Ask the Author: Pat Powers
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Pat Powers
Why do my socks keep disappearing when I all I ever do is wash them, wear them and put them in my dresser drawers and my dirty clothes hamper? How do they manage to vanish in the quantities they do, and always just one sock from a pair?
Oh, wait, I used this conundrum as part of the plot for my book "I, The Glider Gun" on Smashwords. Oops!
Oh, wait, I used this conundrum as part of the plot for my book "I, The Glider Gun" on Smashwords. Oops!
Pat Powers
Yes, I did. I haven't published it, because a lot of people didn't like that I changed the way things ended. It's not available, but I'll see if I can find it. I think I published it on Jolly Roper or Bondagerotica, but it's vansihed since. I don't think the story would ever fly on Amazon but I should be able to publish in Smashwords. There may be copyright issues to publishing it for pay, but as I recall the original book was in copyright hell for a long time. I'll check it out. Thanks for your interest!
Pat Powers
A Culture orbital from Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. And I'd do anything I damn well pleased, because that's how the Culture rolls.
Pat Powers
Renegade from the Spiral Wars series, I'm about three quarters of the way through, but then again, Goodreads, summer is over.
Pat Powers
I was one of the Original Gangstas of erotica. I started up the Jolly Roper website early in the 1990s and had many exciting misadventures in the process, but also wrote a series of erotic stories that netted me a couple of hundred dollars a month. This was before Amazon was a thing.
Pat Powers
No, I"m not on Audible. I keep thinking I should get around to it. And i don't really have a good voice for narrating books ... it's kinda deep and blurry.
Pat Powers
I like Nick and Nora Charles from "The Thin Man" movies a lot, because I know I'd enjoy hanging out with them. They're relaxed and enjoy having a good time even as they go about the business of finding and jailing the bad guys.
Pat Powers
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you but check your email. Smashwords and Barnes & Noble are not all that censorious. Plus you can get away with racier covers.
Pat Powers
Agitate politically for Basic Income. You're going to need it. The most difficult element of writing for most people is having money to live on. You must either work, spending precious writing time at it, or live in great poverty ... sometimes both, if you are not born into wealthy circumstances. Fortunately, as automation proceeds, almost everyone is going to be as welcome in the workplace as writers, which is to say, not welcome at all. This should make for a political climate that will make Basic Income more successful.
Pat Powers
Having people read and enjoy your work. Best damn feeling in the world.
Pat Powers
I write something else, if I can manage it, then come back to it. Often when I do I discover that there was some reason why I was blocked, generally that I had moved the story in the wrong direction. I'm working on a story, "Witless on Lothar," in which someone named Anne Coaltar is kidnaped by Lotharians (parody Goreans) and winds up being trained by Mistress Hilarity Clanton. Coaltar can't believe it's not a Democratic plot to discredit her. I got totally blocked on the story for over a year. I recently realized that I had strayed from my original light-hearted parody tone into something that was too hard-core. So I'm gonna back off on the heavy stuff and go with the political parody. I bet it works.
Pat Powers
My most recently published book (to completion) is Riverbeast. I think the seeds of it were planted when I read Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi." It was an incredible read. Several months after I read it, this voice started up in my head, telling the story. All I had to do was write it down. I recognized the voice, it was what I perceived as the histrionic tone of writers from the 1800s. I've read a fair amount of stuff written by Victorian writers, and it was a very, easy natural voice. I wanted to combine the romance and adventure of Mississippi steamboat times with powerful sexual bondage erotica, so the story of an innocent woman kidnapped and enslaved by a riverboatman because her father had cheated the riverboatman in a business deal worked out beautifully. I did a fair amount of research on riverboat days on the Web in addition to reading "Life on the Mississippi." The initial incident ... the kidnapping ... came straight from the voice, then I built the plot around it.
Pat Powers
I've done it since childhood. It was what I was good at, and what I enjoyed, along with reading.
Pat Powers
Book three of the President Slavegirl series, which will involve former U.S. President Eileen MacCammon being trained as a slave girl in the slave kennels deep in the basement of a large corporation, and encountering an old political rival of hers who is also a slave in training.
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