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AM PLEASED TO WELCOME AUTHOR
George
Saoulidis
BIO –
George Saoulidis -Writer/Director
from Greece. I enjoy taking ancient Greek myths and turning them into modern sci-fi
spooky versions. I don't like Stephen King's novels.
BANTER – STUFF ABOUT YOU
Q: Bedtime, relaxing
so you can sleep sounds. Is your preference, white noise, TV, soft music, ocean
waves, forest or meadow sounds, babbling brook, or something else?
A: Listening to
audiobooks. I have an app with a timer you can set for it to stop. Then the
book gets exciting, so you reverse-snooze the button and keep on listening till
it’s morning.
Q: Have you ever been too embarrassed to promote any certain titles to friends or family?
A: Yes, self-promotion has always been an issue. With strangers or online it’s always easier to do it. I still get surprised that the people in your life are always trying to support you when they find out you have something interesting published out there. Just don’t listen to their feedback.
Q: Texting, love it or hate it?
A: What’s not to love? Texting is a great way to get
misunderstood in this day and age. Keeps relationships fresh and filled with
drama.
BOOKS – ABOUT THE CRAFT
Q: What do you think
is the hardest part of writing a book?
A: Coming up with the
names. Your characters, your coffee places, your companies, your boats or
spaceships need to have a name, and it really really matters. There’s a reason
we still remember Peter Parker or Morpheus. Weyland-Yutani with always conjure
up an evil-megacorp in my mind, even though it’s actually a tough-to-remember
name. Need I mention the Enterprise or the Millennium Falcon?
Q: Who's your
favorite author?
A: I have plenty,
right now it’s John Scalzi.
Q: Your favorite
title?
A: Atlas Shrugged.
Cause you do a double-take on it, and then you imagine it, and think of the
implications, and your mind goes kaboom.
Q: Have your
characters ever taken the story in a different direction than you had
originally planned? Do you have a for instance, for us?
A: Yes, I pretty much
rely on my characters to get out of the situations I put them in. I just keep
being sadistic and they just keep coming out on top. For instance, on
Nanodaemons, I had my main character try to figure out how to fight a huge
genetically modified cobra that was shaking off any gunshot or blade that was
thrown at it. Well, he figured it out. He turned a concrete-mixer lorry into an
oversized snake trap. I had no idea how to deal with the cobra before my
character figured it out. Of course I know I did that, but I had to get to the
solution through the character’s life as a construction worker.
Q: What geographical
locations are your favorite and why?
A: Greece, cause I
live here. There are many places to explore, lots of nice little implications
you can weave into stories, popular and hidden locations, three thousand years
of history. We also have some of the most badass soap-opera mythology on the planet.
Q: Generally
speaking, is your work based on real life experience? If it's not would you
want it to be?
A: Definitely not. My
universes are not nice places to live in.
Q: Do you like to
read the genre that you write?
A: I believe it’s
impossible to write without reading in the genre. Not only that, I like to read
articles, listen to relevant music, see TV shows and movies related to what I’m
writing.
BOOKS - NOW LETS PROMOTE – STRUT YOUR STUFF
Q: What are you
working on now? Would you like to share anything about it?
A: I’m working on a
novella called “The Girl Who Made Herself.”
Description:
When the daughter of
Greece’s premier singer fails to sing as expected, she finds out about a biker
group of women. But will she manage to find the elusive Orosa, the bikers’
motovlogger, when all she has to go on are random street-sightings of criminal
behaviour, when her family is opposed to her following this path and when her
dad’s employer wants to keep her as she was for marketing purposes?
Q: Do you have a new
book coming out soon? Tell us about it.
A: My upcoming book
is a novella called “Erinyes.” It is a modern retelling of Antonioni’s Blow Up.
Erinyes mixes the selfie generation with sci-fi elements to uncover a
conspiracy.
Q: How can we find
you? Do you have a web page, FaceBook page or any buy links?
A: You can see the
current books in the God Complex series at this website:
My only interesting
social account is the twitter one, where I post about articles I like, things
that inspire the stories and our own creations, special
offers and cover reveals. http://twitter.com/MythographyS
Edrinyes Description:
When a sheltered teenager starts noticing a hazy face following her in her photographs, she begins to investigate an urban legend. But will she uncover the truth when she gets in trouble with a technology corporation, when an enigmatic hacker starts telling her conspiracy theories and when the hazy face becomes all too real and starts chasing her non-stop?
A modern retelling of Antonioni’s Blow Up, Erinyes mixes the selfie generation with sci-fi elements to uncover a conspiracy.
From ScifiSelect: "A new kind of nightmare to haunt your restless nights…"
Do you want to know what’s next for the inexperienced self-adoring Mahi? Do you wanna meet the Erinyes? Then read this unique young adult horror story that toys with the very concept of narcissism.
Word count:
25000
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