Carl Henegan
Born and raised in Houston Texas, C A Henegan spent his early years writing poetry and short stories for self-entertainment. With the encouragement of a high school English teacher, he maintained his love for writing and soon took several attempts at longer poems and books. He vividly remembers the first time he was captured by the writings of authors like Allan Folsom, Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, and Lee Child. This admiration for the craft of writing extended to authors like Dickens, Shakespeare and Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The works not only influenced his love for writing but inspired him to find his own voice. As he began to write the words poured out of his head and instantly onto the paper. A deep love for writing was born.
Carl left Houston in 1986 to enter the military serving most of his term in Washington State. He studied at Gonzaga drawing from these early experiences which surfaced in his writing. In his debut novel, the rich characters and scenes vividly painted by words were loosely based on real-life people and experiences.
He worked in electronics for a period of time but could not escape the allure of story writing. The desire to test his craft prompted an insatiable quest to research the possibility of becoming a novelist. He continued reading the greats every chance he had. From classical literature to contemporary novels, C A Henegan's dedication to the art or writing became uncontrollable. He soon began placing his own novels in manuscript form and has never stopped.
He is the founder and CEO of Icon Global Publishing.
“Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find creativity”
“As a self described idealistic I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I’m in between romances at the moment.”
“Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken for granted. So why do authors do it? Because not writing at all, feels far worse.”
“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.”
“Only internal bliss is perpetual, nothing else is created to last”
“Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel”
“Want to know what it feels like when your soul bleeds? Write a novel.”
“The social network, the only place that doesn’t physically exist but u can still live vicariously through someone who is only virtual.”
“All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing”
“My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth”
“The bitter soul is forever tortured by darkness left undone”
“Remain assiduously stubborn with your positive thinking, sooner or later the world around you will give up and let you have your way”
“Life was so simple when apples and blackberries were fruit, a tweet was the sound of nature, and facebooks were photo albums”
“I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie”
“God loves us so much that he doesn’t let us live forever so we can stop making mistakes”
“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate”
“Want to know where you truly stand with someone? Follow their time and see how much you are already there”
“Time is the hole in filter of life. It is just large enough to allow the ones that don’t fit in to fall through, but small enough to catch the ones that belong to remain”
“There is no better life coach then LIFE, you attend class everyday, all you have to do is listen to the message”
“Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you”
“An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it”
“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue”
“True wisdom dwells in the ability to remain constantly aware of that in which we have no practical knowledge of”
“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way”