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Domagoj Pernar 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi. I am Domagoj. Born in Croatia, Zagreb. I have written 1 book so far. I was always curious about different aspects of this world. That’s why I explored my curiosity and packaged it into a book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Curious Matrix. Inspired by my curiosity.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
George Orwell, Michel Houellebecq, Yuval Noah Harari

What are you working on now?
Book Series : Curious Matrix

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My own site.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Start by commiting to 30 minutes of writing a day. Or even 15.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Commitment to writing.

What are you reading now?
Miles Davis autobiography.

What’s next for you as a writer?
1 book a year.

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?
Dostoevsky: Idiot
The Rational Male
Survival Island Guide Handbook 101

Author Websites and Profiles
Domagoj Pernar Website
Domagoj Pernar Amazon Profile

Domagoj Pernar’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Kate Harriet 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a romance book author and ghostwriter of more than twenty years, who enjoys writing sweet romance books series.

These novels are mostly set in a little Kentish village, featuring tight-knit communities, a playboy earl with a scandalous reputation and a hardworking heroine who not only brings the hero to his knees but must stand up for herself to seize the happy-ever-after she deserves.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
A Spring Romance with the Earl was inspired by reading a lot of Jane Austen and wanting to create a fun and modern regency story with the kind of wonderful chemistry that sparks between a brooding aristocrat and a rather flawed but inspiring heroine.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My writing habits are pretty much 9 to 5. However one habit I have is playing video games like Nintendo’s Animal Crossing before I write.

I wish I could justify this by saying it really helps with my creativity. But the truth is that if I don’t play Animal Crossing first, I forget to play it at all, then my favourite character Kiki (a cat) will get in a strop for not getting her that vegetarian shirt that she’s been asking for, pack up her things and take off.

However, fishing for virtual carp and watering my e-tulips does seem to clear my mind before writing, but your results and catch of the day may vary.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I enjoy light-hearted romance books that are a little bit escapist, emotional and funny at times, usually including a slightly arrogant alpha male with a clever female main character who can melt his heart.

I also love a hero and heroine who are wonderfully flawed yet balance out each other, so that there is at least some room for growth as they earn their happy ever after. These kind of stories tend to stay with me the longest and it’s probably why I’m just a wee bit obsessed with Jane Austen.

What are you working on now?
I’m starting to write A Summer Romance with the Earl, the latest in the An Earl for all Seasons series, which will feature beleaguered copywriter Jess Smith as she juggles her career with village commitments while being wooed by the notorious Lord Burness.

I’m hoping the book will be a great read for those who like a holiday summer romance, opening the door to a whole series of sweet and exciting romance books for readers to sink their teeth into.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Honestly, the best method I’ve found for promoting my books is through sites like awesomegang.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Try to read as much advice as possible from authors you wish to emulate, then create your own writers’ toolkit with what works for you.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
As above, pick the writing advice that works best for you. If it doesn’t don’t beat yourself up.

Writers like to add a lot of mystique to our jobs (see below paragraph), because writing about sitting on your bottom while you poke keys on a keyboard is about as fascinating as it sounds.

What are you reading now?
The Count of Monte Cristo, because I normally ban myself from reading romance fiction when I’m about to write a novel. I made that mistake once and was lured away from my own story by another author with a bag of sweet subplots. I ended up with a horrific romance chimera which I had to hunt down and take out with a blunderbuss.

Moral of the story: Someone else’s plot might be a perfect fit for their romance story, but might stick out like Zaphod Beeblebrox’s second head in yours.

What’s next for you as a writer?
To finish writing A Summer Romance with the Earl and to complete the An Earl for All Seasons series.

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?
Daniel Craig, Regé-Jean Page, Chris Ev-. Oh you asked what ‘books’ I would bring. *Sigh*

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas because I really skimped on reading during the Christmas holidays, thanks to watching such festive gems as the entire new Bond Series, Die Hard and Terry Pratchett’s the Abominable Snow Baby.

Grinny by Nicholas Fisk because it was my first real sci-fi book as a child and it cured me of a debilitating My Little Pony obsession. Also I find it utterly magical to revisit books that I found thrilling when I were a mere sproglet. I mean, you remember me…don’t you?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, because I have yet to read a regency romance that surpasses this yet, but if you know of one please message me via my website as I am very open to recommendations!

Also, there is only one Darcy.

