Does my guest need an introduction? Sure, why not? Otherwise it would be kind of weird if it just started and you were all like “who the heck is this today?” Although I doubt it.

Award winning author. Awesome person. Super supportive. Always encouraging. And conjurer of severe brutality!

Please do welcome EV!

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?
EV: Oh, how I wish I had a great answer for this. My writing time looks like I am some sort of broke addict searching my couch for enough coins to get a little fix for the day. I dream about a time in the future where I have a set schedule, a place where I always go to write, or even a word count goal. But my writing life is currently supported by my day job: Obstetrics physician. And if you’ve ever met a baby, you know they don’t care about anyone’s schedule or to-do list. They are very greedy and narcissistic like that! (I love babies by the way, this is a terrible joke and I hope I did not offend any of you babies out there) So, for now, I grab every day off, every moment between patients, and time when I probably should be doing things like dishes, laundry, sleep, brushing my hair, etc and I write. I may single-handedly be keeping the Post-It Note stocks high as I carry them around in my scrubs and jacket for anytime an idea strikes.
Bottom line for budding writers: Do not emulate this style unless you like spending money on a therapist to deal with your massive guilt complexes and insomnia.

Steve: You end up at an estate sale and discover an unpublished manuscript from an author you love.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?
EV: I am the worst secret keeper when it comes to gift giving so if I have something I know someone else would love, it’s super hard for me not to give it to them immediately. I would share that sucker in a heartbeat. Plus, in these times, art of every kind is the one thing we can all cling to for joy, I’d never hoard joy like that.

Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!
EV: My newest work Three Days in The Pink Tower is a novella very near and dear to me. It’s a piece of auto-fiction based on a kidnapping and sexual assault I endured at the age of seventeen. I’ve thought about telling the story for a long time but didn’t know how I wanted to present it. Plus, in a world full of #metoo, it seemed almost grandiose of me to assume my story was somehow more important than anyone else’s. I wanted to tell it because it had been eating away at me for thirty years but at the same time, I was so tired of it too.
But I realized that as a fiction writer, I could tell the story any way I wanted. And as I wrote, as I wove in the Tarot mythology, I started to feel this sort of power. I was not the frightened girl in the story, I was the High Priestess guiding her through it. It was, after all, MY story. A story forced upon me but still mine and I could do whatever I wanted to my characters; I could end it however I wanted. That was when I realized the importance of sharing my trauma in this way. I wanted to present it as both a piece of art created from trauma but also as a sort of manual on how to take your story back, how to take the pain someone else gave you and wield it as a superpower. I wanted to inspire others to do that. It’s a tough read, I know. And it’s probably not for everyone, but I do hope those who do read it, find not just darkness but the light of inspiration as well.
Also, I have a short story in the soon-to-be-released anthology Into The Forest: Tales of The Baba Yaga by Black Spot Books. My story is called “Stork Bites” and it explores a horrifying option for women in a world where safe, medical abortions are illegal.

Steve: Bonus Question! You wake up in a comic book. What is your comic book character and what is your super power?
EV: Okay, I’m going for super weird because flying and mind reading would probably get old quickly. I’ve had this character in mind for awhile, and coming from a medical background I think this is what I would choose. Born without fingernails or fingerprints, our heroine discovers the ability to slide her hands into the flesh (basically between the cells so when she takes it back out, no wound, no blood loss) of other living creatures—think the creepy priest from Temple of Doom—and remove whatever—organs, tumors, bullets, etc. You could go evil and become the highest-ranking person in the black-market organ trade or you could save lives everyday by removing all sorts of foreign objects, masses, infections.
I don’t know, this sounds crazy as I write it. But I’m sticking with it. I’m a horror writer after all.

Oh wow! That’s intense! Sounds like a Barker Cenobite waiting to come to screen!

Thank you so much, EV!
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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/EV-Knight/e/B083WPHXSD

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVKnightAuthor