When did you first start writing?
[Laughs] I honestly can't remember. I know I was very young; the first time I started considering writing as a career, I was rearranging the books in my father's study - a frequent and enjoyable habit - and I remember being unable to reach the top! I think I was... five at the time. After that, and throughout most of my primary school life, I tended to scribble down ideas or little excerpts of stories that I intended to write. I even submitted a few shorts to magazine contests in the hopes that they'd make the now defunct stories pages. I wasn't very lucky. [Chuckles]
The first manuscript that I wrote is still in printed form in my closet. I was sixteen when I finished it, but I never got around to rewriting it - and trust me, it's in desperate need of a rewrite! Since then I've dabbled or written stories that were never quite... finished. The manuscript might be done, but we writers are very critical of ourselves, and I never considered them really suitable for publishing. Until now, that is!
What's the story behind your latest book?
There are two. The first is one that I completed some time ago; a science fiction adventure that I'm editing for publishing here on Smashwords. It takes place in a really odd future for Earth, at least in my opinion, and is the first in a series of three. Like most of my stories, it was inspired by a dream. I have the strangest dreams, but I love every second of them - which is odd, considering I often get very little sleep! [Laughs]
The second is an entirely new novel for an ongoing series. The stories all take place in the same world - tentatively named DreamScape - with different adventures for different characters that live in that world... and I can't really say more than that for fear of giving it away.
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