Indie Interview: Trent St Germain

This week’s indie author is Trent St Germain, whose novels include The Incubus and The Others, and Goode Night from the Peppermint Dome. Today, Trent stopped by to talk about his writing, and his inspiration for The Incubus and The Others.

Hi, Trent. Welcome to Read A Lot.

Q: Had you always planned on becoming a published author?

I’ve written and come up with stories from the time I could read and write. I think it must have been sometime in elementary school that I decided I would one day be a novelist. I would take books off my parents’ and grandparents’ bookshelves—things children should not be reading!—and read the excerpts, or sometimes, the entire book.

I think I was 12 or 13 years old when I read Gone with the Windfor the first time. When I was a teenager, I could read an entire…