3Q’s is locked and loaded with another fun one today! I’m excited to share this one as today’s author has carved out a phenomenal bibliography for themselves, while also joining an existing world that is beloved by many!

Please do welcome Stephen Kozeniewski as today’s guest!

Steve: What does your writing time look like? Do you try to write at the same time each day? Do you have a word count you attempt to hit?
SK: I have become a creature of either Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, or Slaanesh lately. (I genuinely can’t even claim to just be chaotic; it would be far too definitive.) As I write this, it’s about half past midnight on a Saturday evening, and that’s about as reasonable as my writing schedule gets (and as unreasonable as my night life gets.) This does, however, change a great deal in November, because I have made it a point of personal pride to win National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for the last thirteen years running. And because I’m so unbalanced the rest of the year, perhaps I’ve begun to rely in an unhealthy way on that November spurt. But, in any case, during that time period, I try to shoot for a minimum of 2000 words a day, and sometimes land as high as 5000.

Steve: If you could write a story for another author’s fictional world/series, which would it be and why?
SK: I would be delighted to write something in the world of William Hope Hodgson’s THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND. And I think since it is now in the public domain I probably just can. I came to this world admittedly late in life, but I have nevertheless been fascinated by it and re-read at least annually. This is a story that creeps. It creeps into your subconsciousness. It creeps in the back of your mind. I just feel like there are so many unanswered questions, although I have no idea if I would ruin the beauty of that by revisiting the horrible portal in Kraighten. Still, maybe.

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

SK: CLICKERS NEVER DIE is something I never thought I would work on. I mean, who could even imagine getting invited to work on something like that? For those of your readers who may not be familiar, CLICKERS is an old-fashioned munch-out series (think “Gremlins,” “Critters,” “Them” or, frankly, almost any ’50s sci-fi movie) about giant crab-lobster-scorpion monsters. After both of the original authors who created the series passed away, I was invited, along with my cohort in crime Wile E. Young to reboot it. So, yes, you can just start with this one. And why should you? Well, if the heartwarming story of a boy and his Clicker isn’t enough to entice you, there’s also a World War II battle interrupted by the titular marine (ha!) beasties, and, if that’s somehow still not enough, a beautiful man-on-gill-man love scene. In a way, we did you a favor by writing it.

Steve: Bonus Question! Do you have a cherished book?
SK: I do! I have an original signed paperback copy of THE RISING (you know, the one with the zombie jazz hands busting through the boarded-up door.) I cherish it for the normal reasons, but I also cherish it because it is an object which, in a lot of ways, put me on the path to being the nominal success I am now.

Oh, very cool! That’s great! Thank you so much for doing this, Stephen!

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