10 Questions with Sci-Fi Writer John-Paul Cleary (@ConvergentSpace)
This Author Spotlight features science fiction writer John-Paul Cleary. John-Paul has taken his extensive experience as a magazine editor and applied it to the world of creating fiction. The result is his first novel, CONVERGENT SPACE (see above), which John-Paul describes as an "accessible road movie of a book." Readers have said that CONVERGENT SPACE is full of unique and interesting characters, fascinating alien races and plenty of twists and turns. John Paul lives just outside Aberdeen, Scotland. 1. How did you get into writing? Writing is something I’ve always done. I’ve even tried it as a career once, working as a magazine editor for four years. It taught me how to write quickly and to write to order, and how to edit. 2. What do you like best (or least) about writing? Not reading. I can’t read other books when I’m writing because I’m too easily influenced. I start mimicking the style of the book I’m reading and suddenly I’m writing D...