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Slavica Joković 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written eight books, including four ebooks, within my specific genre (Economics, Business, Finance, Investing).

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is titled:”COMPETITION AND INTEGRITY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT”. The book is inspired by my specialization in the area of public procurement.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Nothing unusual.
I like to write in the morning.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have read a lot since my childhood. Later, for professional reasons, I read many books on Economics.

What are you working on now?
I am going to publish a printed edition of my latest ebook in French.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use AWESOME GANG as well as Instagram (www.instagram.com/slavica_books).

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Develop your writing skills and habits.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Have a plan, know your genre, find your audience, keep reading and never stop learning.

What are you reading now?
“Digital Fortress” by Dan Brown

What’s next for you as a writer?
Book:”COMPETITION AND INTEGRITY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT” – Part two

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 would bring something practical and helpful, including guides and useful tips.

 

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J. Daniel Reed 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I enjoyed a very satisfying commercial real estate career until the pandemic placed a big speed bump on the road of my life. So suddenly out of work, I took the opportunity to chart a new course, to get off the hamster wheel, leave the world of responsibility and stress, and pursue a dream. For this last year, it has never felt like work.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The First Wolf Pack: A Dog’s Fable, my first book, was inspired by several disparate factors; Love of dogs and wolves, fascination with ancient foundational myths, the grandeur of God’s creation, and contemplating the purpose of fireflies in the grand scheme of creation. Somehow these things coalesced into a story about overcoming ignorance, narcissism, suspicion, and self-pity.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to work early in the morning. I write for hours on end when it starts to flow. I don’t force myself to write when I am upset or agitated by things outside of my writing. Some evenings, especially while we are cooking dinner together, I love to tell Barbara (my wife and publisher) the progress of the characters, and the ways the plot and subplots are heading. Verbalizing this way allows me to hear things outside of my head, and my wife is very helpful with questions, comments, and suggestions.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Dean Koontz, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage

What are you working on now?
A gritty story about xenophobia, bigotry, charity, and compassion set in 1920s and 1930s Chicago.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
As a newbie I am still learning. Right now, I use Facebook, Reedsy, Goodreads, LinkedIn, and am exploring others. My book is only available on Amazon at this time.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Consider Keats Theory of Negative Capability. It gave me the freedom to not feel compelled to outline my stories, but instead, to tap into something creative that is within me but also something creative that is outside of me. I let the story tell itself, not trying to provide answers to every question that pops up during the drafting.
If your characters wish to advance themselves, but you don’t know exactly where they might be going, trust them enough to follow them. They will tell you their story if you let them.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
With respect to writing: I recently watched a long-form interview of Dean Koontz from 2012 that made me believe I could write novels and that I should. Koontz emphasizes that all work should have a moral purpose—there is an urgent need in our world for stories containing the hope to counteract the negative views that dominate our culture.
Without quoting Keats, he did address something like Negative Capability when saying “Get in touch with something bigger than yourself, and let it speak to you.” And further described how his first best seller was born—he developed characters and then figured out how they became intertwined, at times following them.
And he quotes T.S. Eliot: “the one thing that never changes, the eternal battle of good and evil.”

What are you reading now?
While actively writing fiction, I may read some non-fiction BUT I do not read the fiction of others. I am concerned that reading other works will potentially derail the uniqueness of my novel as it is in progress, and to potentially interfere with my creativity. While writing The First Wolf Pack, I read Ralph Martin’s A Church in Crisis. A long time ago my employer at that time gave personality surveys to people in leadership positions. I had a strong need to figure things out for myself, preferring to not follow instructions or to comfortably follow others. I needed to take things apart and rebuild them to know exactly how it worked, so to speak…then to rebuild it my way.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I want to finish my second novel during the summer of 2022. It is hard for me to look much further ahead than that. But, I do have two story ideas bouncing around in my head that might launch a third novel.

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, something from ancient Greece, perhaps Homer’s the Illiad and Odyssey, something from the height of English literature, perhaps Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and lastly, something by Steinbeck or Hemingway.

