Ask the Author: Riley E. Smith
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Riley E. Smith
SO MANY but a few highlights: I'm reading "Dracula Daily" which is Bram Stoker's Dracula in real-time. So every day there's a letter or diary entry from the book, it gets sent to my email. It's really fun to get a sense of the time passing in the novel that way.
I'm also making my desperate and fumbling way through Ulysses because it's been on my shelf forever, and it's kind of similar to a book I'm writing right now.
For fun, I've been reading the Myrtle Clover cozy mysteries. They're about an 80 year old woman in the south who solves crimes with the help of her friends and cat. They're absolutely lovely, and I'm enjoying them a lot. It's fun to follow along with the mystery and the gentle humor between the characters!
I'm also making my desperate and fumbling way through Ulysses because it's been on my shelf forever, and it's kind of similar to a book I'm writing right now.
For fun, I've been reading the Myrtle Clover cozy mysteries. They're about an 80 year old woman in the south who solves crimes with the help of her friends and cat. They're absolutely lovely, and I'm enjoying them a lot. It's fun to follow along with the mystery and the gentle humor between the characters!
Riley E. Smith
I actually have a whole YouTube video on this! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnMBw...
Riley E. Smith
I used to want to go to Raccoon City and the Resident Evil universe, but I'm not so confident I would survive a zombie apocalypse anymore, haha.
I think I would love to go to Jane Austen's world. Going to a ball and chatting with a handsome gentleman or laughing with a quick-witted lady would be the dream.
I think I would love to go to Jane Austen's world. Going to a ball and chatting with a handsome gentleman or laughing with a quick-witted lady would be the dream.
Riley E. Smith
Getting to share your daydreams with other people! I love the thought that the things I enjoy in my head are making other people laugh in their quiet hours.
Riley E. Smith
Take classes and read books on writing. Not so much because there's any one "correct" way to write, but because it will get you in the practice of writing regularly, thinking about writing, and taking criticism.
Riley E. Smith
Right now I'm working on a romcom about two aspiring LA actors, one comedian and one tragedian. They have a bet about which is easier, comedy or tragedy... can you guess what they learn at the end? ;)
More long term, I'm editing a historical fiction based in the regency that I wrote a long time ago, but I think with some editing it will be a very fun book.
More long term, I'm editing a historical fiction based in the regency that I wrote a long time ago, but I think with some editing it will be a very fun book.
Riley E. Smith
My inspiration for Cardinal came mostly from two of my favorite characters: Deadpool and Harley Quinn. Right after I saw the first Suicide Squad, I wanted so much more Harley Quinn media. So I wrote my own!
Originally, the story also incorporated zombies, because I wanted an anarchist tint to it. There needed to be some reason Cardinal could do all this freewheeling violence without consequences. But zombies complicated the story a bit too much, and having the Citadel be simply a separate entity cut off from the rest of the country accomplished the goal well enough.
Originally, the story also incorporated zombies, because I wanted an anarchist tint to it. There needed to be some reason Cardinal could do all this freewheeling violence without consequences. But zombies complicated the story a bit too much, and having the Citadel be simply a separate entity cut off from the rest of the country accomplished the goal well enough.
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