Ask the Author: M.J. Konkel
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M.J. Konkel
I have been thinking for a while how it be like to live on a moon around a gas giant instead of on a planet. I loved the movie "Avatar", but it got wrong many of details of what living on a moon would be like. So I decided I wanted a habitable moon for a backdrop. For some details on how things would be different on a moon, see my blog here on Goodreads. After deciding what my world was like and the universe that it was set in, I had to come up with a story. I started by writing down half a dozen ideas and starting working on one. Then after I was 12K words in, decided I didn't like it and threw it out. Started with a fresh batch of ideas and picked a new one.
M.J. Konkel
I am in the finishing stages of the first book in a new series. The book is tentatively called Boots of Oppression and is a hard-core space opera. It follows one character called Trite and begins with him struggling with his conscious over his minor role in Spitnik's conquest of the desert moon Bahram. After he is captured by resistance fighters, things change for him. The story is fast paced and action packed while keeping the science behind the story accurate (I hope).
M.J. Konkel
I am always thinking of weird ideas. Like what would it be like to live on a future terraformed Mars with Phobos having disintegrated into a ring. Or what if I was a vampire that a future space agency sends on a first “manned” mission to a star, using my ability to sleep for centuries. I can come up with these all day. My problem is turning a weird idea into a story that someone might want to read. Problems must arise that have to be overcome, and sometimes, I struggle with finding the problems. I watch movies, read books, magazines and current news, sometimes finding the seeds for those problems. Sometimes, I will grind through writing even if not feeling inspired. Then clean it up later. Or just throw it out.
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