Ask the Author: James L. Davis
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James L. Davis
Daniel:
A year is a long time to wait for an explanation. I apologize. I've been locked away arguing with the voices in my head.
The world first hinted at in Five Days Dead continues in The Rages - Castaway, which was published Sept. 1. For now, it is only available through Kindle. A physical version of the book and an audiobook will be published February 2017.
The Rages is being published as a five-part series, with a part published each month through January. It is a re-imagining and expansion on Five Days Dead. In that book I introduced Harley Nearwater, one of the main protagonists of The Book of the Shepherd series. In The Rages, Harley's story from Five Days Dead is still there, but I have also introduced all of the characters from the series as a whole and how their world was changed forever in meeting a no-account like Harley.
If you care to come along on the journey, a new part will be published each month. If you'd rather wait for the entire book, then it will be available in February 2017. Either way, I hope to see you along the trail.
A year is a long time to wait for an explanation. I apologize. I've been locked away arguing with the voices in my head.
The world first hinted at in Five Days Dead continues in The Rages - Castaway, which was published Sept. 1. For now, it is only available through Kindle. A physical version of the book and an audiobook will be published February 2017.
The Rages is being published as a five-part series, with a part published each month through January. It is a re-imagining and expansion on Five Days Dead. In that book I introduced Harley Nearwater, one of the main protagonists of The Book of the Shepherd series. In The Rages, Harley's story from Five Days Dead is still there, but I have also introduced all of the characters from the series as a whole and how their world was changed forever in meeting a no-account like Harley.
If you care to come along on the journey, a new part will be published each month. If you'd rather wait for the entire book, then it will be available in February 2017. Either way, I hope to see you along the trail.
James L. Davis
I come from a rural area where everything flows back to the fact that the livelihood there is almost entirely dependent on energy production. From coal mining, to the power plants to the oil and gas fields, that is who we are collectively in that part of the world. So one day I was driving from Huntington to Price, Utah and it just hit me: what would happen to this area if one day we woke up and there was no longer any need for energy? And that was my ‘ahh haa' moment. So in Five Days Dead the energy problems of the world have been solved. Cold fusion has become a reality, and there's no more need for any of the things our entire culture is built upon. Energy is no longer a commodity, it is just always there and as free as the air we breathe. It is a right everyone has. I wanted to explore that and not from a world view, because I guess we could all imagine what might happen to the geopolitical landscape if the energy problems of the world were solved overnight. I wanted to focus on what it would do at a community level. I just built on that idea and ended up in this rather dark place where humanity is rotting at the core because it doesn't have to strive for anything anymore to be comfortable.
James L. Davis
I have no idea. The more difficult question for me would be "how do I not get inspired to write." Sometimes I wish I could turn it off.
James L. Davis
I just published Five Days Dead in August and I have the next book in the series to begin (this first book is actually the prelude to the series). But I'm not writing at all until October. I'll take some notes on character and plot development, but I'm forcing my imagination to stew until then.
James L. Davis
Hard question to answer because I am still an aspiring writer. All I've ever wanted to be since I was a boy was a writer and I let reality and my own doubts get in my way far too often. I'm now far away from that boy with a dream and I wish I hadn't wasted so much time. Don't give up.
James L. Davis
Creating these amazing worlds and then systematically destroying them.
James L. Davis
When I have writer's block (and I've had it for years in the past), it is usually because I want to be writing something else and I'm trying to force myself to finish a particular project. My imagination becomes a sullen child and just sulks and won't let me write anything, so I've learned to write what's on my mind and eventually I'll get back to the project I was working on in the first place.
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