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Ashley Parker Owens 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a prolific writer and publisher. I ran a small press and published 20 anthologies and six chapbooks. I have written four novels, a collection of short stories, and five chapbooks. Publishing excites me as much as storytelling. It is exhilarating to assist others in achieving their dreams. I sent out a quarterly magazine that listed mail art opportunities for five years.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Recently I finished the Gnome Stories series that took over a decade to complete. I was a single mom working full time and didn’t write consistently. Creative writing gave me an outlet to escape to another world. While working in IT, I often had long sessions installing software or some other tedious activity, and my mind would spin with fantasies.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I work in software quality assurance, and my workday can be hectic or slow depending on a process flow out of my control. I take every opportunity to use my time in front of multiple laptops to create, write, and publish. I am also a prolific, award-winning artist.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have a wide range of interests and have always been a prolific reader. I prefer literary, fantasy, and ancient texts like Rumi and Sun Tzu.

What are you working on now?
My goal for next year is to explore genres other than fantasy. I am currently working on a techno-thriller, a magical realism story about lycanthropes, a science fiction novel, and a poetry book about my dad, who passed away last year.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m hesitant to opine about the best way to promote books because I don’t seem to do it well. Without hard data, I would not know where the clicks came from if I was successful. I have tried Twitter and Facebook campaigns, author profiles on Amazon and Goodreads, my website, book promotions (free giveaways and .99 deals), editorial reviews, and social media posts. I haven’t had a lot of luck encouraging readers to opt-in to an email list.
Awesome Gang, N. N. Light Book Heaven, and BGSauthors are useful author promotion websites. Getting book reviews is my marketing pet peeve.
My latest out-of-the-box idea is to cross-promote cryptocurrency, a novel, and a comic book.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do not edit during the writing process. Concentrate on getting words on the paper, so you have something to edit. I marinate ideas to let the concepts and symbolism percolate in the deep recesses of my brain.
I used to write out everything longhand but finally switched over to typing on a laptop, which has made the writing and editing process quicker. Computer programs like Grammarly, ProWritingAid, and SmartEdit Pro can help you make quick gains when editing.
Everyone should use beta readers, developmental, copy, and line editors. Hire a proofreader. I have found a lot of inexpensive help on Fiverr. I have belonged to writers groups in the past but found they are more trouble than worth.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Set up a work schedule and stick with it. I usually work 3-8 hours a day, including weekends. I spend quite a bit of time promoting, editing, and thinking. Creating ebooks and audiobooks is also time-consuming.
Write what you want, and don’t worry about whether people will like it.

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading technical spec manuals for audiobook production. The last fiction novels I read were N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became and Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have been exploring a cross-promotion idea between a techno-thriller novel and cryptocurrency. I didn’t know much about it but successfully set up my own coin and NFTs. I don’t know if my idea will pan out, but it was essential information to learn for my novel about a series of murders on a data-mining farm in the arctic.

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?
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Kraken, China Miéville
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
The Essential Rumi

Author Websites and Profiles
Ashley Parker Owens Website
Ashley Parker Owens Amazon Profile

Ashley Parker Owens 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a prolific writer and publisher. I ran a small press and published 20 anthologies and six chapbooks. I have written four novels, a collection of short stories, and five chapbooks. Publishing excites me as much as storytelling. It is exhilarating to assist others in achieving their dreams. I sent out a quarterly magazine that listed mail art opportunities for five years.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Recently I finished the Gnome Stories series that took over a decade to complete. I was a single mom working full time and didn’t write consistently. Creative writing gave me an outlet to escape to another world. While working in IT, I often had long sessions installing software or some other tedious activity, and my mind would spin with fantasies.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I work in software quality assurance, and my workday can be hectic or slow depending on a process flow out of my control. I take every opportunity to use my time in front of multiple laptops to create, write, and publish. I am also a prolific, award-winning artist.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have a wide range of interests and have always been a prolific reader. I prefer literary, fantasy, and ancient texts like Rumi and Sun Tzu.

