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Stockton Heath 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a former university lecturer living between Spain and the UK where I write about film, theatre and literature. I’ve been meaning to write books for a long time, but never had enough time – too much marking etc. Having taken early retirement, I’m determined to make up for lost time!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is entitled ‘Imagining A Murder: The Cartland Case Revisited.’ It’s an account of an incident which occurred in 1973 in Provence, France and which involved the murder of a British businessman and headmaster.

When I was a child I remembered seeing a documentary about a murder in France. The victim’s caravan had been set alight and that image of a burning caravan haunted my teenage dreams for many years. I have always wanted to know what happened on that moonlit night, but I never quite realised where this remarkable story would lead.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. I’m a random writer – I am only able to write when I’m in the mood and unfortunately I never quite know when the mood will strike.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
So many!
‘Burmese Days’ by George Orwell has always been a favourite. I also enjoy David Lodge books – ‘Thinks,’ ‘Small World’ etc. Somerset Maugham is an author I always return to. His ‘Theatre’ is one of my all time favourite novels. J G Ballard books are always intriguing, especially ‘The unlimited Dream Company’ which is simply a wonderfully surreal read.

What are you working on now?
A book about friendship and loss which centres around my former best friend who sadly took his own life a couple of years ago. It’s called ‘Fair Enough’ and will be released early in 2022.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I prefer the old fashioned method which is word-of-mouth – but this only works if you have a fairly large social-family circle.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
The only thing I can say is develop a thick skin and don’t get too precious over your work. It might be the most important thing in the world for you, but not too others. Maintain perspective.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never stop writing – keep going even if you aren’t happy with that last paragraph or chapter. Never stare at a blank page.

What are you reading now?
It’s called ‘Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris’ by Sarah Maza, a fascinating family psychodrama. Highly recommended.

What’s next for you as a writer?
To publish two books per year instead of just one!

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Food for Free – Richard Mabey
The Bible
How to Survive Anything: Shark Attack, Quicksand, Embarassing Parents, Pop Quizzes, and Other Perilous Situations (National Geographic Kids): Shark … Pop Quizzes, and Other Perilous Situations – Rachel Buchholz

Author Websites and Profiles
Stockton Heath Website
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America King Yusef been 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
4 Books altogether Master Class ,Hip hop the last Religion 1 & 2 and Reincarnegro a black history book on black Gods And Royals

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Hip hop the last Religion 2 ebook only

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes I wrote music alot when I was younger

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Danielle Steel
Zane

What are you working on now?
My movie streaming service hiphopmultiplex.com & Gangster Streaming and new books on mental health .

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
All

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep it going thow it get get ruff keep your head up high about your work

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Tell them stop Lying some man told me about haters

Or U don’t always work harder u must work smarter

What are you reading now?
Articles ,Blogs

What’s next for you as a writer?
More books maybe a self help guide getting out Mental health medicine from organic substances

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Hip hop the last Religion 1 & 2
Danielle Steel any book

Author Websites and Profiles
America King Yusef been Website

Joanna Trelawny 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I live in Cheshire, England with my husband and two rehomed greyhounds.
I started writing children’s books in February 2021 as a lockdown project and have just published my 5th one.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Parrot Adventures: Pobble Goes To School.
My husband was given a parrot for his retirement and he completely took over our lives for 13 years. Writing stories about him reminds me of all the fun times we had together, along with some challenging moments!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I grew up on a diet of Beatrix Potter, C.S Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Sheila Burnford, Percy Fitzpatrick, Rider Haggard, and J Tolkien.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on book 6 with my illustrator and thinking about a new series based on the story of the fall and God’s plan of salvation.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m a complete novice and I’m currently learning how to use Amazon Ads.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
If I can do it, anyone can!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
90% of the work is starting!

What are you reading now?
Thinking: Fast and Slowly

What’s next for you as a writer?
To get out and start promoting my series at fares and book festivals.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Bible in a few different translations- KJV, Amplified, The Pasion translation;
Life of Fire by Reinhard Bonnke,
Spirit, Soul and Body by Andrew Wommack

Author Websites and Profiles
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Krista Ehlers 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve just published my first book for *sale*, but the first book I wrote and published was a life-sized fairy tale telling how my husband and I met: we wore it as a Halloween costume. He was the front cover, and I was the back. I’m in the middle of my second project, so I guess I’ve written about 1 3/4 books so far. My husband and I live in the rainy northwest with our two children, a teen and an almost-tween, both of whom wish to be treated as fully grown adults. We treat them as a teen and an almost-tween, much to their frequent and vocal dismay.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Daze of Isolation: Diary of a Stuck at Home Mom was inspired by the recent pandemic, when I kept an online journal of the lighter side of Covid-19. Our school district was the first in the nation to shut the schools down, and I began writing with “Day 1 of Isolation,” but pretty soon those days turned into a daze, a 384-day-long daze!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not at all. I’m sure everyone uses Google speech-to-text while on their morning walks, edits on their tablet while taking a bubble bath, and proofreads on a sunny patio at the local McDonald’s. And when late-night inspiration strikes, doesn’t everyone hunch over their laptops in bed, typing oh-so-quietly because their loving husband is asleep on the other side of the bed?

