Hey folks!  How about heading over to OpenBookSociety to check out their exclusive interview of your very own brewer, pirate, author, and derelict, Warren Haustrumerda!  That’s me!

A Sampling!

Recently I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing Warren Haustumerda’s dark novella “Tall Tales of Felony and Failure” and also getting to chat to the  an behind the mayhem. Here’s what he had to say for himself…

How did you come up with the character of Cranston?

Warren Haustrumerda: Cranston was easy. I wrote a character made up mostly of the worst qualities I’ve observed in myself. I basically asked myself what I would have done as a young man given the ability to stop time. You know what? It would have been pretty bad. Not now, of course, what with a wonderful wife and children to keep me grounded. But in my early 20s? It would have ended poorly, to say the least.

I also love the SOB, which I think is required to build a connection between characters in a story and the reader. This is especially important when the character is as vile and off-putting as Cranston sometimes is.

Tall Tales of Felony and Failure, Shipmates!

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