Featured Interview With Seth A. Horn
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in small town Oklahoma and now live in Wichita, Kansas, where I've spent the better part of my adult life. As for pets — I have one permanent indoor cat, though right now there are three inside because one of my cats just had a kitten a week ago, so mother and baby are currently staying in as well. Beyond that I have several more cats that I let in to feed, and then seven or eight strays outside that I feed too. Apparently I am constitutionally incapable of turning an animal away. The number changes depending on the day.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My fascination with books started around age seven. During my second grade year I read several hundred books, on top of working my way through every volume of the encyclopedia and dictionaries just because I needed to know things. I came in second place in a book reading contest that year — the winner was a kindergartner whose parents read to them each night, which I think says less about the competition and more about the fact that I was probably the only child in the building voluntarily reading encyclopedias for fun. I still earned my Dairy Queen ice creams through the Book It program and I have absolutely no regrets!
Looking back that was probably the first sign that my brain was wired a little differently. I've never really stopped reading since — and honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way!
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite authors include Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, Dean Koontz, and Rick Riordan. That's a pretty wide range — from ancient philosophy to horror to mythology-infused adventure — which probably tells you something about how my brain works. I don't stay in one lane when I read and I don't stay in one lane when I write either.
My favorite genre to read is honestly whatever I'm currently obsessed with. Right now that's classic source material — I'm deep in original texts that most people only know through their adaptations. The original Little Mermaid, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Bram Stoker's Dracula, the original ballad of Mulan. There's always something in the source that the adaptations couldn't hold onto.
As for inspiration — it comes from everywhere. The philosophers taught me how to think. The storytellers taught me how to hold a reader. My own neurodivergent experience taught me what was missing from the shelves. And honestly, a lot of my best ideas come to me while I'm asleep. My brain doesn't really have an off switch, and I've stopped fighting that.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is Late-Identified Neurodivergence: Without the Redemption Arc.
Most books about neurodivergence follow the same arc. You struggle, you get a diagnosis or a moment of clarity, and then things get better. This is not that book. There are no rainbows and butterflies here.
This book is for the people who finally got their answers — and discovered that answers don't automatically fix anything. The masking doesn't stop. The exhaustion doesn't lift. The world still wasn't built for you. And the grief of understanding yourself late is real, complicated, and nobody seems to want to talk about it honestly.
Written by a self-identified autistic person with formally diagnosed ADHD, this book doesn't wrap the experience in a bow. It tells the truth about what late identification actually looks like — the relief, the anger, the recalibration, and the long work of learning to live with your nervous system instead of against it. It also draws on self-taught neuroscience to explain what's actually happening in your body and brain, because understanding the mechanism can be its own form of relief.
No redemption arc required. Just recognition. And recognition, it turns out, is enough.
The book is available on Amazon Kindle and will be completely free from May 1st through May 5th.
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