Well, tis a cool day here in the end of September, though in the past it's been blazin hot. In this month's featured story from the first Monday's blog post, the past, present, and maybe even the future? weigh immeasurably on the main characters. Can they bear it? Could andy cannon bear my questions? Read on to find out the answers to all that! Share your thoughts on his story, The Tor, below in comments! 

Do you eat your fruits and vegetables? I’m a big fan.

If you were an animal, what would you be?  Probably a dog.
What is one thing readers would be surprised to learn about you? I’m really three raccoons in a trench coat.  

What’s one location you’d love to go to research for a story? My bucket list countries, all fertile grounds for literature,  are India (very possible), Cuba (less likely because of the expense) and Russia (probably not happening any time).

Is there a literary character (in the whole universe of fiction) that you’ve read who you really identified with? Ignatius Reilly in John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces.

What brought you to GA?  I was looking for a new community of writers and readers and was incredibly lucky to stumble on this one.

What’s the best part of being an author? The hardest part? The best part is seeing a story come to life on the page that I really enjoy reading. The hardest part is discovering that not everyone agrees with my assessment!

Did you like to write in school? I wrote some ephemera in school, but none of it was worth the trees that died in the process. I have always liked looking at strangers and assigning them a more interesting backstory than ‘man drinking coffee’. Oddly, every attractive man subjected to my scrutiny turns out to have a secret gay alter ego. Weird.

In The Tor, do you start with the plot idea or did the main character, Christopher, come to you first? I was thinking about the relationship between memory and grief in the wake of some deaths in my family, and the story grew as a kind of therapy.

Do you have a favorite line or scene in the story to share with readers?

Can you share something of your upcoming or current work with readers? I have a couple of projects that I will share before the end of the year. One is a toss at the currently popular genre of hockey romances, and the second is a dystopian Christmas fantasy with cynical nicotine-addicted elves and handsome studs who are shape-shifting reindeer.

Don't forget to share your comments on the interview & his story, The Tor, below!