New Featured Author on PDB!

I was recently named as the Featured Author on the Polka Dot Banner website for the month of January. Below is short excerpt of the interview conducted. You can read the entire interview by clicking on the link afterwards. Please be sure to stop by and visit the site. I would also like to extend my thanks to the PDB site owner, Jamie Saloff, and Jane White, the site moderator, for all they do for authors on the site.


Mixing History and Fantasy/Scott Rezer

Written by Jane White
Monday, 08 February 2010 15:53

Scott Rezer's enthusiasm for writing shines through his answers in our recent interview. His love of history and fantasy, and skillful intertwining of the two, are evident as well.
PDB: Congratulations, Scott, on being the Polka Dot Banner's feature author for the month of January, 2010.

SR: Thanks for the congrats! It truly is an honor to be the newest featured author on the PDB.

PDB: Tell us a little about who you are as a person. How did you become a writer? What are your writing habits like?

SR: Everything I've written so far has something to do with history, which isn't surprising, since my grandmother was a local historian and writer in my hometown. From a young age, she taught me an appreciation for the past by getting me to help with researching deeds for houses she was working on, to place on the Historical Register. By junior high school I was an avid reader, and I wrote my first story for my younger sister. It was a story about a baby elephant in the tradition of Paddington Bear. In the thirty-some years since, I have certainly grown in my passion for history and writing. Unfortunately, you would think that in that time I would have developed an exemplary creative process. That is not the case. My wife would call my writing habits a comedy of errors. Sitting in front of a computer screen does nothing for me until I have written it down first. Give me a piece ofr paper and a pen. And I don't mean a notebook. Small scraps of paper from notepads to napkins to the back of bank withdrawal receipts, or anything else that might be handy, usually end up as my writng medium. We have a rule in my house: nobody throws out anything with my writing on it unless I have crumbled it up. You'd be surprised how many scenes I lost before my wife came up with this simple rule. As for when I write, the best ideas seem to come to me when I'm busy doing other things, like driving home from work, sitting in church, or waiting in line at the grocery store. I try to resist the urge whenever I'm out for a quiet dinner with my wife, but it has been known to happen from time to time. After twenty-five years with me, my wife just rolls her eyes and hands me a scrap of paper. She knows it's not worth arguing. It's easier to just let the obsession pass.

PDB: Who or what inspires you in your writing?

SR: The thing that inspires me most in writing is my passion for learning, and the excitement of sharing that knowledge and love with others. I know it sounds cliche, but it's true. For me, writing is more about the process; it's about creating something that no one has thought of before, or interpreting something in a whole new way and getting others to share in that joy. I love history. Not everyone else does. But if I can find a way to make history come alive, as through an historical fantasy, and have someone enjoy it, then it makes what I have written all the more special. Whenever I finish writing a chapter, I have a couple of people who read my work for me. Hearing the eagerness in their voices when they tell me what they like or don't like about where the story is going inspires me to write even more.

To read more of the interview follow the link to the Polka Dot Banner: http://www.polkadotbanner.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=279:mixing-history-and-fantasyscott-rezer&catid=15&Itemid=100018