Name: John Reeves
Age: 32
From: New Market, Alabama
Last book you published on Bookrix: Serve and Protect
What are your goals in writing? I want to be known as the guy who scared you. I'd like to win the Bram Stoker Award.
What made you want to be a writer? I read a lot of books when I was young, and knew I had stories I wanted to tell. The first full length novel I read at age 10, (Christine by: Stephen King) made me realize how good a story could be told. After that I knew I wanted to write.
Do you have a method when you start a book? After the idea is firmly planted in my thoughts, then I start to visualize the characters, things they'd say and do, or how they'd act in general. I ask myself how they'd act in the situations I already know they'll be involved in, and from there the story is already taking off.
Do you base characters from real people? Yes, I want characters I know and so does the reader. They're not always people I know directly, but they are real people I've came into contact with.
Where do you usually write your books? In my bedroom. Everything I've ever created began in the bedroom.
What are your writing strengths? I think it's my ability to always have material to write. I don't really know what writer's block is, because my imagination never stops working.
What inspires you to write? My fears. I write what scares me. I've been a fan of horror and suspense so long that my tolerance is high. I've become somewhat desensitized to conventional horror, so most of what I write these days is very dark fiction.
How do you develop your characters? We don't all know the same people, but we know people who are very much alike. I think you have to use believable characters, so I build them from the types of people we all know.
What authors inspire you? Stephen King. I was inspired to write because of Stephen King's Christine. However in the twenty years since I first read King, there have been countless other stories that reminded me why I like storytelling.
What are your favorite books? Horror and thrillers. I like most of the early Stephen King, pre-2000's. I like Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, just read this last month, and really enjoyed it. The Shining is still probably my favorite novel.
How do you handle criticism? I like hearing what people thought, and they're not always going to like it. I think the negative feedback is just as important as the positive feedback. Either way you'll know where you stand.
What book do you think everyone should read? What did you get or learn from it? Newbies Guide to Publishing: By JA Konrath - The book tells you valuable information about the self-publishing industry, and the author's knowledge on the subject is second to none.
What do you want the readers to receive from your writing? I want them to be scared, possibly horrified, but if nothing else at least grossed out.
They say that from books you learn more about the author, what do you think people will or have learned about you? Nothing, looking at it like that would give them the wrong idea about me. I guess you'll know what my fears are, because that's the only part of the stories connected to who I am.
If or when you are published and make your first million, what will you do first? Make sure my children have tuition for college.
Thank you John AKA Tigerpride for letting us know more about you.
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