My name is Jeffrey Bolden, born in San Diego, CA, currently residing in Gulfport, MS.
Did you always want to be a
writer? If not what did you want to be?
No, if I’m completely honest
with myself, I, like a lot of people was lost when it came to the future. I
mean even for a normal teenager, the future seems, I don’t know, far I guess.
You feel like you can do anything. There was a time I wanted to be the first
black president, like ten years before Obama. Before that, I wanted to be an
engineer. No matter what I did, I always knew that I wanted to be great at
something. A legend. So when I wanted to be a rapper (still kind of do, not
going to lie) I knew I wanted to be the best at it, and I knew I was the best
at it. Still am. But I knew it took money to rap, and I thought I could write
and publish a book or two to get start up money. Bad News, Good News was the
first line of cocaine that led to the addiction of poetry and prose.
When did you first consider
yourself as a "writer"?
I first knew I was a writer, a
real writer not when I when I first held my book in my hand, it was when I
realized I couldn’t go a whole day without writing without getting withdrawals.
It’s like the first step to recovery is admitting you’re an addict, that was
the day I had to admit I was a writer.
Did it take a long time to get
your first book published?
Not really, after I put it
together, maybe a month later I put it out there.
What is the name of your
latest book, and if you had to summarise it in less than 20 words what would you say?
I can summarize Book Of Soul in one word. Honesty.
How long does it usually take
you to write a book, from the original idea to finishing writing it?
Depends really but I’ve been finding as of late, I can write
a book in a quarter of a year, matter of fact I should say a novella size
book, and that’s me working on two
or three different projects at the same time so probably three to four months of constant and I pretty much
have it done.
Which of your books were easier/harder to write than the
others?
The Children of the Night
series which hasn’t been picked up yet was a daunting task to write, taking
almost a year each, save Brand New Eyes or the finale. But those books were my
Atlas Shrugged in a sense. They were meant to say a lot more than what was on
the page, where as all of my other books were pretty much straight forward.
Like Echoes of Silence is clearly a book on the wavelength of Brokeback
Mountain meets Let Me In. Simple. A girl falls in love with a girl but also in
love with a demon. It’s also about how people focus so much on labels, and
really in respect to the main character, I never mention once that she’s gay
because she’s not. But that was a simple message. The Children of the Night
series does not contain simple messages i.e the hardest books for me to write.
What can we expect from you in
the future? ie More books of the same genre? Books of a different genre?
I can’t tell you what to expect, I don’t even know.
That’s the fun in writing really.
Do you have plans for a new
book? Is this book part of a series?
I’ve decided to just write
until the books I’ve already written find publishing homes or start on their
own journey. It’s like how a parent may feel once the child is old enough to
gain a certain independence going to their first day of school, and they may
want another child. That’s how I feel. Right now, I’m still breast-feeding and
changing diapers, but one of my books is learning how to walk, I can feel it.
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