When I was in college I discovered Tom Clancy and got on a techno-thriller kick.Ĭurrently I don’t get to read nearly as much as I would like, and most of what I do read is from authors who I am friends with. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, and we were dirt poor, so I read everything in our tiny local library. From there I read pretty much everything.
Terry Brooks was my gateway drug to fantasy. Image courtesy Simon & Schuster What are some of your favorite reads in the past, and what do you read now? The only real drawback now is that writing uses the same part of my brain as reading, so it is now really hard for me to read to relax, so over the last few years I’ve not read nearly as much as I would like. Quite frankly, I hated English in high school and college, taking just what was required for my accounting degree, so I’m a self-taught writer. How much does being well-read play into your writing? Are there any drawbacks, do you think? I’ve been married for sixteen years and have four kids. I’ve been an accountant, then I was a gun dealer and firearms instructor, then an accountant again before I broke into writing.
I graduated from Utah State, where I met my wife, Bridget. I moved to Utah in 1993, joined the Church in 1994, served a mission to Alabama from ’95 through ’97, and have lived in Utah ever since. I grew up in El Nido, California in a family of dairy farmers. Website Photo courtesy Larry Correia Tell us a little bit about yourself. A former accountant, machine gun dealer, firearms instructor, and military contractor, Larry lives in the mountains of northern Utah with his very patient wife and children. Larry Correia is the New York Times bestselling author of the Monster Hunter International series, the award-winning Grimnoir Chronicles trilogy, the Dead Six military thrillers, several tie-in fiction projects for the Warmachine universe, and a few dozen short stories in various anthologies.
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