3Q’s: John Boden wants to be entertained!

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3Q’s: John Boden wants to be entertained!

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Fun 3Q’s today!

John Boden is known as an author who’ll transport you back to a specific time and place with each of his releases. He has been super encouraging and supportive to so many writers and I was really excited to have him come on down for the 3Q’s feature!

Please welcome John!

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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?

John: I do my best to carve out a sliver of writing time daily. Usually an hour or two, in the afternoon, depending on whether my after work nap overflows its banks. I work a 2am-almost noon shift so the nap is important to my survival. I try to add words to at least one of the few projects simmering at the moment. I don’t aim for a specific count just try to be happy with any wordage I’m able to cough out. I try to wrap up my office time by 4pm, that’s when the wife is done with her work and then we get to hang out most of the evening which is important. Been together as a couple for 32 years now and we still like to be together, nice, yeah?

Steve: You decide to host a writer’s retreat. One weekend in a luxury house on an island. What three other authors do you invite to come along?

John: First, I would never host it on an island. I’m scared of boats and water. But a big ass cabin in the woods…for sure. I’m going to say Chad Lutzke (because as close as we are we have never met in the real life world and I want that to happen more than anything.) Stephen Graham Jones because I absolutely love his work and we could also talk about hair metal. Kelly Barnhill, because I adore her work and I’m still obsessed by her short story “Hush” and would love the chance to gush about it to annoying lengths. That’s my today picks. Ask me tomorrow and they’d be different.

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

John: Most recent release would be Wounds To Wishes: Dark Tide Book One from Crystal Lake Publishing. It’s actually a trio of novellas, one by Chad Lutzke, one by Robert Ford and one by me. They are all connected to one another, some strongly others with more fleeting thread. We were the debut book in the series and were expected to bring the sad, which we did. But I decided to tackle a different kind of grief and structure. My novella, Suet, closes the collection its actually the first thing I’ve written in some time that anyone has said was creepy and/or that it gave them nightmares. Those are sweet nothings in the ear to a horror writer, yeah?

Steve: Bonus Question! You receive an invitation in the mail from one of these two people. The invitation invites you to have dinner and spend the night in their home. Do you accept the invitation from Victor Frankenstein or Dracula and why?

John: I’d go with Victor because being a doctor, scientist and a little left of sane, there’d be a guaranteed entertainment factor. And maybe real food. With Dracula all that would ensue is that’d I’d get all tired and sweaty trying to avoid being bled dry. Actually, I’d probably just not respond and sit at home holding out for my invite from Dr. Phibes.

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