Ask the Author: Wesley McCraw
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Wesley McCraw
There are quite a few thing in the pipeline this year. I’m releasing House of Cabal Volume Two: Estate very soon. I’m writing weird short fiction for my collection The Queen in Yellow. And I’m rewriting my next novel, Brief Pose, about an advertisement campaign that makes people lose themselves in fantasy, which should be released this summer.
Wesley McCraw
House of Cabal was inspired by quite a few things because I started writing it in late 1999 and I’ve been working on it off and on for the better part of sixteen years. Initially, the idea was a combination of my two favorite children’s books, The Thief of Always and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. I wanted to do something like those books, only with more adults themes.
Fast forward quite a few years into the creative process. Pinsleep, the witness angel, was a framing device that I invented later on that took on a life of his own, inspired by a lot of my own musings on religion and faith. The Garden of Eden was always a feature of the series but was initially revealed much later in the plot. Once I created Pinsleep, the conclusion of the series hit me like a bolt of lightning, and I discovered where I had to start my story.
Fast forward quite a few years into the creative process. Pinsleep, the witness angel, was a framing device that I invented later on that took on a life of his own, inspired by a lot of my own musings on religion and faith. The Garden of Eden was always a feature of the series but was initially revealed much later in the plot. Once I created Pinsleep, the conclusion of the series hit me like a bolt of lightning, and I discovered where I had to start my story.
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