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| Jon Martin Watts |
Welcome to the Eighth Day of Tesseracts...
The Fifteen Days of Tesseracts series, features different authors and editors from "Tesseracts Fourteen: Strange Canadian Stories"each day between November 20th and December 4th.
Our interviews today are with authors Jon Watts and Leah Silverman.
TT: What is your name?
Name: Jon Martin Watts
TT: Where are you located?
About seven kilometres South of Langham, SK. That’s about twenty-five minutes drive from Saskatoon.
TT: What is the name of your story in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories?
JW: “Flight of Passage.”
TT: What inspired you to write this story?
JW: That’s a great question, and thinking about it really made me reflect on how I write. There wasn’t just one inspirational moment or thought. Writing doesn’t usually work like that for me. Usually I find that a few ideas grow together and then, maybe, I’ve got a story. In this case the first premise was that there’s a group of people with essentially a Stone Age technology and they’re able to build flying machines. How? Because someone taught them. Why? To help them to survive. That isn’t a story, but it’s a start. Then you have to consider who taught them, and why, and for whom all this matters, and what if they’re all descended from one pregnant woman carrying boy and girl twins. Pretty soon, you see, the story emerges from the original premise. And I used to fly gliders. That helped too.
Since this anthology is about strange Canadian stories, what are one of the strangest things that has ever happened to you?
JW: Within a couple of days, the guy in the liquor store and a woman at Tim Horton’s both told me I’m the spit of Ron James. I think he’s better looking. Check the picture and judge for yourselves.
Do you have a strange question to ask other authors? This will be used as part of the "Doing it Strange" Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories multi - author interview December 2nd on www.bittenbybooks.com.
JW: What the heck is literary fiction?
Thanks for joining us!
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Jon Watts lives on a very small farm near Saskatoon, with a wife and son, some dogs and cats, a small flock of sheep, and a llama.
Next joining us is author Leah Silverman...
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| Leah Silverman |
Hi Leah, thanks for joining us... our first question is:
TT: Where are you currently located?
Texas, unfortunately.
TT: What is the name of your story in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories?
LS: "The Pickup"
TT: What inspired you to write this story?
LS: In Texas, it doesn't rain so much as drizzle or monsoon. I took part in a writing challenge with the prompt of 'Mud', and the first thing I thought of was a Texas-level downpour. There is something particularly miserable about being lost at night in a heavy rain.
TT: Since the theme of Tesseracts 14 is Strange Canadian Stories, what is the strangest thing that has ever happened to you?
LS: Possibly moving to Texas. Otherwise, I had a vision of my husband and our son at least ten years before I met the former and fourteen before I gave birth to the latter. I distinctly remember at the time wondering how I could possibly imagine having a blond child when my whole family is brunet, but nearly fifteen years later that's exactly what happened.
TT: Do you have a strange question to ask other authors? This will be used as part of the "Doing it Strange" Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories multi - author interview, running from noon central on December 2nd to noon on December 3rd on www.bittenbybooks.com.
LS: Do you think Canadians are culturally unable to write happy stories?
Thanks for joining us!
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