Interview with Dennis moore

Today Dennis Moore, author of Scattered to the Four Winds, is here for an interview 🙂 Check out his giveaway below!


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1.     
When did you first
decide you wanted to write?
When
I was ten. I wrote a one page story based upon the spelling list that week in
the fourth grade. The following year I was introduced to filmmaking so the two:
writing and filmmaking, have been my passion ever since.
2.     
What is your favorite
genre to read and/or write?
It
started with science fiction to me, thanks to the release of the first Star
Wars
movie back in 1977. I also enjoyed The Hobbit and Lord of
the Rings
, along with The Chronicles of Narnia, so transitioned
easily into fantasy, when I first started expanding my writing from short
stories to novel size works and screenplays. But I still enjoyed science
fiction at the same time. Then came mysteries. I was probably the youngest
subscriber to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine they have ever had. When I
write nowadays, I try to mix the three genres together as often as I can. Who
says a wizard can’t solve mysteries?
3.     
Do you have a
favorite author?
Terry
Brooks and Terry Goodkind in fantasy, Marion Zimmer Bradley. And on the indie
author front, SM Reine and Jonathan Moeller are fantastic finds.
4.     
What was it like
writing The Adventures of Pullman Brown in “Scattered to the Four Winds?
I
enjoyed writing it because of the “story” behind it. I was working at the main
call center for United Parcel Service. They have a monthly company newsletter,
and asked around for ideas of what to put into this newsletter. I offered to
write an episodic adventure story. I asked employees to feed me ideas on characters
and plot, and wove it all together each month for a year. The name, “Pullman
Brown”, is the official color of the UPS Trucks. The rest of the characters in
the story were all employees of the UPS call center at the time I wrote it.
Turned out to be a success with them. I had actually moved on to another job
half way through the story, but kept writing it for them until the end of the
story.
5.     
Is there something
you want to write about, that you haven’t yet?
I am currently attempting four
ideas. One is a venture into the steampunk category, but my steampunk leaves
Victorian England and goes back to medieval times. The fantasy writer in me.
This one is for boys, age 8 – 14. The main character is Julian de Marque, and
is written in the style of the Hardy Boys books that I grew up reading. Then I
am planning a western, where all the leads: sheriff, deputy, town doctor and
saloon owner, are all women. I have an audio drama of this story coming out in
January, called “Saddlehorn.” I am also turning a familiar literary character
into a new type of story, which I hope to develop into not just a feature film,
but a television series. Lastly, I am taking the idea of a wizard who solves
mysteries. Imagine if Sherlock Holmes lived in Middle Earth and you have an idea
of what I am trying to accomplish. 
6.     
What is one silly
fact about you?
I
am a bigger legend in my own mind. I feel that since I began my life dead, and
was nearly killed at age 8, that there has to be a reason why I am here still,
and why I love writing. Life hasn’t yet caught up to my mind though.
7.     
Do you have a
favorite character you have written so far?
I like my Julian de Marque character, because he is daring, inventive and
honorable. His life has many possibilities, which is why I am writing his
stories not only for children, but stories for adults for when Julian grows
older.

8.     
Do you get influenced
by people in your life?
Absolutely.
I have two friends that we all met back in the first grade. I got both of them
involved in filmmaking when we were twelve and thirteen. We are still friends
to this day. They both have influenced my life in many ways, from the choices
I’ve made to the fact that three decades after finding the writing bug biting
me I am still trying to get my stories out there to the world.
9.     
Anything you want to
say to the readers of my blog?
Never
listen to anyone tell you that you can’t achieve your dreams and goals. That
would be like asking a bricklayer about jewels, or your plumber about the stock
market.
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