1) Where do you find inspiration? Does place or observation, or both influence your writing? Ideas come to me from everywhere, both from external and internal sources. It's a ceaseless flood of ideas really that I experience, evoked by a wide range of random stimuli...
What promoted you to republish these two books? When I unpublished these books, it was because I was embarrassed of the quality. But when I looked through them again, I realized my embarrassment had nothing to do with the quality of my work. It had to do with the fact...
Until 31st July you can grab many of my books from Smashwords at a sale price. https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/mevebarnett As you well know I write in multiple genres, so how do you choose which one to read? There are several options on where you can research...
Your novels tend to have unexpected protagonists/settings. Was this a conscious decision or the spark of an idea that evolved? My ideas hit me just as unexpected. It is not like I want to come up with this or that like a contract writer where an idea is developed and...
You have experienced a multitude of jobs – have these experiences given you insights for the characters in your stories, within your book Rage and other writing? Yes and no. Yes in that I have based characters on past jobs for some of my writing. For example, two...
How important are the arts and your creativity to you? Life is nothing without the arts. Think of what we do to relax: listen to music, watch movies, read books, go dancing. And yet, when it comes down to a budget crisis, these seem to be the things that are cut...
Today I welcome a joint interview with Daivd and Cendrine, authors who collaborate to publish a variety of books and a magazine. Welcome to you both. David Ellis 1. What drew you to poetry? I grew up trying to write spoof lyrics for a lot of...
1. How old were you when you wrote your first writing project? What genre was it? That’s hard to say. I was writing short stories and designing cover art when I was in second grade. I was writing screenplays and making movies in middle school. I published poetry in...
What drew you to write in the fantasy genre? It’s what I fell in love with. Ever since I read Lord of the Rings, almost all I have read is fantasy. It’s so imaginative. You can have almost anything happen in them. You can create outlandish worlds that could never...