1. Do you have a routine when it comes to writing? Ex: write a little bit everyday, times of day, specific places, etc?
2. What piece of advice do you wish someone would have told you before you decided to become a writer?
3. I grew up in Homosassa Springs and was pulled into the story through that connection. How did you decide on the locations for The Society of S?
4. What advice would you give an amateur writer struggling with developing character driven stories?
5. What enticed you to write about vampires?
6. How do you feel about the emergence of the electronic book world via Nook, Kindle, etc.? Do you think it has it been helpful or harmful to book sales?
7. Who would you consider your greatest influence? Why?
8. Have you ever had writer’s block? What did you do about it?
9. What books have you read in that past few months?
10. Was Ari based on anyone in particular?
11. Even though The Season of Risks was just released, is there an additional book in the works for ‘The Ethical Vampire Series’?
12. Are you currently working on anything else?
13. You have a workshop in Ireland planned for 2011; what type of writing exercises and/or topics do you focus on during the workshop?
It was hard to limit it to only 13 questions. We have already conducted the interview so I am now working on putting together the paper. Not really sure if I want to do a q&a style paper or actually write it out with personal commentary. We shall see.
The types of questions you have asked allow you to draw quite a few personal connections to the interview and the author. I hope you can use a personal narrative for this interview using how your origins brought you close to the stories and excited about this interview. Questions 1 & 2 seem pretty stock standard for writer-based interviews from what i have seen and also touch on some interesting subjects if the author is willing to pipe in. I can truly see you had some personal investment in your questions as they are driven to affect your prose and look for influential authors to help you down the line. I forgot it was only limited to 13 questions and plan on shaping my paper to hide them so it may not be seen that I went over the top. Again, I think you can produce a character-driven narrative interview telling the story of Susan Hubbard and your connections to her work.
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