LAURENCE MACNAUGHTON

Tag: author interview

  • Exclusive interview with Angela Roquet, USA Today bestselling author of Flesh & Blood

    If you haven’t yet read anything by USA Today bestselling author Angela Roquet, you’re in for a real treat. At the moment I’m posting this, her brand new book, Flesh & Blood (Blood Vice #7) has 5.0 stars on Amazon. This is urban fantasy you can really sink your teeth into. ; ) Here’s Angela to…

  • How to Make Writing Your Career: Word Cafe Interview with Yours Truly

    How to Make Writing Your Career: Word Cafe Interview with Yours Truly

    Hey, this is cool. Join me over at Word Cafe for an interview where I reveal everything I know about: • Building a full-time career around writing, as a novelist and a copywriter — and what a copywriter does, exactly. • How my first book from a New York publisher actually started out as a…

  • 3 Authors Chat on Night Owl Reviews – Tonight!

    Tonight at 6:00 PM MST, I’m doing an author chat with Night Owl Reviews. Far as I can tell, it’s a text chat. So, apparently we’re going to party like it’s 1999. ;) Join me, along with romance author Avery Flynn and mystery author Julia Buckley. We’ll answer your questions, share excerpts and give away…

  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Muscle Cars

    True story: before I wrote this book, I was a professional prototype vehicle test driver. So when I set out to write about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse tearing up the highways in Christine-ish muscle cars, you can bet I had fun with it. Check out this interview on MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape where I not only talk…

  • Functional Nerds podcast: now featuring Yours Truly

    SF Signal will be missed. But the science fiction/fantasy world has always been chock-full of innovation. The vacuum left by SF Signal creates more room in the spotlight for fresh, entertaining podcasts like Functional Nerds. Listen in for free as I chat with the ever-entertaining and informative John Anealio and Patrick Hester about: • Fantastic new movies (and…

  • The #1 Secret to Fantasy World Building

    Every fantasy author struggles with a tough challenge: How do you create a unique world that’s as believable as it is exciting? It’s called world building, and every writer does it a little differently. My secret is to start with research. The world we live in is so weird, it’s impossible not to get inspired.…

  • Blame Dan Aykroyd from Ghostbusters

    A few years ago, on a placid summer evening resonant with cicadas, I stepped out to buy a bottle of wine for my wife’s show at an art gallery. And there, in the corner of the store, sat Dan Aykroyd, promoting his new Crystal Head Vodka. You may not know this (I certainly didn’t at…

  • “The end of the world shouldn’t be this much fun!” –Qwillery

    Check out this fabulous review from The Qwillery: “It Happened One Doomsday is a delight! It’s a fabulous blend of humor, Urban Fantasy and biblical prophecy with a touch of romance. The end of the world shouldn’t be this much fun!” But there’s more! They also interviewed Yours Truly. I talked frankly about: – What inspired me…

  • Deepest secrets revealed on RMFW podcast

    OK, so maybe not my “deepest secrets.” But this is possibly the most interesting interview I’ve ever done. When the unstoppable Mark Stevens from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers invited me onto the RMFW podcast, I had no idea he’d ask me such thought-provoking questions. A few of the many, many things we talked about: •…

  • BookGoodies.com: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?

    BookGoodies.com: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?

    I once got to hear Orson Scott Card talk about his writing method. He went on at great length about how the voices of his characters talked to him. The voices told him to do this, he said, the voices told him to do that. As he droned on endlessly, a friend leaned over to…