Ask the Author: Pete Aldin
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Pete Aldin
Thanks, Andrew. Looks like I got that name wrong. You can find them here: http://www.poiseandpen.com/publishing.... Really interesting approach to a collection that brings out the best in 26 authors each time .
Pete Aldin
Cheers.
Pete Aldin books are pretty brutal and have a fair amount of swearing and some pretty dark themes.
Peter J Aldin books are more action/adventure driven and hopefully not as dark. No f-bombs either.
Pete Aldin books are pretty brutal and have a fair amount of swearing and some pretty dark themes.
Peter J Aldin books are more action/adventure driven and hopefully not as dark. No f-bombs either.
Pete Aldin
“In the mirror, he looked like himself, only older”
Excerpt From Doomsday’s Child (I have no idea where in my psyche this line came from, nor why I like it so much, but it makes me ridiculously proud, lol).
Excerpt From Doomsday’s Child (I have no idea where in my psyche this line came from, nor why I like it so much, but it makes me ridiculously proud, lol).
Pete Aldin
Maybe Narnia.
Because I read pretty dark stories normally, I don’t think I’d like to spend time in most of them.
Narnia would allow me to hang out with cool creatures and beings ... and not age!
Because I read pretty dark stories normally, I don’t think I’d like to spend time in most of them.
Narnia would allow me to hang out with cool creatures and beings ... and not age!
Pete Aldin
The three I'm most proud of for tone/content/polish are:
1. Mom Says He Has No Soul. This is short and sweet, and it's the sweetness of it that's unusual for me.
2. Mud. This is horror. It's set in WW1 which is what I loved about writing and researching it. The setting was horror in itself, so to add the possibility of a monster into that wasn't much of a stretch.
3. Custodes. Originally published (and still available) as "W is for Woman" in Poise and Pen's B is for Broken anthology, this story captured a lot of my emotions around fatherhood, around our broken world, our forgotten spiritual values and around male dismissal of women's strength.
All of these appear in my collection "Nine Tales".
1. Mom Says He Has No Soul. This is short and sweet, and it's the sweetness of it that's unusual for me.
2. Mud. This is horror. It's set in WW1 which is what I loved about writing and researching it. The setting was horror in itself, so to add the possibility of a monster into that wasn't much of a stretch.
3. Custodes. Originally published (and still available) as "W is for Woman" in Poise and Pen's B is for Broken anthology, this story captured a lot of my emotions around fatherhood, around our broken world, our forgotten spiritual values and around male dismissal of women's strength.
All of these appear in my collection "Nine Tales".
Pete Aldin
That question presupposes that we get one idea for a book. In my experience, the ideas that form a project as large and complex as a novel are many and varied. Eventually they collide into something approximating the “idea” for a book, but really I had a dozen ideas and visions for Doomsday’s Child including wanting to explore differing philosophies of manhood, is killing people justifiable, zombies in Tasmania and initiation into adulthood in brutal circumstances.
Pete Aldin
In order, lol:
The Interview – Kafka
Grace before Battle – Michael Peirce
Northwoods – Bill Schwiegart
Code of Conduct – Kristine Smith
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality - Miller
Animal Farm – Orwell
D is for Dinosaur - Parrish
Up from the Depths 2 - Jackson
Chaos Theory – Rich Restucci
The Interview – Kafka
Grace before Battle – Michael Peirce
Northwoods – Bill Schwiegart
Code of Conduct – Kristine Smith
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality - Miller
Animal Farm – Orwell
D is for Dinosaur - Parrish
Up from the Depths 2 - Jackson
Chaos Theory – Rich Restucci
Pete Aldin
Inspiration isn't a problem for me. It's stitching together various inspirations into a coherent story.
Inspiration comes from eavesdropping on that loud guy's mobile phone conversation, or the complaints that lady is making in the queue ahead of me, or from a headline, or a report on new medical research...or from just daydreaming and wondering "What if...?"
And more often that not, inspiration comes from the things that strike me as beautiful in the world and the things that strike me as evil. And there's plenty of both.
Inspiration comes from eavesdropping on that loud guy's mobile phone conversation, or the complaints that lady is making in the queue ahead of me, or from a headline, or a report on new medical research...or from just daydreaming and wondering "What if...?"
And more often that not, inspiration comes from the things that strike me as beautiful in the world and the things that strike me as evil. And there's plenty of both.
Pete Aldin
We have a small yappy dog, a terrier. It has no hands. It cannot reach the door knob even if it did. These are important details for what follows.
It's midnight and my son is up gaming and social media-ing. It's just him and the dog. The dog keeps looking at something inside and outside the house and growling or whining at it. Son lets the dog out. Let's dog in. Dog is still seeing something on the wall, by the dresser, in the yard...and son cannot see it and is getting a little freaked out.
He spends some time in his room on facebook and Youtube, comes out to check on the dog who he left sitting out there staring at the wall near the couch.
And the dog is outside in the yard, looking back at him through the glass.
He did not let the dog out. Everyone else was asleep.
Who let the dog out?
It's midnight and my son is up gaming and social media-ing. It's just him and the dog. The dog keeps looking at something inside and outside the house and growling or whining at it. Son lets the dog out. Let's dog in. Dog is still seeing something on the wall, by the dresser, in the yard...and son cannot see it and is getting a little freaked out.
He spends some time in his room on facebook and Youtube, comes out to check on the dog who he left sitting out there staring at the wall near the couch.
And the dog is outside in the yard, looking back at him through the glass.
He did not let the dog out. Everyone else was asleep.
Who let the dog out?
Pete Aldin
Don't take short cuts. The road is long...
Pete Aldin
Meeting very interesting people. I am privileged to meet some amazing readers whose passion for fiction and for possibilities energises me. I'm also stoked to have met and talked with experts in all sorts of fields (for research) including medicine, local geography, forensics, the life of a police officer, history, drug use, etc etc.
Pete Aldin
No such thing. You keep writing, you find your way through. Might mean bouncing off a writer's group or beta readers or just sheer brainstorming. But you make it through.
Pete Aldin
Sigh. Probably Han and Leia.
I know.
I know.
Pete Aldin
Now that I am wrapping up two trilogies, I’ll concentrate on writing two standalone novels in my CUSET-CONFEDERATION universe, as well as polishing up two medieval fantasies I’ve had languishing in a drawer for several years...
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