Ask the Author: M. Chandler
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M. Chandler
Who is my father?
M. Chandler
I died in the mouth of the beast, my arm clutching at its throat. In my last moment I heard my hero scream his arrival, too late to save me- I watched my own guts spill from the gash he carved into the beast.
M. Chandler
I'd go to miskatonic university and lose my sanity.
M. Chandler
I'm hoping to do some re-reads actually. I want to go back and enjoy Catch 22 and Thunder Below. I am going to catch a couple of previously hidden Lovecrafts at my local library - they just acquired them! and read Howard's original Conan and explore his horror works as well.
M. Chandler
I will take a walk, a meal with a friend and a shower. Not always in that order, usually in the shower I have breakthroughs. I don't know why. I'm a scorpio, water sign. Maybe that's it. I've heard it works for others as well.
M. Chandler
I get to use it as an excuse for being neurotic. The opportunity to do what I love. It rarely feels like work, and when it does - I can put it down and walk away for a bit.
M. Chandler
Don't quit. Keep writing. Save everything. It might look like garbage now, but in a week, a month or a year you'll see it change from an ugly duckling to a swan perhaps. I try to follow Elmore's rules and ignore the rest. Write what you feel, not what you think is going to sell. What is in you, genuinely shared I think has value, your audience is out there.
M. Chandler
I'm currently crafting the sequel to Salem's Son (Harvester of Tomorrow) and a presentation for my writers guild on pacing for novelists.
M. Chandler
I have always written for work and as a referee for a table top game group. I wasn't good at much else. I was a lousy soldier, a terrible musician, but when I put things on paper and people read them or experience them - I'm told my writing is interactive and provocative, I see tears and people asking for more so I write because it has impacted those who I've shared it with and somehow I guess that's worth it.
M. Chandler
In 2004 I was upset about the direction of the war and our governments lies about it. My friends started dying and I wanted to draw attention to the idiocy of it, capture it the way Catch-22 distilled the absurdity of what was arguably a 'right' or 'just' war (from the USA anyway). It turned out to be much more after I tabled the initial 18 drafts and went back to the drawing board several years later. The book, Salem's Son, in it's final form came about as a result of my own journey through posttraumatic stress and the worst it could throw at me.
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