Ray Bradbury, for being my first guide through Speculative Fiction, and Octavia Butler, for bringing social reality front and center for storytelling without compromise.
2.Who has had a major influence on your writing?
China Mieville, who combined critical theory acumen with boundless enthusiasm.
3.Can you name at least one book that you never finished?
Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. It was gorgeously written, but after 150 pages, I couldn’t really handle more Double-Fudge Chocolate Cake-rich prose.
4.What word or words do you always have trouble spelling?
Beaurocracy.
5.What three adjectives best describe you?
Geeky, energetic, optimistic
6.Which of your characters would you most like to be and why?
Drake Winters, so I could have awesome steampunk gadgets and go on insane adventures through Faerie.
7.Which author would you invite to dinner?
China Mieville. We’d start by trading D&D stories and then dig into the role of critical theory in narrative, all over some beers.
8.Where do you write?
? My favorite spot is at a local café, but I’m learning to be more comfortable writing anywhere and everywhere with
9.When do you write?
During lunch, the evening, and big chunks of weekend days.
10.What makes you happy?
Music, dancing, fencing, geeing out with friends.
11.What do you most fear?
Being irrelevant.
12.What is your favorite vice?
Home-made pizza with loads of toppings and cheese.
13.What is the quality you most like in yourself?
My ability to see the good in people.
14.What are the qualities you most like in your friends?
Their creativity, knowledge, and curiosity.
15.Would you be lying if you said your works were not autobiographical?
Totally.
16.What part of your personality do you detest?
My laziness, and my tendency to let bad moods become self-perpetuating.
17.What is your favorite adjective?
Awesome.
18.What is your favorite book?
The Martian Chronicles
19.What book would you read three times?
A Game of Thrones.
20.To whom would you award the Nobel Prize for Literature and why?
Octavia Butler, for uncompromising sociological speculation combined with beauty of language.
