Fun bonus/special 3Q’s today!

Andy Davidson is an author who continues to push the envelope and force his readers to follow along and be richly rewarded with each and every release. Andy has a new book coming out tomorrow – October 11th, 2022! I’m so excited to have Andy stop by today!

Please welcome Andy!

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?
Andy: My writing time builds momentum over the course of several months. First, I spend a few weeks just filling up a notebook with ideas—character sketches, doodles, maps—and gradually those become a structure, and the structure becomes a broad, handwritten outline. All of this is done away from the computer. I sit down in front a screen once I’m building out the outline. Once I get to the ending, I’m ready to start. I may spend several hours a day at the computer five, six days a week if I’ve got a full steam going. Usually, a rough draft comes out in three or four months. I really don’t have a word count I try to hit. Rather, I let the scene guide me. If it’s a good day, I can write a whole chapter. If it’s a bad day—and there are more of those than I care to admit—I usually manage a few hundred words at most. Commitment to the project is the goal I aim for, start to finish, however long it takes.

Steve: You end up at an estate sale and discover an unpublished manuscript from an author you love. Do you keep it just for yourself or do you share it with the world?
Andy: Share it, if it’s good work. And maybe write the introduction. (I do wonder about writers who die with unpublished work in a trunk. Usually, there’s a reason it’s in a trunk, right?)

Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!
Andy: The Hollow Kind is the story of Nellie Gardner, née Redfern, who inherits her grandfather’s Georgia turpentine estate in 1989. Looking to escape a bad marriage, she flees to Redfern Hill with her son, Max, only to find the estate is actually a broken down farmhouse on a thousand acres of decrepit forest. Soon enough, Nellie and Max discover the lingering presence of something very old and very evil, an entity whose appetite for human souls is rooted deep in the soil—and nourished by Redfern blood.
This is a very special book to me, born out of the great, popular horror stories I loved growing up—from Stephen King’s The Shining to Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. In writing it, I basically threw everything I loved as a kid (from John Carpenter to Ray Bradbury to Dolly Parton) into a Spielbergian blender and poured out a tale of 1980s cosmic horror—interwoven with a turn-of-the-century southern Gothic about greed and madness and the evil men sow.
As such, The Hollow Kind also explores the history of where I live in Georgia, a history of land-grabbing and violent retribution—and the exploitation of nature, specifically the logging industry’s decimation of longleaf pine forests, which are only now being reseeded and cultivated. In this, The Hollow Kind reflects a facet of life in the American south that is little known and all too real.

Steve: Bonus Question! You wake up in a comic book. What is your comic book character and what is your super power?
Andy: I’m Batman. I have one super power. I’m rich.

Great choice! Thank you again, Andy! Best of luck with the launch!

To find more about Andy and his work, check the links!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/theandydavidson

Website: https://www.theandydavidson.com/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Andy-Davidson/e/B01N9OMRA8/