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Joshua C. Geiger

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult

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Joshua Geiger is a reader and writer who lives in Wyoming. He reads a lot of history, and writes about it as the senior scriptwriter for the million+ subscriber youtube channel The History Guy: History Deserves to be Remembered. He has been writing since he was in the second grade, and has completed seven novel manuscripts that he is still trying to get published. He has published two books of poetry, "Selling the Sunrise" and "HORIZONS". He also posts copious amounts of poetry and short stories at http://creativelycliche.deviantart.com You can find more information about him, his projects, and his work at http://creativelycliche.webs.com. ...more

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Where do you find the inspiration for your novels and poetry? Dreams, real life, imaginative flights of fancy... ? Inquiring minds want to know!

Joshua C. Geiger Thank you for the question! It differs a little from medium to medium, but most prevalent is definitely music (Spaceman was written following infinite…moreThank you for the question! It differs a little from medium to medium, but most prevalent is definitely music (Spaceman was written following infinite imaginary escapades listening to "Spaceman" by the Killers, and my most recent fantasy novel owes a whole lot to Bastille's album Bad Blood.)

With poetry it's more about little things like a particular feeling I want to express, or a line that starts in my head that I just need to fill out with some other thoughts. That has a lot to do with real life, but my glitch stuff are mostly meditations on science concepts, from AI to quantum mechanics (which I think is rife with poetic implications).

More generally, my desire to write comes from how energized I feel and how deeply I connect with media in general, from movies to music to novels and television. Those deep feelings of greater implications and that heartache for stories that make me want to keep living in that world are why I write. Creating that rush is almost as fun as feeling it!(less)

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Does your poetry end up in your fiction at all?

Joshua C. Geiger This is such a great question! In the literal sense, no - my poetry is usually deliberately very un-prose like. I do sometimes but poetry or lyrics in…moreThis is such a great question! In the literal sense, no - my poetry is usually deliberately very un-prose like. I do sometimes but poetry or lyrics in my writing. Mostly I think it comes out in my metaphors (especially if I'm writing in first person) and occasionally in possibly too-flowery sections of description. To some extent the two are very separate, but I think ultimately a lot of both comes from the same place in my mind, and so they influence each other back and forth. I've written quite a few poems ABOUT stuff that happens in my fiction.(less)

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	Selling the Sunrise 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life at the Limits by Joshua C. Geiger (Goodreads Author), Adriana Yankey (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snow Falls South (Koranin, #1) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prince and the Apprentice (Koranin, #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	::HORIZONS:: 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Snow Falls South and in Laramie

I never posted about my accomplishments this summer, which invovled finishing both "Snow Falls South" (during the June edition of Nanowrimo) and its sequel, "The Prince and the Apprentice".

Since then I have been working on revising "Satallites" (the sequel to "Spaceman") and I have arced "The Basin on the Pedestal" (sequel to "The Prince...") and "Visitors", the third novel in the Spaceman series

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