The conclusion of this delightful interview with author, Joseph Drumheller.
Q. What comes first to you? The Characters or the Situation?
JD. Characters. They tend to tell me what to write. After I found the crawdad that inspired, Jason and the Crawdad King, I spent the next morning sipping tea listening to Jason dictate. As he spoke, I wrote the story down on the back of some napkins.
Q. Do you ‘get lost’ in your writing?
JD. Absolutely. One day I began writing at 10 a.m. I vaguely remember getting up to grab a bite to eat or to go to the bathroom. The next time I looked at a clock it was 3 a.m.!
Q. Who or what is your “Muse” at the moment?
JD. I have two. (1) My wife Tamara. She’s the focus of out next work, Aura the Angel, The Ballerina’s Beacon. She was a child prodigy ballerina who
spent 30+ years working in Off-Broadway productions in the San Francisco area. She is the epitome of love incarnate. (2) Lili Avakem. She’s my award-winning illustrator—born, raised and educated in Tehran, Iran and now living in LA. It seems everything we touch turns into magic.
Q. When did you begin to write seriously?
JD. I haven’t yet. If you love what you do, you’ll never work a (serious) day in your life.
Q. What makes a writer great?
JD. Heart, soul and passion. You can’t ‘try’ to be a writer. You either have it you or you don’t. And if you do have it in you, it still takes a lot of time and energy to sculpt your craft. But it it’s what you’re born to do, you’ll love it. Also, don’t worry about spelling. They have editors for that.
Q. and the all important: What does the process of going from “no book” to “finished book” look like for you?
JD. For me, it’s called a magic carpet ride. I wander around in nature (places I love) then go home or out for tea and write about it. I was born to be a free spirit. Writing is the only thing that has completely fit my lifelong tendency to be there proverbial round peg that doesn’t fit into any the square holes out there.
Q. How has your life experiences influenced your writing?
JD. When it come to writing, my life experiences are the whole ball of wax. Almost everything I write about is based on what I’ve seen and done. That’s why it’s so easy to write.
Q. Have you? Or do you want to write in another genre`?
JD. I have three published books in the genres of non-fiction, fiction and now children’s books. I also have eight more children’s books to come, with Golden Bell Entertainment out of New York.
The Subconscious, the Divine and Me (2012, Pine Wood Press) – An introduction to spirituality. Non-fiction.
The Unity Oracle (2015, Self-published) – An award-winning spiritual adventure novel. Fiction.
Jason and the Crawdad King (2016, Golden Bell Entertainment) – A picture book, featuring award-winning illustrator Lili Avakem. Children’s Book.
Q. Is there anything else you’d like our readers to know?
Don’t force your writing and don’t stop. If you love it, it will show. I would like to thank Golden Bell’s Polar Press
Visit Joseph’s website www.CrawdadKing.com and Joseph’s page on facebook
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Release date of Crawdad King Winter, 2017.
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