JustJen: I am very excited to have the opportunity to share with everyone a little glimpse into the masterful wordsmithing mind of my good friend, Mr. Kol Anderson.   I’m so happy to have you with us today and want to thank you for sharing a little bit of yourself with us all.

The Inner Workings of a Mastermind

First, I have to ask about Prisoner. 

How has Aaron’s journey and its effect on your readers impacted your life?

Well, I went from thinking I could never be a writer to thinking maybe I can still hard and get better at it. Sometimes all of it feels unreal. The things people say sometimes, like how the characters touched them or how it affected them, it makes me feel like I’m finally being understood.

What did you expect the reception of Broken Season 1 to be?

Nothing? Lol Prisoner still sells! Still pretty high on the charts and unbelievable.

What can we expect for Carter in Episode 4?

If I told you, I’d have to kill you.

(Just kidding. I’d probably just tie you up and make you Vincent’s next victim.)

Who is the Prisoner character that has had the biggest impact on you?

I f***ing love that bastard.

What has the impact of Prisoner on your fans’ lives meant for you?

The world. Truly.

If I’m still writing it is because of them.

Now, a little about A Perfect Place…

Did you know how A Perfect Place was going to end when you started writing it?

I usually know the ending when I start a story. I even write them down. Sometimes I write alternate endings pick one when I’m at that point according to feel. Perfect Place, yes. I knew where it was going to end.

Was it difficult for you to get into the mindsets of younger Lee and Jackson in A Perfect Place?

Actually no. That book came to me so easily. It just kind of flowed, especially the younger boys parts and their connection with the older age parts.

What was your overall goal, or theme for writing A Perfect Place?

I never have like a whole take over the world type plan for any book. I just pretty much write what I feel like writing. I wanted a story that hadn’t been written before, something that showed two people growing together and how we feel life changes people but somehow everything is still the same. I wanted to show that.

Another motivation, was that some people were coming up to me and telling me I only sell because I write sex in my books. Guess I just wanted to prove to myself that wasn’t the case.

How do you go about building the setting in your stories? Such as in A Perfect Place where it is so vivid – do you see the setting before you start writing the story, or build your world as you go along?

Well the setting in Perfect Place for sure the setting was a character in itself that’s how it was always supposed to be, like an evil villain for Liam and a home for Jax. Other times I build the world as I go.

Now for some General nosy questions – touting other works 😉

Do you draw from your own life when depicting your characters’ experiences?

Absolutely. Sometimes I see a person in real life for five minutes and I end up speculating about how he or she might react in a situation and that’s how they end up becoming characters.

It’s an impossible question to ask any author, but if you had to choose any one of your characters to spend a weekend with?

Is it wrong to say Vincent? Lol but seriously though… *thinks hard* yep.

Still Vincent. Crap.

Tell us about an exciting recent release (The Crying Game maybe?)

I am very proud of The Crying Game these days! It’s kind of endearing in a twisted sort of way lol and I hope people will take it for a love story instead of a twisted tale.

What is something that absolutely no one knows about you? (that everyone will know now :D)

Okay, damn. Let me think.

For a long time I thought Aristotle was just the name of our neighbor’s cat. I couldn’t understand why all the grown ups were making such a big fuss about it.

Oh yeah and I totally have a thing for souvenirs. I’ve kept every tooth from every body I have ever buried in an acid bath.

What is the strangest fan mail you’ve received from a reader to date?

I give people mindfucks in general so the fan mail is all pretty ahem ‘interesting.’ But once a guy sent me a shot of his you-know-what. Told me he wanted me to lick his ‘giant’ (debatable) dick so he could piss on my face. That comes under strange, right?

It’s a difficult question to ask any writer, but if you had to explain your writing process in three sentences.

Write. Purge. Repeat.

About The Crying Game

William Davenport can’t take the weight of the secret in his life any more. When his brother makes the ultimate sacrifice for their family’s legacy and leaves William in the cold, it may just be time to accept the reality that everyone wants him to accept.

Available at:  Amazon

About Once Broken

Next Installment in the Broken Series. Find out what happens to Aaron next and meet Carter Bennett, his replacement.

Available at: Amazon

About Kol Anderson