Goodreads asked Ian Felton:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Ian Felton Freedom and creativity. The real world is constrained and many times boring. Obviously, as a writer, we are still constrained by our language, our brains, but there is a greater amount of freedom and creativity than when interacting with people. I can make jokes in my books that I could never get away with in real life because a character says it instead of me, for example.

To explore your own mind is to go into the vast unknown. For a chicken-shit like myself, it works perfectly. I don't want to go into a submersible and go to the bottom of the sea or hop into an experimental craft of any kind to reach the unknown. But in my mind, I can go to even more bizarre places and meet even more interesting characters.

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