Author Interview – Colin Falconer

What’s the reason for your life? Have you figured out your reason for being here yet?

That’s what writing is for.  Picasso said something about creating art to explain life to ourselves. I agree with that.

How do you feel about self-publishing?

I love self publishing. I have all my backlist re-edited and online now and it wasn’t available before, especially in the US. I can also publish ISABELLA instead of waiting for over a year for it to come out, I have control over marketing – though I don’t have the same marketing muscle, but hell, if the publisher only uses the muscle for a handful of authors, what difference does it make?  - and I can control the cover. I don’t get the editing but my current trad published book required very little so I’m confident I can go on my own these days.

Do you know your neighbors?

My neighbour hates me! I live in an apartment in San Antoni and he’s the only unfriendly person in Spain. Don’t ask me why. I generally get on well with neighbours but he won’t even talk to me in the lift. I sometimes hear him making love to his girlfriend through the wall. He makes a lot of noise about it, but we never hear her. I don’t even know if it’s a woman he’s making love to, but I’d like to think so. Though come to think of it, we’ve never seen her – so who or what is he making love to? I think it’s time to move.

What does love mean to you?

Someone asked me recently: why is there a love story in all your books? I pointed out that in my books there is never a love interest. I believe there’s a big difference between a love interest where the girl (or the guy) is handed out to the hero at the end of the book like winning a door prize and a love story.

In a love story, the conflicts and obstacles to love are key.

I think this is the same in life. If we never fell in love, or wanted to fall in love, life would much simpler. But it’s when we try and build a meaningful relationship with someone else that our own wounds are revealed to us. We learn and grow – or fall big time – through our attempts at love.

That’s why there’s always a love story in one of my books.

Last book you purchased? Tell us about it.

RL Stedman’s Light Between the Oceans. I love it because, like the very best novels, it proposes an acute moral dilemma and lays it at the feet of the reader and says: all right, what would you do? It’s set in south-western Australia where I lived for a very long time, but set back in the 1920’s. The other thing I like is there’s no villains, or rather, the villains keep switching depending on whose point of view the writer takes.

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Genre – Historical Fiction

Rating – PG-13

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