What are you working on now?
My goal for next year is to explore genres other than fantasy. I am currently working on a techno-thriller, a magical realism story about lycanthropes, a science fiction novel, and a poetry book about my dad, who passed away last year.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m hesitant to opine about the best way to promote books because I don’t seem to do it well. Without hard data, I would not know where the clicks came from if I was successful. I have tried Twitter and Facebook campaigns, author profiles on Amazon and Goodreads, my website, book promotions (free giveaways and .99 deals), editorial reviews, and social media posts. I haven’t had a lot of luck encouraging readers to opt-in to an email list.
Awesome Gang, N. N. Light Book Heaven, and BGSauthors are useful author promotion websites. Getting book reviews is my marketing pet peeve.
My latest out-of-the-box idea is to cross-promote cryptocurrency, a novel, and a comic book.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do not edit during the writing process. Concentrate on getting words on the paper, so you have something to edit. I marinate ideas to let the concepts and symbolism percolate in the deep recesses of my brain.
I used to write out everything longhand but finally switched over to typing on a laptop, which has made the writing and editing process quicker. Computer programs like Grammarly, ProWritingAid, and SmartEdit Pro can help you make quick gains when editing.
Everyone should use beta readers, developmental, copy, and line editors. Hire a proofreader. I have found a lot of inexpensive help on Fiverr. I have belonged to writers groups in the past but found they are more trouble than worth.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Set up a work schedule and stick with it. I usually work 3-8 hours a day, including weekends. I spend quite a bit of time promoting, editing, and thinking. Creating ebooks and audiobooks is also time-consuming.
Write what you want, and don’t worry about whether people will like it.

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading technical spec manuals for audiobook production. The last fiction novels I read were N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became and Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have been exploring a cross-promotion idea between a techno-thriller novel and cryptocurrency. I didn’t know much about it but successfully set up my own coin and NFTs. I don’t know if my idea will pan out, but it was essential information to learn for my novel about a series of murders on a data-mining farm in the arctic.

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?
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Kraken, China Miéville
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
The Essential Rumi

Author Websites and Profiles
Ashley Parker Owens Website
Ashley Parker Owens Amazon Profile

Kate Phyre 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve lived a strange life with no sign of that changing any time soon. I taught myself to read at the age of three. One day while watching my mother read to me the strange black lines on the page suddenly snapped into focus and became words I could understand. It happened all at once and utterly shocked my mother when she discovered me reading to my stuffed animals later that day. She tested me with a book I’d never seen before and turns out I actually did teach myself to read. I was writing stories and poetry by the age of 7 and reading at a college level by age 13.
Then life took a much darker turn and I discovered more of the world than one should at that age but I’ll save the gory details for my memoir.
I like writing fiction because I can be utterly truthful.
I like writing science fiction because I’m fascinated with our potential as a species to create amazing almost impossible things and the license to wrestle with the larger sociological implications of our actions.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Faery Tales of the Future – my latest book, came about from my own fascination with traditional fairy tales combined with an abiding love of science fiction. Not the Disney kind of fairy tale, the darker Brothers Grimm type that carried a warning or a lesson or a contemplation of human nature and the supernatural. So many of our stories come from deeper darker roots. It got me wondering what stories would humanity take with us as we head for the stars. Would any knowledge of the home planet survive hundreds maybe thousands of years? What would those stories reflect about the people who dreamed so audaciously to inspire a small war-like species to reach for new worlds?
So I dedicated a series of short stories to exploring the subject. At the end of one glorious summer of writing I had about 16 – 20 stories.
I picked the ten best of the bunch and Faery Tales of the Future was born.
Lots of editing and revision followed resulting in the collection now available for your wonderful readers to enjoy.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Many of my ideas come from dreams. I studied conscious dreaming while attending the Academy and have practiced it for many years. Often I’ll start a story in my sleep. The words will come along with some visuals. When I wake I have to begin writing it or the dream will continue to haunt me all day. I’ve used this practice to solve plot issues and discover new aspects of my story as well. The subconscious mind is fertile ground for new ideas. At times I won’t really remember the dream but once I sit down to write I discover that the “problem” I was having with some subject or chapter has resolved itself with the dreaming. Even providing new areas to develop.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
So many, too many to count here. My early influences were the classics, English Lit masters like Dickens, Shakespeare and Tolkien. Later the American science fiction authors duked it out with Mark Twain, Longfellow and EE Cummings for space on my overflowing bookshelf. Eclectic is still how my tastes run. Although I love science fiction and write in that genre I read widely in non-fiction, philosophy, political, hard science, biology, astronomy and physics journals – you know, just for fun…

