Dennis Tafoya's latest novel is The Poor Boy's Game.From his Q & A at Robb Cadigan's blog:
Tell us, when did you know you wanted to be a writer? When did you know you were one?Learn more about the author and his work at Dennis Tafoya's website.
I’ve been writing since I was a kid. I started writing horror and science fiction inspired by movies and TV shows and the short stories I loved when I first started reading, by guys like Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch. There were a lot of monsters, a lot of dinosaurs lurking in remote canyons in the desert. Demons that passed through portals or holes from other dimensions. When you’re a certain kind of kid there’s a lot of cataclysmic stuff in your head trying to get out.
I don’t think I accepted that I was a real writer until I was walking from Penn Station to the Flatiron Building to meet my editor for the first time. Before I had an agent and contract I think writing was something I didn’t let myself consider a serious aspiration. It was a desire I kept hidden for all the reasons we hide things that really matter to us – fear of failure, fear of ridicule for wanting something that seems beyond the normal possibilities of a life defined by work and family and a high school diploma.
What creative work most recently inspired you?
I’m constantly looking for cool stuff to light up the creative parts of my brain. I love...[read on]
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