{"id":1571,"date":"2016-05-18T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T16:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2016-05-18T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T16:21:51","slug":"strange-and-funny-interview-with-paul-wartenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/strange-and-funny-interview-with-paul-wartenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange and Funny: Interview with Paul Wartenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back! As a nice change of pace here on my blog, today’s featured interview is between editor Sarah E. Glenn and author Paul Wartenberg. Way back in early 2015, I first launched this author interview series with several of Sarah’s interviews with her authors from Mystery and Horror, LLC. So this is truly a return to form, and a particularly welcome one: Sarah and Paul recently worked together on Strangely Funny III<\/em>, the sequel to Strangely Funny II<\/em> which was the first book to feature my fiction. In a way, this blog is very much like coming home!<\/p>\n

Now enough about me, and on to the main event! Author Paul Wartenberg has been published in various anthologies, including Strangely Funny, Mardi Gras Murder, <\/em>and History and Mystery, Oh My!<\/em> He published his own anthology, Last of the Grapefruit Wars, <\/em>and has self-published shorts and novellas such as The Hero Cleanup Protocol <\/em>and Body Armor Blues<\/em> as ebooks. He’s also a devoted cat owner, which always wins you points on my blog.<\/p>\n

Below Sarah and Paul discuss the inspiration for his Strangely Funny III<\/em> story,\u00a0“Minette Dances with the Golem of Albany,” as well his upcoming plans as an author.<\/p>\n

Sarah Glenn: How did you get the idea for your story in Strangely Funny III<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Strangely<\/a>Paul Wartenberg: I’ve been fascinated with the legend of the Golem of Prague, and had been wondering how I would write a story about it wandering about a modern-age urban city. Would it still be something of a protector of its community? Has its long age given it any insight into the human condition that it otherwise did not know before? Could it have gained a soul?<\/p>\n

I then considered what it could be like for Golems to be made elsewhere… and then I remembered my birth-state of Georgia is well-known for its red clay. The idea of a red-skinned (“redneck”) Golem from my hometown became too tempting to ignore. I wanted to have a Golem, and I wanted to use the background from my earlier vampire story to try and expand my “playground” so to speak with other vampire characters.<\/p>\n

SG: Who are your current favorite authors? What do you enjoy about them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

PW: I’ve been reading Lee Child for some reason. The Jack Reacher stuff. I’m usually not much of a thriller reader, but there’d been a lot of checkouts of his work at my library so I took a look. It’s sort of like reading Die Hard as written by Hemingway. Otherwise I’ve been keeping up with my regular readership of Tim Dorsey for the bizarre Florida-esque humor and various graphic novels.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>SG: What is your favorite writing snack food\/drink?<\/strong><\/p>\n

PW: I drink iced tea, lots of. Have to cut back on the sodas. As for food, I snack between writings, I loathe getting crumbs and grease on the keyboards.<\/p>\n

SG: What are you working on next?<\/strong><\/p>\n

PW: Struggling with the NaNo novel project from last November, and getting short stories finished for the Florida Writers Association’s annual anthology projects.<\/p>\n

Big thanks to Sarah E. Glenn and Paul Wartenberg for stopping by my blog today! Read Paul’s latest ebook, A Serious Tank on a Clockwork World<\/em><\/a>, and be sure to pick up a copy of Strangely Funny III<\/a><\/em>, from Mystery and Horror, LLC!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Happy reading!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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