{"id":6442,"date":"2015-06-26T17:46:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T21:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2015-06-26T17:46:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T21:46:05","slug":"s-a-hunt-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6442","title":{"rendered":"S.A. Hunt Blends Genres Naturally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/S.-A.-Hunt\/e\/B00BJODGKW\/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1435353943&#038;sr=8-1&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\">Fantasy author S.A. Hunt<\/a> is interviewed here on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2015\/06\/indie-author-spotlight-s-hunt-author-whirlwind-thorn-tree\/\">his path as an indie writer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With <em>Outlaw King<\/em>, I was intentionally trying to write a straight-faced fantasy, but as usual my old love, horror, came sneaking in the back door and put its two cents\u2019 worth in. . . . And to me, an engaging fantasy is a story that can effectively leverage well-written horror elements: the Jabberwocky of <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>, the Others of G.R.R. Martin\u2019s books, the totemic Taheen of King\u2019s <em>Dark Tower<\/em> books and his iconic Man in Black. When a fantasy story has an antagonist that\u2019s almost prohibitively dark and monstrous, a fresh weird monster you love to hate, it really ups the stakes. Weirdness is what gives the creative world its addictive edge, I think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He talks about the fact that he chose self-publishing like most people, with the clueless hope for wild success, and he continues to struggle now. &#8220;It\u2019s strange. I\u2019ve felt like I was trapped in this bulletproof bubble for the first two years or so, hermetically sealed off from the world, screaming silently for someone to notice me\u2026and now I get the occasional comment from other indie authors to the effect of, &#8216;You\u2019re an inspiration to the rest of us indies,&#8217; or &#8216;Thanks to you, I\u2019ve decided to finally push myself and write that book I\u2019ve been wanting to write,&#8217; both of which are something I have a lot of trouble internalizing, but they feel incredible to hear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hunt says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahuntbooks.com\/blog\/sf-signal-interview-dlc\">interview went long<\/a>, so he posted several more questions on his site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy author S.A. Hunt is interviewed here on his path as an indie writer. &#8220;With Outlaw King, I was intentionally trying to write a straight-faced fantasy, but as usual my old love, horror, came sneaking in the back door and put its two cents\u2019 worth in. . . . And to me, an engaging fantasy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S.A. Hunt Blends Genres Naturally<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[948,1236,2454],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-fiction","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-s-a-hunt"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}