Grey Gecko Press author Benjamin Card got a chance to be interviewed over at Authors Interviews.

Here’s an excerpt of his interview:

Name: Benjamin Card
Age: 25
Where are you from: Miami, FL

A little about yourself (i.e your education Family life etc):

My family is huge and awesome. A bunch of crazy Cubans. My dad is Colombian. All my cousins are my best friends. I started college but stopped for now.

 

Fiona: Tell us your latest news?

I have a new collection being published with Villipede Publications titled “The Courting”. The release date is still TBA but I’ll be announcing an exact date soon. I’m also working on a new science fiction novella called “Love, American Style” and a horror YA series called “Survive The Night”. I have several more novels in my head and plan on releasing at least one a year.

 

Fiona: When and why did you begin writing?

It must have been during elementary school. It started with writing crappy comic books with my older brother and eventually I was starting different stories and never finishing them. Usually love stories because I was influenced early on by Nicholas Sparks.

 

Fiona: When did you first consider yourself a writer?

I guess I always enjoyed writing as a hobby but it was about 3 years ago after reading Richard Matheson’s work that I decided to pursue writing as a career.

 

Fiona: What inspired you to write your first book?

My first completed novel was Survive the Night, and it first started in my head as a short story about a kid who is asked to house-sit for a family and starts encountering a lot of demonic things in the house and he’s unable to escape for the entire night. Then the story evolved and eventually became a YA haunted house series. The story was inspired by Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” and Matheson’s “Hell House”.

Read the rest of Benjamin’s interview on Authors Interviews.