How long have you been a writer? JP: I started writing while incarcerated back in the late 90's. I started sending my stories out around 2001 for consideration to magazines and publishing companies. What was your most memorable response from a submission? JP: An editor told me I couldn't write, to give it up, so I sent him a dirty picture. How would you describe your writing style? JP: My writing style is very simple and straight forward, I think. I use a lot of dialogue and try my best to limit description. I think less helps the reader visualize more, or at least it does for me. Some writers are completely the opposite, and you'll get lots of description on people and objects, like a house for example. Some readers prefer writers who describe a lot. Some people who have read my work really enjoy it. Others think it is shit or mediocre. I pride myself in enjoying what I write. If I don't enjoy something I'm working on, I'll usually quit it and not finish. A lot of writers keep going, working on the same project until it's complete, whether they care about that work or lose interest. Everything I write, I enjoyed writing every bit of it. You just released a new novel Corn Bred, what can us bookworms expect from it? JP: Corn Bred is my tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." This tale is about a man with multiple personality disorder, one personality a loving, caring and functioning member of society, the other a total fucking psychopath. These two personalities clash with each other over the same woman, the good trying to save her, and the bad slowly torturing her to death. The question is, which side wins? You can expect a much more serious tale than you might find in my previous works. This one will be darker, and it will be very brutal. Out of all your stories, which is you're personal favorite? JP: My personal favorite book that I've released might be "Corn Bred." It was harder to write because it deals with mental illness instead of something supernatural. The mental illness factor hits very close to home for me. I suffer from severe depression and have had a relative who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. You're also a poet? Tell us a bit about that. JP: I do write poetry. I find that shit to be therapeutic. I read other poets and can't relate to them. They offer nothing I can grasp that is relevant to my lifestyle. So I create my own shit, shit that matters to me. Shit that I can relate to. Some people relate to it, and these people are usually the ones who come from the same world I do. A lot of people probably won't like my poetry or relate to it because they don't understand it. Others will immediately recognize it for what it is. Is my poetry any good? I think it is, but I'm sure I'd never win any awards with it. |
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