Featured Interview With Alan J. Buick
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My life began way back in 1945 on a Mid-Canterbury sheep farm 21 miles inland from the South Island town of Ashburton in New Zealand. Being the youngest of four brothers I was able to learn how to fend for myself at an early age by learning from the mistakes of my older siblings. With only six and a half years between us all we got to experience a lot of adventure, some of which I mention in one of my books.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always had a fascination for good books, whether they be fact, fiction, biographic, humour or historic. What I didn't realize at the time was how reading was educating my mind to the point of being top of my English classes without ever trying! This I was unaware of until I was introduced to a little coat made from an army blanket for a 10 year old Dutch girl during World War Two.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Favourite writers? Hmmm; that's a tough one! For fiction I read a lot of Zane Grey during my formative years; Louis La'mour, and Enid Blyton come to mind. True stories of brave and fascinating heroes like Paul Brickhill's "Reach For The Sky," the Douglas Bader story; Camp on Blood Island, centered in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and probably my most vivid and gut wrenching memory; The Scourge of the Swastika. Kidnap, the true story of the Charles Lindberg child kidnapping and murder. A lot of these books I read so long ago I cannot remember the name of the author! Today's fiction writers? Stephen King, although not everything he writes, but he is a great writer. I like clever writing; Ben Starling definitely fits into that category with "Something in the Water." He cleverly blends a story into global pollution concerns; excellent!
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I have just published three books on Amazon that I cannot say which one came first. I'm what some would term me as a messy writer having several books under construction at any one time. It depends on the mood I'm in which one gets my attention; not always the one I sat down at my, totally disconnected from the internet computer, to work on. I think my novel; "The Puppeteers"; ten years in the making bears some mention; it is based on my own experience; things I have had the privilege to observe, places I' have been and some not so pleasant situations I found myself in, some vivid dreams and some conspiracy theory! What can I say; some of it is true, some conjecture and some fiction. Could very well become a good movie! When I think of how this one came into being I think of Ian Fleming the James Bond creator who actually lived a good deal of that on the edge danger; some embellishment was inserted I'm sure; just as mine was!
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