What are you working on now?
My next book is titled Destiny Wars – it’s a mind bending, time warping science fiction thriller exploring the connection between memory and identity while the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

The next book after that looks to be an epic fantasy set in a wholly original world not yet touched by humans.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Still figuring that part out. The ideas for prose and essays spill out of my brain but SEO, social media engagement and platform building are all word-salad to me.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Perhaps it’s been said before but keep writing! Let your first draft and even your fifth be dreck if it must. Judgement too early in the process is the dream killer. Let it be messy, unfocused and poorly punctuated. All those things can and will be fixed but only if you finish that first draft!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I ever heard for writers and really any artist is to write down every idea in a notebook or journal because you never know when that kernel of an idea will spring forth into Divine inspiration.

What are you reading now?
Ursula K. LeGuin’s Catwings – I never read it! (i’m *not* crying, you’re crying…

What’s next for you as a writer?
Figuring out the marketing part with the goal of making writing my full time occupation complete with a sustainable income – so nothing *too* big…

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?
4 books?!? That’s like telling a chocoholic they can only eat saltine crackers for the rest of their life!
I’d have to cheat and bring a Kindle (with a solar charger) loaded with thousands of books, 2 blank notebooks for journaling and a classic like the Iliad because if I’m stranded on a desert island then it’s obviously the beginning of an epic quest.

Author Websites and Profiles
Kate Phyre Website
Kate Phyre Amazon Profile

Kate Phyre’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Tammy Melo 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Tammy Melo is an New author from Ontario Canada. She loves to write children’s books and create fun stories. Graduating in Design, her background has an artful past. Her love of designing characters and telling fictional stories can be highlighted in her first children’s book ‘Peanut and Potato Save the Planet Project!’ The first in a series of adventures

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My First book is called ‘Peanut and Potato Save the Planet Project!’ The first in a series of adventures with Peanut and Potato.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes, I Brainstorm ideas in a notebook and then cross out and add until things sounds right and then I have the conversation of the characters with my daughter to try it out. We usually laugh and that’s how I know it will work.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Children’s book’s have influenced me the most. My daughter and I love the Scaredy Squirrel series

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on the second adventure where Peanut and Potato take on saving the Oceans

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I currently have my books published through Amazon and have promoted through their advertising

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes, Stick with it and don’t give up! Seeing your book come to life is the greatest feeling

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Dream big and accomplish your goals – My Mom

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading ‘Your guide on how to not get murdered in a quaint English village’
I am a sucker for mystery

What’s next for you as a writer?
Hopefully I will be able to complete a series of great and inspirational children’s’ books

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 Complete Sherlock Holmes. by Arthur Conan Doyle

Death on the Nile. by Agatha Christie

In Cold Blood. by Truman Capote.

