Harding McFadden: All My Songs Are Protest Songs

Harding McFadden is a Pennsylvania-based scribbler. He is the writer of two Young Adult adventure books, The Great First Impressions Trip and The Children’s War (with Chester Haas), a collection of his short fiction, The Judas Hymn, and is a regular contributor to The Libertarian Enterprise online magazine. When not writing, he is reading, and spending as much time as possible with his long-suffering family. 

Tell us a bit about your latest work.

Tons of short stories. I mean tons. Much as I enjoy the heartburn-inducing loveliness of writing a book, even a short one, I find that I’m most at home working on shorter stuff. As such, I’ve got about a half dozen things outlined and ready to be written, to submit with fingers crossed to various anthologies and magazines, as well as another dozen or so either getting written or on the back burner for when my brain is ready to kick them out. Whatever the case or genre, I have a great, good time getting words down on paper. 

What happened in your life that prompted you to become a writer?

No specific thing that I can recall. I guess I’ve always enjoyed telling stories. When I was a kid, my cousin took my to the local comic shop and I picked some stuff up, and just fell in. It started me on the road to reading just about anything that could keep my interest. Eventually, I decided to give it a try. My first story was a dreadful little thing called Iron Wreckage, a horrible mess with dragons and knights and robots and God only knows what else. I hope I’ve gotten better since then, but I’ll leave it up to the folks who read my stuff to be the judges. At this point, I write things that I hope my kids will enjoy. They’ve been kind so far, but smart tikes that they are, they’ll move on from my stuff in favor of better horizons. 

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