1. What was the inspiration behind your art work& what are some of your influences? The inspiration behind my art work was to show my vision as a creative art director.  The Bialien trilogy, has been playing as a movie in my brain for the past 4 1/2 years and I translate the screen shots as I see it.  I try to have my art work stand out from what people see everyday.  All my art work designs are heavily detailed and sometimes takes months to do one design.  George Lucas is one of my biggest influences.  His visionary movie directing is amazing.  I have 100′s of ideas on how the Bialien movie can be done to keep the story in sync with the book.    4. Why and when did you decide to write the Bialien trilogy? I decided to write this series March of 2006 after I was upset with the ending of the movie War of the Worlds (new version, with Tom Cruise).  The writer of the movie portrayed an advanced alien race as a species not smart enough, to know about harmful bacteria on planet Earth.  I think an Advanced Alien species would be well aware of that type of problem. Many other movies I’ve watched over the past 20 years has also inspired me to write.  But I had write something original and something I would love to see in the movies. I knew deep down I could write a good story with dealing with aliens species. Spring 2006, my mind went through an everyday all day brainstorm of ideas.  Every day for the next three years, I was thinking about a new idea or going over previous ideas to make them better.  By the time I was ready to begin writing the first chapter, I had too many ideas for one book.  I decided to filter many of the ideas into the second and third book.  I started production of Bialien Volume 1 Summer of 2006.  I came up with the name of the series in November 2006 when I also bought the domain name.   -------------------------------------------------------------- Read the rest of the interview here: http://www.bialien.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108&Itemid=111