Author Websites and Profiles
Tammy Melo Amazon Profile

Stefan Emunds 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I write inspirational non-fiction, visionary fiction, and run an online enlightenment workshop. Enlightenment and storytelling have interesting parallels, which invited me to write a book about storytelling – The Eight Crafts of Writing. I was born in Germany and, after graduating, enjoyed two years backpacking in Australia, New Zealand, and South-East Asia. Prior to my writing adventure, I pursued a career as a business development manager in Europe, Middle East, and Asia. . Semis-retired now, I live with my son in the Philippines.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is The Eight Crafts of Writing. Learning fiction writing felt like parachuting into an unknown mountain terrain. Every time I climbed a mountain (a writing craft or skill), I discovered another one to scale. Five years into my writing adventure, I still couldn’t see the end of it. I looked for a ‘map’ with an overview of the writing craft, but couldn’t find one. Most writing coaches specialize in two or three crafts. Also, they prefer to focus on either story structure (left brain) or story experience (right brain). So, I drew up the storytelling map myself.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I meditate on scenes. Creative writing (writing scenes) is a right-brain affair and story structure and editing/rewriting is a left-brain affair. Meditation syncs the brain’s two hemispheres, which allows writing in the stream of consciousness.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I like Robert McKee’s philosophical approach to storytelling.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on a medieval/historical/heroic fantasy novella called Everknight. Everknight is a story of uncompromising honor. If you lost your life in a bet and were given a year to live, would you go to your execution when the time comes? Would you go out of your way to get there? Would you be a knight?
We need to return to love (Marianne Williamson) and to honor. But not that cliche honor that is open to abuse. A new honor that we can only find within.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Influencer outreach: be a guest on podcasts and write guest posts.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Get an overview of the writing craft(s), before you parachute into the storytelling jungle.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Fiction writing is complex and we can find a lot of great advice in books and on the Internet. If I had to choose the most important advice, I’d say, “Write every day three to four hours.”

What are you reading now?
Wool by Hugh Howey

What’s next for you as a writer?
In the context of religion, Jesus was the great exception. In the context of enlightenment, Jesus was the great example. The latter is a story untold.

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 Book of Tokens and the “Book of Nature” (Tarot).

Author Websites and Profiles
Stefan Emunds Website
Stefan Emunds Amazon Profile

Stefan Emunds’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Hunter Carson 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written two books now (hopefully several more to come!)

I graduated from the University of Georgia with a double major in Finance and Management and my certificate of Entrepreneurship and married my soul mate, Anna.

Besides coaching, I own a real estate house flipping business in the Atlanta area where we have flipped dozens of homes and grown into a thriving local business out of nothing. I invest in rental properties, currently owning several Airbnbs, single-family houses, and even some commercial properties. This entrepreneurial and investment experience plays a big role in how I coach other young people who struggle in these areas of life.

I attend Buckhead Church, where I have led men’s groups and serve as a mentor for Renew. In my mentor position here, I’ve helped many young men grow deeper in their faith and navigate life’s hardships.

In my heart, I am a seeker of adventure, knowledge, and self-discovery in all areas of life. I am a builder of people, producer of passion, and catalyst for profound growth. My friends, colleagues, and clients describe me as optimistic, calm, inspiring, thoughtful, responsible, and a visionary. They know that I bring a gentle, humble confidence to the world through the people I know and work with.

In my free time, I like to read, enjoy the outdoors, hike, play sports, and watch college football.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Life Transformation Workbook: 40+ Exercises to Help You Create Your Life Vision, Discover Your Purpose, and Much More!

I wanted to create a workbook that was focused on getting results and taking action. Many nonfiction books generate great ideas but often fail with several action steps you can take. This workbook is a collection of the best exercises I have come across over the years to help you in several different life areas.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think so.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Robert Kiyosaki

What are you working on now?
Launching a series of workbooks more targeted on specific life areas and coaching clients to help them transform their lives!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Utilizing my personal network.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Stick with it. Done is better than perfect!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
What a question! It’s hard to pick one thing.

“This too shall pass”

The quality of your life depends on the quality of your emotions.

What are you reading now?
Letters of a stoic.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will create more workbooks in more specific categories.

