
Tell us a little about yourself.
Well, I'm a Westerner transplanted to the East on a temporary basis. I met my wife on an online discussion board for writers, having pounced upon a post she made relating to her own book. I mistakenly thought that the question she was asking had to do with a similar type of story to the one I was writing, and the rest is history. I was featured on the History Channel show, MonsterQuest, and have been to Africa three times in search of an unclassified animal called Mokele-mbembe, which fits the description of a living dinosaur.
Tell us about your writing. What genre(s) do you specialize in?
I guess you could call it Fantascience Fiction; my "genre" at the moment appears to be "mash-up." People have commented on the unusual melange of science-fiction, fantasy, and paranormal in Bid the Gods Arise. I do tend to prefer fantasy as a genre due to its spiritual quality and overall moral themes; no matter how dark the tunnel, fantasy generally has a light at the end (though that is less the case in modern writing, traditionally that has been the case, and one of its defining qualities). And while I may disagree with how some define light and dark (frequently it is the inverse of how I might define it), I like the fact that authors of fantasy at least acknowledge that such a struggle exists. Much science fiction tends to be nihilistic by nature, so while I love it as a genre, I don't tend to read as much of it.
What was your writing process for Bid the Gods Arise?

What books/authors have really inspired you?
Jules Verne, for introducing me to the idea of scientists as pioneering heroes. His novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth, has been foundational to my concept of high adventure. C.S. Lewis for introducing the world to Aslan. Tolkien for showing us all how to build worlds. Timothy Zahn for still managing to surprise me with his twists after all these years. In the world of film, prior to The Lord of the Rings (which was as revolutionary for fantasy fans as Star Wars was in its day, and I believe has ushered in a whole new era in film-making), David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly was a bit of a paradigm shift for me. I grew up on monster movies, but it wasn't until that film, viewed in my teens, that I realized that ultimately the most terrifying monster movies were mostly about people. To see a tragic horror story like that focus intimately on the characters and the repercussions of their actions was much more enlightening to me than any number of giant lizards destroying countless thousands in faraway cities and foreign lands. From that one movie with its tiny cast I extrapolated the notion that even epic stories are uninteresting if you don't care about the people involved. I had seen it demonstrated before in literature, but I don't think that I made the conscious connection or articulated the thought until I saw that film.
Any upcoming projects?
Well, the biggest one right now is the sequel to Bid the Gods Arise. Worlds Beyond the Well is the second novel in The Wells of the Worlds, and while I am not yet certain how many books will be in the series, it is leading to a very specific end. Most of the seeds for the series are planted in the first novel, and I hope that once people have read it through, they will eventually pick it up again and see just how many things are hinted at in Bid the Gods Arise. I do have a cryptozoologically-based novel that has been on the back burner for years, but as it is about the search for Mokele-mbembe, I realized that it was more important to me to write the non-fiction book of the animal's discovery than it was for me to write a novel on the same subject. So while it may eventually happen, it's not as high on my priority list as it once was. I also have a non-fiction book that features dragons, but I'm staying hush-hush about that one for the moment.
Where can readers find you online?
http://www.amazon.com/author/robertmullin
http://www.facebook.com/robert.mullin
http://www.facebook.com/bidthegodsarise
http://www.crimsonmoonpress.com
http://www.theforce.net/timeline
http://robertmullin.blogspot.com
http://dividesthewaters.blogspot.com
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