3Q’s – Andrew J. Stone challenges you to dance!
How cool have these 3Q’s been? I’m loving them! So, we have at least one fan! Today’s guest is a guy I’ve gotten to know over on Twitter these past number of years. Andrew is a huge Vancouver Canucks fan and resides in California!
Welcome Andrew!
Steve: What does your writing time look like? Do you try and write at the same time each day? Do you have a word count you attempt to hit?
A: I appreciate the laughs! But my blunt and brutally honest answer is fuck no. I write slow and sporadic. For example, aside from three weekend trips down to Ensenada, México in 2022, I haven’t written much this year. I have multiple day jobs and twins so finding time to write at home is nearly impossible at this point in my life. I like the idea of writing a little every day but that has never worked for me. But I did go down to Ensenada last weekend and only slept three and a half hours over a three day period and got a lot of work done. I only have a few thousand words to go before finishing my novella The Land of Lost Gods, and I’ve already surpassed the maximum word count I assumed the story would be when I outlined the project. I’m also real stoked with how the book is coming together, which is huge because I feel my Works-In-Progress are spectacularly atrocious and borderline unreadable.
Steve: Out of all your releases, do you have a character you could write about forever?
A: Definitely Katie from All Hail the House Gods. Like me, she is a Revolutionary Communist fighting against a seemingly unbeatable fascist regime in a world where most people would rather live with a false sense of safety and comfort if it grants them the opportunity to maintain the exploitative status quo, refusing to accept that it is not only right to rebel, but when the parasitic capitalist class has so violently oppressed its workers, murdering the masses with their callous indifference, cells of freedom fighters will naturally organize and unveil themselves from the shadows to take up arms against the oppressors, risking everything to serve the people suffering under the venomous empire.
Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!
A: My latest release is The Ultimate Dinosaur-Dance-Off (and it’s my first novel, both books before were novellas). If you aren’t a dancer, like myself, and don’t truly care for dancing (should I admit that??); however, I spent so many hours researching dancing that I promise you, dancers everywhere, I am not doing you a disservice, you should still give the book a chance because it is full of psychedelic dinosaurs, interspecial romance (human + Apatosaurus), and, frankly, because it contains the most important dance-off of all time. I typically write dark shit, but this book was both a lot of fun to write and is a lot of fun to read. It’s like what would happen if Billy Elliot and Jurassic Park got together and had a psilocybin baby together. And in a time of global pandemics that never seem to end, who doesn’t want Billy Elliot and Jurassic Park to have a psilocybin baby? It’s an absurdist book. It’s a queer book. It’s a socialist book. But at the end of the day, it is also a dinosaur book, about a beautiful species that (probably) went extinct far too soon, and who doesn’t want to read fun stories about the greatest creatures to have ever roamed the Earth?
Steve: Bonus Question! Did you have a favorite wrestler as a kid?
A: Nope. Never got into wrestling. But as an adult, my favorite wrestlers are undoubtedly my three-year-old twins, who can easily kick my ass any day.
Awesome! Thank you so much, Andrew!
Find more about Andrew here;
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-J-Stone/e/B09J4JRCHQ/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Andrewosaurus96
