Featured Interview With Dusty Grein
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
A lifelong native of the Pacific Northwest, I have mountains and evergreen forests in my blood. I have been living with one of my daughters in Ohio for a year, but am on my way back home to Washington State this month. A father of five, and grandpa to 7, I have also been a pet person all my life.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I learned to read at four and was devoted to Sesame Street as a young child. I devoured my first novel, “Lad: A Dog” when I was six and I have never looked back. In school, I was that kid who actually loved it when the teacher told us to read quietly at our desks – best day ever! – and longed for the day when I could buy my own books.
I started writing full time after a heart-attack interrupted my working routine, and now I only wish I had started sooner.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read a lot. I love so many authors, and have tried to read everything they have written, successfully in most cases. Dean Koontz, JA Jance, Piers Anthony, Preston and/or Child as well as the classics – Dickens, Carroll, Poe.
Thrillers and Horror are my passion, and Stephen King is, hand down my favorite author ever. He is also the motivating force behind my writing career (and I like to think behind the success I have enjoyed so far). His book ON WRITING is the reason I finally realized that the story machine (and multiple characters) in my head needed to be turned on and let run free.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is something of a marvel. It is the story of the residents of a small town in Western Washington State to the east of Seattle. They live, work and play in the shadow of Mount Rainier – the largest dormant volcano in the continental US – and this story explores their relationships and lives during the week before a cataclysmic eruption.
Two of my characters are ten-year-old twins, who share a psychic link, and must use their abilities to save their family from the coming disaster. A second interwoven storyline involves their eighteen-year-old babysitter and the young man who loves her, and the final primary character is the local veterinarian, who is ready to retire. These people are all from a very small town, and know each other, and are unaware that within a week, their lives will change forever, and some of them will end, in the worst natural disaster to ever hit the US.
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