Zealot Script

Al Hagan is a retired IT project manager. His career also included a four-year tour of duty with the Marine Corps and a number of years in the intelligence community, working in Washington, D.C. and in foreign countries.

What’s your favourite part of the lifestyle of an Author?

Creating my own worlds, and seeing what my characters do. I don’t really control them. I build a personality, put them in a situation, and then they kind of proceed on their own!

What made you start writing?

Reading what others had publishing and thinking that I could do a lot better. And retiring gave me the time to do so.

Is there an Author that you consider your inspiration?

All of the big sci-fi authors had some effects, with W.E.B. Griffin, Tom Clancy, etc. on the military thriller side.

What type of book do you like to read and does this differ from the genre that you prefer to write?

Military thriller, sci-fi, and history, are my major genres for both reading and writing.

Which one of your characters would you most like to spend time with?

Taylor. She was a rich and spoiled before the apocalypse, and had the farthest fall of anyone. But she’d damned tough, something she never knew about herself, and she has taken every adversity and pushed herself through them. And now she absolutely hates the way she was before. She’s a bit bent, but not broken.

Which book do you consider a must-read?

No book is the end-all and be-all. No writer should be emulated exactly. No theme is the ultimate.

What’s been the hardest edit that you’ve had to make? Why did you want to keep the material in?

I’ve not had any difficult decisions. I have good reasons for why I have written something and I can either back them up or it’s something of minor consequence.

If you could live in a book, which one would it be?

My post-apocalyptic series, Hexen, would be good, just not in the early years when they were getting things up to speed! After that, it would be very interesting.

Is there any conflict between what you want to write and what you think your readers will like?

I’ve gotten good feedback with a bit of fighting, a bit of romance, and some world-building.

What effect can a review have on you, if you read them at all? Both the good and the bad.

I take in all comments and either disagree or can see room for improvement.

Can you sum up your life story in ten words or less?

It hasn’t been a bad run at all, really.

What’s exciting you about your next project?

The second book in the Hexen series is the building, the expansion, the deals and the success.

And finally, you have one quote to be remembered by, what is it?

I’ll have to think about that one, while I’m choosing my theme music.

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You can find all of Al Hagan’s Hexen Series on Amazon.

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