Ask the Author: Gabriel Bergmoser
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Gabriel Bergmoser
Thank you so much! I love writing about Maggie and want to bring her back as often as I can. My next thriller novel is a standalone (although set in the same world with a few connections), but I've written a couple of exclusive novellas for Audible that feature both Maggie and Carlin - Maggie is in The Hitchhiker, while The Conseqeunce focuses on Carlin. I'm also currently working on a third Audible Original, The Lodger, which will see them team up again. Beyond that, I have every intention of returning to her story in another full novel down the line.
Gabriel Bergmoser
Not yet, but I would certainly love to one day.
Gabriel Bergmoser
No, but it appears at the back of the print edition of Boone Shepard. Otherwise it's free to read from my website.
Gabriel Bergmoser
No idea! They should all be there. I think The Hunted eBook wasn't available in the US for a while but now is.
Gabriel Bergmoser
None, really. If I wrote my favourite books they wouldn't be my favourites and I'd hate to miss out.
Gabriel Bergmoser
Look at A New Hope - it works equally well as a standalone story and the first chapter in a much bigger one. The biggest lesson I learned from Boone Shepard is that assuming you'll get a book 2 is super arrogant - I did in the end but it didn't look like such a sure thing initially and consequently I made sure American Adventure didn't end on a glaring cliffhanger, in case there was no book three. Now with The Hunted and sequels I'm making sure that every book could easily be both the first and last you read in this series - that they'll be rewarding if you read in order, but satisfying on their own terms with no massive dangling threads. I think young writers have an inclination to think in terms of writing a series when generally your readers will thank you for giving them a complete and satisfying experience as opposed to one chunk of a story. If you can tell the whole thing in a single book, do it.
Gabriel Bergmoser
John Marsden, Thomas Harris, Tana French, Daniel Handler, Patricia Highsmith, Martin McDonagh, Quentin Tarantino, Jonathan Tropper, JK Rowling and several others who I'm 100% going to remember and wish I'd added about five minutes after answering this.
Gabriel Bergmoser
A morbid curiosity with the places people shouldn't go.
Gabriel Bergmoser
Honestly, I kind of go crazy if I DON'T write. Sometimes I just have to find something to work on, whether it's a blog, a random short story or rewrites on a project I've been putting off. Of course, the optimal situation is when a stellar idea comes to you and you can't stop thinking about it, at which point inspiration doesn't matter because you can't help but follow the story down the rabbit hole and see where it goes.
Gabriel Bergmoser
I'm alternating between two new novels; one is a YA coming of age dramedy, the other is a gritty, violent horror story set in the badlands of Australia. Both have gone through a few different drafts, but I'm currently working on getting them into the best shape possible.
Gabriel Bergmoser
Write. Read. Listen. You don't get any better if you don't write, get people to read your work, and take their feedback on board. It can be scary and pretty crushing when someone has a response to your writing that you don't like, but it's imperative that you hear what they have to say and consider it even if you ultimately decide you don't agree with it. Also read and watch as much as you can; you learn a lot from seeing how the writers you love pull off their tricks.
Gabriel Bergmoser
The moments when stories just flow easily and it's like reading a good book, except the good book is yours.
Gabriel Bergmoser
Ask yourself if what you're writing is right. Are you pushing a story to where it doesn't want to go, or are you writing something that you aren't really in love with?
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