Author Trevor J Houser On The 5 Things You Need to Know to Become a Great Author

Set goals. It’s different for everyone, but it’s helpful to have a word count or a page count that you work towards whether it’s every day or even monthly. I try to write a certain number of pages every month and I set the bar low so I will always be pleasantly surprised at how great things seem to be going.

As part of my interview series on the five things you need to know to become a great author, I had the pleasure of interviewing Trevor J. Houser, author of Pacific. Trevor J. Houser is an advertising copywriter living with his family in Seattle, WA. He has published stories in dozens of literary journals including Story Quarterly, Zyzzyva, and The Dr. TJ Eckleburg Review, among others. Three of his stories were nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Thank you so much for joining us! Can you share a story about what brought you to this particular career path?

I used to write stories in elementary school and then pass them around the class at lunch. If five or more classmates gave it four stars it became a “best-seller.” I remember one of them was called, I…