Jeremy E. Elwell is in the Author Spotlight

Jeremy E. Elwell is in the author spotlight with his book, Away. 

Please tell us a little bit about the book you wrote.

Away is a story about a man about to turn 30, stressed, and fed up with work and life in the city. He plans an escape to some remote wilderness with his partner. Once in the forest,  he realizes that this isn’t the first time he has needed to “escape”. Repressed memories from his childhood come flooding back. The book enjoys the adventures, of both the 30 year old Jeremy and the teenage Jeremy, encountered in the same wilderness.

 How did you come up with the idea for this book? I am a bit of a dreamer and an adventure junkie. I used to sit in the parking of work and try to convince myself that it was not a good idea to start the car and simply drive until I was in the mountains. I always wondered what it would be like if I dropped everything in my day to day life and simply escaped to the wilderness.

What can you tell us about your main characters? The main character/characters are me. One is the thirty year old me it is the most similar to who I actually am. The other is me in my early teens, but he is more of my imagination than I actually was.

 Tell me something about yourself that might be funny to others? (other than writing) I want to be a farmer; A small scale organic farmer raising pasture raised, organic, all natural food. (I do not tell many people this.)

 Who is your book published through?

 Eternal Press

Where did you get the inspiration for this book? This book was completed inspired by real life and my dreams of escaping from the realities of life in the city and the day to day monotony of my 9-5 job.

How long did it take you to write your current novel? I started in early June, wrote 5 days a week for an hour or two every day and was finished by October; so four months.

What else are you working on? I have a poem I am looking to get published, still untitled though…possibly will be named “Husbands”.  I have a children’s book called “The Adventures of Hucklebee and Wrigley” that is about the pitfalls of large agriculture (in an excited kid friendly manner) that I have sent out to a few publishers with no luck yet. I am also one chapter into another novel about America in the future…no what you would expect.

I also am cooking up an idea for a good gay romance, no details yet but am tossing around the idea of “Club Love” as the title. 

Readers love following their favorite authors, which social networking sites can fans find you?  Please provide links.

My favorite is Twitter: @jeremyEelwell

Do characters invade your head the moment you stumble on a new writing idea?  If so, how long did you fear that you’d gone insane before realizing this is the norm for writers?  Yes! It happens when I read too. I start thinking in the accent or patterns that my favorite characters talk in. Sometimes I start using words or phrases that aren’t typical language around Texas. The seven Harry Potter books were disastrous! Lol

What would you say is the most challenging part of writing a book?  Editing.  I hate re-reading my own dialogue. It is like hearing your own voice on recording. Sometimes my own sex scenes make me blush and skim over :/