Ask the Author: C.K. Page
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C.K. Page
"Recent" I'll take as the last published title. "Love, Death, & The After" arose from a sequel to a gritty novella I re-released with a new, exciting cover, and a real editor; "This'n Apocalypse Or Not?"
In a straight 72-hour fueled drafting binge, I veered off course into a different story altogether. At the same time, rapidly evolving advances in biotech, the ebola crisis in Africa and it's arrival in U.S., CRISPR-Cas9 technology and the curing of a little boy's cancer in London held my rapt attention. Monsters and post-apocalypse romantic relationships are two of my favorite things to write and read. Not only that, the "what if" pestered me incessantly: What would a post pandemic collapse do to an advantaged group of survivors? Keeping the fabulism feel that underpinned "This'n Apocalypse Or Not?" I had a unique way to approach that "what if?"
In a straight 72-hour fueled drafting binge, I veered off course into a different story altogether. At the same time, rapidly evolving advances in biotech, the ebola crisis in Africa and it's arrival in U.S., CRISPR-Cas9 technology and the curing of a little boy's cancer in London held my rapt attention. Monsters and post-apocalypse romantic relationships are two of my favorite things to write and read. Not only that, the "what if" pestered me incessantly: What would a post pandemic collapse do to an advantaged group of survivors? Keeping the fabulism feel that underpinned "This'n Apocalypse Or Not?" I had a unique way to approach that "what if?"
C.K. Page
Inspiration has always been easy for me: my brain is constantly alert and active asking and answering a gazillion "what if's" on a daily basis. I'd like it to shut off at night so I can sleep but...
The perspiration involved in creating The Work is more thrill-seeking urge than inspiration. Odds are I'll be writing until my last breath, frustrated as hell if I might face and unfinished final sentence.
The perspiration involved in creating The Work is more thrill-seeking urge than inspiration. Odds are I'll be writing until my last breath, frustrated as hell if I might face and unfinished final sentence.
C.K. Page
Currently in post-production on "Penumbra," a steamy romance novel and modern fable.
"If the Rules hold you back, it's time to break them."
Penumbra is my first foray into romance storytelling, a form of The Work that excites the absurdly romantic sapp in me. A reminder and thrilling concept my undergrad advisor, Kate Haake, PhD frequently raised: "Fiction is never about what it's really about." Keep that "in mind" when you dig into Aleko's world in "Penumbra" ;-)
"If the Rules hold you back, it's time to break them."
Penumbra is my first foray into romance storytelling, a form of The Work that excites the absurdly romantic sapp in me. A reminder and thrilling concept my undergrad advisor, Kate Haake, PhD frequently raised: "Fiction is never about what it's really about." Keep that "in mind" when you dig into Aleko's world in "Penumbra" ;-)
C.K. Page
Self-direction, autonomy, flexibility, and doing what I love more than anything else in life. The free flow of imagination into "print" is a powerful thing—the very best high on earth. "DDDC": the discipline, the diligent and dogged, commitment to The Work appeals to my workaholism.
Plus, I get to read others' Work as part of the profession.
Plus, I get to read others' Work as part of the profession.
C.K. Page
I don't "believe" in writer's block. Physical/mental health can impact creative and administrative capability, but most of the time any creative disconnect is merely a puzzle to be solved. I use a variety of tools and techniques I've developed over the past thirty years that reconnects me to the flow essential to producing work.
Failing that, there's always a double pour of decent Scotch or a glass or three of gorgeous wine from Harmony Cellars!
(BTW, y'all should really go to harmonycellars.com and try their Grandfather Zinfandel—I'm not a Zin fan usually, but they vinted this one so well, I love it)
Failing that, there's always a double pour of decent Scotch or a glass or three of gorgeous wine from Harmony Cellars!
(BTW, y'all should really go to harmonycellars.com and try their Grandfather Zinfandel—I'm not a Zin fan usually, but they vinted this one so well, I love it)
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