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P G Dixon 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my first completed novel, although I am working on a sequel at the moment. I also have a rough draft of a third novel in the series, which started off as something else entirely, but I realised that it could be adapted perfectly as a third instalment.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The book is called Normanby and it just sort of grew. I started writing the novel during down-time and lunch breaks at work, just a few sentences here and there without any real idea of where it was going. After a while, I started to get to know the characters, and so I went back to the beginning, and worked out a plot. It meant that a lot had to be rewritten, once I had finally decided what was going to happen.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
When I started out with Normanby, I simply wrote by hand in a notebook and typed it up later. I generally still write that way, but I have experimented with dictation, especially for dialogue. Every now and then, I might get caught talking to myself, doing what is, in effect a little radio play into my voice recorder. It can be embarrassing, I suppose, but it’s much easier to get natural dialogue that way.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
There are countless great authors that have influenced me, many of them writers in totally different genres to mine. I suppose the writer that influenced the overall style of Normanby (even though he wrote a somewhat different type of spy/adventure story), is Peter O’Donnell, the author of the Modesty Blaise series.

What are you working on now?
Well, as I said earlier, I’m currently working on a sequel to Normanby, entitled Armageddon Games. There will be new adversaries and allies, and also some returning characters.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Well, I’m quite new to all this sort of thing. Of course Brindle Books, although it’s a new project, and PR Log, which is a free press release website. Of course, I have very high hopes for Awesome Gang as a way to put the word out.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I think the most important thing is to make sure you enjoy what you’re doing. Probably the other best bit of advice that I’ve heard myself is: “Don’t get it right, get it written.” When getting your first draft on paper, switch off your internal critic and just get it down on paper. Don’t even start thinking critically about your work until you have a first draft. I know so many people who spend so much time tinkering as they’re writing that they will probably never get that first novel written.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Don’t get it right, get it written,” and “never drink and drive.”

What are you reading now?
When I get a spare moment, I’m currently reading The New Spymasters by Stephen Grey, published by Penguin Books in the UK. It’s a non-fiction work about the development of Intelligence techniques and methods in a world of ever changing threats. It’s absolutely fascinating.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Well, in the near future, the sequels to Normanby will undoubtedly keep me busy, but I do have some ideas on the back burner for other projects. I’ll let them germinate slowly before I tell anyone about them, though, as these things often change, develop and grow before they get put down on paper.

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?
Being a pragmatist, my first choice would be No Need To Die by the late Eddie McGee. He was one of the UK’s foremost survival experts. I attended his Outdoor Survival course many years ago and still have the copy that he signed for me. I would probably want a copy of one of the Modesty Blaise novels by Peter O’Donnell. Lastly, I think I would have to take a copy of The Once And Future King, by T.H.White.

 

Judy L Murray 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Originally a newspaper reporter then columnist, this is my debut mystery introducing the Chesapeake Bay Mystery Series. In just ten weeks, I’ve garnered over 70 Five Star Reviews! It is published by mystery/thriller well-respected publisher Level Best Books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Murder in the Master – Inspired by years of experience as a real estate broker and a sailor on the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. I wanted to bring readers into the world of real estate with a realistic picture. Introduce a really smart woman who, like Jane Marple, decides evil needs to be challenged.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Writing on a boat?

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The phenomenal Dick Francis, M.C. Beaton, Agatha Christie, Robert B. Parker, Jane Austen, and others.

What are you working on now?
The second book in this series – Killer in the Kitchen. “A famous chef is poisoned, a Chesapeake Village is swamped by rumors, a real estate agent is pursued.”

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Facebook
Networking at writer/fan conferences
Author signings

Do you have any advice for new authors?
One, don’t give up! Two, be open to feedback. Three, revise, revise, revise. Four, network!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Stephen King said that to write you have to put your butt in the chair!

What are you reading now?
Lori Duffy Foster’s The Dead Man’s Eyes
Lori Robbins Murder in First Position

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finish this second book for Level Best Books Publishers. Embark on adding hort stories to my list of published materials.

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?
Longshot by Dick Francis
Break In by Dick Francis
Winter Solstice by Maeve Binchy
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Author Websites and Profiles
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S C Hamill 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
5 novels and 12 books for children.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Saving Eden 2. Inspired by ecology and the state of our precious earth.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Writing through the night.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Too many to mention.

What are you working on now?
An audiobook.

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep at it!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never expect anything and you will never be disappointed.

What are you reading now?
Tolkien

What’s next for you as a writer?
Completing the next part of the Saving Eden trilogy.

