Interview with Author Stanley Webb

February 2018

1. Can you tell us a little what your story, "Blazing Beamard," is about?

   Special Agent Bull Wire, with his engineer sidekick Smokey, pursue the air pirate Blazing Beamard into the desert. He loses Smokey, and his locomotive, to Beamard's sudden attack. Bull then continues the chase on foot. He arrives in a remote town called Nowhere. The citizens, terrified of provoking Beamard, refuse Bull's plea for assistance.

   However, a Chinese saloon girl named Fang leads Bull toward Superstition Peak, where Beamard makes his aerie. Fang also warns that Beamard is not a man, but a gold-starved dragon.

2. How did you come up with the idea?

   Old-West villains are much like dragons in their lust for gold. I wrote "Blazing Beamard" to discover what might happen if the two archetypes collided.

3. What is your inspiration for writing as a whole?

   I learned to tell myself stories in kindergarten, when we students had to lie quietly during nap time. As I grew up, i used stories to entertain myself on the school bus, and family drives, and at bed time. I eventually tried writing my stories down, and thus learned something of the craft.

4. Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

   I am a native of rural New York State. I have worked as a dishwasher, a short-order cook, and in an automotive factory. My hobbies include wood carving, stained glass building, and leather tooling. My family and I live on a small homestead, not far from the eastern shoreline of Lake Ontario.

5. Where can listeners find more of your work?

   My story "The Treehouse," appears in Whispers of the APOC, a zombie anthology from Tannhauser Press. My bibliography can be found on my Author Central page, www.amazon.com/author/stanleywebb

6. Any new work we should keep an eye out for?

   My subterranean monster tale, "Below Hell," is due to appear in the anthology, Buried, from Thirteen O'Clock Press.

7. What are you reading now?

   I have just finished reading Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery. Brian Lumley's collection, Beneath the Moors and darker places is next on my shelf.

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