Welcome, welcome, welcome!

Today’s 3Q’s guest is a new father, an award-winning author and all-around conjurer or dark, brutality!

Please, do welcome, Wesley Southard!!

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?

Wesley: Oh, man, these days my writing time is as dead as disco. My wife and I had our first baby last December, and since then I haven’t been able to get any meaningful time to actually write. Not that I’m necessarily complaining. I’ve always wanted to be a father and the experience has been even better than I could have imagined. When I was able to write, I usually preferred to get my work done at night before bed. Maybe two hours or so and, if I could get on a roll, I could probably knock out 1,500 to 2,000 words or so. I never seemed to get much work done on the weekends, but weeknights were always my best time to write. Hopefully, I can jump back on the train and get back to grinding the words out here soon.

Steve: You win the lottery and the only condition is that you need to fund another author’s book to be made into a movie. What book would you choose to be filmed?

Wesley: That’s such a hard question. I read between 50-75 books a year, give or take, and I lose track of how many times I think, “Man, this would make a killer film.” It would probably be something by Bentley Little. After being told for years to check out his stuff, I finally tried him out a few years ago and ended up falling head-over-heels in love with his work. He’s an absolute master of the craft. I think an adaptation of The Association or The Bank would be fantastic. If that wasn’t possible, I would absolutely finance a film adaptation of Simon Clark’s Vampyrrhic. I adore that book and think it would make a stellar film.

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

Wesley: I’ve only had one release this year so far and that’s a book called Try Again. It’s a novella I was fortunately able to crank out while my wife was on maternity leave and allowed me the time to get it finished so I could have it ready for AuthorCon. Try Again is about a woman named Robin who’s absolutely fed up with the way the world treats her. Once a fairly large girl, she became a gym rat and bulked up quite significantly, but that hasn’t stopped the constant criticism. One night, after getting into a verbal altercation at the gym, she drives home to the house she shares with her father and discovers several armed men inside, holding her father at gunpoint. The problem is every time she tries to enter the house, she suddenly finds herself right back in her car, driving home, thinking about that jerk at the gym. By the time she realizes the house won’t let her inside and she’s caught in a loop, she sets out to find the one and only way into and through the house to save her father before the men inside lose all patience. I’m really proud of how this little book came out, and the response to it so far has been very gratifying.

Steve: Bonus Question! If you could be an extra on any TV show, which one would it have been and why?

Wesley: I would love to be on the set of The Boys. I just love that show so much. I think being around all of that would be fascinating to witness. I would especially love to watch Antony Starr act. Homelander is such an unnerving character to watch, and to see that up close would be quite interesting.

Most excellent!

Thank you again, Wesley!

To find more of his work;

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wesley-Southard/e/B005HFH8JY/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/WesSouthard

Website: https://wesleysouthard.com/