BookHuntersBlog.com: As you write, how do you know when something is scary?
Benjamin Schenk: A lot of the characters I use are based on people I know. I’ll sometimes ask the person that the character is on how they would react in that situation. I also try to picture the action going on.
Do you have [...]
BookHuntersBlog.com: Do you have any scientific background?
Mike Green: Basically, yes. I studied sciences at university, and have bachelors and masters degrees to my name. My journalistic work also concentrates on science and technology.
Which of today’s inventors do you see as underestimated and overlooked?
I think that increasingly invention is becoming an anonymous occupation. If [...]
BookHuntersBlog.com: Did you study the craft of writing or dive right into it?
Michael Tyler: I’m sad to say I barely escaped high school, so I learned to write by reading my favorite authors. I’ve been a voracious reader for as long as I can remember, with Mark Twain, Louis L’Amour, Baum, and Tolkien as some [...]
BookHuntersBlog.com: Did you study the craft of writing or dive right into it?
Michael Gyulai: I majored in Communication Studies at UCLA so I had plenty of writing guidance and mentoring there.
BHB: What did you want to achieve by going to Rome?
MG: I wanted to learn Italian fluently. I wanted to live [...]
BookHuntersBlog.com: Did you study the craft of writing or dive right into it?
Steven Rage: Hit and miss, this class and that, writing, writing and still more writing since the mid-1980s.
BHB: What was your motivation behind writing these stories?
SR: Growing up in religious schools, Pontius Pilate was always my favorite bible character. I [...]
BookHuntersBlog.com: Did you study the craft of writing or dive right into it?Andrew Peterson: I dived right into it. I started in 1990 with an ambitious first novel. It took me two years to complete and ended up being 165,000 words. It was a horror novel, and it was atrocious. Just awful. Burning it [...]
