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The Author Interviews: Bryan Aiello
Introducing Bryan Aiello, the author of the novelCompounded Interest.
"I call NYC home and wish the subway went everywhere and Times Square didn’t suck. I saw John Turturro once. Maybe it was him. He was wearing a yellow shirt and smiled at me like he knew I knew. I am an Army vet who writes. I like characters who want more then they deserve. I like genre fiction. I love space. I love paladins. One day I might write a paladin in space story. Just you wait. The university of South Florida spit me out with a degree in creative writing and I find myself questioning the sanity of going to a school that advertises a fake beach on its brochure ever since. I intuit grammar. I Got married in 2012. We had twins in 2015. I do a lot of cooking and dog walking and ranting about the unfairness of sentience."You can follow me on Twitter: @bryaielloWattpad:https://www.wattpad.com/user/BryanAielloMy Subreddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/Voyage_of_Roadkill/My Reddit profile:https://www.reddit.com/user/Voyage_of_Roadkill/Like my work? Become a patron at:https://www.patreon.com/BryanAielloBryan writes:Literary FictionNarrative poetryFantasyScience fictionNoirLatest Release/ Upcoming Release:Compounded Interest:https://www.amazon.com/Compounded-Interest-tale-revenge-greed/dp/152094540X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495391892&sr=8-1&keywords=bryan+aielloWebsite:wwwbryanaiello.comWhat made you want to become a writer?Books had magic inside their covers. I wanted to make the magic.What are your thoughts on the indie vs traditional publishing argument?If you learn how to make millions of dollars and be the best the traditional side of the industry will come looking for you. Just love what you do. Have fun.Tell us about your latest novel.Drugs. Money. Violence. Violence. Violence. Greed. Some sex. More violence. The end.Please give us your top 3 marketing tips.Don’t be a dick.EngageAlways be writingPlease give us your top 3 productivity tips.There is no such thing as writer's blockWhen it is time to write, writeDeadline yourselfTell us about your typical writing day.I have gotten into a chaotic habit of working on many projects during the day and aim for different word counts on my stories and poems I will specifically work on either a short story, or a novel for the week, or day and have drabbles or flash fiction dividing my time. I also punctuate my day with either a scheduled interview, or an attempt to book content for my podcast.What is your definition of success? Would you say you are a successful author?I say Shakespeare was successful. He defined the immortality a writer can achieve. Stan Lee will live forever also. Stephen King. Yep. Lovecraft. uhhuh. Walk by a used book store and browse the dusty old bargain book bins sitting outside. Look at the names printed on the spines of those old tomes. Recognize any? Probably not. Are they succesful? Could they pay their rent? Sure. Was that all they wanted? Probably not. I get to write. In that I am happy. Do I want more? Hell yes.Share some of your writing goals with us. Have you met any of them yet?Immortality. Ask me again in a thousand years.How do you deal with negative reviews and criticism?Negativity should be used for growth. Life is not a slip and slide.Do you have a favourite author for fiction and non-fiction? Why are they your favourite and which of their books would you recommend? Why?Jared Diamond is a great Anthropologist writer I recommend “Guns Germs and Steel.” I love books that dig deep into a subject and Diamond definitely fits the bill. He tells the story if his subject and his subject is the why of humans.Historian David McCullough’s book 1776 and John Adams. This dude breaks down history so minutely sometimes you have to wonder if you are reading history or fiction. Brilliant writer and historian who uses newspaper sources from the time he is writing in. Makes it seem simple like anyone can do it… anyone cannot do this.. this dude is straight special.Kurt Vonnegut writes science fiction but he said many times he never wrote science fiction with the intention of writing science fiction. He survived the firebombing of Dresden as an American soldier POW and lived his life with severe PTSD and wrote a tremendous book call slaughterHouse Five about a dude that gets unstuck in time and space that explores his experiences. He also wrote my favorite book of all time “Blue Beard,” which sort of covers the same experience from the perspective of a very talented artist.Charles Bukowski is considered a Los Angeles Poet, but he wrote five prose books also, Factotum, Post Office, Ham on Rye, Hollywood, Women and a six we don't talk about called Pulp. With the exception being the later, he was dying of leukemia when he wrote it are six of my favorite books of all time. His autobiographical fiction just sings to me in a way that no other writer’s work ever has.Virginia Wolfe’s, “To the Light House,” just blew me away. I love how detailed she was. How intimate. Always recommend this to a would writer. This work is the best break down the human mind ever written.C.S. Lewis’ “Chronicles of Narnia,” is to me what for many people the Lord of the Rings was read this series over and over again as a child. This is fantasy. This is what i want to capture and know I will never even come close.Where do you get your ideas/ how do you find inspiration?I mine the garden of words I plant looking for treasure hoping something grows that is sueful.Can you share any free resources or tools you have found helpful?Reddit and twitter are immensely useful in inspiring me with images and news stories and new books