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Good mysteries are my favorite for stress relief and escapism, but I treasure the vulnerability and humor of authors such as Kristina Kuzmič, Jen Hatmaker, and Melissa Fay Greene. It’s so easy to feel like everyone “else” is living a Pinterest-perfect, Instagram-worthy life every day, but we need to hear that others struggle just like we do. If we can laugh a little in the process, so much the better.

What are you working on now?
Like most people, I was in the middle of something when the pandemic exploded on the scene: my first book, which will now be my second book, called Domestic Tradecraft. Domestic Tradecraft is based on the observation that children can be tiny terrorists, and in order to survive, we need to develop elite, espionage-like skills, i.e. hone our tradecraft. In the same way that Daze of Isolation is a tongue-in-cheek history of the pandemic, Domestic Tradecraft is a flippant instruction book for parents. I like to think of it as the “un-manual” for parenting.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’ve found that promoting my book requires the same level of persistence and creativity that it took to write the book: maybe more! I have a few go-to resources I keep coming back to, such as thebookdesigner.com and kindlepreneur.com. Then, sites like this one (awesomegang.com) are so valuable to get the word out about new books.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Krista Overly, www.kristaoverlycoaching.com, cautions against “micro-quitting” – those little choices we make to do something else instead of taking the steps we need to take today to reach our dreams. For example, I might avoid doing some market research and justify it to myself by doing a little more re-writing on my book or touching up the formatting. Sometimes, I used my other responsibilities to micro-quit on writing. I had to say to myself, “Yes, I have to make dinner for my kids, but I do not have to make the bread from scratch, and the broth from scratch, and grow the vegetables in my garden…” As if I could grow enough vegetables to feed a human anyway. And sometimes, I can order pizza.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The advice that keeps coming back to me when you ask that is something my mom always said about parenting: don’t make the consequences for kids’ bad behavior so bad that it punishes the parents. For example, if you get really angry and ground your child for a month, you are going to suffer as much or more than the child! I can’t tell you how often that has saved me from torturing myself and my kids!

What are you reading now?
I’m catching up on the latest from some of my favorite series (Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, now written by Ace Atkins; the latest Jack Reacher by Lee Child) alternating with real-life memoirs, such as Kristina Kuzmič’s Hold On, but Don’t Hold Still and The Mommy Shorts Guide to Remarkably Average Parenting, by Ilana Wiles.

What’s next for you as a writer?
The next thing on my to-do list is to find a rhythm in which I can make progress on my next book while still keeping the marketing momentum for my existing book. It’s a little bit like trying to adjust to parenting your second child: when you finally get one kid settled down, but you can’t take a breather, because the other kid is just ramping up.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I’d have to dedicate a couple of choices to practicality, such as The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, which I’ve always been meaning to read. Then the Bible, because I’m sure I’ll need some comfort. After that, probably anything by Parker or Child. For my final choice, I’d bring my Kindle, fully loaded with the 234 books on my “to-read” list right now. Because surely the last person who was stranded on that island will have come up with a solar-powered USB charger.

I mentioned this question to my husband, calling it a “deserted” island, which sounded to him like I said “dessert” island. I think he’s on to something. I’m putting in my request now to be stranded on Dessert Island, with donuts growing on trees and meadows full of plants that bloom cupcakes and muffins. I’m guessing there will be natural springs flowing with salted-caramel mochas and waterfalls of Diet Coke. When it snows on Dessert Island, delicate flakes of Pringles float down from the sky, because after all that sugar, everyone knows you’d need a salt fix.

Author Websites and Profiles
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Kaylie Night 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a part time science teacher in California, and as much as I love my day job, writing is my happy place. I have two books published (“The Lost Sister” and “The Twin Paradox”) and one available for preorder, but I’ve written several others that I’m looking forward to polishing and sharing in the coming months and years!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My most recent release was “The Twin Paradox,” the sequel to “The Lost Sister.” I’m a huge physics nerd, so the title is a nod to the theory of relativity, but the book really doesn’t have anything to do with that—it’s more about two twins with special powers that only work under certain circumstances.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
More than I can count. Most notably, I consider every month to be Nanowrimo (I write 50,000 words every month). Also, for some reason, I seldom write my sentences in order. I write whichever sentence of the scene pops into my mind first, sometimes working on multiple paragraphs at a time.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Some of my favorite writers are Orson Scott Card, Michael Crichton, and Isaac Asimov, but I think my current series is inspired more by Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle. To be honest, though, these days, I take as much inspiration from well-written TV serials as from books.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on the third book in my current series, which is titled “The Good Fight.” I’m also planning a few new series—stay tuned!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
The best advice I can give is that, if you have stories that are in you waiting to be told, they’re going to keep bothering you until you write them. BUT, if you like the idea of “being a writer” more than you actually like the act of writing, it’s going to be a long, hard road. It’s very typical for some to think they want to write a novel, and discover that what they really want is to have written a novel—and that’s a big difference.

What are you reading now?
I’ve been reading through Rick Riordan’s “Heroes of Olympus” series, as well as working my way through rec lists of online serials my friends send to me.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I guess I’m the boring person who would ask for survival books . . .

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