Caleb J Ross The World's First Author Blog » interview http://www.calebjross.com Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © The Words First Podcast 2011 caleb@calebjross.com (Caleb J. Ross) caleb@calebjross.com (Caleb J. Ross) 1440 http://www.calebjross.com/podcast/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/WFAP_Logo.jpg Caleb J Ross The World's First Author Blog http://www.calebjross.com 144 144 Author Caleb J. Ross chews, swallows, and every-so-often successfully digests various aspects of the writer's life, from rejection to success, sober to drunk. The World's First Author Podcast is for writers looking for a bit of navigation through the increasingly fractured path to publishing success...maybe. Caleb J. Ross Caleb J. Ross caleb@calebjross.com no no Solarcide interviews me, one of the most interesting interviews yet: The Digital Age of Domestic Grotesque http://www.calebjross.com/media/solarcide-interviews-me-one-of-the-most-interesting-interviews-yet-the-digital-age-of-domestic-grotesque/ http://www.calebjross.com/media/solarcide-interviews-me-one-of-the-most-interesting-interviews-yet-the-digital-age-of-domestic-grotesque/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:30:22 +0000 Caleb J Ross http://www.calebjross.com/?p=5237 →]]>

Nathan Pettigrew, one of the two minds behind the lit site Solarcide, asked me for an interview a few days ago. This guy knows how to ask questions, ones that not only evoke my own passion for the subject matter but also make it easy for me to answer in a way that is hopefully entertaining for readers.

Head over to Solarcide now. Read the interview. Learn of my greatness.

Here’s a taste of Nathan’s humbling intro:

He’s one of literature’s most lethal rising stars and highly prolific with not one, but four new releases in 2011.

His debut novel from earlier this year, Stranger Will (Otherworld Publications), established Caleb J. Ross as a true talent to be reckoned with. His writing can be described as stylistically beautiful while depicting some of the darkest and most disturbing worlds that fiction has to offer.

Picking up on concurrent themes throughout his work pertaining to family, some have begun to refer to his style as Domestic Grotesque—a genre all his own.

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When a person takes interest in my work, I squeal. If you heard a hi-pitched shriek last night, I might be to blame.

Craig Wallwork contacted me with a request to ask a few questions about my work and its ethic. Great conversation ensued, supported, I’m certain, not only by Craig’s excellent provocative queries, but by the fictional Cat O’Nine Tails ambiance.

You can learn:

  • My thoughts on academia and creative writing
  • The importance of online publishing
  • TV/VCR Repair
  • Computer Programming
  • Bookkeeping
  • The origin of my The Velvet username, ThirstyGerbil
  • The best piece of writing advice I’ve ever received
  • Or you can major in Business Management or Accounting

Stick around after the interview and take in a few pieces of Craig’s writing. You won’t be disappointed. I recommend starting with The Crocodile, if only because any image of a kid pressing his ass against a floor to prevent shitting himself, works.

Click here to read the interview.

]]> http://www.calebjross.com/media/ego-stroked-at-the-cat-onine-tails-an-interview/feed/ 0 those of a life remembered http://www.calebjross.com/media/those-of-a-life-remembered/ http://www.calebjross.com/media/those-of-a-life-remembered/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:11:17 +0000 Caleb J Ross http://calebjross.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/those-of-a-life-remembered/ →]]> The interview is a rare opportunity to experience the inner workings of a person. Unless that person likes to call himself a writer, then the interview is just old news to those who’ve read his stories. Fiction can be the ultimate autobiography, though a structured and controlled autobiography it is. Fiction is makeup.So what’s a writer to do when he wants to wash away the mascara? He answers some questions in an attempt to categorize his life, similar to the desires of the protagonist in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea:

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered.

And like this protagonist the writer understands that “You might as well try and catch time by the tail.”
Oxyfication LinkJason Kane and Justin Holt, both writers themselves, were kind enough to pretend I had interesting things to say, to pretend I had a some thoughts worth organizing. I won’t try claim that this interview forced impromptu responses (I had plenty of time to think), but it is a bit further from fiction than I am used to.

 

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