Featured Interview With Sergey P. Mavrodi
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Moscow, Russia on the 11th day of August, 1955, and have been a resident of Russia all my life, and where I attended what most countries call high school and university. I was also the winner of school’s most prestigious Olympiads in physics and mathematics. Rather active physically as well, I was the winner in combat Sambo, which is a form of unarmed self-defense much akin do Judo.
I still reside in Moscow, working with agents in the UK and USA to publish my new series, The Temptation Chronicle.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
An avid reader and student of humanity from childhood, I really became seriously interested in writing when I was arrested in 2003 and held in jail until April, 2007 on the bogus charge of fraud. I – along with a couple of others – had created a multi-level marketing plan which was – and still is = completely legal in Russia and most of the world. It was only after I accumulated a serious amount of money that the Russian government felt threatened, as the money continued to pour in as more and more people – in Russia and abroad – joined our program. Sensing a threat ( in Russia, the laws are different as to citizen’s rights) because my program threatened to wreak havoc on the Russian ruble, the government forced a shutdown and impounded some seventeen truckloads of cash.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Being in prison and seeing the dregs of humanity, I could feel horror and disgust at what human beings were capable of doing, and as time went buy, that disgust continued to build, leading to the creation of The Temptation Chronicles, which is basically a series of vignettes linked by the presence of the Devil himself. Not as gifted, perhaps as Stephen King or Dean Koontz, or even Bram Stoker, still I felt that I had the ability to create a documentation of what transpires when a human is allowed to enjoy his darkest desires – without restrictions.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My current book is titled “Lucifer’s Son”, (The Temptation Chronicles, Book 1). As stated, it is a series of short stories, each story exploring the depths of a human who realizes his darkest desires. Lucifer is teaching his son just how depraved a human can be if allowed to entertain the reality of those evil thoughts.
498 pages in length and priced at $17.99 on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, as well as in eBook form on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Smashwords and other eBook resellers for $4.99, the book is readily available and affordable. Not only that, it is highly entertaining and you will well wind up asking yourself, “How can a decent human being do that?”
Raw, perhaps, but not crude. Shocking and alarming to realize that perhaps those same vile thoughts are present in your neighbor’s mind. Or in yours!
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