New Writer Making a Splash
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Oliver Mol is a young writer who is starting to make a big impression. After being published in a number of literary magazines, he decided to take the plunge and self-publish his first ebook. It bears the interesting title of Boy Sam: Fires in Panama. Today he speaks about how Boy Sam came into being and where he sees the future of reading now that ebooks have arrived.
Darrell - What made you want to become a writer?
Oliver - I am a writer because I enjoy the act of writing. I like making things up and putting them on paper. I like it when people read. I wanted to contribute to that, something that was entirely mine.
Darrell - Where have you been published so far?
Oliver - I have been published in Voiceworks (editions 87 and 88), Stilts Journal, Offset Journal, Bbetween Journal and have a forthcoming publication in the RMIT Creative Writing Anthology. I’ve also read at The Wheeler Centre for Debut Mondays and at Penguin Plays Rough. Several days ago I published my first ebook Boy Sam: Fires in Panama.
Darrell - What writers inspire you in your work?
Oliver - I like Bret Easton Ellis, Steve Roggenbuck, Tao Lin, Roald Dahl, Dave Eggers, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cate Kennedy and others.
Darrell - You recently published your first 'serial' novel. Can you tell us about that?
Oliver - One day I was in the city and I saw this kid wearing a tiger suit and holding his mum’s hand and just looking really pleased. They got on the same tram as I did and his mother looked kind of angry but the tiger suit kid couldn’t stop smiling and saying hi to people and I thought to myself he could probably save the world and then I went home and wrote about him saving the world.
The idea is that Sam, who is eight, has an ancient soul - a soul that has lived forever, and sometimes, through dream memories, which he calls memory jigs, Sam relives his former soul’s past lives. While in these memory jigs he observes what happens around him and he uses these clues from the past to save the world from an impending, present danger. I will publish one story every month for ten months. The series is aimed at young adults but that is not to say that others could not enjoy it as well. Sam is cheeky; I mean his soul was born in an Oort Cloud, which is where comets come from, so he’s full of surprises and other things.
Darrell - There is a big upheaval happening right now with the introduction of ebooks. What do you think is the future of hard copy books as opposed to ebooks?
Oliver - I love books because you can touch them and smell them and they are weighty. You cannot replace a book. Having said that, ebooks and kindles are really changing the way the industry runs. Never before has an author had such direct contact with the audience he/she writes. Writers are earning better wages due to the lower production costs associated with screen reading and this is also good. I have no problem with ebooks as long as they stay books.
Reading is fantastic because it makes you intelligent but the moment the kindle evolves into something with hyperlinks and toast makers and other technological distractions we will no longer be reading. We will be doing something else. Maybe, we will just be distracted. We will be distracted from reading and living and there will be a great depression where many famous people will die. Then, there will be a renaissance and they will find old books locked in “libraries” buried beneath holograms. The people will read again and the people will be happy. The hard copy will live.
Darrell - What do you think it takes to succeed as a writer?
Oliver - It takes many things like not wanting to eat too much and not having nice “things” for a while and probably lots of borrowing and patience and feelings and feelings for people and reading and sitting and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and hopefully, eventually, feeling ecstatic and boosted.
Oliver’s website is http://cargocollective.com/wwwolivermol/Oliver-Moland you can connect with him on twitter through https://twitter.com/#!/Oliver_Mol. You can also purchase a copy of Boy Sam through Amazon by clicking here or on Smashwords by clicking here.
Until next time, keep writing!
Darrell.
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Oliver Mol is a young writer who is starting to make a big impression. After being published in a number of literary magazines, he decided to take the plunge and self-publish his first ebook. It bears the interesting title of Boy Sam: Fires in Panama. Today he speaks about how Boy Sam came into being and where he sees the future of reading now that ebooks have arrived.
Darrell - What made you want to become a writer?
Oliver - I am a writer because I enjoy the act of writing. I like making things up and putting them on paper. I like it when people read. I wanted to contribute to that, something that was entirely mine.
Darrell - Where have you been published so far?
Oliver - I have been published in Voiceworks (editions 87 and 88), Stilts Journal, Offset Journal, Bbetween Journal and have a forthcoming publication in the RMIT Creative Writing Anthology. I’ve also read at The Wheeler Centre for Debut Mondays and at Penguin Plays Rough. Several days ago I published my first ebook Boy Sam: Fires in Panama.
Darrell - What writers inspire you in your work?
Oliver - I like Bret Easton Ellis, Steve Roggenbuck, Tao Lin, Roald Dahl, Dave Eggers, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cate Kennedy and others.
Darrell - You recently published your first 'serial' novel. Can you tell us about that?
Oliver - One day I was in the city and I saw this kid wearing a tiger suit and holding his mum’s hand and just looking really pleased. They got on the same tram as I did and his mother looked kind of angry but the tiger suit kid couldn’t stop smiling and saying hi to people and I thought to myself he could probably save the world and then I went home and wrote about him saving the world.
The idea is that Sam, who is eight, has an ancient soul - a soul that has lived forever, and sometimes, through dream memories, which he calls memory jigs, Sam relives his former soul’s past lives. While in these memory jigs he observes what happens around him and he uses these clues from the past to save the world from an impending, present danger. I will publish one story every month for ten months. The series is aimed at young adults but that is not to say that others could not enjoy it as well. Sam is cheeky; I mean his soul was born in an Oort Cloud, which is where comets come from, so he’s full of surprises and other things.Darrell - There is a big upheaval happening right now with the introduction of ebooks. What do you think is the future of hard copy books as opposed to ebooks?
Oliver - I love books because you can touch them and smell them and they are weighty. You cannot replace a book. Having said that, ebooks and kindles are really changing the way the industry runs. Never before has an author had such direct contact with the audience he/she writes. Writers are earning better wages due to the lower production costs associated with screen reading and this is also good. I have no problem with ebooks as long as they stay books.
Reading is fantastic because it makes you intelligent but the moment the kindle evolves into something with hyperlinks and toast makers and other technological distractions we will no longer be reading. We will be doing something else. Maybe, we will just be distracted. We will be distracted from reading and living and there will be a great depression where many famous people will die. Then, there will be a renaissance and they will find old books locked in “libraries” buried beneath holograms. The people will read again and the people will be happy. The hard copy will live.
Darrell - What do you think it takes to succeed as a writer?
Oliver - It takes many things like not wanting to eat too much and not having nice “things” for a while and probably lots of borrowing and patience and feelings and feelings for people and reading and sitting and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and hopefully, eventually, feeling ecstatic and boosted.
Oliver’s website is http://cargocollective.com/wwwolivermol/Oliver-Moland you can connect with him on twitter through https://twitter.com/#!/Oliver_Mol. You can also purchase a copy of Boy Sam through Amazon by clicking here or on Smashwords by clicking here.
Until next time, keep writing!
Darrell.
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