Ask the Author: Scott D. Pomfret
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Scott D. Pomfret
The idea for The Hunger Man came to me about 15 years ago, when I read The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith, the most popular if not the best account of the potato blight and famine that struck Ireland in the years 1845-50. As a child of the Irish Catholic diaspora (albeit much, much later than famine times), I was outraged by the British role in exacerbating the tragedy. I toyed with this story on-again, off-again for years, but only found the right voices in 2014 while reading a book of Irish fairy tales. From that point on, I read every last book I could find on famine history and Irish fairy tales to create the "faerie realism" that drives The Hunger Man (the title obviously an allusion to Woodham-Smith).
Scott D. Pomfret
Coffee, primarily. Occasionally booze.
Scott D. Pomfret
Read constantly. Write every day.
Scott D. Pomfret
I've got a bunch of short stories in the works, am mapping out a series of sequels to follow The Second Half: A Gay American Football Novel (Lethe Press June 2016), and have a bit of a horror novel in progress that is also an unconventional romance.
Scott D. Pomfret
I read poetry. Something about poetic imagery frees my mind to wander and gets me out of the plodding and literal.
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