Interview with Kyle Waller, Author of Cretaceous Kings

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to write down Cretaceous Kings?

Ever since I used to be a baby I’ve been fascinated with animals, each prehistoric and fashionable. I grew up watching the “Walking With” sequence and my favorites had been, “Walking with Dinosaurs”, “Walking with Beasts”, and “The Ballad of Big Al”. This catapulted my obsession with all issues prehistoric. My obsession with animals began with the late, nice, Steve Irwin, I by no means missed an episode of “The Crocodile Hunter” as a baby. Documentaries comparable to, “The Life of Mammals”, Planet Earth”, and the “Future is Wild” additionally strengthened my love for animals.

As for this explicit guide my largest inspiration for the story was a coalition of six lion brothers known as the Mapogos from Sabi Sands Game Reserve in South Africa. I noticed a documentary about them in highschool and was blown away by the story. These lions had been significantly brutal and my teenage self, couldn’t assist however think about “How cool would it be if T-Rexes did shit like this?” lol. There is potential proof of different tyrannosaur species like albertosaurus and daspletosaurus, being social so the concept wasn’t that far-fetched to me.

Years later throughout my senior yr of faculty, I wrote the primary chapter in a single night time, fueled by a spontaneous rush of creativity. Due to commencement and job worries I deserted the venture. However, in 2020 throughout the pandemic I regained my artistic spark and completed the guide in early 2022, lastly publishing it in October of this yr.

If you needed to decide theme songs for the primary characters of Cretaceous Kings, what would they be?

Leviathan: King’s Disease – Nas

Hannibal: Ambitionz az a Ridah – Tupac

Carnis: All My Life – Ok-Ci & JoJo

Mansur: Many Men – 50 Cent

I’m an enormous hip hop fan…

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

I truthfully don’t learn a lot lol, after I do learn it’s normally scientific articles I discover on Google. So, I’d decide non-fiction as my favourite style to learn. My favourite style to write down is science fiction, so technically it differs. However, the articles I learn immediately affect my writing, seeing as how they’re dinosaur/animal associated most of the time. I do have a number of books from childhood that I like comparable to “White Fang”, which was an enormous affect on how I wrote the animal interactions in my novel, and “Moby Dick”.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

Sabertooth-Mauricio Anton (began however didn’t end)

Raptor Red-Robert T. Bakker (began however didn’t end once more)

Jurassic Park-Michael Crichton ( I do know, loopy, I’ve by no means learn Jurassic Park. Seen all the films although)

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

That’s a really exhausting query. If I had to decide on it will be the final scene of the ninth chapter, the place a large t-rex emerges from the forest and scares the brothers off of a kill. I wished to seize the wonder of the panorama alongside with the intimidating energy of this monstrous tyrannosaur and it was fairly enjoyable to write down.

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

I typically wish to hearken to lyrical rap music earlier than writing. I get impressed by the intelligent wordplay and it helps me get by means of writers block, as I “freestyle” write my very own wordplay, though it might not all the time be intelligent. Even if I do write one thing I deem to be horrible, at the least I’ve an concept of the place I need to take issues and I can return later and repair it. Jay-Z’s track “Lyrical Exercise” will get me fairly impressed to write down.

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

Lately I’ve been actually objective and dream oriented, so my philosophy could be by no means let something stand between you and your goals. I’m beginning an leisure enterprise “Rex God Entertainment” and my novel is step one in that course of. Not solely will I proceed to write down novels, I additionally hope to launch graphic novels, audiobooks, and finally CGI dinosaur documentaries.

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

The struggle for survival is a story as previous as life on this planet. With the whole lot occurring now, occasions are fairly exhausting. Never hand over, hold preventing.