Walter George Tuttle, Jr., named after my father and technically my grandfather on my father's side, except he did not have a middle name and went by Walter Tuttle. Thus, my father is senior and I am junior instead of the third.

American. I think the questions come become Tuttle is an English surname and my written works have a decent presence in the United Kingdom.

I was born January 27, 1972 at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, New York.

Boiling Springs High School in Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania.

Yes. I served in the United States Marine Corps from 1990 through 1994 and was honorably discharged.

Yes. I have been married to Shawn Sutton since 1997. We have a son and a daughter.

Yes. I graduated in 1998 from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in Finance degree and then received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Penn State in 2005.

I worked in Finance across numerous industries, such as banking, corporate trust, brokerage, state agency, healthcare, and water and wastewater utility.

20 years. Thus, my late start to writing full-time.

I was let go as a result of a corporate restructuring. Since then, I have worked for myself.

No. For most of those years, I entertained ideas of one day owning my own business. I even set up my home office with the thought in my mind that I would probably work out of it one day—a premonition, perhaps.

Since a child, I have been told that I have an active imagination and can entertain myself. Perhaps I should have started writing earlier.

To entertain.

I write horror and science fiction novels and short stories, screenplays, poems, and non-fiction books.

Primarily science fiction, horror, and sci-fi horror.

My work contains many genres, but the overall setting is usually one associated with science fiction or horror. These are genres I like best and I prefer to read and watch stories in these genres.

Underneath the horror, science fiction, and sci-fi horror umbrellas, readers will find many genres layered throughout my work.

Yes, I also write poems and non-fiction books.

I'll let Goodreads keep track. If their number is off, you can always count them yourself.

Yes. I currently have quite a pipeline of novels already written to be released.

Oh, yes. My pipeline contains several fiction short stories, screenplays, poems, and nonfiction topics in progress. Once I catch up, I have a treasure chest of ideas, some already partially written, that will keep me busy for some time.

Works can be purchased at these and other retailers and bookstores. Click the link to go there.

I started writing full-time in the Fall of 2014.

War For The Spheres in 2019.

As far as writers, Stanislaw Lem, William Peter Blatty, Frank Herbert, Carl Dreadstone, Carl Sagan, Stephen King, and others. Mostly by reading their works. Other influencers include John Carpenter, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Dino De Laurentiis, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Jackson. If you look at each of their bodies of work, it runs the gamut. Just like my stories. I like to mix it up.

I write what I want from what comes to me. I provide an experience without the actual danger. If a readers wants to be scared, I will scare them. Action and adventure, I provide that, too. From that perspective, I guess I do without compromising myself and work.

The characters, of course. Not every person is a planner or a thinker and some feel more emotion than others. But both can get what they are looking for in my stories. The emotional thinker tends to empathize with the characters while the non-emotion, non-thinker will experience through these characters what they don't do themselves in real life.

Of course. Otherwise, none of the work would be completed. My schedule is to get up early every morning and work. Start times vary, but I usually start between 6 and 7:30 a.m. and work until whatever needs to be done is completed or I am at a good stopping point. End times vary, too, but I usually stop around 5 p.m. or so. Days can go longer, and I seldom end earlier. Monday through Friday is a given and can extend into the weekend depending on where I am with a particular project.

Absolutely not! Who knows where the story will lead me? It depends on where I am in the story. Some days will amount to research and notetaking. Others, I might type three to five-thousands words. I understand other writers have pages or a word count they want to reach each day, but I think that would be drudgery. I have goals, but I find I get deeply immersed in writing the story without counting pages or words along the way. Not surprisingly, the pages and words come.

It depends. When I'm initially scribing the story, I'm jamming. When I proofread and edit, I want to hear the rhythm of the prose and meter.

I run the gamut when it comes to music and have favorites in just about every genre. But, while writing, I almost always turn to rock.

Of course. As I said, I usually turn to rock when writing, particularly gothic rock or similar music. A few bands I like to listen to while writing are Ghost Brigade, In Flames, Amorphis, Lacrimas Profundere, Bella Morte, Love and Death, Icon & The Black Roses, HIM, Ghost, Lordi, Zeraphine, Demon Hunter, and others.

No, absolutely not. I only read and wrote when I had to and even then may not have. It wasn't until I was in the Marine Corps stationed on Okinawa that I read the Bible consistently.

It has everything. All of the genres. From Creation through Armageddon, the world flooded, an immaculate birth, murder, angels and demons, and demon possession. Things sci-fi and horror fans eat up.

Of course. From the Narratives: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge will do. Also, Haunted by Siegfried Sassoon, A Child's Nightmare by Robert Graves, The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson, Success is Counted Sweetest by Emily Dickinson, How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and many more. Epigrams: Epigrams by Mark Twain, Epigram on a Suicide by Robert Burns, Fire and Ice by Robert Frost, and more. Advice: The Summer Day by Mary Oliver, I Took My Power in My Hand by Emily Dickinson, O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman, A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas, What Is This Life by Sir Walter Raleigh, Each Life Converges to Some Centre by Emily Dickinson, Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, Each Moment Is Precious by Pat A. Fleming, From Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, Life Is by Mother Teresa, and others.

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg and Leslie Waller. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Night of the Living Dead by John Russo. All of the Universal monster books by Carl Dreadstone.

Button, Button by Richard Matheson. Destination Moon by Robert Heinlein. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

It is important to know that screenplays are a tool to help transition written words into images. Initially, the words prompt images in the mind's eye. And those images will not be the same for everyone. However, if those words are expressed well, the images created in the mind's eye should be about the same for everyone reading them. Immortalizing those images onto the screen are the images everyone will see and remember without variation. Unless, the movie is re-made, which seems to be the fad today. So, screenplays play a role in coming up with those final images. As with novels, whether the screenplay was carried out exactly, tweaked, or ignored outside general ideas, these are the best screenplays that stood on their own as creative works, transitioned to the screen with unforgettable moments, and turned into the wealthiest franchises. Star Wars - created by George Lucas with many screenwriters Marvel Cinematic Universe (i.e. Avengers, Spider-Man, etc.) - created by Stan Lee with many screenwriters Jurassic Park - created by Michael Crichton after publishing his novel of the same name in 1990 and also had numerous screenwriters These franchises started with the written word and artistic drawings and turned them into blockbuster movies and memorabilia. The characters and storylines in the screenplays and/or novels hooked people and turned them into life-long and multigenerational fans.

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson because it is short and concise, informing readers to expect change because it will happen and that change itself may not be a bad thing.