Exciting news! A collaborative anthology I’m part of, a book called The Ceaseless Way, is launching this Black Friday, November 29th!
What’s a collaborative anthology, you say? An anthology is usually something where an editor collects a bunch of short stories written by other writers and publishes then in a book. In our collaborative anthology, seven writers each submitted two stories a piece, which we all edited and turned into a book.
It is currently available for preorder here: https://books2read.com/u/3kk6yn
To give you more information about it, I will be interviewing some of the other authors on this blog, and some of them will interview me on their blogs. Today’s interview is with Fraser Sherman, who wrote Fiddler’s Black and Impossible Things before Breakfast in The Ceaseless Way. I have known Fraser since I started attending the Durham Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Group in 2012. I have appreciated his cogent, cut-to-the-chase critiques of my stories. As you can see on his Behold the Book Press page on his website, he has a lot of books and stories out. He has a British accent, and is, like me, an avid actor. Let’s learn more —–
Ada: The Ceaseless Way is about journeys. Tell me about your journey as a writer.
Fraser: I graduated college with a biology degree and no interest in a biology career. I’d started writing a novel senior year and figured, “Hey, why not try become a writer?” Turned out I liked it. My first story came out in the early 1980s. Since 2000, when I started work as a reporter at the Destin Log, I’ve been writing full-time.
Ada: What was it that led you to write your stories in The Ceaseless Way?
Fraser: Fiddler’s Black started out as a rom-com inspired by the Abba song “Dum Dum Diddle.” It got darker and dropped the romance though there’s still some funny lines (“That old pervert in 2-H, I swear to God he’ll go in and check out my panty drawer.”). Impossible Things Before Breakfast started with the vision of a time-traveler trapped in 1970, then I kept writing to see what would happen.
Ada: Plotter or Pantser? (For those unfamiliar with these writer terms, a plotter means a writer who outlines what’s going to happen in their story before they start writing it. A pantser is a writer who writes by the seat of their pants. They just start writing and see what happens.)
Fraser: Pantser. I’ve tried plotting everything in advance, but I fail.
Ada: What are you currently working on?
Fraser: I’m currently finishing up my novel Southern Discomfort for publication before December (provided the cover artist comes through). [Interested readers] can check out the page for my film adaptations of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, due at the publisher at the end of 2025.
Ada: What’s your next writing project after what you’re working on?
Fraser: I’m editing Savage Adventures, a book about the Doc Savage pulp series. I’ve also got two novels still in early draft stages.
Ada: Do you have anything else coming out soon?
Fraser: Southern Discomfort.
Ada: And where can readers find these?
Fraser: They can check out the page for my Behold the Book Press for most of my stuff. My book Southern Discomfort will be out early next year
Ada: What story that you wrote are you proudest about and why?
Fraser: Possibly my book Undead Sexist Cliches, which is nonfiction dissecting the stupidity of misogynist beliefs. For fiction, probably my first novel, Questionable Minds, out from Behold the Book.
Well, there you have it. And I’ll be interviewing more of my coauthors soon.
Ada Milenkovic Brown 