AuThursday – David Bridger

Please welcome my friend David Bridger to The Clog Blog!  David, tell us a little about yourself and your background.

Twenty years in the Royal Navy until I got hurt and then caught a virus in hospital that left me housebound/bedbound with lifelong chronic illness. Cue: my second career as a novelist. Twelve written to date, nine of them still in print, with three more on the way in this next year or two plus my first non-fiction book.

How do you make time to write?

I have all the time in the world (Thanks, Louis) but very limited energy, so managing that to allow my writing is a job in itself.

Do you believe in writer’s block?

For me, thankfully, it hasn’t happened.

Tell us a bit about the genre you write and why you love it.

Science fiction and fantasy of a literary style.

How are you publishing your recent book and why? 

Over the years, I’ve done traditional and then self-publishing. Enjoyed the creative freedom of the latter, but eventually had to admit that all the extra work was damaging my health. Fortunately, a friend introduced me to his small independent publisher, who turned out to be a treasure. She and I get on, personally and professionally. She asks no more of me than that I write my books then edit them with her, which is the perfect usage of my available energy. All my available books are now with her house, and I hope that all my future ones will be too.

Are you an Introvert or an Extrovert?  How does this affect your work?

I’m a contemplative. Extrovert in my younger days, growing less so as I age. This might perhaps affect my writing, although I’m probably not the best person to judge that.

What is your favorite motivational phrase?

I trust my intuition.

What advice would you give to aspiring writers?

Keep going.

Where can readers find you on the World Wide Web?

https://www.beatentrackpublishing.com/?ref=DavidBridger

Do you have an excerpt you’d like to share with us?

From my most recently released novel, Wild Times:

Magic is a marriage of hope and rebellion.

It’s everywhere in the world. Always has been. But in most of the world, it’s unknown. People stopped using it, believing in it even, thousands of years ago, and hundreds of years ago, and tens of years ago. It seems that each culture and each generation rejects magic a bit more than the one before. Some cultures more or less than others, but the general trend is to ignore magic and eventually to forget it. In every culture, though, in every generation, there are people who don’t ignore it. Some of them stick around in the normal world, and they are often persecuted because of what they know, what they practise.

But many don’t stick around. They go into the Wild.

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