Featured Interview With Paul C. Steffy
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Paul C. Steffy has written several short fiction stories, two novelettes and one novel. His travels include twenty-seven countries and all fifty United States.
He enjoys flying; sailing; ocean cruises; travel; landscape and wildlife photography; the feel of ocean spray in a brisk wind; the fragrance of pine forests; stimulating conversation; quiet moments at sunset and fulfilling evolving goals. He values these and many other aspects of his busy life.
The Southwest is where he lives with his family and continues to write.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My parents read to me from as far back as I can recall. In Kindergarten I discovered the joys of listening to an adult in a classroom environment while they read an exciting story. Our school librarian always held my interest during our one hour of weekly library day. She’d read of far away places, and interesting and unusual people I wanted to meet. As she painted a word picture, the myriad of scenes from distant shores around the world helped to ignite my wanderlust.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy a variety of authors from the Greeks and Romans through Churchill, James Joyce, and Richard Bach. Hemingway and Confucius have their own special appeal as do many modern authors on a list too lengthy to recite. I read almost anything and everything when I believe I will learn and expand my thinking and knowledge base.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My most recent book THE GOOD SOLDIER is listed as fiction. It incorporates events from my year in Vietnam when I served in the infantry for one year in 1967-68. Tet happened while I there and I have vivid memories of those days. All that went into writing THE GOOD SOLDIER proved to be cathartic for me. I waited forty-seven years to put pen to paper on this topic so that my family would know what I experienced when I was eighteen years old and on foreign shores.
In the story, Brad Thomas returns to Vietnam with other Veterans in 2014 to see old battlefields and find the family who gave him their family keepsakes to give to the American People.
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