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Tamara Wilhite
genre
Science fiction and horror for my fiction, technical and frugal living
non-fiction articles
home town
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
home on the web
myspace.com/humanitysedge
past material
Books: “Humanity’s Edge”, “Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell”, co-author of
“Genres”
eBook: “Saving Money, Time, Sanity and Yourself”
current project
1. Editing several science fiction novels I’ve written
2. co-writing a new horror anthology with David Byron of New Voices in Fiction
Magazine
3. “Wilhite Write”, a small endeavor with several technical authors whose work
is now available through Amazon Kindle – the next step based on my “Amazon
Kindle Publishing for Idiots – expanded edition”
places where books are available for purchases
Amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, alibris.com
Interview questions
How did you get your start in writing?
I grew up reading science fiction. My father was such a science
fiction buff he named me for a character out of Robert Heinlein’s last book,
“Lazarus Long”. I continued reading sci-fi until it fell into too much fantasy,
alternate reality and “punk”. I started writing it as entertainment. My first
stories came out in 2004. My first book came out 2005.
who are your biggest influences
Robert Heinlein (but my work has more realistic human characters, even
though “Sirat” has communal marriage like his works), Larry Niven, and Issac
Asimov. And my father, for whom questions on artificial intelligence, SETI, and
astronomy could delay bed time by hours.
What is your biggest inspiration when creating?
My life is lived with technology. I have an engineering degree, as a
result of wanting to see the world I saw in fiction come to life. Science
fiction is how I think the complex world – though often better through our
efforts – as it could be. Horror is the science fiction when we fail, or even
when we succeed beyond our dreams and find it isn’t as we intended. My technical
writing is the world as it is and how to get to the next, small step.
Could you give us the details of your current project?
4. Editing several science fiction novels I’ve written. Currently seeking a home
for my just completed novel “Norn Born”.
5. I am co-writing a new horror anthology with David Byron of New Voices in
Fiction Magazine.
6. I’ve started “Wilhite Write”, a small endeavor with several technical authors
whose work is now available through Amazon Kindle – the next step based on my
“Amazon Kindle Publishing for Idiots – expanded edition”. I have also published
several short political joke books under this entity.
What is the next goal you would like to achieve with your
writing?
See several more books in print and digital form AND be highly
profitable.
Final four (questions we ask all interviewees)
When the zombies take over the world where will you be?
I’ll be at home, in Texas, locking and loading.
My kids called “Battlestar Galactica” “mommy’s show”, and when teachers at
school talked about robots, my kids asked who would get to kill them. I’ll just
call zombies robots and the kids will know just what to do – hide good or shoot
good.
Jedi, Ninja, vampire, were-wolf, pirate, fairy or Spartan?
Answer: I’d say Jedi except for the lack of loving family. So I’ll go with
were-wolf. I like day light, I don’t mind going weird a couple days a month
(women can relate). I’d hope it’s an immortal werewolf, but I’d take living,
breathing werewolf over eternal vampire. They are too freaking moody.
What one piece of art, be it music, book, film or picture,
do you think people must experience before they die?
Dali exhibit in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Give one fact that most people would not believe about
you?
I had my amateur radio license before my driver’s license. OK, that might
not surprise some people. My first article in print was on “The Finger”, a
non-conductive clay finger with a weight to hold electrical components down
while they were being soldered. It came out in an amateur radio magazine as an
April Fool’s joke piece I wrote in high school and has come back as several more
incarnations.
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