Ask the Author: Michael Schutz
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Michael Schutz
Clown in a Cornfield, Adam Cesare
The Sound of Midnight, Charles L. Grant
Unholy Trinity, Ray Russell
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Laird Koenig
The Sound of Midnight, Charles L. Grant
Unholy Trinity, Ray Russell
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Laird Koenig
Michael Schutz
I've been in a nostalgic mood lately, so I would travel to Ray Bradbury's world of Green Town, IL from Dandelion Wine--as long as I could be 12 years old. Relive my childhood. Enjoy those summer vacations that seemed endless. The magic of Halloween as a kid. The excitement of Christmas. The mysteries of a world so vast, at my fingertips in the library, not on some electronic device.
Michael Schutz
Read a lot. Watch a lot of movies. Study character and story development in your favorite medium and genre and think about what makes it work for you.
Michael Schutz
I have just started book number three. There are several new short stories that are knocking around in my head, too. Hopefully I'll have some more short fiction out this year.
Michael Schutz
Reading inspires me to write. When I'm in the middle of a great book (usually a Stephen King or John Sandford, but also Hemingway, Steinbeck, or a host of others) the prose starts my brain working on what I'd like to do next.
Michael Schutz
Creating characters. Turning these imaginary concepts into thinking, acting, talking beings. It's fascinating because they start to take over, become more than what I wrote. They take on a life of their own.
Michael Schutz
I take a shower. I do my best thinking in the shower.
Michael Schutz
My first book, Blood Vengeance, was inspired by my move from the midwest (WI) to San Francisco. Of course, my experiences lacked the supernatural!
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