Scott Nicholson Interview
First let’s get to know you a little, Scott Nicholson is
the author of many horror novels including Speed Dating with the Dead, The Skull Ring, and
The Red Church Also a bunch of other books that are now
winging their way to my book case thanks to Amazon,
check his name out on there.
Here’s a little about him, please include a little bit
about yourself fans may not know please Scott.
I have here a few questions Scott has graciously agreed
to answer for my blog.
Q. Hi Scott, first off how are you these days?
A. Doing well, living a quiet
life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.=, looking forward to
planting season and working on some writing.
Q. Secondly at a guess how long have you been writing
for?
A. Hmm, over 15 years now as a career track, although I’ve been creating all
my life.
Q. Please give us a little insight into each of your
series’ of books please Scott a little overview to let us know about each one
A. Well, there are so many,
we’d be here all day, but I write a lot of supernatural tales borrowing from
Appalachian Mountain legends, and I also love mind-twisting psychological
thrillers and the occasional fantasy or science-fiction tell. Right now I am
working on a post-apocalyptic thriller series, After.
Next I have a few questions from my occasional co-writer
on this blog Scott:
Q. when did you realise you wanted to write horror?
A. I don’t think i ever made
a conscious decision. It just emerged out of everything I was working on when I
started, because I write in many genres. Horror is a terrible marketing label
in fiction, because there just isn’t a big audience for it. So I just call
everything ‘thrillers” to cover all the bases.
Q. And one more, in overcrowded genre how do you keep
things fresh?
A. Well, there’s the business
and then there is the art. The business is to watch what is happening and
respond in order to reach the most readers. That is an external task. The art
is the internal journey, in which nothing else really matters outside your own
personal world.
Back to me now:
Q. Scott there’s a lot of Indie writers out there that
cater to a very specific crowd of readers now I’ve had the pleasure of
interviewing one such man James Cook, how do you feel about these?
A. Whatever makes people
happy is great with me. I think the connections made through stories, pictures,
and sounds are an amazing part of our human experience. It may be our only
salvation amid the madness.
Q. What influences if any have had an impact on your
work?
A. Everything. I am curious
about the world and can’t make any sense of it, so I steal from everywhere.
Early on it was the wild imagination of Dr. Seuss, and then comic books, and
then serious literature, and then the commercial storytellers.
Q. What information do you think you can give anyone who
hasn’t read or would sway them onto reading your books?
A. There are a lot of great
writers out there. All I can do is tell Scott stories, because no one else can
do that. But i also believe it is the reader who brings them to life, so I need
you!
Q. How popular do you think literature is in the world at
moment, as in popular, less popular or on the come back? In my views thanks to
kindles/E-readers it’s made a strong comeback (Though a lot of the time I still
prefer a good paper or hardback in my hands)
A. The Internet in general
has people reading more than at any time in history. It’s not just ebooks, it
is texts, emails, Web pages, Facebook posts, tweets, much of our correspondence
and interaction. The Kindle just happened to bring books to everyone’s
fingertips—the hunger and opportunity was already there.
Q. Do you have a favourite book or series of books
yourself, if so what is it?
A. That changes all the time,
but generally I like Stephen King, William Goldman, and Ira Levin.
Q. I am currently trying my hand at writing I find it
hard to concentrate on it for any long amount of time though, cooking, eating,
something else catching my interest. So I write it bit by bit on a blog, how do
you stay focused or what are your tricks for sustained and successful writing?
A. No matter how you go about
it, it is still one word at a time. There is no better or worse way to do it.
The only way to fail is to not do it.
Some fun questions now Scott if you would
Q. Do you have a Zombie Apocalypse plan?
A. Pretty much living it. I’d
just as soon be a zombie as some machine-gun-wielding nut case barricaded up in
a bunker.
Q. What are your favourite horror films/or series?
A. I like Romero’s zombies,
and I also love psychological or poignant movies like Let The Right One In,
Session 9, and The Orphanage.
Q. Aside from the obvious zombies what are your favourite
classic monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, Wolfman?
A. I like the old movies
but the tropes don’t really frighten me. i generally prefer supernatural themes
simply because they are possible, while I don’t think vampires, zombies, or
monsters are possible.
Q. What is your favourite non horror works, films TV etc.
A. I like most kinds of
thrillers, although nothing that glamorizes police or military. That macho
stuff just doesn’t appeal to me. I also read classics and the fantasy of people
like Neil Gaiman and Ray Bradbury.
Q. I believe out of the major horror icons or even
apocalypse settings that the zombie isn’t too far off in reality with all the
chemicals and other types of ways zombies can be created isn’t it just an
accident waiting to happen, what’s your views?
A. I can accept a viral
outbreak or chemical contamination infecting all of us really, that is just a
matter of whether we last long enough as a species for something like that to
wipe us out. Walking around wanting to eat brains, though, I just can’t picture
it. It’s really just a metaphor for the strangers inside us, and the strangers
we live among.
Q. On that note what is that your favourite zombie
reanimation way or do you like/prefer any of the following and what are your
views, God/Supernatural, Chemical, Radiation, Voodoo, Viral or Extra-Terrestrial?
A. Any of them work for me,
since it is pure imagination. The less explanation the better—just get right to
the munching of entrails!
Finally Scott something I’m always interested in knowing
running a b-movie/cinema release review blog is:
Q. Where do see your series’ and writing going in the
future, as in more follow ups, new ideas, or any film/TV series plans?
A. I’ve written some
screenplays but I’m not pursuing it too vigorously, since it is simpler just to
sit home and write than to network with people who might have money to spend. I
really have about four big book ideas, including the After series, and then
I’ll see where things stand in a couple of years.
And is there anything else you would like to say to your
readers and viewers of this blog? Please write below
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also heres his amazon page http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Nicholson/e/B001HCX30O
and uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scott-Nicholson/e/B001HCX30O/
also heres his amazon page http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Nicholson/e/B001HCX30O
and uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scott-Nicholson/e/B001HCX30O/
Awesome interview there
Scott really loved some of your answers hope this gives your fans an insight
into their author of choice.
Or on twitter on
look forwards to
hearing from you all!
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