UnBiased Book Reviews: Author Interview

Monday, November 25, 2013

Author Interview – Rob Manary @robmanary

Labels: Authors

What is your least favorite quality about yourself?

I am incredibly arrogant and self absorbed. I think that is why it was so easy to write the egocentric Brandon Fahr, my protagonist in the Icarus Trilogy. Write what you know, isn’t that right?

But I must say, as clichéd as it may be, writing a character with similar traits as myself, although exaggerated for effect, really gave me some insight into myself. I used the word “myself” twice in that last sentence. Buy “Icarus Rising”, the writing is much better, I promise.

Anyway, I’m still arrogant and self absorbed but I’m a little more self aware now.

What is your favorite color?

Purple. Prince did a lot to boost the popularity of purple, but that was a long time ago and there is a generation that likely doesn’t know who Prince is. I’d like to be the new champion for purple. I’d be completely willing to do an endorsement deal with the Crayola people.

What’s your favorite meal?

Anything I don’t have to cook myself! And that’s not really too far from the truth. Actually, I don’t mind cooking but I’m not very imaginative when it comes to what I should throw into the pot or the pan or the oven.

Hey, I’m about to order a pizza. Want a slice?

What’s your favorite place in the entire world?

Between the thighs of a beautiful woman, the musky sweet smell of her womanhood intoxicating me, filling my head, causing me to harden. The taste of her sweet nectar on my tongue as I lick… that’s a pretty good answer for an erotic romance writer right?

When I wasn’t even yet a teen my Dad and I built a small cabin in the woods. I don’t imagine I was much help, but we built this cabin far from civilization on a piece of property in the bush that was my Grandfather’s property before it was my Dad’s, and likely has been in the family for generations.

There is a well for water, and no electricity, and my Dad and I spent hours playing cards by lamp light with the wood stove for warmth in the winter. That’s my favorite place in the entire world especially if I have my Dad for company and no one else for hundreds of miles.

If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

I honestly think I’m quite happy exactly where I am. Unlike Brandon and Rachel from Icarus Rising, I don’t need or, really, want, the lavish luxury lifestyle. Sure, I want to have enough money to be comfortable and not worry about where my next meal is coming from, but beyond that… I don’t require much. Electricity for my computer so that I can continue writing, Internet access, a phone to order take-out…