My Interview on Kindle Author
DAVID WISEHART: What can you tell us about Birthright?
RJ PALMER: Birthright is the written culmination of a youth spent with my nose in a book increasing my word power and my somewhat neurotic imagination we well as a journey of self-discovery. I found that I'm passionate about the written word and can't even write out the answers to these interview questions without giving it some kind of pop. That and honestly, I have an over active imagination and most often must rely on my husband to keep me firmly grounded with a modicum of realism though at the time that I wrote Birthright he wasn't in the picture yet. He nevertheless insisted on supporting me in my interest in pursuing a career in novelism which was something difficult for me to fathom considering that he hadn't really gotten a glimpse into my imagination running full speed ahead and he was prepared to support me on a "pig in a poke" basis knowing only that he loved me and that writing was what I wanted to do for a living. Imagine his surprise when I insisted that to be able to advocate my work, he must first read my work and imagine my surprise when he not only read it in record time (which only happens with novels or works in which he is helplessly engrossed) but began to look at me with a new kind of respect. To be perfectly blunt, I was utterly floored though all in all, I loved finding out that I had a talent for storytelling as well as the patience to see it through.
DAVID WISEHART: How do you develop and differentiate your characters?
RJ PALMER: I have to step into their shoes in a manner of speaking and write from what I can only surmise would be their point of view, how they felt and what they saw which is more difficult than one might believe given that these characters are fictional. However, development and differentiation come more by themselves when I resolutely do everything I conceivably can to set myself aside and BE each character about whom I'm writing because I'm just the storyteller, they are the story.
DAVID WISEHART: Who do you imagine is your ideal reader?
RJ PALMER: My ideal reader is the person who likes my material. Okay, anyone who enjoys a somewhat technical science fiction novel with an edge of the surreal will tend to enjoy Birthright while with my newer works in progress, genre preferences will have to be different though the writing style will be largely the same and yes, that's about as close to teaser or spoiler as I get. I can honestly say that science fiction writers tend to acquire a cult following and I don't want to be any different so I want for my ideal reader to be rabidly in love with my work though not to the point that I get stalkers, in all things there is a delicate balance.
DAVID WISEHART: What was your journey as a writer?
RJ PALMER: The over active imagination had to have creative outlet sooner or later. In truth, I was broke and bored out of my mind and one day just started writing and it kind of snowballed from there. Soon I was sleeping better (because I wasn't kept awake at night with a racing mind) and believe it or not I became more functional so all in all my journey as a writer realistically straightened my life out in a way that I would never have been able to anticipate.
Read more at Kindle Author
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RJ PALMER: Birthright is the written culmination of a youth spent with my nose in a book increasing my word power and my somewhat neurotic imagination we well as a journey of self-discovery. I found that I'm passionate about the written word and can't even write out the answers to these interview questions without giving it some kind of pop. That and honestly, I have an over active imagination and most often must rely on my husband to keep me firmly grounded with a modicum of realism though at the time that I wrote Birthright he wasn't in the picture yet. He nevertheless insisted on supporting me in my interest in pursuing a career in novelism which was something difficult for me to fathom considering that he hadn't really gotten a glimpse into my imagination running full speed ahead and he was prepared to support me on a "pig in a poke" basis knowing only that he loved me and that writing was what I wanted to do for a living. Imagine his surprise when I insisted that to be able to advocate my work, he must first read my work and imagine my surprise when he not only read it in record time (which only happens with novels or works in which he is helplessly engrossed) but began to look at me with a new kind of respect. To be perfectly blunt, I was utterly floored though all in all, I loved finding out that I had a talent for storytelling as well as the patience to see it through.
DAVID WISEHART: How do you develop and differentiate your characters?
RJ PALMER: I have to step into their shoes in a manner of speaking and write from what I can only surmise would be their point of view, how they felt and what they saw which is more difficult than one might believe given that these characters are fictional. However, development and differentiation come more by themselves when I resolutely do everything I conceivably can to set myself aside and BE each character about whom I'm writing because I'm just the storyteller, they are the story.
DAVID WISEHART: Who do you imagine is your ideal reader?
RJ PALMER: My ideal reader is the person who likes my material. Okay, anyone who enjoys a somewhat technical science fiction novel with an edge of the surreal will tend to enjoy Birthright while with my newer works in progress, genre preferences will have to be different though the writing style will be largely the same and yes, that's about as close to teaser or spoiler as I get. I can honestly say that science fiction writers tend to acquire a cult following and I don't want to be any different so I want for my ideal reader to be rabidly in love with my work though not to the point that I get stalkers, in all things there is a delicate balance.
DAVID WISEHART: What was your journey as a writer?
RJ PALMER: The over active imagination had to have creative outlet sooner or later. In truth, I was broke and bored out of my mind and one day just started writing and it kind of snowballed from there. Soon I was sleeping better (because I wasn't kept awake at night with a racing mind) and believe it or not I became more functional so all in all my journey as a writer realistically straightened my life out in a way that I would never have been able to anticipate.
Read more at Kindle Author
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updates and a video of my reading debut... (circularrunning.wordpress.com)
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How To Make Your Flash Fiction Work (pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com)
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Help make science fiction and fantasy conventions more awesome, by bringing in cool writers from overseas [Crowdfund This] (io9.com)
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