Secrets and successes of an award winning monster writer with Owl Goingback
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Secrets and successes of an award winning monster writer with Owl Goingback
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Interview Timeline
Owl Goingback has been writing for over thirty years and has released many types of fiction including numerous horror short stories and novels. He won the Bram Stoker award for best first novel and most recently the Bram Stoker Award for the best novel of 2019, Coyote Rage. We spoke about the novel, his writing process, and some of the things that led him into writing horror. Coyote Rage, Independent Legions Publishing, 2019
0:39 – Owl talks about why he wrote Coyote Rage.
2:26 – Owl talks about the Native American traditions he’s familiar with.
4:11 – Owl talks about Coyote Rage.
5:51 – Owl talks about the genre of his novel and the stories he heard growing up.
6:42 – Owl talks about traditional tales and storytelling.
8:30 – Owl talks about his writing process and what he writes about. He talks about the importance of books to him.
9:39 – Owl talks about how he got books when he was young.
12:07 – Owl talks about wanting to find Bigfoot and UFOs. He talks about an event that partially inspired his novel Crota.
13:39 – Owl talks about when he started writing fiction and what kept him writing fiction.
15:31 – Owl talks how he learned writing.
16:13 – Owl talks about all the pop shows that he likes.
18:26 – Owl talks about the music that goes with Coyote Rage.
19:12 – Owl talks about his writing process.
20:35 – Owl talks about whether his writing has changed after winning awards.
22:21 – Owl talks about horror ideas that might have been over the line.
24:17 – Owl talks about the classic monsters he loves the most.
25:58 – Owl talks about his time in the Air Force and also being a historic cemetery caretaker.
27:37 – Owl talks about Poe and Lovecraft.
29:18 – Owl talks about the the things he liked when he was young such as lost civilizations.
32:08 – Owl talks about Aztecs and Native Americans.
33:19 – Owl talks about his new monster anthology.
40:29 – Owl can be found at owlgoingback.com, @ogoingback on twitter, and on facebook.
Links of interest
https://www.independentlegions.com/store/p148/coyoterage.html
https://twitter.com/OGoingback
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014562218135
Contact Information
For more “Full Contact Nerd” please follow me at crisalvarez.com, on Facebook at CrisAlvarezFCN, on youtube at Cris Alvarez on twitter @CrisAlvarezFCN, on Instagram @crisalvarezscifi, and on Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify for the podcast. Please see historyrabbithole.com for a list of my dozen or so blogs and podcasts. You’re sure to find something you like.
Guests: Owl Goingback
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, podcast, Independent Legions, horror, fiction, Stoker award,
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