Ask the Author: August Hill
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August Hill
The Sushi Prophecies is a sort of bitter love letter to the city of Vancouver. This particular story was born out of patio-hopping, bikes and beaches, all the summer-drenched prickly people and places unique to Vancity. You can’t walk a block without building a character so rich it stinks of the town itself. Like an L.A of the north, there’s some grit to this place, particularly when the sun makes an appearance. The setting lends itself to mischief and creepy crawlies served alongside shiny people doing shiny, good-looking things. The Sushi Prophecies suggests a reality that could be, if you were to sprinkle some otherworldly mysticism over the top.
August Hill
In terms of getting the creative juices going music is absolutely key to me, I go deep, playlisting on Spotify like a mad man. I’ll make note of a song as a theme to a scene so I can edit to it later. I've even assigned songs to characters so I have a trigger to get into their head immediately.
August Hill
I’ve always written, and I will always be a writer, but something happens when you choose to publish and clear the ‘author’ tag. While different authors are surely motivated by different things, I admit I’m moved by simply sharing the laughter and vibes I feel when I create a world full of scoundrels. I feel the need to share all the magical moments that I got to have when I combined this-or-that strange combination of words. It is definitely selfish, however, because damned if it doesn’t bring a smile to my face to get a reaction.
August Hill
I’m having a blast writing my next novel The Sauna of Knowledge at the moment. It's a fish out of water, almost literally, where transitioning to a small seaside fishing town becomes an absolutely hilarious - and treacherous – endeavour. Where a divorcee club combats the golfing community; industrial fishermen confront surfing culture; geriatrics explore murderous rage, and all other manner of plotting and secrecy unfolds in the local pubs and saunas around the fledgling town. It's a sweaty romp with dozens of creeps that exist in the same world as The Sushi Prophecies.
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