Do you have a favourite book or character that you have written?
I like Damon and Jennifer in The Ritual. I would like that to sell, because I have a massive plan for those two in the coming years. Then there’s John Dexter in Carla, and the angry Indie writer, Julian, in The Night Porter. I also liked Emily in The Illustrated Woman
– that was a challenge writing from the perspective of a teenage girl.
Some of my sharpest writing. I really had to dig into my animus for
that one. Unfortunately, I had to delete that from my library as it was
so (accidentally) filthy that Createspace banned it.
The title itself is too good to waste I am planning to “reboot”
the book in the coming months without the offending bits.
What or who would you say has been your
biggest
inspiration in life?
As a writer, it has to be Jim Starlin, the writer/artist/creator of Adam Warlock. Those comics, written and drawn in the late nineteen seventies blew my brains out. I had always been a reader – my mum says she couldn’t get me out of my bedroom because I always had my head in a book – but until I read Warlock, which has the most mind blowing storyline ever, I didn’t see the potential of the creative process.
As a person, my biggest inspiration was a bag of Dartmoor mushrooms I took when I was eighteen which sent me on a rocket to the far end of the cosmos and when I came back, I was a totally different dude, er…person.