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Thriller Author Jeremy Robinson On Writing, His Monster Influences, Horror And Video Trailers

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Channel: The Creative Penn · 2013 · Education

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Interview with Jeremy Robinson also writing as Jeremy Bishop http://www.jeremyrobinsononline.com/ about how he got started in art and creativity, why monsters feature in so many of his books, his writing work-space, how parts of his life bleed into his books and more. We also discuss Island 731, I am Cowboy, The Raven by Jeremy Bishop and the CHESS team series.
We discuss:

    How Jeremy started out at art school and went into comic book illustration, and then into comic book writing, then screen-writing. After being inspired by a James Rollins novel, he moved into writing novels.

    Monsters are a recurring theme in Jeremy's books, including his recent book Island 731. He talks about his TV and film influences and why monsters have been part of his inspiration. 'Island 731' is about a crew stranded on an island that had been used for human experimentation during WWII.

    Jeremy writes horror under Jeremy Bishop, the first book was 'Torment' which is a very dark book based on a nightmare he had. The Raven is the next book in the Jane Harper series, coming soon, where Jane has to deal with parasitical zombies that can zombify anything mammal, whilst out on the high seas. Ridiculous fun!

    We talk about 'I am Cowboy', which is not a Western! Cowboy is the main character who first appeared in SecondWorld (about Nazis returning to take over the world). Cowboy is a conspiracy theorist obsessed with cowboy movies. He's from the Czech Republic and he has a line 'I am cowboy, I am gunslinger'.

    How much of Jeremy is in his characters? It depends on the characters -- some of them are very similar. In the YA series, the Last Hunter, Solomon is based on 50% Jeremy and 50% on his son. But many of the characters are nothing like Jeremy -  the books are not autobiographical!

    Is Jeremy as exciting as the protagonists of his kick-ass, fast-paced books?

    Jeremy talks about his writing space and you can see some of his Japanese movie monsters behind him in the video. He has a big office which is packed with pop culture objects, posters etc. It inspires him, and he does a lot of video as well as writing. He also paints and his kids play in the room.

    Jeremy makes video trailers for all his books as well as 'viral video' campaigns, which are usually ridiculous. You can check out Jeremy's YouTube channel here. There's also a video coming on August 13th to promote The Raven which includes a puppeteer!

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