Ask the Author: Brian Dunford
Answered Questions (5)
Brian Dunford
It begins with a single image or idea, and I have no idea how they arrive. For South of Evil, it was a man dragging a fortune in money through the desert. I built the novel from that one image.
Brian Dunford
I'm in the rumination phase of my next idea. I started it once, and it wasn't ready. My characters weren't fully formed. Now they are.
Brian Dunford
You'll need a platform and a waiting stable of friends and like-minded book enthusiasts ready to receive your work. If I could do it again, I would have started promotion and networking months earlier.
Brian Dunford
Far and away, when people tell me they LOVE my work. Or when I've planted a clever idea or twist or easter egg in my work, and a reader gets it.
Brian Dunford
Push away from the desk. Keep the ideas on the back burner of your mind. Let 'em boil. A day or so later, it will come to you.
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