Willie Meikle - The Book of the Dark
William (Willie) Meikle is a 40 year old Scottish horror writer, who earns his money as a technical writer. Somehow I can image a technical writer also being a horror writer or maybe I can't. THE BOOK OF THE DARK is Willie's first book and was published by Great Unpublished. He has two more books published all in print. THE JOHNSON AMULET AND OTHER SCOTTISH TERRORS is a short story collection of 28 horror stories. ISLAND LIFE is about a small, sparsely populated island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. When a group of archeology students open what seems to be an early Neolithic burial mound, they release something, something large, hulking, with a taste for human flesh. THE WATCHERS OF THE WALL, BOOK 1 OF '45. The start of a series of vampire books based in an alternate history universe.
Willie is a prolific short story writer with over 150 short stories published. Check out his web site for links to some of those stories. He is also the editor of Moonlicht Nicht The eZine of Supernatural Scotland.
His homepage: http://www.willie.meikle.btinternet.co.u...
INTERVIEW
According to your website, you took two years out as a technical author to write two
books. Are you going back to work as a technical author?
Actually I'll always go back to being a technical writer.....it pays a whole lot more than a
short story does. The main thing tech writing teaches you is discipline to keep writing.
You can't stop because you're not in the mood, or take three weeks over a couple of
sentences. It's "I need a 3000 word report on the state of the IT systems in my company
on my desk in the morning." If it's not done, I don't get paid, and if I don't get paid I
don't eat. It focuses the mind wonderfully. The downside is that there is only limited
scope for creativity.
Am I correct that "THE BOOK OF THE DARK" is your only eBook? Do you consider
yourself an Internet author? And what do you think of ebooks... are they the future of
publishing?
Actually TBOTD is also available in Print On Demand, and my story collection "The
Johnson Amulet and other Scottish Terrors" was available as an eBook for a while
before it went to POD. I've also published a lot of short stories both in print and in
online markets and a novel by the traditional method. I'm also considering dipping my
toe in the audio book market.
I see myself as a writer, whatever the medium, and that means I'm an Internet writer
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