Monday, April 28, 2014

Interview with author Tegon Maus


Today we have the chance to get to know author Tegon Maus a bit better.


Q ~ Can you tell us a bit about yourself? 

I was raised pretty much the same as everyone else... devoted mother, strict father and all the imaginary friends I could conjure. Not that I wasn't friendly, I just wasn't "people orientated". Maybe I lived in my head way more than I should have, maybe not. I liked machines more than people, at least I did until I met my wife.
The first thing I can remember writing was for her. For the life of me I can't remember what it was about... something about dust bunnies under the bed and monsters in my closet. It must have been pretty good because she married me shortly after that.

Q ~ What’s something that you never leave home without? 

Change. I never leave home without change… 3 quarters, 3 dimes, 3 nickels and 7 pennies less than this I feel naked… more and it’s too heavy. You can buy anything with the right change!!

Q ~ If you were stuck on a deserted island, who and what would you want with you and why? 

 My wife Dearheart and a pocket knife… Just the two of us… no bills… no commercials who would want to leave??

Q ~ What are your biggest influences in life? 

Benjamin Franklin, Reed Richards Who are your biggest supporters? My wife Dearheart… she has read all my stories, books, essays anything I put on paper one sentence at a time… 5 or 6 times in a row until I can get it right. Other than her the first would be my Mentor and friend Terri Valentine. Second, I would have to say my publisher at Tirgearr Publishing… Kemberlee Shortland… a fantastic Romance author herself, took the time to read me and was willing to take a chance on a completely unknown writer and has thrown her full support behind me as well as all the other writers under her care. Third but not least, would be Troy Lambert… the Word Master who has given me countless hours of his time and talent to make my writing far more superior than I would have thought possible!

Q ~ What is your favourite genre to read? 

I love Sci-Fi and humor! To write? The same.

Q ~ Do you have a favourite author? 

 E.E. Doc Smith! His books were published in 1939… a truly brilliant guy… way ahead of his time. Do they influence your writing? He writes good strong characters… John Wayne types that all have to fight huge obstacles to win the day. I like that in a book.

Q ~ How did you begin writing professionally? 

I spent a good number of years inventing games and prototypes for a variety of ideas before I got back to writing.

It wasn't a deliberate conscious thought it was more of a stepping stone. My wife and I had joined a dream interpret group in the 80’s and we were encouraged to write down our dreams as they occurred. "Be as detailed as you can," we were told.

I was thrilled. If there is one thing I enjoy it's making people believe me and I like to exaggerate. Not a big exaggeration or an outright lie mine you, just a little step out of sync, just enough so you couldn't be sure if it were true or not. When I write, I always write with the effort of "it could happen" very much in mind and nothing, I guarantee you, nothing, makes me happier.

Q ~ What’s the best thing that’s happened since you began writing? The worst?

The Best thing? The first book I got published was because I won a writing contest. The Senior Editor called me personally to say I won ! It was very exciting… my wife and I were both “At last!” After the first 3 months on sale I was to get my first royalty check. I spent the Saturday before talking craziness with my wife all day trading bigger and wilder dreams between us. I started with 7 billion people in the world… subtracted those that didn’t speak or read English. Then minus those that didn’t read my genre… minus those to young to read my work… minus those that don’t own a computer… should mean I would get a royalty check for… 3 books… defiantly the worse.

Q ~ Are you working on anything at the moment? If so, what, and can you tell us a bit about it? 

I have four new books out this year. My Contemporary Paranormal Fiction… My Grandfather’s Pants was released in January. I have a soft Sci-Fi series that will be released April 22 called the Eve Project with Machines of the Little People. Book 2… The Wishing Stone will be released in August followed by book 3 The Cordovian Effect at the end of the year. I just finished a stand alone soft SCi-Fi called BOB. I also have an Action / Adventure Series called the Chronicles of Tucker Littlefield… I’m a little over ½ done with book 2 called Black Moon and a couple of chapters done on book 3 called Rise of the Norha.

Q ~ Do you have any advice for those who would like to begin writing professionally?

If you write… write for you… what you like to read… how your imagination works. Don’t write about Squirrels because Squirrels are popular… unless you have one that water skies then maybe. If you write anything else you’ll never be happy and your work will show it.

About the author:
I was raised pretty much the same as everyone else... devoted mother, strict father and all the imaginary friends I could conjure. Not that I wasn't friendly, I just wasn't "people orientated". Maybe I lived in my head way more than I should have, maybe not. I liked machines more than people, at least I did until I met my wife.

The first thing I can remember writing was for her. For the life of me I can't remember what it was about... something about dust bunnies under the bed and monsters in my closet. It must have been pretty good because she married me shortly after that. I spent a good number of years after inventing games and prototypes for a variety of ideas before I got back to writing.

It wasn't a deliberate conscious thought, it was more of a stepping stone. My wife and I had joined a dream interpret group and we were encouraged to write down our dreams as they occurred. "Be as detailed as you can," we were told.

I was thrilled. If there is one thing I enjoy it's making people believe me and I like to exaggerate. Not a big exaggeration or an out right lie mine you, just a little step out of sync, just enough so you couldn't be sure if it were true or not. When I write, I always write with the effort of "it could happen" very much in mind and nothing, I guarantee you, nothing, makes me happier.

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A bit about My Grandfather's Pants

My grandfather, who went by Henry his entire life, was really born Francis Michael Laskin. On occasion a few of the older relatives would call him Frank, a name he neither acknowledged nor accepted. I had never understood it as a child but... now in my early thirties, everything I knew about the man, his entire life, those that loved him and those that tried to control him all became clear and it all began with a pair of my grandfather's pants.

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