On this particular weblog submit, uncover how O’Neil De Noux makes use of his hometown of New Orleans as a relentless supply of inspiration for his tales. Make sure to take a look at his newest, “The Human Type Divine,” in our [November/December issue, on sale now!]
Like different New Orleanians, I turned intrigued with the story of Madame Delphine LaLaurie once I was a child and visited the one wax museum within the French Quarter, the Musée Conti. The great museum (now closed) included a haunting show of beautiful Madame LaLaurie and the horrors surrounding her. The story of this girl stayed with me, prodded me to write down about her. “The Human Type Divine” took a very long time to write down and re-write and re-write till I bought it proper. Madame LaLaurie was the personification of stunning evil.
Once I started writing mysteries, I began with what I knew finest—police procedurals. I used to be a murder detective and wrote hyper-realistic novels and tales about murder work. Assembly Elmore Leonard and writers George Alec Effinger and Harlan Ellison and others influenced me to write down various kinds of crime fiction—personal eye, suspense, thrillers, cozy, and basic mysteries. My schooling features a diploma in European Historical past which drew me to write down historic fiction. I additionally write in different genres from science-fiction to fantasy, kids’s fiction, mainstream fiction, horror, western, literary, spiritual, romance, humor and erotica. I’ve fifty books in print and over 4 hundred quick story gross sales.
After Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005, my spouse and I moved to a small city throughout Lake Pontchartrain. When individuals right here ask what I do, I cross them a enterprise card and inform them I’m most likely probably the most prolific native author they’ve by no means heard of. My job isn’t to be well-known. My job is to write down.
In the beginning of the twenty first Century, I turned an Unbiased Author (an Indie author) and helped type BIG KISS PRODUCTIONS, an off-the-cuff co-op enterprise of writers, artists, editors, and an leisure attorney-agent. We collaborate to provide work, sculptures, images, novels, story collections, quick tales and scripts. We personal and management our artwork. As a novelist, I write my ebook, choose the duvet artwork and what’s written on the again of the ebook. Indie writers don’t give up their rights to a publishing home and share their royalties solely with the printer and distributor. Our books by no means exit of print. Our books are immediately obtainable as eBooks, commerce paperbacks and audio books. Gross sales are generally good, generally not so good, however we persevere.
Since I retired from regulation enforcement, I write day by day and feed neighborhood cats, opossums, bothersome raccoons, the occasional fox (each pink and grey) and turtles who love dry cat meals. I learn extra and watch much less tv than I used to. I seek for films and TV productions with out extreme violence, explosions, gore, ridiculous characters. As for writing genre-bending tales, I’ve written tales that are a mix of thriller and erotica. I want writing novels and tales set prior to now. To me it’s a much less frenzied time, far much less loopy.
Current publication? NAUGHTY PRIVATE EYE—the ninth novel in my Non-public Eye Lucien Caye sequence, set in 1954 New Orleans. It’s impressed by the paperback books of the Nineteen Fifties, so is its cowl.
