A Life Through Books Interview
By
MANSON
What is the hardest part of writing your books?
Self-doubt. Trying to overcome that nagging inner critic. Nothing ever seems good enough for it, and just when I think I do have something good enough to appease the little beast, it wants me to kill the darling.
What songs are most played on your Ipod?
Since I’m pretty eclectic in my taste of music I’ll list bands instead of songs. I’m a country girl turned city girl. So anything country (especially Johnny Cash). But I’ve been a city girl for a spell, got into the 80’s punk scene, so I’m also an old school, head banging, punker chick and love anything punk and heavy metal. Especially Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, Blondie, Talking Heads, Slayer, Metallica, Slipknot. I like oldies like The Animals and Johnny Ace and Pink Floyd. Also like Hip Hop and Gangsta, like Brotha Lynch, Wu-Tang, Cypress Hill, and Eazy-E.
Do you have critique partners or beta readers?
Oh sugar I have a hard enough time fighting the little monster critic in me and trusting in myself than to put faith in beta readers. Though I suppose the fine folk at No Sell Out Productions could be considered my critique partners when I work with them on my manuscripts. Their editors have been top notch to work with.
What book are you reading now?
The Book of Job.
How did you start your writing career?
With a lot of prayer. As much as I’m filled with self-doubt, I’m also a gal of great faith and belief that helps get me through the doubt, like a doubting Thomas. But I suppose it all started as a reader. I love reading horror, crime, and dark fantasy, and researching the occult. It presented me with what I felt were really great insights, ideas, and possibilities, that I began writing down and expanding on into stories and then of course full novels.
Tell us about your next release.
My next release will be the second book in The Hell Bound Kids series, tentatively titled “Beneath The Nightmare City” which picks up immediately where the first book leaves off. And I’m currently hard at work on the third book in the series.
