We’ll regularly give you insights into our authors and how they approach their stories.
Today we’ll let George A. O’Brien tell us how he worked his novels. But first, why the middle initial?
That’s easy – George O’Brien was a famous cowboy actor from the 1930s. I can’t tell you how many times, as a boy, folks asked me if we were related. If you put my name in Amazon, and even with the middle initial, books about him grab the top searches. So I try to differentiate, and besides, I have a cool middle name.
Are you going to tell us?
No. Maybe later.
So, the books – was there anything unusual about your writing experience?
Night Mountain and Thunder Rock were carved out of a long, long manuscript. Amateur mistake not to know the appropriate length for my genre. Luckily, there was a natural breakpoint where the traders brought a stranger to the main village, and I had introduced a shipwrecked Spaniard into the mix. I loved the ending to what is now Thunder Rock and struggled to create an exciting end to Night Mountain reflecting that split. Hopefully, readers will like it and want to get the second book. As my author’s notes describe, I also dragged out the writing process for 25 years. Finally, I used the COVID isolation to get it done.
In another blog, what would you like to tell us?
I would enjoy sharing how some of my favorite scenes came about.
Good – let’s all look forward to that. Thanks, George
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