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Solitaire Parke Interview
Recently, author Solitaire Parke (Vengeance of the Wolf) stopped by the Aric Mitchell official blog to talk shop about politics, the indie writing scene, and what it takes to become an author in the 21st Century. Well worth the read if you haven't found your way to it yet. I've included a short excerpt below, but highly recommend you make the jump to the full interview.
Q. What do you want people to know about you as a person, as a writer?
I'm really not much different from most people at least down deep where it counts. I try to calibrate my moral compass every day and work as hard as I can. As a writer, I try to never box myself into a genre corner and just write what I feel, or what I dream.
Q. Describe your publishing journey for readers.
Like so many other authors, I have file cabinets full of rejection letters. I got to a point in my life where I didn't trust anyone else to publish my work, so I decided to do it myself. Indie authors understand exactly what I mean. In the independent world it's more important to help others because what you do for them comes back tenfold. I discovered it's easier to help them than to stress over me. In the end, your work reaches the public and we as authors control our own destiny.
Q. What are some of the best/worst writing tips/advice you’ve ever received, and what advice would you give to an aspiring writer?
I think the worst tip I ever got was from a publishing house in regards to my poetry and was told that real poetry died two hundred years ago, ergo...go get a real job.
The best advice I have gotten came from an Indie author who told me not to listen to negative advice and just keep writing.
Q. When did the writing bug first bite and who, if anyone nurtured you into what you would become?
I got bit on my twelfth birthday after being introduced to the writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of A Princess of Mars. So I guess it was his fault.
Q. Employers always ask about the 5-year plan. If you had an employer in indie writing—and thank God we don’t—what would you tell him your 5-year plan is?
Write a lot, laugh a lot, love with abandon and make as many friends as possible. Oh, and sign on for five more years.
Q. From inception to The End, discuss your process for getting a book like Vengeance of the Wolf ready for the public?
That book required a massive amount of research into the paranormal. I sat down every day and wrote my brains out. Once it was finished, it went through multiple edits and I had everyone I knew read the book, sometimes more than once. I'm sure it was more grueling for them than me. I sent it out for reviewing to as many people as would say yes and then sent it to every publishing house that would read horror. The rest as they say is Independent history.
Q. In VOTW, there are several unfortunate, ill-fated politicians. As a journalist, who covers politics, it was a nice bit of escapism for me. What are your views of the American political scene?
Read the rest of the Solitaire Parke Interview at the Aric Mitchell Official Blog.
Q. What do you want people to know about you as a person, as a writer?
I'm really not much different from most people at least down deep where it counts. I try to calibrate my moral compass every day and work as hard as I can. As a writer, I try to never box myself into a genre corner and just write what I feel, or what I dream.
Q. Describe your publishing journey for readers.
Like so many other authors, I have file cabinets full of rejection letters. I got to a point in my life where I didn't trust anyone else to publish my work, so I decided to do it myself. Indie authors understand exactly what I mean. In the independent world it's more important to help others because what you do for them comes back tenfold. I discovered it's easier to help them than to stress over me. In the end, your work reaches the public and we as authors control our own destiny.
Q. What are some of the best/worst writing tips/advice you’ve ever received, and what advice would you give to an aspiring writer?
I think the worst tip I ever got was from a publishing house in regards to my poetry and was told that real poetry died two hundred years ago, ergo...go get a real job.
The best advice I have gotten came from an Indie author who told me not to listen to negative advice and just keep writing.
Q. When did the writing bug first bite and who, if anyone nurtured you into what you would become?
I got bit on my twelfth birthday after being introduced to the writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of A Princess of Mars. So I guess it was his fault.
Q. Employers always ask about the 5-year plan. If you had an employer in indie writing—and thank God we don’t—what would you tell him your 5-year plan is?
Write a lot, laugh a lot, love with abandon and make as many friends as possible. Oh, and sign on for five more years.
Q. From inception to The End, discuss your process for getting a book like Vengeance of the Wolf ready for the public?
That book required a massive amount of research into the paranormal. I sat down every day and wrote my brains out. Once it was finished, it went through multiple edits and I had everyone I knew read the book, sometimes more than once. I'm sure it was more grueling for them than me. I sent it out for reviewing to as many people as would say yes and then sent it to every publishing house that would read horror. The rest as they say is Independent history.
Q. In VOTW, there are several unfortunate, ill-fated politicians. As a journalist, who covers politics, it was a nice bit of escapism for me. What are your views of the American political scene?
Read the rest of the Solitaire Parke Interview at the Aric Mitchell Official Blog.
