Interview with Brendan O’Meara, Author of Cut From Stone

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to jot down Cut From Stone?

It actually started with me fascinated by how my mates and I might react to a Red Dawn scenario after which the primary character and supporting solid grew from there. I all the time bought caught in my head as a child, fascinated by what would occur if the world had been to actually collapse. How would everybody reply? What would my mates and I do?

As I grew older, I wrote down some of the concepts on paper and began with writing a sequence from the third guide within the sequence. After I learn it over, I spotted that if I needed to inform an awesome story I must return to the very starting, so I saved the title and shifted the story again in time to flesh every thing out extra.

Just a mere ten years later I lastly centered and completed Cut From Stone!

If you needed to choose theme songs for the primary characters of Cut From Stone, what would they be?

I’d Love to Change the World by Ten Years After.

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

I do like to learn my style, however am an enormous fan of historical past and historic fiction. I usually learn any Erik Larson guide and am a giant fan of arctic, jungle, or any exploration between the late 18th and early twentieth century.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

I’m studying 100 Years of Solitude and having fun with it rather a lot, however am studying it a lot slower than anticipated as a result of I’m engaged on the second guide for Crafting Humanity too and have an aggressive schedule I’m attempting maintain myself to. After that I’ll learn Dead Mountain concerning the Dylatov Pass Incident, I’ve heard nice issues.

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

I cherished writing the settings for the guide. It was enjoyable to return in my reminiscence to the locations I primarily based the guide on and recreate them from my very own perspective.

Do you’ve gotten any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and so forth.)

Not actually, I do discover myself waking up at odd hours to jot one thing down and stuff, however nothing partiucarly unusual.

Do you’ve gotten a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

I imagine within the worth of exhausting work and dedication to your craft. There’s all the time one thing you possibly can dream of doing, you simply should work to get there.

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

The characters. They are the central focus of the guide and I actually care about how I created them, their personalities, and story arcs.