and stories and amazing new awesome people like Emma Hardcastle!Please give us your top 3 world-building tips.Read everything .Be interested in science and history.Be interested in art and life.Do you outsource your work (editing and cover design specifically)?No, because I like the work.Are you a plotter or a pantser? Please tell us why and what your pre-writing processes are.I am a gardener. I plant my littel seeds and go back and see which ones sprount.Why do you write?I have no choice. My soul demands it.What is your mission statement?To die doing the best I could doWhat do you love the most about writing and why?When you make excuses it's obvious.What do you dislike about writing and why?Nothing.Do you ever visit other authors' websites and if so, what do you look for? Why?I’m very selfish, but I love having artists and writers as guests on my podcast!In order of importance (most important first) when shopping online, what do you look at first? Cover design, formatting, reviews, description, price, publisher, author name, page count, preview, formats available.ConceptGenreAuthorI agree that indie publishing gives the author more control.No. Quality takes no prisonersI agree that indie books should be difficult to identify amongst traditionally published books.Yes If something is entertaining it will appeal to someone looking to be entertainedIn order of usefulness (most useful first) when marketing your book, which techniques do you recommend from these options?Writing more books. (a friend says best way to sell a book is write a second book and the best way to sell the 1st and 2nd is to write a third, I agree with him)Social media. (I think we live in a world of social media. Social media rules us)Blog tours. (Talked to a guy with 85k wordpress.com followers. He just quit his job and writes full time now… just saying)Perma-free/ giveaways. (free mean bah)Media coverage (newspaper, TV, podcasts etc). (I cord cut and hate commercials, I don't listen to radio. but I freaking love podcasts.Writing is my dream.YesI agree the ideal price for an e-book on Amazon is 99c-$2.99.I am not sure.I have suffered writer's block in the past.Yes, but I think it was tied with...Cause of writer's block:...severe depressionHow you resolved it:DrugsI use (Word Processor): (please highlight/ bold your answer)Google docsI tried and failed to get a publishing deal and/ or literary agent or had one in the past.YesI outsource my editing.My wife reads through my stuff.I outsource my cover design.NoI outsource my formatting.NoI write to a specific word count every day.Yes - at a minimum 350 words.I set goals and frequently review them.YesI write across genres.YesFrom the author:"Check out my writing at bryanaiello.com. Want to chat art for an hour? Hit me up here:http://www.bryanaiello.com/home2/bryanaie/want-to-chat-on-the-podcast/Emma hardcastle is the absolute best! Thank you so much for the work you do for artist and writers!
"I call NYC home and wish the subway went everywhere and Times Square didn’t suck. I saw John Turturro once. Maybe it was him. He was wearing a yellow shirt and smiled at me like he knew I knew. I am an Army vet who writes. I like characters who want more then they deserve. I like genre fiction. I love space. I love paladins. One day I might write a paladin in space story. Just you wait. The university of South Florida spit me out with a degree in creative writing and I find myself questioning the sanity of going to a school that advertises a fake beach on its brochure ever since. I intuit grammar. I Got married in 2012. We had twins in 2015. I do a lot of cooking and dog walking and ranting about the unfairness of sentience."You can follow me on Twitter: @bryaielloWattpad:https://www.wattpad.com/user/BryanAielloMy Subreddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/Voyage_of_Roadkill/My Reddit profile:https://www.reddit.com/user/Voyage_of_Roadkill/Like my work? Become a patron at:https://www.patreon.com/BryanAielloBryan writes:Literary FictionNarrative poetryFantasyScience fictionNoirLatest Release/ Upcoming Release:Compounded Interest:https://www.amazon.com/Compounded-Interest-tale-revenge-greed/dp/152094540X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495391892&sr=8-1&keywords=bryan+aielloWebsite:wwwbryanaiello.comWhat made you want to become a writer?Books had magic inside their covers. I wanted to make the magic.What are your thoughts on the indie vs traditional publishing argument?If you learn how to make millions of dollars and be the best the traditional side of the industry will come looking for you. Just love what you do. Have fun.Tell us about your latest novel.Drugs. Money. Violence. Violence. Violence. Greed. Some sex. More violence. The end.Please give us your top 3 marketing tips.Don’t be a dick.EngageAlways be writingPlease give us your top 3 productivity tips.There is no such thing as writer's blockWhen it is time to write, writeDeadline yourselfTell us about your typical writing day.I have gotten into a chaotic habit of working on many projects during the day and aim for different word counts on my stories and poems I will specifically work on either a short story, or a novel for the week, or day and have drabbles or flash fiction dividing my time. I also punctuate my day with either a scheduled interview, or an attempt to book content for my podcast.What is your definition of success? Would you say you are a successful author?I say Shakespeare was successful. He defined the immortality a writer can achieve. Stan Lee will live forever also. Stephen King. Yep. Lovecraft. uhhuh. Walk by a used book store and browse the dusty old bargain book bins sitting outside. Look at the names printed on the spines of those old