Featured Interview With L.N. Hunter
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m an ex-software engineer who took far too long to realise that writing fiction for humans is much more satisfying than making up stuff for computers. I grew up in Ireland but now live in a disorganised home in rural Cambridgeshire, UK, along with two cats and a soulmate.
I’ve written a number of short stories, appearing in in places such as Short Édition’s ‘Short Circuit’ and the ‘Horrifying Tales of Wonder’ podcast, as well as in several anthologies, and ‘The Feather and the Lamp’ is my first novel. There have also been papers in the IEEE ‘Transactions on Neural Networks,’ which are probably somewhat less relevant and definitely less fun.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I guess something went ‘click’ when I found the fantasy and sci-fi shelves of my local library at age 11 or thereabouts. I was never very good at English at school, and it took a long time before I thought about transitioning from reading to writing. I’ve been writing short stories since about 2016, and started my novel in 2017.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams are at the top of my list. I lean towards sci-fi and fantasy, but the lightweight end of both: I’m more of a ‘The Hobbit’ person than ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ And I like a good dose of humour in the mix, ideally that odd sort of British humour that has its roots in Monty Python.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
‘The Feather and the Lamp’ is a comic fantasy in which Imperceptibility Happenstance is launched on a series of adventures by the malicious djinn in her lamp. Along the way, she has to deal with three-headed dogs, quantum dragons and underground monks, and that’s only the start.
It was probably about five years’ worth of evenings and weekends from start to finish, though I wasn’t working on the novel full time.
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