Seth Mullins
Author Interview - Seth Mullins
Author of The Authors of This Dream
When an altercation outside a performance venue nearly proves fatal, Brandon Chane begins to realize how far his life is spinning out of control. His efforts to channel his pain, frustration and thwarted love into his music may not suffice to save him. Then he meets Saul, a crisis counselor with the soul of a medicine man, and a far-reaching healing journey begins.
Author Interview - Seth Mullins
Author I draw inspiration from: Jack Kerouac. His impact on my path as a writer has been tremendous. His discovery of his own voice, and his invention of a poetic idiom that could carry it, provided me with a kind of map to the real magic of weaving incantations through language.
Author Interview - Seth Mullins
Favorite place to read a book: I prefer to spend brief stretches of time reading - maybe fifteen or twenty minutes - and then take breaks to process what I’ve read. Because of this, my ideal reading places are parks or trails where I can wander during in-between moments and then find places to sit and dive back into the story. Movement really fires my imagination, especially when I’m surrounded by nature.
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Willy Wonka, from Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” He can do some magical things with elevators.
Author Interview - Seth Mullins
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: I was eleven, hanging out in my youngest uncle's room, when I discovered "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever" on his bookshelf. I started reading "The Illearth War". (Uncle Bud didn't have the first book, "Lord Foul's Bane". I'd have to catch up on that one later.) A couple of thoughts I can recall are "I didn't realize I story could DO this!" and "This is telling me a lot more about what's going on on the inside of our world than any newspaper or magazine ever did." My idea of what the novel, as an art form, could do to expand one's mind crystallized right then, and I thought, "This is what I want to do with my life. Whatever THIS is."
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: Paperback. I travel around a lot with books, so I prefer something that can take a beating (and is more economical to purchase again, if I like it and it's become a little worse for wear). Audiobooks are a close second - only drawback is I tend to daydream, or linger over previous passages, and miss some of the narrative in places.
The last book I read: “Sing Backwards and Weep (A Memoir)” by Mark Lanegan.
Author Interview - Seth Mullins
Pen & paper or computer: I like to write first drafts as organically as possible - either by moving my hand across the page or, less often, by speaking into a voice recorder and trying to use a natural, unaffected voice. I’m most grateful for my computer once I’m about eighty percent satisfied with my story and am doing a lot of rearranging and rewriting to bring the rest of it up to snuff.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Jubal Harshaw from "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein. I think there's a lot we could grok together.
Author Interview - Seth Mullins
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a: Musician. Music ends up permeating every story I write anyway.
Favorite decade in fashion history: The 1960s, particularly the latter-half, and especially in London. Watch some footage of the original incarnation of Pink Floyd, performing with Syd Barrett to flower-power avante-garde audiences in small clubs, and you'll see what I'm referring to.
Place I’d most like to travel: New Zealand and the mountains of Peru are high on my list, but if I had to settle for one destination it'd be the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
My signature drink: "Kavee" - coffee and Kava, mixed to sweet morning kiss perfection.
Favorite artist: H.R. Giger, the painter of the unconscious. I've loved surrealism in all its forms (music, painting, poetry and so on) for most of my life, and I think Giger was the most realized surrealist painter since Hieronymous Bosch.
Number one on my bucket list: Ah, my answer to the last question just reminded me that I need to visit the Giger Museum in Switzerland someday. But number one on my list is still the Great Pyramids. To my mind, they're one of our planet's last remaining links to a very ancient and mysterious portion of human history.
Find more from the author:
http://www.sethmullins.com
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