Join me for an interview with David Estes, author of Angel Evolution (The Evolution Trilogy) as he tours with in the Fierce Reading Virtual Book Tours Book Blast...
Tell me about your book. How did you come up with the story?
Angel Evolution is NOT your classic
angel story. Yes, there are angels, and
demons, and gargoyles, and yes, they are at war, but this is not a battle
between Heaven and Hell. My angels and
demons are simply evolved humans, a fluke of genetics, the result of a
mysterious snake bite in the middle of the Amazon.
So how’d I come up with the idea? Simply put, I have no idea!
I was inspired to write Angel
Evolution by my wife, Adele. Before I met her, I never believed I
would have an idea good enough to write about. She convinced me to pursue
my first idea and just go with it and see where it would take me. The
Evolution Trilogy was born! When I
first started writing Angel Evolution, I had no clue that it might turn
into a one thousand page trilogy. The more I wrote, the more
the story took on a life of its own and some of the characters changed in
ways I never expected.
I’ve officially caught
the writing bug and have written eight books in fifteen months.
What kind of research did you do
for this book?
Very
little. Unlike some authors, I really do
not like research and much prefer to create a place from scratch. However, as I got into some of the other books
in the Evolution Trilogy, I have some scenes that take place in New York City
so I had to do some very small amounts of research on where places were
located. But I much prefer to create
worlds of my own, similar to the way Suzanne Collins did in The Hunger
Games.
What's a typical working
day like for you? When and where do you write? Do you set a daily writing goal?
Inspiration
comes at so many different times and in so many different places, that I find
myself writing all the time. Sometimes I
may just jot down a few ideas or words on my iPhone, and other times I might
write a few paragraphs. Then I can come
back to these random thoughts and piece them together later. I write every single day on the way to and
from work on the Manly Ferry in Sydney, Australia. The entire trip is 30 minutes so I get a
solid hour of writing done while commuting.
I also try to write at least an hour over lunch in my favorite café, GGs. But the ferry and GGs are definitely not my
favorite places to write. I much prefer
writing on our day bed on our balcony overlooking Manly Beach with the sun
shining, a cool breeze in the air and more inspiration than I usually know what
to do with. I’ve also recently started
writing at the pool while my wife, Adele, does her laps.
I’m a bit OCD (Okay, okay, a lot
OCD!) so I do have a daily word count goal in mind, but I set it high enough to
challenge me, but low enough that I can usually beat it. I’m a pretty fast writer so my goal is 2,000 words
per day, but I’m usually well over 3,000 words.
Some days I hit 4 or 5 thousand.
Those days make me smile :)
What
question have you always wanted to be asked in an interview? How would you
answer that question?
Can you tell
us something funny about yourself?
Sure,
I’d love to! I read all the time, but that’s not the funny
thing. The funny thing is that my wife
calls me ‘Brick’, after the child character from the TV show The Middle. In the show, Brick is constantly reading no
matter where he is. That’s me. We’ll be watching TV and then a commercial
will come on and Adele will run back into the kitchen to get a drink, and when
she comes back, I will have my book out, trying to sneak in a page before the
show comes back on!
Thank you David, for sharing a bit about yourself!!!
Author Bio: David Estes was born in El Paso, Texas but moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was very young. He grew up in Pittsburgh and then went to Penn State for college. Eventually he moved to Sydney, Australia where he met his wife. A reader all his life, he began writing novels for the children's and YA markets in 2010. David is a writer with OCD, a love of dancing and singing (but only when no one is looking or listening), a mad-skilled ping-pong player, and prefers writing at the swimming pool to writing at a table.
Contact and interact with the author on:
His Blog http://davidestesbooks.blogspot.com
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