Independent authors III: 10 questions for Jorge Moreno from Madrid

I bring a new independent author the one worth tracking down. With already a track record and a good handful of excellent reviews, Jorge Moreno answer me to 10 questions above all a little: their influences, favorite writers and books, their hobbies As a reader and writer, your projects and its Reviews about the complex publishing world in general. I thank you for your time and I add that reading exclusively all your books has been a pleasure and a real good time. To find out this summer.

Jorge Moreno

Jorge Moreno was born in 1973 and since then it was clear: I wanted to be a writer. For him, everything that we see and live the first years of life is easily erased from our memory and he spent most of the time without remembering what he wanted and with the feeling that had forgotten something important.

When he was approaching forty his son was born and, perhaps because of that proximity to the newborn, he remembered: “Writer, I wanted to be a writer! It was that!". So he wrote again and began to show what was coming out and, against all odds, some wanted to read more.

He has published 3 books: Diary of a storyteller, compilation of stories written over more than twenty years with stories of all kinds and also with a version in English. And 2 novels: Two minutesa comedy with romantic touches in which the protagonist, used to everything going wrong, is not able to assume that luck will turn in his favor. It also has a version in Italian taste, and Without identityAnother comedy that mixes intrigue, love and humor, in which a man and a woman meet who do not remember anything about their past and try to regain their identity in the face of constant doubt as to whether it will be a good idea.

10 questions

1. Do you remember the first book you read? And the first story you wrote?

I'm not sure they were the first, but the ones I remember were from the Steamboat, and they had to be Friar Perico and his donkey o The tick pirate. That's where it all started ...

My memory also falters with my first story. I imagine there will be a previous one, but the one I remember was when I was 11 years old an essay at school about the holidays. I made up an adventure story about the holidays and the next day the teacher asked who Jorge Moreno was. I hesitated between raising my hand or playing dead. In the end I picked it up. I think my legs are still shaking. He wanted to congratulate me because it had been original and entertaining. That's why they still tremble on me.

2. What was the first book that struck you and why?

The first to shock me was Sinué the egyptianby Mika Valtari. I think I was 14 when I read it and I remember that it was the first with an adult language. I think I was impressed by that.

3. Who's your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.

An impossible one: Eduardo Mendoza, stephen King, Haruki Murakami, ray bradbury, Juan Jose Miles, Santiago posteguillo. And if I think about it, surely many more come out.

4. What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?

Meet none. The characters that I read belong to another world, locked in a book and belonging to a story. I can't imagine them in real life.

Write, either. They are from another, created by another, I prefer to enjoy reading them.

5. Any mania when it comes to writing or reading?

To write I like to be alone, and apart from that nothing else. To read, I don't like leaving unfinished books.

6. And your preferred place and time to do it?

The best time to write is when I have time, we are not to waste free time when it arises, although I recognize that what I like the most is madrugada. It will be because of loneliness and silence.

To read, my favorite moment is on the beach, at any time and with nothing to do ahead. So I read when I can.

7. What writer or book has influenced your work as an author?

I think the one that influenced me the most was Eduardo Mendoza. In the institute they sent us to read The labyrinth of the olives. I got a revelation: funny books are literature too. I realized that what I liked the most was writing funny stories.

8. Your favorite genres?

Comedy, mystery, intrigue, stories no more.

9. What are you reading now? And writing?

I'm reading That other that is in you, by Juan Ballester.

As for writing I am finishing a junior novel about a sixteen-year-old girl who feels out of place and misfit and does not understand anything about her life, who is forced to go to the beach for a few days where she used to spend the summer as a child, with her grandparents, when she would rather stay locked up in his room without seeing anyone. Then it gets interesting and even fun, really.

10. How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?

Yesterday I heard on the radio that more than 2017 books had been published in 87.000. It is evident that posting is easy. Sell, get read, that they want to re-publish you, that they want to read you again, seems more complicated. Fortunately with self-publishing and the global world, publishing and making yourself known is easier than before. In the end it is up to you.