Welcome back to Black Words-White Pages!! This week, I sat down and chatted with P Mattern!! So check out below what we talked about!!
AUTHOR Q & A: P MATTERN
Do you have a particular writing habit?
I write every single day-I usually have several WIPs and 3 publishers so what book I write on depends on whether I have a deadline and/or which one is running through my head!
Do you have any advice for other writers?
Yes I do! I think the most important thing is to realize that our inspiration comes from beyond ourselves (how else do we wake up with concepts and also entire chapters and titles in our heads? Or get an entire concept for a new book from a dream?) So my take on this phenomena is that authors should be grateful for inspiration and none of y'all are geniuses because we all get help to fulfill our destinies!
Any song or songs that could basically sum up the overall mood of this book?
Phucky the Elf Plays Matchmaker is hilarious so any funny song like "Santa Got Run Over By A Reindeer' would DO!
Do you plot out your books or just freely write them and let the characters tell you what to do next?
I think inspiration for most writers floods in , especially when we least expect it. I have gotten inspiration while in the shower (a big one for most authors), driving, writing on a different work in progress, etc. I am a Pantser and rarely write any sort of outline at all, unless I am co-writing in which case we put our heads together and coordinate what we want the characters to experience during the course of the novel.
I think it is so much fun to give characters free reign and they will surprise you EVERY TIME, especially with twist endings!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amazon #1 and Top 100 Bestselling and Award Winning author P. Mattern wrote stories to entertain classmates in elementary school and won awards for fiction and poetry while attending college. After being laid off from her professional job in Mental Health, she began writing down all the stories she'd been carrying around in her head and had made outlines for in earnest.
Inspired by Anne Rice and her handicapped son, World of Azglen was born. About a widow and her adult handicapped son who becomes brainy and strong after being bitten by a vampire, it became the first installment of the #1 Amazon bestselling Full Moon Series! Soon her children, J.C. Estall and Marcus Mattern, joined her in writing the Full Moon Series, Amazon Bestselling Andy of the Damned, Strident House, #1 Bestseller Shock of Night, Forest of Bleeding Trees and many others. This family writing dynasty is currently working on Book Seven of the Full Moon Series, a dystopic novel, Andy of the Damned Book Two, and finishing the last installment of Vampire Princess (the Arctic Circle Series).
P. Mattern is a member of Thriller Writers Association. Her work has appeared in numerous ezines and anthologies; (Girls Rock Horror Harder, The Animal Horror Collection, Painted Mayhem Horror Anthology, Mystical Magical, Erotic Exotic Paranormal, and Santa's Naughty List. She has two books under Booktrope Publishers's Forsaken imprint and a contract with Tell-Tale Publishing.
P. Mattern lives in the Midwest and is currently involved with one of her characters. ("It's complicated.")
Winner Second Place Scariest Story Contest /Tell-Tale Publishing 2015 for 'Terrible Choices.
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