marcschooley.com gives you the facts.  here’s the dirt:

[all answers in 20 words or less, unless otherwise noted]

1. Don’t tell me about your latest book.  Instead, tell me how your mind
works.  In 20 words or less.*

Christ, Modus Ponens, Quixote, Edwards, Kant, Doyle, King, Hume, Lewis,
Shyamalan, Calvin, Plantinga, Shakespeare, Young, Young, Craig, Elwood,
Elvis, Paul, et al…**

2. Why Texas?

I refuse to answer this as even more will seek to invade paradise. Hook
‘em!

3. Which POV do you gravitate toward, and why? (Again, 20 words or less.)

Omniscient. Since I’m advised against utilizing it, I thought I preferred
3rd limited, until I tried 1st. From writer’s perspective…

4.  If you were a mineral, which would you be, and why?

“I’m just an old lump of coal. But I’m gonna be a diamond some day…”

5.  I’m just getting into fiction writing after doing nonfic for years.
Advice?  And please be specific.

Nonfic topic(s) will drive your fiction: characterization, plot,
symbolism, theme, etc. Konig’s Fire is a fictional treatise on the POE***

6.  Referencing above question, which 3 general market fiction authors
should I read to give me a feel for great fiction, and why?  (You may use
up to 40 words here.)

Edgar Rice Burroughs—he moves plot! Beware unbelievability/deus ex
machina. Stephen King—no one has better chops, if you can stand or ignore
the objectionable material. Shakespeare—no one**** does metaphor (or
anything else) better. Obviously, I don’t read much fiction.

7.  Do you use cream, sugar, and / or flavoring in your coffee?  And if
you don’t drink coffee, please tell me instead which planet you’re /really/
from.

No, it’s coffee. Black. The stronger the better.

8.  I want to write a novel.  (Seriously, I do.)  How do I start?

Close your eyes whenever you have spare moments and let go until you see a
great story. Then write it.*****

9.  How long should it take me to write a first novel?

That’s up to you. Completely.

10. Have you ever slaughtered a chicken (for food, presumably)?

Only in the philosophical pursuit of Plato’s featherless biped…

11. Do you feel your writing tends more toward pulp fiction, literary, or
somewhere in between?  And why would you say that?

It’s both. Rudimentary and plot driven pulp on the surface level. Deep and
literary underneath.

12. What’s your favorite poem?

Excluding biblical poetry, Poe’s The Raven. Hands down. Is there balm in
Gilead?

13. If you could be a book, which would you be?  And why?

Library of Babel, except that the price of possessing all books comes at
too high a price. So, the Bible.

14. Do you derive writing inspiration from movies or music?  Which ones,
and why?  (If necessary, you may use up to 40 words.)

1000 times yes. Use any image, any thought, any perception, verily
anything at all (within reason) that sparks.

15. Can you cook a mean rack of Texas barbequed ribs?  Care to share that
recipe? (You may use all the space necessary for this one.)

No, but I know those who do. Recipes are like magician’s tricks…

16. If you knew you had only a year to finish all the writing you could
ever do, what would you finish, and why?

Three WIPs: murder mansion tale co-authored with CL Dyck, a cowboy tale,
and current nonfic project on church and politics.

17. (Back to chickens) Why did the chicken cross the dusty Texas road?

Not to get to Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, or Mexico. 

18. C. S. Lewis is sitting across from you at your kitchen table (and no,
he doesn’t look like CLD).  What one question would you ask him?

How could you possibly think the doctrine of total depravity is akin to
devil worship? Nevermind, let’s talk De Futilitate…

19. Referencing #18, how would he answer you, do you think?

We’d stay up all night talking.

20. Referencing #19, then why ask him if you think you know the answer?

Knowledge is justified, true belief with warrant (perhaps). Though I think
I know, I don’t really know…

21. Tell me about your book.  Seriously.  You can do that now.  In 20
words or less.

Moby Dick meets Apocalypse Now, with killer plant men, Nazi’s, and a host
of other fun stuff. Literary pulp fiction…

22. Why do you feel most Christian authors can’t compete with general
market authors?  Again, seriously.

I have not even the first idea.

23. Chinese or Italian?  Food, that is.

Mexican.

24. Your most effective marketing strategy has been ____________ (fill in
the blank; enlarge it if necessary).

Word of mouth. Marketing has been the most challenging aspect of this
entire experience.

25. When will you repay the favor of an interview?

Ready when you are. Seriously*****. Great interview…

* Asterisks, and their attendant footnotes, do not count against word
count. Contractions are considered one word.
**No particular order, except Christ. Non-exhaustive.
***Problem of Evil
****Technically, no one is one word, split so it’s not noone, thus the
forty-word limit remains intact.
*****Seriously.

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Thanks, Marc!

Closing my eyes and letting go, ~Chila

P.S. Marc is the author of The Dark Man and Konig’s Fire, two novels published by Marcher Lord Press. Seriously.