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?
Letters of a stoic
Tribe of Mentors
As a man thinketh
The Bible

Author Websites and Profiles
Hunter Carson Website
Hunter Carson Amazon Profile

Dayane Dorlys 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Haitian self-taught fashion designer, born in Haiti living in England. I have written 7 children’s books and published my first one ”The Magic Mirror” in Mai 2021

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My last book is called “The Magic Mirror”
Separated from both my parents at a young age and not having any role model to teach me how to self-love, I suffered from depression and anxiety from my early childhood.
I never like to see my reflection in the mirror. Becoming a mother I now decide to teach my daughter to love herself. Publishing “The Magic Mirror” as my first book is also a way for me to make peace with the mirror I hated for so long.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to clean before I start to write.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I enjoy reading memoirs, I am fascinated by how some people turn their life around and overcome traumatic memories.

What are you working on now?
I am now working on my memoir

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use different types of social media like Instagram, YouTube, Facebook…

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do not overthink, give it a try stay true to yourself as I believe that we all have a different writing style, and all stories deserve to be read.
It was difficult for me to publish my book as English is not my first language but today there is all sorts of help to help us bring our stories to life.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I have been giving in moments of doubt is that there are many stories out there but my one is unique and still missing.

What’s next for you as a writer?
At the moment I am reading “Healing Letters” a memoir written by Aurea Reis

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 will take my book “The Magic Mirror” “Healing letters” by Aurea Reis and “Le dernier jour d’un condamné” by Victor Hugo

Author Websites and Profiles
Dayane Dorlys Website
Dayane Dorlys Amazon Profile

Dayane Dorlys’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile

Zana Wilder 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a paranormal romance author who lives with her husky in the rural wilds of Scotland, writing (and reading!) paranormal rom and fantasy novels with a pinch of naughtiness.

I love backbone to my romance – it can’t just be steamy, it has to have an amazing story-line too! You can rely on my books to deliver intrigue and plot twist, laced with a little bit of steam.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Luna Ascending is a paranormal fantasy romance – and the second book in the series, Luna Eclipse, will be out in February 2022!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to write curled up with my back against the radiator to stay cozy.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love both the paranormal and fantasy genres and I’m ALWAYS on the hunt for new authors to follow

What are you working on now?
I’m putting the final touches to Luna Eclipse, in The Wolves of Fenrir Watch Series

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
To promot my books I like to use social media – especially instagram

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just write – editing can tear your soul out later – get it down on paper or you won’t have anything to edit!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Be yourself!

What are you reading now?
The Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

What’s next for you as a writer?
The final book in The Wolves of Fenrir Watch is rattling around in my brain desperate to get out onto 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?
LOTR, Circe, and a couple of steamy PNRs

Author Websites and Profiles
Zana Wilder Website
Zana Wilder Amazon Profile

Zana Wilder’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Zana Wilder 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a paranormal romance author who lives with her husky in the rural wilds of Scotland, writing (and reading!) paranormal rom and fantasy novels with a pinch of naughtiness.

I love backbone to my romance – it can’t just be steamy, it has to have an amazing story-line too! You can rely on my books to deliver intrigue and plot twist, laced with a little bit of steam.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Luna Ascending is a paranormal fantasy romance – and the second book in the series, Luna Eclipse, will be out in February 2022!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to write curled up with my back against the radiator to stay cozy.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love both the paranormal and fantasy genres and I’m ALWAYS on the hunt for new authors to follow

What are you working on now?
I’m putting the final touches to Luna Eclipse, in The Wolves of Fenrir Watch Series

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
To promot my books I like to use social media – especially instagram

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just write – editing can tear your soul out later – get it down on paper or you won’t have anything to edit!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Be yourself!

What are you reading now?
The Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

What’s next for you as a writer?
The final book in The Wolves of Fenrir Watch is rattling around in my brain desperate to get out onto 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?
LOTR, Circe, and a couple of steamy PNRs

Author Websites and Profiles
Zana Wilder Website
Zana Wilder Amazon Profile

Zana Wilder’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Sanath Kumar 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Sanath Kumar Naibhi is a creative personality striving to live life to the fullest and inspire creatives through creating and sharing artworks in various forms – music videos, blogs, etc

The Flower of Fulfilment is the first book by him.

