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Andy Lockwood

Biography

Andy Lockwood owes his continued fascination with the macabre to a lifetime immersed in the horror genre. His tutelage began with the stories of Ray Bradbury, Stephen King and other masters; quickly becoming part of a regular routine as he bonded with his father over monster double-features every Saturday. He grew up with role models like Vincent Price, Alice Cooper, The Addams’ and The Munsters. It’s not that he intended to turn out this way; he just didn’t know any better.
As the years added up, he discovered an avalanche of influences that pushed his own imagination forward, urging a necessity to put pen to paper himself. While future career choices would shift and methods of creative expression would fluctuate, one thing remained certain: his love of the printed word was resolute.
While pursuing studies in filmmaking, he rekindled his love of writing. The limitations of scripted action brought him back to short story writing and the discovery of National Novel Writing Month. Eventually, his efforts would award him his first novel, Empty Hallways.
Andy has a decorated life of Bucket List accomplishments, none of which he ever intended to do for the glory. They have all fallen in line as part of the adventure his life decided to be. Eventually, he intends to capture the best of these stories in a lengthy memoir – or at least on his blog, Happier Thoughts.
Empty Hallways is currently available in paperback and eBook formats, though the rumors of a rare and elusive hardcover still persist. He had two forthcoming novels, House of Thirteen and Threshold, which are both in editing and expected to be released in 2015.
Andy lives in mid-Michigan with 3 cats, a runaway imagination and a misguided idea of what it means to be an adult.

Smashwords Interview

Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up in mid-Michigan. First, in the city of Belleville, less than a block from the roar of I-94, though the better part of my childhood was spent in the rural village of Norvell. It had a dismal population and left me to entertaining myself in the woods or doing a lot - and I mean a lot - of reading for my amusement. There was occasionally television, but this was the days before *gasp* cable was available in my area. The lack of people and visual media had a direct influence on me, leaving me to find my influences in print. This forced my imagination to do most of the work that others - and most people today - rely on other creative people to do for them. I built whole universes, saved and destroyed galaxies, fought monsters - or became them. Daily. I find that when I am writing, I still tap into that now. I take something very basic, something we are all used to being very normal and let my imagination run wild on it.
When did you first start writing?
I have been telling and writing stories since childhood. I wanted to be like the writers I was reading. Even as a child, I was thrilled by the idea of scaring people - of having that much control over someone as to enforce a fear through the power of written word.
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Where to find Andy Lockwood online

Website: http://www.happierthoughts.com
Twitter: @randomgauge
Facebook: Facebook profile
Blog: http://www.happierthoughts.com

Where to buy in print

http://www.amazon.com/Andy-Lockwood/e/B00EZAVBEU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1428553880&sr=8-1

Books

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Smashwords book reviews by Andy Lockwood

  • A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words on April 08, 2015

    While I am a contributing author in this anthology, my congratulations go out to the other authors on such successful and stunning writing for this compilation. Writing is a challenge on its own, but to be given a single image and asked to write a story inspired by it puts the challenge on another level completely. I was nothing but impressed by these stories, and both surprised and delighted by the results. If ever you wanted to peek into the mind of an author, this is your keyhole.