Ask the Author: Dmitri Poletaev
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Dmitri Poletaev
I love to travel. That is not only inspired me to write, but to live.
Dmitri Poletaev
"Fort Ross" is only the first book of the series "Heroes of the Fourth dimension". I've just finished a second book, it will be called "Specters of Fortune," and began to work on a third one. Finally, the whole series should have 7 books. So, as you can see, there are still a lot of work.
Dmitri Poletaev
No one will scold you for daydreaming
Dmitri Poletaev
That concept is unknown to me. I have so much to tell that the only thing I regret is that I might have not enough time to accomplish it. However, sometimes I "stumbled over" something, which delayed my writing. Usually, I know what it is. When the reality of life demanding all your attention, you know, you have to deal with it somehow. That's, yes, like everybody else, I experience quite often. I have a family, friends, and other "obligations"... But, I couldn't call it "writer's block."
Dmitri Poletaev
As you could probably guess it out - in Fort Ross National Historic Park. Fort Ross transformed me. For the first time, I found myself in this Russian settlement and fortress, in Northern California, in 1995. Since then this place didn't let me go. So often, over the years, I have dreamed of the old Fort, that I began to think that, on some transcendental level, I've already been there once. All my newly acquired knowledge started begging me to let it out. It became unbearable! I noticed, with a bit of concern, that my delirium began to spread out of my dreams and started to render influence on my real life. And then the incredible happened. I "fell through" Time and ended up in the Fort Ross of 1820 ...
I know it's hard to believe, and I don't insist. I'm just telling my story about that fascinating chapter in American history and how was it all in reality. And it's clear to me now that one novel wouldn't cover everything I have to tell. The work on the second book, "Specters of Fortune," already coming to an end, it's in hands of the editors now. And the third story is already in line ...
I know it's hard to believe, and I don't insist. I'm just telling my story about that fascinating chapter in American history and how was it all in reality. And it's clear to me now that one novel wouldn't cover everything I have to tell. The work on the second book, "Specters of Fortune," already coming to an end, it's in hands of the editors now. And the third story is already in line ...
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