Featured Interview With Andy Peloquin
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Japan and lived there until the age of 14, when I moved to the Western Hemisphere. I have traveled around Mexico a great deal over the last 14 years, and am currently writing from sunny Baja California.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I picked up an encyclopedia at age 5, and have been reading avidly ever since! I found my true love in the form of Sherlock Holmes, and have been consuming books at a very steady rate for years.
It was a grade school teacher of mine that set me to writing–Japanese haikus, in fact. He inspired that love of writing in me, and I’ve never stopped! I now write for a living, but have only recently made my first foray into the world of fiction writing.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Some of my favorite authors include:
A.C. Doyle
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Scott Lynch
Brandon Sanderson
Brent Weeks
Jim Butcher
Robert E Howard
Karl E. Wagner
My genre is definitely fantasy, but none of that epic stuff with grand heroics and world-changing stuff. Think the small stories, about the heroes or two who don’t make a huge change in the world, but change the lives of those they interact with.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
This book burst out of me when I was a young man, telling a story of an epic adventure that I had always dreamed of. It had all the travel, mystery, suspense, action, heroics, and romance that a young man could ask for.
Then life got in the way, and I put down the pen for the better part of a decade. When I picked up the manuscript again, it turned into something much more realistic, more sincere, something from within me. After a month of hard writing, it was finished.
There’s still plenty of the old adventurous spirit that I love, but with a lot more of real life thrown in. Years of being a parent and living through a lot of serious things causes you to see the world through new eyes, and you stop seeing things so naively.
The novel tells the story of a man who is content with his life, but who finds that his future is thrown completely out of control when a prophet of doom foretells the end of Atlantis. His journey to find the truth leads him across the Empire of Atlantis, along with the Empress he serves. Assassins lurk around every corner, and there is danger everywhere.
It’s an epic adventure, but it’s Deucalion’s personal journey as well.
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