Who is james crawford?
I am a writer of young adult fiction. My first book is called
Caleo. It is part one of a three book series that follows a teenage outcast as
he learns of his heritage and is forced to fight for the fate of the world.
Did you choose to be
an author or did it choose you?
I think that I would have to say being an author chose me.
My first book series is based off of a series of recurring dreams. After
a while it felt like it was only logical to write the dreams into a story. Since
then the dreams are still coming.
What are three things
you MUST have when you are writing?
Diet coke, enough space to stretch out on, and complete
silence.
You have a book out
called Caleo: Leech Book 1. Can you
tell us about it?
Caleo is about a teen with pale skin, white hair and
piercing blue eyes. In school, his features have made him a social outcast with
no friends but his foster siblings Jack and Jillian. One day out of thin air a man appears and
changes Caleo’s life by telling him that a civil war is being waged by a hidden
race of people known as leeches. Both sides of the war are desperately
searching for this lost weapon that will bring an end to the war in favor of
the side that possesses it. Caleo is that weapon and must pick a side as he
runs for his life while learning to control his newly found power.
**Caleo is a gay teenager. So if that bothers anyone, I
would suggest avoiding this book.
What inspired you to
write in this genre?
I have always loved Young adult science fiction books. When
I read Perry Moore’s Hero, I knew I had found the genre for me. There are too
few books out there for young adults with LGBT characters for them to relate or
even look up to and I am hoping that my book will help change that.
Did writing this
story teach you anything about yourself?
Writing this story actually taught me a lot about myself.
When I first started writing I didn’t think I had a snow ball’s chance in… Cancun
at getting my story to a point that others would want to read it. I suck at
grammar and thought that I was too stupid to be able to write a story someone
would like to read. I have learned that what I lack in education, I make up for
in imagination and stubbornness. I have a story to tell and even though people
let me know how impossible it is that I can write a book I pushed forward and
kept writing my stubbornness pushing me forward. I have even run off a few
editors I kept searching and found one that polished my book into a pearl. I
have learned that my Stubbornness is one of my best attributes.
If you could spend a
day in your book would you? What would you do, where would you go, who would
you see?
This is a tough question. My book is kind of chaotic a lot
of fighting and war going on. I think I would like to live in the world of my
book before all heck broke loose. I would love to actually meet Caleo, Jack and
Nolan and to actually see their amazing powers would be awesome, but I don’t
think I would want to be thrown into their world of fighting for their lives.
What can fans expect
from book 2?
Book two is going to be great. It’s called Jack told
from…wait for it… Jack’s point. It will start out a few months after book 1
ends. Jillian is now a gun slinging bada** now. Plus there will be the
introduction of a few new characters as well as the return of a few old ones
that got left behind. I am hoping it will be out in late February or March.
Do you have any news
or advice you would like to pass on to fellow writers or readers?
If you have a story you feel is worth telling, don’t let
anyone stop you from telling it. Push forward, make it your goal to prove them
all wrong. You will always have people who tell you what you can’t do. Make it
your personal goal to prove them all wrong.
Where can we find
James Crawford and Caleo?
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