Why did you pursue writing?
I had to pursue writing. I had no other choice but to follow
the strong urge in my heart to create magic on a blank page. I have always been
fond of books since an early age. I just got the courage to go for it and never
look back.
What inspired your book?
I was in Las Vegas, Nevada when the synopsis was
conceptualized. I was 29 years old and I started seeing the world as one
dimensional. At that time I also had a fire inside of me. I was in a creative
zone and my writing flourished. I took advantage of my writing growth spurt and
started writing the screenplay first before the book because writing
screenplays was something that I had been practicing since my second novel,
Club Sense. Some months later I moved to Houston, TX and finished the 120 page
script for The Painted Catch.
I wanted to produce characters so real that they cannot be
denied with fantasy elements that could take the readers on an adventure. I
wanted to make a World up that involved mystery, suspense and horror. My time
with the screenplay grew more and more intense as I weaved a plot of
destruction for the characters and contemplated the steps a mad man would take
to secure revenge. It was a very difficult task and I found it hard for me to
live in my own reality. I have to admit, I lost myself in that world of mind games. The Painted Catch
means so much to me. The story is deeper than one could imagine. It is how I
could express my feelings of being watched, my beliefs of the government being
a part of an elaborate, covert operation overseas and people in my life not
really there for the right reasons. I wanted to tell a story of greed, people
who will do anything for fame and acknowledgement and of course MONEY. I wanted
to tell my life experiences the best way I could express myself. What better
way than to use the backdrop of a morally dividing current issue, something
that boiled my soul; WAR and terrorism. Such issues raises a tremendous concern
for me and instead of just talking about it. Why not make history by writing a
story with all these elements intertwined. These things are what inspired The
Painted Catch.
How long have you been publishing your work?
I published my first novel “Draumatized”; Louisisana Red in
2004 when I was just a baby only in my early 20’s.
What’s your writing environment like?
I have a laptop computer. When I have a story in my head I
can write with the television loud and music on and will not be disturbed
“mentally” because that’s where my stories are- in my head. I can just write
and write and write until I get the story out of there.
What projects are you currently working on?
I have two novels ready to go that are currently unpublished.
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