BOOK CLUB BASH: Interview with author Pavarti K. Tyler

 

 

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Please join me in welcoming Pavarti K. Tyler, author of the riveting novel, Shadow on the Wall, to A Night's Dream of Books!  Thank you for joining us, Pavarti!

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Maria: What's your background as a writer?

Pavarti:  My undergraduate training was as a dramaturge (yes, it's a real word), which means I spent a tremendous amount of time analyzing plays and theatrical theory.  Working with playwrights taught me a lot about how to present a story to an audience, but the medium of written word (where internal process can be shared) is so different from theatre (where it's all action/verbal), it took me a long time to have the confidence that I could make the leap. 

I have always written and loved books, but it wasn't until I discovered the world of fanfiction that I really started to devote myself to learning HOW to write.  After multiple 100k plus fanfics, I had the confidence to venture out on my own and write something original.  I've had so much fun with it.

Maria: Have your life experiences played a part in your writing?  If so, how?

Pavarti: I don't think there's any way to avoid bringing your own life into your writing.  The art comes in by taking your own experiences and taking them to extremes so the message transcends the specific incident you are drawing on.  I'm certainly not a genetically-altered species hybrid like Sera in Two Moons of Sera, or a Windego like Hugo in Consumed by Love, but I do know what it's like to feel alone and like you're so different from other people you have to hide your true self, and I know what it's like to love someone so fiercely your body and soul burn for them. 

BOOK CLUB BASH: Interview with author Anderson O'Donnell

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Please join me in welcoming Anderson O'Donnell, author of the dystopian novel, Kingdom, to A Night's Dream of Books!  Thank you for joining us, Anderson!

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Maria: What's your background as a writer?

Anderson:  I always considered myself to be a reader first; the writing was just an attempt to mimic my heroes -- the paperback writers whose work I grew up worshipping.  But during my undergrad years, I came to appreciate the extent to which writing had become a critical part of my own life.  I hit a point when scribbling in the notebook wasn't just a hobby.  It was essential, like breathing or eating or sleeping.  After that discovery, there wasn't much else I could do but write.  But I still needed the discipline, and I'd say that's the area in which I worked the hardest.  I studied other writers' styles, sure.  But most importantly, I studied how they approached their craft, and mimicked these techniques until I finally hit my own stride. 

Maria:  Fascinating!  I think this process is part of every serious writer's development as a professional, as well as an artist.  Which writers have been your major literary influences?

Anderson:  William Gibson, Bret Easton Ellis, Jack O'Connell, Stephen King, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, and Shakespeare.

Maria:  Very interesting and eclectic list!  How have philosophical/religious views on the nature of the soul impacted this novel?

Anderson: I tried to use some classic philosophical/religious texts' take on the human soul to serve as Kingdom's intellectual foundation.  For instance, the works of both Aquinas and Plato were essential in how I approached the soul.  But I didn't want to preach, so I tried to keep the philosophical diatribes to an absolute minimum.  It was my goal to use certain philosophical ideas about the soul as a starting point, and then have the characters in Kingdom put their own spin on these classic takes.

BOOK CLUB BASH: NOVEL PUBLICITY BOOK TOURS!!

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author guest posts, reviews,

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These are the books

being presented:

X-It

Jane George

Kingdom

Anderson O'Donnell

Scorpio Rising

Monique Domovitch

Shadow On The Wall

Pavarti K. Tyler

Bluff

Lenore Skomal