Interview Kev Richardson

by

Marguerite Arotin

1) What inspired you to write a story set in the Outback and how much research was involved?

I was inspired by the facts that Australia’s Outback is such a unique area, and that it is populated by only a ‘handful or so’ of unique people… pioneers, if you like, in a wilderness. In this case, however, the wilderness is a desert and the people so much a part of it that they were ready-made characters to write about.

Research? Damned little. Whenever I travel I carry a micro-tape-recorder to take notes and all the characters’ experiences and locale descriptions are pretty much an elasticised version of those notes.

2) How long did it take you to complete Brogan?

About a year… but I don’t work on only one book at a time; I am meanwhile writing or drafting others.

3) Do you have a website or someplace where your readers can contact you?

Go to www.kev-richardson.com and you will find me home. There are further updates to be made once Brogan is published, including a sequel to my Gurrewa (publ. “Wings-Press” June 2006).

Readers can contact me on the email address they will find on the website.

4) Any words of advice for aspiring authors?

Aren’t we all aspiring? I reckon so, which means I can only advise what I feel for myself… Believe in yourself. Believe that your story is credibly told. Believe in your characters, that they are as real in life as you are.