Interview with Greg Walters, Author of Demon Summoner

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to write down Demon Summoner: Apprentice?

As a decades-long conflict rages within the Holy Roman Empire, discipline surgeon Martin shares a stunning reality with his new apprentice Gustav: Demons are actual, and the casualties of battle are their reward for preventing for humanity. A revelation that adjustments every part…

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to write down?

Since graduating with levels in historical past and political science 20 years in the past, I’ve dealt with historic materials nearly day by day as a historical past instructor. Hence it was solely a matter of time earlier than I mixed this with my ardour for fantasy. The result’s “Demon Summoner: Apprentice,” a totally researched historic novel, with a good sprint of fantasy and humor.

I’m an enormous fantasy fan and I like historic novels as a result of I work as a historical past instructor. That’s why I write my very own novels on this very style.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

As all the time, these are just a few books: presently “Amongst Our Weapons” (Rivers of London Book 9) by Ben Aaronovich entertains me very properly. In addition, I’m studying varied reference books on the French Revolution, as a result of my subsequent historical-fantastic novel will likely be set in that interval.

What scene in your guide was your favourite to write down?

I appreciated the primary look of the demoness and her unfastened tongue. Actually, I like all of the scenes the place Mela the demoness seems, as a result of I can herald so much of humor there.

Do you could have any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and many others.)

I all the time hearken to music loudly and with noise-canceling headphones, regardless of if I’m on their own in our home or the canine and children are making noises. Just a few years in the past I used to be very impressed by underground hip-hop, now I are inclined to hearken to jazz…

Do you could have a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

Always be who you might be!

If you can select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your guide, what wouldn’t it be?

In conflict, completely everybody loses. This has been confirmed not solely by the Thirty Years’ War, which I describe in my present guide, however by all armed or army conflicts.