for a nap with the pups, so I sat…
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S.T. Sanchez, author of Sunwalker
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I didn’t consider myself a writer until I published my first book, but that is truly just a personal feeling. Holding a physical book in my hand with my name on it made it seem real. There is nothing like it. Why did you choose to write…
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Amanda Howard, author of A Dancer’s Diary
When and why did you begin writing? A Dancer’s Diary has been in the making for about 5 years now. The reason I started writing was mostly because I wanted to share my love of health, fitness, and dance with others. I have always been taught to love learning and to share it with others…
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Linda M. Crate, author of Blood & Magic
What have you written so far? I have written scads of poem, many short stories, personal essays, a few reviews, several chapbooks three of which are published: A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn, Less Than A Man, and If Tomorrow Never Comes. I have written several fantasy novels four of which are published: Blood & Magic,…
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Miranda Moondawn, author of Mooniana and the Secret of the Lost Chronicles of Sophia
When and why did you begin writing? I first began writing in my late teens. I had read a lot of fantasy and adventure books as a child, but my first major impetus for writing came from a most unexpected source – from pop and rock bands and artists like the Beatles, Neil Young, Kate…
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Allan Batchelder, author of Steel Blood and Fire
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing compulsively when I was in the 8th grade, about 14 years old. I had an English class in which writing regular short stories was part of the curriculum…only my stories were thirty, forty, fifty pages long. I just got hooked and have never really stopped.…
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On Writing and Publishing: David Z. Morris and Berneta L. Haynes
Shortly after the release of David Z. Morris’ debut novella, in night we coax things out of hidden shapes, Waking Writer’s editor sat down with him to discuss their writing journeys and the experience of publishing their first books. Berneta: What have you written so far? David: I’ve made my living as a writer, in…
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Stef Rzysko, author of The Rhino That I Know
When and why did you begin writing? I began writing at University where I studied illustration and animation. On a course which was obviously focused on the artwork and the concept, I found myself spending an inordinate amount of time perfecting the text or the script. In my head, the writing and the text were…
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K.S. Villoso, author of Jaeth’s Eye
Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre? I love the scope and flexibility of epic fantasy. I love how it can encompass all sorts of themes that may be outdated or just won’t work in other genres: honor, duty, courage, and sacrifice. There is always this “larger-than-life” feel in epic…
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