Apologies to Patrick, but that headline writes itself!

Excited to welcome today’s guest to the 3Q realm. For many, Patrick is known for his dark fiction. For others, he’s known for keeping the peace over on the HWA Facebook page! Either way, Patrick has his hands deep in the horror world and I was excited that he agreed to do a 3Q’s!

Please welcome Patrick!

 

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?
PF: Neither. I write if/when I feel like it. A lot of my writing goes like this: “Think about a story for days or months, without really writing it down, just letting it tumble around in your idea space. Run to laptop and write the whole thing in an afternoon (if a short story) or a month (if a novel).”
I go weeks and sometimes months without actually putting anything on paper. As the coach of a FIRST Robotics team, during build season I don’t get anything writing-related done (and barely see my wife or pets, either). When “in the zone”, I might write from when I get home from work until ten or midnight several weeks in a row.

Steve: You’re riding an elevator and BAM! It gets stuck. What two authors (one living and one dead) would you happen to find yourself stuck with?
PF: I’d probably end up stuck with Nicholas Sparks and the rotting corpse of Leo Tolstoy because that’s my luck, but I’d rather get stuck with Stephen Graham Jones and the rotting-but-talkative corpse of Elmore Leonard. You’ll never find two authors so different and yet so incredibly gifted at making incredible stories and characters that populate them.

Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!
PF: My newest novel is actually a mid-grade story (billed as YA) that I wrote on spec to kick off the re-boot of David Brin’s OUT OF TIME series. THE ARCHIMEDES GAMBIT is about a trio of teenagers who have been ripped from the history books into the 24th century to deal with an artificial intelligence that has gone murderously rogue. Any kid and no few adults will fall in love with these kids and how they tackle a problem that only they can handle.

Steve: Bonus Question! If you were transported back in time, which Pop Band/Hit Band would you hope to find yourself a member of?
PF: I would prefer to stay in this time and be a member of Taylor Swift’s band, because she’s incredible, but if there must be time travel, there must be time travel, so in that case I’m going to have to go with The Barenaked Ladies, for fun music and funny, often darkly ironic lyrics. I’m not Canadian, but they’re not ladies and perform with their clothes on, so we’ll call it even; let’s do some gigs.

Great choice, classic Canadian band. 

Thank you so much for doing this, Patrick!

To find more of his work, check the links!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-Freivald/e/B006N2B4YK

Website: https://patrick.freivald.com/