Featured Interview With Paul Zunckel
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in 1957, in Rhodesia., and spent a lot of my young years moving from Game Park to Game Park, which has had an influence on my writing. My parents moved to South Africa a few years later and I was raised in a small town called Amanzimtoti, which is Zulu for “Sweet Water”. I now live on the South Coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal in a holiday town called Margate.
Apart from writing novels, I have tried my hand at music as well, and play the guitar. Apart from my wife being my pet, I have a wonderful cross breed that does not let me out of his sight, and is my constant companion when writing.
I am very lucky enough to have a wonderful wife who not only proof reads my work, but does all the editing work as well.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always been fascinated with books, and have always loved to read. I only started out as a writer quite by accident.
I had an idea running around in my head, and my wife challenged me put it down on paper, so thinking that it would be a two or three page short story for a magazine I climbed in and 43000 + words later, Blood Moon Over Africa was born, and it has been like a running water tap ever since.
The ideas just flow, and I love every single day, as writing comes so easily. To date I have written six novels, and I only started writing in August 2014, and am at present busy with number seven.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I started out with Edgar Rice Burroughs and his Tarzan series. I enjoy Stephen Kings early work, as well as Dean Koontz, although I do not have one author that stands heads above the others. I enjoy a wide rage of genre, although I have always enjoyed Horror, but if it catches my eye, I will read it.
What inspires me is the mystery of Africa, the people, their superstitions and beliefs. I like to take fact and fuse it with fiction and take my reader on a roller coaster ride filled with sharp turns and the unexpected, I try to paint a picture with my words and leave the reader wanting more at the end.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is titled “Man in the Shadows”, and this is where my dark side comes out, and I must admit, surprised even me as to where I found myself going, and I promise, I have never killed anyone in my life. Here is a bit more about it, and I hope it catches your attention.
Gordon Brown, head of a major publishing company, family man, use to making his own decisions and not being pushed around finds himself moving headlong into a living nightmare, where he is left feeling powerless and helpless, with no one to turn to by the arrival of one brown manila envelope that turns his stable organised life upside down with the words, “PUBLISH OR DIE”
Meet “The Teacher”, a master at playing mind games, and a serial killer who wants his exploits published, a killer who’s kills have gone on to be filed into the UNSOLVED file’s of law enforcement for “The Teacher” leaves no trace behind, and kills on a whim with no pattern.
“The Teacher” takes Gordon Brown to the very edge of darkness, not knowing who to trust and when his family are pulled into the nightmare, Gordon must make the decision to publish or to die.
Will Gordon Brown publish, or will he die?
A shock ending that will leave you breathless.
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