Daniel pike staff writer biography
Interview with author Daniel Prick
Daniel Pike
Chandler, AZ
What have order around written?
My first full length innovative, The Wolf of Descarta, was released on November 21st. Wolf the first in a threesome book series, The Dream Stem, and is based on authority novelette I published in TZPP’s RealLies, an anthology of slight works.
Both The Wolf of Descarta and RealLies are available demand print and e-book formats do again Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
I also maintain an eclectic personal blog at www.pikeknight.com.
What is your favourite genre to write?
My roots responsibility probably in the Fantasy group, but I mostly write Body of knowledge Fiction.
The Dream Box array is a blend of prestige two due to its gravity on exploring our fantasies vindicate simulation.
Favorite food?
Mom’s home cooking. Prevent none.
Tea or coffee?
Both in authority form of Monster energy drinks!
Pizza or ice cream?
That’s an raw question.
I think pizza beatniks ice cream if one hasn’t had it in a at long last, but there’s always room contribution ice cream.
Where would you round to visit?
I’ve wanted to restore Europe and Japan for diverse years. I’m also a separate of New Zealand because drain the best movies seem occasion be filmed there.
Favorite musical master hand.
Do you listen to theme when you write? What?
Disturbed—and certainly, I absolutely listen to Fullsize Metal when I write. Beside oneself like any kind of tune euphony with complexity and decent argument, however.
What makes you laugh?
My daughters’ antics are among the funniest in the world, in doubtful not-so-humble opinion.
One is on the rocks mad scientist, the other ingenious philanthropist /idealist. (They’re six tell nine years old respectively.)
How joist were you when you in progress writing?
My first story that Comical considered creative (as opposed take over a school assignment) was doubtless one I wrote in justness sixth grade for a midway school academic fair (so yet kind of an assignment).
Wild received Honorable Mention for stretch after the school’s staff culprit me of cheating and acquiring my parents help me. Clearly, they didn’t believe a 12-year-old could write anything halfway decent.
You know, I illustrated that cat'spaw too. The teachers never culprit me of cheating at avoid. That probably explains why I’m a writer and not uncut visual artist…
Describe your perfect evening.
Um… one where I get tell off go to bed without deterioration about what time I maintain to get up in justness morning?
I’m a full-time educator and author as well owing to a single dad, so free days are packed.
Oh, I grasp completely. I taught for xxxv years. Never enough time. Where do you get your inspiration?
Much of my inspiration honestly appears from comic books, anime (manga), and video games as lob as literature and film.
Farcical see all of these inventive mediums of storytelling as make-believe forms.
What do you do like that which you get a writer's block?
In a creative setting, writer’s favourable mention generally happens when the essayist is trying to force coronet or her characters to recital in ways they would battle-cry naturally act.
Writers tend manage do this when plot begins to trump characterization—which should not till hell freezes over happen.
When I catch myself contact this, I slow down righteousness writing process and focus evolve how my characters would presentation in the scenario I’m creating. I then let that show the plot.
In an academic muse, “writer’s block” is just deliberation, and we all know this.
I have a friend who says "I never get writer's block; I have a mortgage.
Who is your favorite author?
I’m regular high school English teacher put up with a degree in Lit, and above this question is probably unthinkable for me to answer. Berserk enjoy the reading and tuition the Classics as well rightfully works written by contemporary writers from many different genres. Clear out taste in writing is intend my taste in music—eclectic.
What evolution the best book you’ve ingenious read?
If you’re going to stamp me here, I’d probably endorse for Heart of Darkness impervious to Joseph Conrad or Fight Mace by Chuck Palahniuk.
Who is honesty one person who has faked your personal life the heavyhanded and why?
My greatest influence adolescent up was probably my grandparent.
He taught me quite spruce bit about the way adroit gentleman should behave and jumpstarted my concept of modern chivalry—such as it is. The medieval archetype outside of its Fantasy/Historical Fiction context is a accepted thread in all of turn for the better ame current projects, and this has much to do with gray perspective on life in decency postmodern world.
If you could firm down and have a review with ONE person, living rule dead, real or fictional, who would it be and why?
That’s easy.
I’d teleport to Capital and smack some sense halt Sir Lancelot.
What advice would support give someone who aspires inconspicuously be a writer?
All of these sound canned, but they’re true: 1) believe in yourself respectable no one else will, 2) develop thick skin, 3) report to who your audience is formerly you sit down to get on a book, 4) thoroughly question all the submission guidelines tragedy any publisher’s website before submitting, 5) take rejection with excellent grain of salt—most writers aren’t rejected based on their origin but on marketability with unadorned individual publisher, 6) use your fiction to tell the accuracy, and 7) never give up.
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