Category: Interviews

  • Building a Theme by Tim Waggoner

    Building a Theme by Tim Waggoner

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    This article by TIM WAGGONER originally appeared in “Writing Popular Fiction” in 2005 and is use here with his permission. Work for hire. In the publishing community, the phrase conjures images of laborers toiling in someone else’s field, earning very little pay for their efforts and even less recognition. But while perhaps very few would-be…

  • Tied-in to terror – John Passarella on Supernatural: Night Terror

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    Cavan Scott braves things that go bump in the night to talk to author John Passarella about his new Supernatural tie-in novel, Night Terror  What can you tell us about Night Terror? Night Terror is set late in season six of Supernatural, which followed the huge apocalypse arc that concluded in season five. I was told right up front by the editor…

  • Raymond Benson on Writing the Bond Novels

    Raymond Benson on Writing the Bond Novels

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    This in-depth interview with author RAYMOND BENSON was conducted by JOHN COX for www.commanderbond.net and is reprinted here with their permission, for which the IAMTW is grateful. Raymond Benson has had a long career “in Bondage.” As a Bond fan he wrote extensively for several fan club publications, and in 1984 wrote what is still…

  • Mel Odom on Tie-In Writing

    Mel Odom on Tie-In Writing

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    MEL ODOM is the author of such novelizations as Vertical Limit and Blade. He offered these thoughts on tie-in writing in an interview for THE 11th HOUR website. You can read the entire interview here. “A lot of ‘regular’ authors look down on media tie-in authors because they figure ‘You’re not doing real work. You’re not really being a…