Featured Interview With Steve M
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Born Mississippi, raised Australia. Currently live in Florida with my wife and two cats, Casey and Lizzie.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
The first time I read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. I started writing as a teenager.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Vonnegut, Orwell…I took literature courses in university to force myself to read the classics and I’ve been hooked on them ever since. I read more moderns novels as well but often I find better stories in the novella and under area. Sparse prose where every phrase tells a story. ‘Some places just look better out of a rear view mirror’.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Improbable: The First McGee (a satire about large numbers) is a prequel that tells about the abduction of Elaine McGee from Earth Five (your planet) and her introduction into the intergalactic war. A very obscure mathematician believes he has found a method for telling who will be completely lucky or completely unlucky in the immediate future. Outside of Las Vegas, who cares? Well the mathematician is on the side of the Free Planets who are losing their war against Goodness, an authoritarian empire which controls about 80% of the universe. There are 31 Improbables identified, 30 solid results and 1 that kept coming into the final listing via the total score despite failing two of the test points. Professor Lawrence Chu calls her the improbable improbable. It is Elaine McGee, a biracial science teacher and chess coach who is on a camping trip to give up smoking and to get over breaking up with her cheating, stoner boyfriend.
This novel is under construction for the next few weeks…and I send out weekly chapters and there is a catch up link on my website.
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