3Q’s today is with the fantastic Austrian Spencer! Austrian is an avid reader, reviewer and is about to re-release his heralded The Sadeiest, as well as the follow ups to that tome.

Please welcome Austrian!

Steve: What does your writing time look like? Do you try and write at the same time each day? Do you have a word count you attempt to hit?

Austrian: I have a terrible, awful, chaotic schedule. I write only when I know it’s the right time to write. I know – right? When I’m ready, I can write between 3000-17,000 words. There’s no limit, when I feel like it’s a good time to stop, that I’ve achieved what needed to be done, then I stop.

It is madness, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. Chaotic neutral, baby!

Steve: If you could write a story for another author’s fictional world/series, which would it be and why?

Austrian: If I could write in anyone’s fictional world, I’d want to write in Iain M. Banks’ Culture – I know it’s not horror, but that’s the point, imagine an artificial intelligence ship that was chaotic, a dark book in his world. It would be phenomenal. His “Use of weapons” was the nearest, and it’s one of the only books I’ve read where the twist surprised me, and changed the entire book. Yeah. Horror in the culture would be awesome.

Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!

Austrian: I’m about to release The Sadeiest again (my re-imagined Death (the grim reaper) novel) at the end of August/early September, I’m parting ways with Darkstroke after my contract runs out in August, and after that “The Dawn Chorus” is looking like a late November release – It’s a Creature Feature Apocolypse novella, about invisible creatures that phase into our multiverse, that have always been on earth but have previously only hunted smaller woodland creatures. After Covid, and all of the vaccines we used that contain Pangolin DNA (or after repeated contamination from Covid), humans finally become visible to them, and their diet changes rapidly and catastrophically (for humans). We join the story two years after the first wave of takings, and the earth has become an abattoir, yet genetics also play a part in our survival, and certain traits in the survivors become apparent for the survival genes they really are

I’m hoping to release The Masocheist, the sequel to the Sadeiest, in early February next year, and I’m thrilled that Daniela Sera is on board doing the covers on all three novels (Sadeiest, Dawn Chorus, Masocheist). You should read it because invisible predatory creatures that make humans fodder are awesome, frankly.

Steve: Bonus question, do I have a cherished book?

Austrian: Yes, The Player Of Games, also from Iain M.Banks – It’s so cool. I love everything about it, and it’s such a fantastic springboard into his sci-fi novels. It killed me that he died so young, but I have his last novel, waiting for me unread so that I will always know there is more of his writing waiting for me to discover.

Thanks for having me, Steve, and to all of the authors out there, I hope to read you soon, and review your work!

Awesome! Best of luck with the re-launch and the follow ups!

To follow along and find more work from Austrian, click the links!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Austrian-Spencer/e/B08J1D7ZWG/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpencerAustrian

Website: https://www.austrianspencer.com/