Featured Interview With Paul Heingarten
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I live in the New Orleans area, Louisiana! Born and raised here. There’s always something happening around here, and plenty of chances to be creative!
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
It was during grade school for me. The choose your own adventure books were an early inspiration for me. I wrote here and there in my early users, in a creative writing class, and then later in college I worked for the school newspaper writing reviews for music and movies. As far as writing the short stories and novels I’ve published, that began around 2010.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I write primarily science fiction, but read from a broad spectrum of genres. I’d even include some films in there as well (scrips have to be written, right?). Authors I enjoy and have been influenced by include Elmore Leonard, Arthur C Clarke, Douglas Adams, Quentin Tarantino.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Settling Darkness is book 2 of my Valkyrie Chronicles series. The main story of this series centers around two people, Ana Crucinal, a 23-year-old woman growing up in the year 3192, and Nelson, an author living in modern day New Orleans who has written a science fiction novel. If only it were fiction.
Ana is among many amid a fight between Lebabolis, a nation that has arisen from the ashes of a decimated North American continent, and the Omegans, a mysterious race of aliens who have taken a big interest in the people of Lebabolis. Ana Crucinal is one of the citizen “Products” of Lebabolis, literally bred and trained for a specific purpose. She joins the Action, the Lebabolis resistance, and journeys across time to find Nelson Forrester before others with more sinister goals can catch him.
Settling Darkness involves the next phase of this fight, and a search for Cataclysm: a deadly weapon that, if found by the wrong people, could be used to bring the Earth as close as it has ever been to final annihilation.
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