Sanath Kumar Naibhi is a Carnatic Classical musician, violin being his instrument of expertise. He has completed his Proffeciancy Level Music Exam ( Vidwat ) in distinction and has performed over 400 concerts mainly including accompanying a variety of skilled musicians, various solos, and duet violin with his master Vidwan Yashasvi Subbarao. He is now a violin master to a dozen of students, teaching both online and offline.
He creates a very unique style of music videos on his YouTube channel titled his name, blending his proficiency in Carnatic music with his passion and skill in video lighting, cinematography, and video editing. And his website – www.sanathkumarnaibhi.com is ideally the hub for all the forms of the creative outlet of all which he loves to express.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The idea of writing this book started as a random thought of me wanting to answer to myself the question “Where do you see yourself in another 5 years?”, which apparently is one of the most popular questions people ask. To be precise the idea originated on my sister’s birthday as a disguise of a thought “make a plan for my life”, which I named later “The Awareness Project” and even later, it transformed into the book you’re holding now. And I wish I could personally show you all those its-and-bits of writing that I’ve written in my journal that gives you an idea of the whole journey of this book. It’s very fascinating! Especially the beginning. [I’ve included a few images of those pages from my journal ]
By the way, I still think that question “Where do you see yourself in 5 years” is absurd, I still don’t like it. Instead of a destination, I set myself to figure out paths that are ideal for a life of fulfillment, a life of balance.

The awareness project was just writing down aspects of life, philosophies of life in the books that I’ve read and reflections that I gained through various kinds of experiences life threw at me and realizations I’ve been blessed with. Connecting the dots and trying to get a clearer picture of life, which I’ve been trying to do for a few years now.

Then I started writing and writing and writing all to realize this would have been so much helpful to my past self, to my younger self. My diary started filling, with knowledge, reflections, and wisdom. That’s when I decided I had to spread awareness and share the same in the form of this book. So this basically, is my perspective on life. And I’ve read a variety of self-help, personal development, psychology, and philosophy books which are great and filled with powerful wisdom that if you try to practice it, your life gets better. But one thing I found hard was to comprehend and practice all these books together. Like how scientists are trying to find and are working on a unified theory that can hold the equations of Newtonian physics as well as quantum mechanics, etc, I wanted to connect various Life philosophies, self-help, and concepts related to personal development, and form mental models of my own. And I think that’s what this book will be doing, to connect all the dots. To connect all the philosophies and best practices from all the books I loved and the practices I’ve received benefits from.
This book isn’t about one thing because it’s about life, and life isn’t about mastering one skill or about one thing, it’s about balance!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think this is unusual. When I wrote this book, I made it a habit that I wrote every day at the same time sitting in the same place most of the time.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Robin Sharma has influenced me the most. My Book is also styled similar to Robin Sharma’s Monk who sold his Ferrari. But of course, a lot of other books have influenced my writing. Some of them are: Mastery by Rober Greene
The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Brain Rules by John Medina
FLOW by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Breathe by James Nestor
Why We Sleep by Mathew Walker
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
The Almanac Of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

What are you working on now?
I’m just working on getting all the parts of publishing and marketing my book done well. Then I plan to write my second book which I still have no idea of!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still unsure, I’m just entering this field. I hope Awesome Gang does best in promoting my book. IDK.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Practice! That’s the only thing you can rely on! Write every day, collect your insights and reflections, read more books, and again, write more!

What are you reading now?
Linchpin by Seth Godin

What’s next for you as a writer?
I write a blog every week, so for now, I’ll just do that.

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 Bhagavadgeetha
The Upanishads

Author Websites and Profiles
Sanath Kumar Website