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?
Bible. Little People by Tom Holt. One of my own books to be proud.

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David Rich 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
David Rich was an assistant AG and law professor, retiring in his 40s to become a full-time traveler, living in almost every country on the planet while writing dozens of travel stories. Myths of the Tribe, when religion and ethics diverge (Prometheus Books 1993) examined the influence of organized religion on ethics, 2nd ed. Published in 2019. RV the World, 2nd ed., 2018, combines his seventeen-year tour of 170 countries with lots of practical advice. In 2019 David wrote The ISIS Affair, a satire on religion and nationalism in Syria and Scribes of the Tribe. our greatest thinkers on religion and ethics. He published Antelopes, a modern-day Gulliver’s Travels, in Nov. 2020 and Sail the World?, the prequel to RV the World in October 2021.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Sail the World?, prequel to RV the World, was published last month, inspired by the author’s attempt to sail around the world: Have you wondered how it’d be like to dump the rat race to sail around the world?
Here’s how that worked out for the author, a gripping, constantly on-the-edge-of-disaster sailing adventure punctuated by the unique and wacky characters from the worldwide cruising community, all with the same wild and crazy dream.
“My 35-foot Erickson sloop Grendel was sinking in the Pacific Ocean. I’d bragged about sailing around the world, but two hours after I began, it was a disaster. I was slip-sliding around Grendel, searching for leaks, enveloped in an eerie blanket of fog with zero visibility, surrounded by invisible hazards. Glub, glub.”

So, it didn’t go exactly as planned, a reality like nothing you could envision, a comedy of errors on land and at sea. An absurdly true story and prequel to RV the World.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Everything from Beowulf to John Gardner’s Grendel and especially Hawking and Feynman.

What are you working on now?
Marketing my six books. I have two more books I may write, about RVing South America for two years, and about RVing OZ and NZ for two years.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Struggling with marketing. Just now getting started.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Writing is rewriting.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Get an editor.

What are you reading now?
Stacy Abrams, title something like “When Justice Sleeps”, not exact.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Marketing my six books. I have two more books I may write, about RVing South America for two years, and about RVing OZ and NZ for two years.

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?
Unabridged encyclopedia in four volumes

Author Websites and Profiles
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Arch Delaro 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an upmarket author from Montreal. I write what I would read. In other words, I’m looking for depth, close to what you would find in literary, but without leaving aside the vibrance you would find in a commercial novel. I was first published in a flash fiction collection book. I’m also an abstract painter, a musician and a product designer.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my last book is Thresholds: Entangled. What inspired me to write it was the existential crisis I went through. Some refer to that as the mid-life crisis. I refer to that as the lamentation of the soul trying to reach out to the distracted consciousness. I got out of depression and neurotic anxiety by myself and I wanted to offer the world a magnifying glass into my learnings, hopefully to inspire those who suffer psychologically, which is a scourge.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Every morning, I do some exercises in the form of reflexions, sketches and maxims. Otherwise, I mostly spend my Saturday morning writing novels.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Dostoevsky truly inspired me with Notes From the Underground. I wanted to bring more introspection into my characters like the protagonist in his story. Carl Jung truly fascinates me as well. His understanding of the soul and the unconscious is key to my work. He wrote The Red Book, which is a piece that resonates a lot with my first novel. The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton is a book that will obsess me forever. It is a huge influence in my first novel as well. Terrence Malick, the film director, also has a warm place in my heart. I just love how he injects philosophy in his movies. The Tree of Life is my favourite piece among all his work.

What are you working on now?
Right now I am doing the best I can to make Thresholds: Entangled change as many reader’s heart as possible

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
To be honest, I suck at marketing. I Tweet poorly, same goes for Instagram. It’s just not my cup of tea. But I believe Awesome Gang could be what I am looking for: reach out to reader’s heart.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just do it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Just do it.

What are you reading now?
The Red Book by Carl G. Jung, Ancient Greek Philosophers and Berzerk.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I want to finish a short story which goes deeply into my personal life. It’s an auto-fiction currently called Mother Teresa, That Whore.

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 Universal One by Walter Russell, the Red Book by Carl G. Jung, A Theory of Natural Philosophy by Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich and The Enneads.

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