Last updated on August 9, 2024
Hello Everyone,
It has been a minute since my last series of interviews. Between writing my own story, teaching, and coaching, life…hasn’t found a way. For some quick information on myself, I’m the author of the Creation series (soon to hit Amazon), a multi-degreed weirdo, and a former reporter for the United States military. I also once fought not only a dolphin, but a camel, and a camel spider. Don’t let people fool you, Dolphins can be real bastards.
However! That’s not why you’re here! This time around, we’ll be interviewing Wolfshine A.K.A. Shane Purdy, Selkie Myth of Beneath the Dragoneye Moons, and Nicoli Gonnella or Necariin of the Unbound series.
In the past, I had a tendency to include one smaller author compared to the likes of Will Wight and Shirtaloon. This time around, I chose three bigger authors simply because I wanted to. Yes…that is why.
Here’s how it works. I sent a series of questions to the author that I came up with myself just because I wanted to know the answers. The authors have time to respond, it’s all done through email, and I don’t edit their response in the slightest.
I also realize I now have quite a few of these interviews in the bank, so I’ll be creating a database of interviews for others to peruse at their leisure. As we continue forward, I’ll continue to add the additional interviews as time goes on.
Now, on to the show!
Shane Purdy, A.K. A. Wolfshine, is a prolific writer who has the unique ability to write an insane amount of words in a day. Stephen King, as a comparative reference, wrote 2k words in a day. That was considered by many to be quite the boatload. Shane Purdy…..writes a lot more than that.
To point, the first book in The Rise of the Winter Wolf series came out on May 19th, 2022 with 634 pages. The fifth book in that same series came out December 30th, 2023 with close to 500 pages. And, while he was writing five books in that series, he was simultaneously writing a three-book series called The Undying Magician. That is….a lot. Like, a lot a lot.
His series have a tendency to be large in scope, while never losing the feeling that the MC has individual stakes in the matter. An image of his newest upcoming novel can be found below:
Author’s about me:
Shane Purdy is a college student in Texas studying Computer Science.
At a young age he became fascinated with Fantasy books after reading the Wereworld series by Curtis Jobling, which led to a love of reading that continues to this day.
When he was younger you could almost always find him with a book in his hand (when he wasn’t busy with Band activities that is). As he got older, he started reading online webnovels as well. In June of 2021, after reading thousands of books, he decided to take the plunge and write a book of his own, starting with his first series, Dungeon from the Void.
He writes both high and low progression fantasy novels of varying genres, including Dungeon Core, LitRPG, Cultivation, Sci-Fi and more.
Link to Wolfshine’s upcoming Amazon book release: Link
Link to Wolfshine’s Royal Road page: Link
1. You have quite a few book series out there, why so many and which one is your favorite?
Generally I’ll start a new series every time I get the inspiration to do so. Some of them end up making it to Royal Road and then Amazon, others don’t. Normally it depends on what it is I’m busy doing at the time. But it could also depend on my personal mood or just what type of story I’m most interested in at the time.
As for which one of my stories is my favorite? Of my eight stories currently ongoing, I would choose Crimson Eternal as my favorite.
2. I have it from a reliable source that you make a good amount of money off of all of your publishing. Has the imposter syndrome left you, or did something take its place?
I would say it’s half and half. I understand that I’m not exactly what you would call normal in a lot of ways, but at the same time, I don’t really feel much different. And I don’t understand why exactly I am abnormal.
3. To my knowledge, you do not work with any publishers. Is that a personal choice, and if so, why?
Yes, I avoid working with publishers. This is because of a few reasons. For one, I make all of my royalties when not working with a publisher instead of having to split it with others. With the exception of the supplier, Amazon, of course. And for two, when I first started writing, I had no intentions of becoming a full time author or making it my job. Or even making money off of it. I just started writing on a whim and found that people enjoyed what I wrote. So I continued. And after realizing that I could make it my full time job, I decided to do so. Since I often treat writing as a hobby. Just something I really enjoy doing. And who wouldn’t want their job to also be their hobby?
The main reason I avoid working with publishers though is because I am very big on control. I like controlling everything involving my books myself with as few surprises as possible. And working with a publisher would take away a lot of that control.
4. What is the most common complaint you receive about your novels, and do you think there’s any validation to what they’re saying?
I think one of the biggest complaints I’ve seen about my novels is that I write in first person present tense. And personally, that’s the tense and POV that I enjoy reading the most, so I don’t really take those complaints to heart. It’s merely a personal opinion. Some people seem to truly believe that present tense has no place in a novel, but I’m not one of them, and present tense is what comes most naturally to me.
5. Where do your ideas come from? Do you still get writer’s block?
I think some of my ideas come from a large mixture of all of the stories I’ve read throughout my life sort of expanding my imagination before I get inspired to write things that I haven’t seen yet. Since when I was in high school, I would spend almost all of my spare time doing nothing but reading. And then after graduating high school I spent a lot of time reading and watching TV. All day long when I wasn’t doing classwork for college. So I personally think that everything, out of thousands of books that I’ve read and over a thousand TV shows I’ve watched, has all just kind of mixed together.
After all of that, I often end up getting inspiration to write things that I haven’t seen yet. Things I view as more unique. That I would want to read myself but have never been able to find.
That was actually part of how I became an author in the first place. I wanted to read a dungeon core story with a void element using main protagonist, but I couldn’t find one. So I started writing one.
As for The Rise of the Winter Wolf, I wanted to read a livestreamed LitRPG dungeon crawl story with no interference by any third party in the dungeon, and with an actual all-powerful, or almost all-powerful System. A story that was not sci-fi and was entirely fantasy and magic. And since I couldn’t find any stories like that, I started Winter Wolf.
The same goes for my other stories, like The Undying Magician, where I wanted to read a true immortal protagonist story, The Calling of Wrath, where I wanted to read a medieval LitRPG Apocalypse involving the Seven Deadly Sins, and so on.
And I’ve never gotten writer’s block.
6. If you could, would you go back and change anything about how you started as an author? What would it be?
I would change that I initially published Dungeon from the Void on Amazon Kindle only instead of doing Kindle Unlimited for it when I first published it. Since that led to a lot less visibility for the story initially.
That’s it, and a big thank you to Mr. Purdy for agreeing to answer a few questions. His next book will arrive on July 31st, 2024 on Amazon.
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