January 24, 2026
Bobby Nash is an avant-garde writer of many genres. From mystery novels, to action thrillers, to science fiction and more, Nash knows how to craft a story.
Please introduce yourself.
Hi. I’m Bobby Nash. I am a writer and artist from Georgia. I write novels, comic books, short stories, audio dramas, screenplays, and occasional essays. My first professional, non-school published piece happened in 1992. In 2005, my first novel debuted and it’s been pretty steady busy since then. At last count, January 2026, I have 219 published stories. It breaks down to 45 novels/novellas/collections, 101 short stories/anthologies, 63 comic books/graphic novels, 8 original short film screenplays, and 4 original full-cast audio scripts. I don’t have a total count on essays, articles, and the like. A few of them won awards, which is very gratifying.
What genres do you write and why?
I have been fortunate enough to write in multiple genres. I write a good number of thriller, mystery, crime, and action, but also supernatural, horror, western, sci-fi, super-hero, kid’s books, and adult books. Most of what I write includes thrillers and action elements. I seem to be drawn to those aspects of storytelling. They’re fun.
There wasn’t really a plan when I started. I just didn’t limit myself to any specific genre. I never called myself a pulp writer or a thriller writer. Just a writer. When a publisher asked me if I’d like to write a horror story, I said yes. Same for the first time I wrote a western or sci-fi. As a reader, I love multiple genres. As a writer, I also love multiple genres. As long as publishers are interested, I plan to keep writing.
What is your earliest memory of reading?
My Mom was a voracious reader. As a kid, it was often just me and her and my dad worked nights. She read so I thought I should as well. My first love was comic books. Even though mom wasn’t a fan of comics, she bought me a few. The first comic books I owned were Amazing Spider-Man issues 192, 193, and 194. They came in a three-pack hanging in the department store checkout. I was hooked. As for prose, mom had the Readers Digest collections and I discovered Snow Bound Six, a story about people trapped on a mountain during a storm and having to survive. I was entranced. That kickstarted a love of outdoor survival fiction. To this day, I love sending my characters into the wild. That book is a big art of the reason why.
When did you know you wanted to write? How did it happen?
I was a kid when the creative bug hit me. Those Spider-Man comics certainly helped. My original dream was to draw comic books. It never occurred to me that there needed to be a writer. I just wanted to draw them. Spidey is still a bucket list character for this reason. As I went along, I started writing comics so I would have something to draw. Then, other artist friends started asking me to write stories for them to draw. I did and also continued to write and draw my own.
The shift to writing came when a friend suggested I might improve if I stopped splitting my focus and practiced one or the other. He suggested I try writing as I seemed to be better at that side of things. He must have caught me on the right day because I listened and, darn the man, if he wasn’t right. It’s funny. He saw me tell this story in another interview and confessed that he has no memory of telling me this thing that changed the course of my life. Funny, huh?
What’s one of your favorite scenes in one of your books?
Oh, geez. That’s always a tough one. Hard to nail down because it’s a constantly changing answer.
The scene where Abraham Snow is shot and lies dying on a South American airfield and the transition from that scene into him after his recovery had been in my head for years. I saw it as a movie. I didn’t know the character or the story the scene belonged to, but when I was writing Snow Falls, it clicked that this was Snow’s scene, I was thrilled to finally have a place to put it.
As me again tomorrow and I’ll have a different answer.
What makes a good character? A bad one?
To me, a good character is one that I stop thinking about as a character. Snow became a good character when I thought of him as a person instead of a character. I like to get to know my characters as people. It doesn’t matter if they’re human, alien, monster, machine, or creature of the night. They feel real to me. They can talk to me. They feel. They live. That’s when I know I’ve found the character.
I know I’ve done a disservice to a character when I try to make them do things that are against the beliefs, that feels out of character, just to serve the story. When I get to know my characters, they inform the way the plot unfolds. They will let me know if they will or will not do something. If I trust the characters, I get a much better story.
The late, great Derrick Ferguson used to say that story was when plot and character meet. He was absolutely correct. You can drop three different characters into the same basic plot and get three different stories because how that character approaches the plot should be different based on who that character is and how much the writer trusts them.
What moves the story for you?
The characters. Sorry. I feel like all my answers default to character, but it’s true. Plots are a dime a dozen. There are some amazing stories out there that have the simplest of plots, but the characters are so rich and distinct that they elevate the plot. For example, there are a lot of movies that follow the Die Hard plot. Some work. Some don’t. Why? Character probably plays a big part in that answer.
What is your favorite book and why?
I don’t know that I have an absolute favorite book. There’s not one book I reread every year or anything like that. There are some I revisit and certainly there are characters and authors who I fall in love with and follow in every subsequent release. Obviously, The Snow Bound Six made an impression. Is it a favorite? Not really, but it was an inspiration. I read a lot so it’s not often I revisit novels a second time. Comics, I revisit more often, but they’re quicker reads than a novel.
What do you want to say to your audience?
Thank you. I love writing and I would probably do it without an audience, but it is great meeting people who have read and enjoyed my work. It’s awesome to get feedback from readers. Not only does it help motivate me to keep writing, but it makes me feel a sense of purpose. It’s hard to explain. It still seems weird to me that I have fans. There’s a part of my brain that still has trouble reconciling that fact.
Thanks to this job, I have been offered the opportunity to travel, to do events at conventions, conferences, libraries, stores, and the like. I’ve met so many people, made so many friends with people that I only got to meet because I wrote these books. Some of the closest people in my life were people I met while promoting my books. That is a blessing so again, I say thank you.
If I get to say two things, the second would be to tell your friends to read my books too. Ha! Ha!
What advice do you have for new writers?
First and foremost, have fun with it. Writing is a solitary job. It’s just you and the muse. Write what interests you. Don’t chase fads. Write your stories.
Make a plan. What do you want to get from writing? Is it the joy of writing only? Great. Do you want it to be a career? Also great. Hobby? Sure. Each of those goals has a different path. Writing as a hobby doesn’t come with deadlines or promotion, and the like. If you want to write as your career, that means treating it like a job. I go to work even on those days I don’t feel like it because I’ve set career-oriented goals and I have deadlines. Set attainable goals. I started out with ‘write a page a day’ and once I was able to do that, I went to two a day. Finish the first draft. Finish the second draft, etc… Make sure you celebrate reaching those goals. Then, move on to the next goal post.
Do you have anything else you would like to add?
Thanks so much for the great questions. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about my work and writing in general. I love my job. It’s one of the greatest jobs I’ve ever had. I get to make up stuff for a living. How cool is that?
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