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3Q’s – Brian Fatah Steele and the Infinity Beyond!

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Brian Fatah Steele has one of the most amazing imaginations out there. Every single time he releases something, you know you’ll be transported away to somewhere you never even thought possible. It is phenomenal. I was super excited to see what he’d deliver in this installment of the 3Q’s!

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Brian! Welcome! Thank you for doing this!

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?

Brian: I’ve found that I write best in the morning. After I get up, feed the cat, make coffee, and check my accounts real quick, I usually sit down at my desktop. My routine is pretty well in place by this point. Coffee, smokes, Spotify, and go. Since I plot everything out ahead of time, I try to get approximately 2000 words done a day, and if I have time 4000 words. All just depends.

Steve: Out of all your releases, do you have a character you could write about forever?

Brian: No, probably not. A single trilogy is the most I could crank out from a story before I’d get bored and want to move on to a new idea. I love world-building and creating new characters. All my books loosely exist in the same multiverse, but nobody could really tell unless you searched for the clues. I love a lot of my characters, but I have a tendency to do some terrible things to them and their planets in my big, loud, cosmic horror tales.

Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!

Brian: My last release was a collection called VIOLATION HIVE. Ten tales of cosmic horror centered around the theme of “belief,” that veer off into other genres like dystopian, science fiction, folk horror, super hero, apocalyptic, and weird. Edited by Jospeh Sale and cover by Dimensionaut Media, it’s available on Amazon in ebook and paperback.

Steve: Bonus question time! Did you have a favorite wrestler as a kid?

Brian: Heh, not really. Maybe Undertaker or Ultimate Warrior. I was never all that into wrestling. I was the weird art kid with a massive comic book collection, reading his dad’s old pulp sci-fi novels. I went to art school to become an illustrator and ended up finding far more fulfillment in writing. I know a lot of my friends were into wrestling, and you’d think there would have been a crossover for me, but I suppose there wasn’t enough of a fantasy element… which is saying something.

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