tomes. Recognize any? Probably not. Are they succesful? Could they pay their rent? Sure. Was that all they wanted? Probably not. I get to write. In that I am happy. Do I want more? Hell yes.Share some of your writing goals with us. Have you met any of them yet?Immortality. Ask me again in a thousand years.How do you deal with negative reviews and criticism?Negativity should be used for growth. Life is not a slip and slide.Do you have a favourite author for fiction and non-fiction? Why are they your favourite and which of their books would you recommend? Why?Jared Diamond is a great Anthropologist writer I recommend “Guns Germs and Steel.” I love books that dig deep into a subject and Diamond definitely fits the bill. He tells the story if his subject and his subject is the why of humans.Historian David McCullough’s book 1776 and John Adams. This dude breaks down history so minutely sometimes you have to wonder if you are reading history or fiction. Brilliant writer and historian who uses newspaper sources from the time he is writing in. Makes it seem simple like anyone can do it… anyone cannot do this.. this dude is straight special.Kurt Vonnegut writes science fiction but he said many times he never wrote science fiction with the intention of writing science fiction. He survived the firebombing of Dresden as an American soldier POW and lived his life with severe PTSD and wrote a tremendous book call slaughterHouse Five about a dude that gets unstuck in time and space that explores his experiences. He also wrote my favorite book of all time “Blue Beard,” which sort of covers the same experience from the perspective of a very talented artist.Charles Bukowski is considered a Los Angeles Poet, but he wrote five prose books also, Factotum, Post Office, Ham on Rye, Hollywood, Women and a six we don't talk about called Pulp. With the exception being the later, he was dying of leukemia when he wrote it are six of my favorite books of all time. His autobiographical fiction just sings to me in a way that no other writer’s work ever has.Virginia Wolfe’s, “To the Light House,” just blew me away. I love how detailed she was. How intimate. Always recommend this to a would writer. This work is the best break down the human mind ever written.C.S. Lewis’ “Chronicles of Narnia,” is to me what for many people the Lord of the Rings was read this series over and over again as a child. This is fantasy. This is what i want to capture and know I will never even come close.Where do you get your ideas/ how do you find inspiration?I mine the garden of words I plant looking for treasure hoping something grows that is sueful.Can you share any free resources or tools you have found helpful?Reddit and twitter are immensely useful in inspiring me with images and news stories and new books and stories and amazing new awesome people like Emma Hardcastle!Please give us your top 3 world-building tips.Read everything .Be interested in science and history.Be interested in art and life.Do you outsource your work (editing and cover design specifically)?No, because I like the work.Are you a plotter or a pantser? Please tell us why and what your pre-writing processes are.I am a gardener. I plant my littel seeds and go back and see which ones sprount.Why do you write?I have no choice. My soul demands it.What is your mission statement?To die doing the best I could doWhat do you love the most about writing and why?When you make excuses it's obvious.What do you dislike about writing and why?Nothing.Do you ever visit other authors' websites and if so, what do you look for? Why?I’m very selfish, but I love having artists and writers as guests on my podcast!In order of importance (most important first) when shopping online, what do you look at first? Cover design, formatting, reviews, description, price, publisher, author name, page count, preview, formats available.ConceptGenreAuthorI agree that indie publishing gives the author more control.No. Quality takes no prisonersI agree that indie books should be difficult to identify amongst traditionally published books.Yes If something is entertaining it will appeal to someone looking to be entertainedIn order of usefulness (most useful first) when marketing your book, which techniques do you recommend from these options?Writing more books. (a friend says best way to sell a book is write a second book and the best way to sell the 1st and 2nd is to write a third, I agree with him)Social media. (I think we live in a world of social media. Social media rules us)Blog tours. (Talked to a guy with 85k wordpress.com followers. He just quit his job and writes full time now… just saying)Perma-free/ giveaways. (free mean bah)Media coverage (newspaper, TV, podcasts etc). (I cord cut and hate commercials, I don't listen to radio. but I freaking love podcasts.Writing is my dream.YesI agree the ideal price for an e-book on Amazon is 99c-$2.99.I am not sure.I have suffered writer's block in the past.Yes, but I think it was tied with...Cause of writer's block:...severe depressionHow you resolved it:DrugsI use (Word Processor): (please highlight/ bold your answer)Google docsI tried and failed to get a publishing deal and/ or literary agent or had one in the past.YesI outsource my editing.My wife reads through my stuff.I outsource my cover design.NoI outsource my formatting.NoI write to a specific word count every day.Yes - at a minimum 350 words.I set goals and frequently review them.YesI write across genres.YesFrom the author:"Check out my writing at bryanaiello.com. Want to chat art for an hour? Hit me up here:http://www.bryanaiello.com/home2/bryanaie/want-to-chat-on-the-podcast/Emma hardcastle is the absolute best! Thank you so much for the work you do for artist and writers!
