Ask the Author: Mario Zecca
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Mario Zecca
Cthulhu and Godzilla rise to destroy mankind but hazardous global warming effects kill them. They come back as zombies and destroy mankind.
Mario Zecca
Don't write for money unless its offered up front. Follow your own path and find your voice or voices if you have a multiple personality disorder. .
Mario Zecca
Filling in answers to these questions.
Mario Zecca
Since I am not under contract, I only write when I am moved to write, usually while looking at what I have uncompleted.
Mario Zecca
Why my father left when I was 18 months old I met him once. But at the time my curiosity was quite tame. He did tell me the reason for leaving was he couldn't handle the responsibility. He got involved with counterfeiting and did some prison time. He owned a gas station and had a large multi-floored suburban house. His busty daughter, my blood half sister, who has never contacted me, drove a sky blue cadillac convertible. But I don't know much else. I think his life would make a good novel. Of course I am free to make up the details if I write it.
Mario Zecca
Good question. Hard to pinpoint but, reading across a spectrum of material. I currently have a subscription to Foreign Affairs magazine and try to check out more than one news source to get a an objective consensus. I temper the depressing reality news and opinions with graphic novels and TTRPG adventure supplements.
Mario Zecca
The near biblical saga of how The Goddess of Pigland was meticulously woven together during the almost two decades of its own momentous creation may seem preposterous and unbelievable.
Nonetheless, here it is in brief synopsis, and if I might shed the cocoon of humility briefly and compare my literary opus to Homer’s Odyssey, a slightly lesser work, but notable because of the obvious parallels of adventure and protagonist.
It is a well-kept secret that Dr Seuss, the renowned author-illustrator, yearned to take his visionary imagination beyond daydreaming and attack the bastion of children's lit. His goal was fully realized at a secretive meeting that would change history. On a balmy spring evening in the privacy of a privately owned eastern Mediterranean Island, Seuss, JRR Tolkien, Groucho Marx, a youngish Hugh Hefner and the noted mythologist, Joseph Campbell formed a charter society much like the Illuminati cult. All were propelled to greatness by the proceedings which I will catalog.
The evening began with Campbell reciting Homer. I must warn the reader that what follows is shocking and may disturb even the grimmest of mind. As scientist are aware and no doubt conducting top-secret experiments, human sacrifice is known to energize and greatly increase man’s endeavors, especially if the brain and heart are eaten. Inexplicable, you may say if you are accustomed to using five syllable words in a sentence, if not, then suffice to say, the bloody proceedings infused the men, of course it was men, women writer’s had not been invented yet, after eating and drinking the victim's blood had their separate epiphanies.
Slightly less notable but prestigious in their limited capacities, the story weavers Terry Gilliam, Bernard Cornwall and Terry Pratchett were also enlightened.
These literary and media giants were consulted and suggested a great many ideas but all of their brain storming came to nought and was rejected for lacking any but the most banal and obvious humor. A marketing analysis was brought to light and revealed that, for example, Pratchett's readership boasted a record high percentage of borderline IQs and a disproportional population of serial killer personality archetypes.
This much is fact.
And, that’s where I got the ideas for The Goddess of Pigland.
Nonetheless, here it is in brief synopsis, and if I might shed the cocoon of humility briefly and compare my literary opus to Homer’s Odyssey, a slightly lesser work, but notable because of the obvious parallels of adventure and protagonist.
It is a well-kept secret that Dr Seuss, the renowned author-illustrator, yearned to take his visionary imagination beyond daydreaming and attack the bastion of children's lit. His goal was fully realized at a secretive meeting that would change history. On a balmy spring evening in the privacy of a privately owned eastern Mediterranean Island, Seuss, JRR Tolkien, Groucho Marx, a youngish Hugh Hefner and the noted mythologist, Joseph Campbell formed a charter society much like the Illuminati cult. All were propelled to greatness by the proceedings which I will catalog.
The evening began with Campbell reciting Homer. I must warn the reader that what follows is shocking and may disturb even the grimmest of mind. As scientist are aware and no doubt conducting top-secret experiments, human sacrifice is known to energize and greatly increase man’s endeavors, especially if the brain and heart are eaten. Inexplicable, you may say if you are accustomed to using five syllable words in a sentence, if not, then suffice to say, the bloody proceedings infused the men, of course it was men, women writer’s had not been invented yet, after eating and drinking the victim's blood had their separate epiphanies.
Slightly less notable but prestigious in their limited capacities, the story weavers Terry Gilliam, Bernard Cornwall and Terry Pratchett were also enlightened.
These literary and media giants were consulted and suggested a great many ideas but all of their brain storming came to nought and was rejected for lacking any but the most banal and obvious humor. A marketing analysis was brought to light and revealed that, for example, Pratchett's readership boasted a record high percentage of borderline IQs and a disproportional population of serial killer personality archetypes.
This much is fact.
And, that’s where I got the ideas for The Goddess of Pigland.
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