Hi all,
Welcome to this week's Blast from the Past. Those are snippets from the interviews I've
given in the past, because some of my interviewers' questions were just
too good to answer only once. They can be serious or funny, insightful
or just plain naughty, so - Enjoy!
Here it goes:
Q. How long does it take to write a book?
A. Depends on how much my other life gets in the way. The
fastest were probably Knives & Feathers and Sub-Culture which are both around 50K and took three weeks to write
each. The novellas A Taste of Paradise and Ink, Sweat and
Tears were finished in nine days. On the other hand, the two books in the Phoenix-series were a real bugger at the polishing stage. The story
started out as only the second book I'd ever written and required a lot of work
to become what these two volumes are now. Altogether, I spent almost two years
on them, revisiting, adding, changing and deleting bits and pieces again and
again until I saw them fit for submission. And still my editor wanted me to
expand on the sex scenes... I think I succeeded in making him happy, hehe.
