Ask the Author: James T. Riley
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James T. Riley
Decades before the connecting freeway was built, nineteen-year-old Harvey Keaton spent the summer of 1919 operating a tram that carried people from the edge of the city to the valley below, the same summer that the bodies of nine women were found in various poses alongside Halentine Drive. Forty years later, when Harvey, along with his wife and nine kids, moved from out of state back to the now fully developed valley, the killings started again.
James T. Riley
The Vanishing Half and Library of Mysteries are next in my queue. I also hope to complete my trek through the works of Steve Erickson, Neil Gaiman, and David Sedaris.
James T. Riley
I've had a compulsion to write for as long as I can remember. Not sure if compulsion equals inspiration. Been this way since I was in elementary school. If I'm not writing a story at any given time, I'm likely working on a story in my head. I will usually sit down to write a story when I want to clear it out of my mind. Putting it on paper feels like I'm unloading a mental weight and making room for new things to carry around.
James T. Riley
Write! It's the only way to be a writer.
James T. Riley
The worse the block, the more likely it is that I'm trying to make the writing or the story do something it doesn't want to do. It doesn't happen when I've got the story right. Resistance is there for a reason—it tells you that need to find another path to get where you're hoping to go.
James T. Riley
You entered a giveaway for My Name is Jared and won, so I mailed you a copy. Congrats. You did enter the giveaway, yes?
James T. Riley
There was a character I wrote about in a short story many years ago, and I'd always wanted to know what happened to him beyond that particular story—What was his history? What was his destiny? His life felt unresolved and unrecorded. That's the story I wanted to unlock in my new book My Name is Jared.
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