... to my blog today. Hi David, and thanks very much for making time in your busy schedule to be here. So, tell me what is your latest release?
DS Lebo, released in June
2020 which I edited and co-wrote portions of it with a young African writer
from Botswana. The latest release
solely written by me is For the Love of Wolves, released in May 2019.
AW What first got you into
writing and why?
DS I started writing poetry in my
late teens to impress an art student I was dating. I couldn’t draw a stick figure so I decided to try my hand at
writing.
AW You write in a number of
different genres. Is there one
particular genre that you feel most at ease with and why?
DS I worked in law enforcement for
quite a while, so mystery and crime stories come easiest for me. I worked on many cases with unsavory
characters, I’ll never run out of bad guys to put into my stories.
AW Lucky you! The oft quoted mantra is write
what you know. To what extent does your experience as a 911 operator bleed into
your work?
DS Most of the characters in my
stories are fictionalized versions of real characters I have encountered. My favorite cop is Benham, a female homicide
detective, who is modeled after a female officer in our department.
DS I have an office on the bottom
floor of our Mid-Century Modern home.
When I lived in northern Michigan I used a plant room that was off of
our dining room.
AW Finally, if you had a whole
afternoon to yourself and could choose to spend it with any one individual,
living or dead or a character from a book, who would it be, and what would you
want to discuss?
DS Albert Einstein. My favorite quote of his, of which there are
many, but this one I like the best: Imagination is greater than knowledge. I’d love to ask him what he thinks of the 21st
century.
about the author… DJ Swykert is a fiction writer and former 911 operator. His work has appeared in The Tampa Review, Detroit News, Monarch Review, Lunch Ticket, Gravel, Coe Review, Sand Canyon Review, Zodiac Review, The Newer York, Barbaric Yawp and Bull. His books include The Pool Boy’s Beatitude, Children of the Enemy, Alpha Wolves, Maggie Elizabeth Harrington, For the Love of Wolves and The Death of Anyone. He is a self-proclaimed wolf expert.
about the book… My name is Lebo. I am six years old
and my mother is dying. They brought her home from the clinic in a wheelbarrow.
She’s fragile and ashen, and looked at me with painful eyes as they unloaded
her off the wheelbarrow. They laid her on a mattress in my aunt’s sitting room
and left her alone there. It’s about four pm and the village was quiet except
for the cries and howling of pain from my mother. It’s dark and cloudy and the
day is gloomy, the atmosphere matched the mood of the home.
You can get his books on Amazon and on Barnes & Noble
You can follow David on his Website Facebook Twitter and on Instagram
Nice to meet Mr. Swykert.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting, Allan.
DeleteThank you for your service Sir! I enjoy reading works of authors who write from their own experiences.
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