This is very exciting news that I can’t wait to share with you. Starting with this post and going for the next several months I’m hosting various authors here on my blog. These authors are from all over the world and are a cross culture of the wide world of genres. It should be a lot of fun and I’m hoping you will enjoy it.
I plan on featuring one author per month. So, lets get started.
Randall, let’s start with the typical question all writers get, what’s your ambition for your writing career?
I suppose like many authors, to try and be successful. Whether that will happen or not is outside of my control, so the best thing I can do is create realistic stories to share with others.
Creating realistic stories takes a lot of work. So, which writers inspire your story telling?
Tom Clancy, Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, Brad Thor, David L. Golemon, Robert Crais, Jack Du Brul, and Mark Greany, to name the major ones. I still read them, but now I’m paying attention to how they craft their stories and build their stories.
Those are some great writers, and I can see why you’ve picked them. Let’s focus on your writing. Tell us about your debut novel, ‘The Kurdish Connection’.
‘The Kurdish Connection’, is the first in a four-book series. I took the first chapter of another book I was working on, cut it to 399 words, and submitted it to a monthly competition held by Wildsound Writing and Film Festival Review. My entry, called A Dangerous Occupation, was one of the winning entries in August 2016. It’s read by a professional actor at the following link.
Excellent. Any other writings you have out there?
Another short story, Postal Man, was recently chosen for the January members’ writing and art section of The Fictional Café. Here’s the link.
You’ve been busy. Are you working on anything else?
I have three other novels underway. The first is ‘Dangerous Alliance’, the sequel to ‘The Kurdish Connection’. This one involves the North Koreans and Al-Shahbab, a Somali terrorist group. To counter the alliance is Bedlam Bravo who will try to stop the transfer of oil and weapons, as well as rescue a well-known hostage. The second ongoing book is called ‘A Cartel’s Revenge’, and involves a cartel headed by a woman. She makes an unusual alliance with FARC, not realizing ISIS will soon be involved. Working against her are a CIA agent and an Army colonel. The third book, which will take some time to finish, is historical fiction. It begins in 1770 with a tenant farmer and his family. After crop failures, they receive a lifeline and head to America, arriving in time to be caught up with the Boston Tea Party and the beginnings of the Revolutionary War.
That is some amazing stuff you have planned. Where do your ideas come from?
They come from a variety of places, paying attention to the news and even other writers. ‘A Cartel’s Revenge’, mentioned above, is based on three sentences someone sent me to see what I could do with them. I have two other novels planned that are based on suggestions given to me but I need to complete the others before working on these.
With all these projects you have going, how do you keep them straight? Do you work to an outline or plot or do you prefer just seeing where an idea takes you?
I prefer to use an outline. I begin with a draft synopsis so I have an idea where I’m starting and where I want to go. The initial chapters are identified but things change as the stories unfold, which can change the number and order of my chapters.
Randall this has been a lot of fun. I look forward to hearing more about your upcoming novels. Thank you for taking the time to answers my questions and be my first author interview.
Writer Randall Krzak relaxing at home.
More about Randall Krzak:
Not wanting to spend his retirement at a golf club Randall, with the suggestion of a long time friend, decided the best way to stay out from under his wife, Sylvia’s feet was to put his writing skills to use. Randall’s past careers had him working overseas in various countries giving him a rich world of experiences and places to pull from. His debut thriller ‘The Kurdish Connection’ is now available on Amazon click here . To learn more about Randall check out his website here.