Author Websites and Profiles
Kate Harriet Website
Kate Harriet Amazon Profile

Kate Harriet’s Social Media Links
Pinterest Account

Enne Baker 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Enne Baker, and I am a poet and now an author of my first poetry collection, The White Colossus.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The White Colossus is inspired by certain life experiences and introspections that lead to poetic translations about mental health, spirituality, religion, life, and death.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
With my hot coffee in hand, I take long walks in the park and streets, listening to music while writing in my notepad on my phone. Studies show that doing some exercise does wonders for creativity in the brain, the temporal lobe, hippocampus. So I recommend it, but be mindful when crossing the street!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
There is a slew of poets that influenced me. I read Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti, and more.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on a novel right now and may do an audiobook for The White Colossus in the future. I want to have enough distance from the book, revisit it one day with new eyes, and have intense reminiscence when reading it aloud. I also have my poetry publication called White Objects, which you can find on the Medium platform, and I am taking in poets and poems that surround objects with poetic language.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I only use Medium, and it’s funny; I published a “goodbye” article today because I wanted to focus on my novel and personal businesses. However, I also stated that I’ll still support my favorite poets and continue to run White Objects.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
For newly published authors (like myself), I’m not in a place to give any advice yet because I’m also still figuring it out. However, before one calls themselves an author, I think it’s best to read first. Hold off writing for a while and just read books until you find books that feels like it speaks to you, and then try to emulate that into your writing.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I think to have fun with your writing. So often, as writers, we tend to forget that and treat it as work, especially for literary writers.

What are you reading now?
I’m currently reading Mary Oliver’s Devotions for the first time, and I love it! And I know I’m so late.

What’s next for you as a writer?
For now, I’m only working on my 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?
Oh goodness, what a question! Okay. I will say The Bell Jar, The Catcher in the Rye, The Midnight Library, and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Watch when I submit this, and I’ll be changing my mind!

Author Websites and Profiles
Enne Baker Website
Enne Baker Amazon Profile

Enne Baker’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile

Josh Boucher 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I earned the Eagle Scout award in the Boy Scouts of America in 2015. In 2017, I graduated from Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum, Utah. About a year later, I began my studies majoring in psychology at Utah Valley University and took 2019-2020 off for a service mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. My first book, The Scar Came from Destiny znfp-I, was published last fall and based on a tabletop game I played with friends during my first few months of college. Since then I published one more book, a short story spinoff titled My Fanged Screams, and I am currently writing The Scar Came from Destiny znfp-II.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My current latest book is My Fanged Screams (short story technically), a short story spinoff of my main work The Scar Came from Destiny znfp-I and an origin story for a really interesting side character, an undead unicorn named Shadow Moon. Originally, she was a non-player character in the tabletop game SCD was based on and was designed my my game master. Her character had just enough interesting quirks in the game, that as I worked to deepen and develop it for purposes of a long-form novella I quickly became entranced! In fact, Shadow Moon was so fascinating to me that I found myself unsatisfied after writing SCD and that I had ideas for a more Shadow Moon centered story that couldn’t be told in SCD’s format. Can you believe this all happened during October?!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I really think the secret to writing a good story is what I call the conundrum of pain. New writers tend to think that killing someone is the most painful thing you can do to them. While they might be ultimately right (real dead people aren’t around to tell us), killing a character doesn’t allow them to continue to exist in a way that empowers them to complain to readers about how terrible the author is. That’s the whole point of causing your characters pain: letting them complain to the readers until they know what an absolute dumpster fire the book is. That’s a good story. So the issue of writing a good story becomes an issue of ‘how do I destroy this fictional person’s life as efficiently as possible, while leaving them alive just enough to whine about it?’

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The short answer is, I get influenced by a LOT of things. In fact, I’ve kept a log of every creative work I drew inspiration from for my work and I’ve so far been inspired by fifty-some odd things across seven different media. For example, the very basis of SCD came from that tabletop game, which I think was a fan-made extension of Pathfinder (although most of the ideas involved were our own). Shadow Moon specifically drew inspiration from figures in a couple different media which I found to just radiate that eerily calm resentment that I think we all love about villains, like Salem from Rooster Teeth’s RWBY or the unbelievably famous Thanos from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). I’ve also taken inspiration from my home medium of books (predominantly Brandon Mull and his work with his Fablehaven and Dragonwatch series) and even big-name YouTube gamers like Dream and Technoblade.

What are you working on now?
Currently I’m writing the second in my two-parter, The Scar Came from Destiny znfp-II. My goal is to finish the writing portion by the end of January, and I’m actually on schedule to finish that a week early! I’ll have the next three-ish months to draw (yes, I do almost all of the art myself, you’re welcome) and I’ll hit the big shiny publish button in about May.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Honestly, I don’t think I can really say. I haven’t been around long enough. I have tried a wide variety of things, between paying off advertisers on Instagram, doing my own promotion on Instagram, advertising through Amazon directly, and even calling in to have flyers put up in 40 libraries across three states in the US. So far, I’ve lost a lot of money doing Amazon advertising and paying off other Instagrammers, and neither those or the flyers have gotten me any sales. It’s pretty much only my own Instagram stuff that gets me the sales, so I’ve been focusing on that.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My favorite quote in the MCU, as said by Shuri in 2018’s Black Panther, was “just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved”. People fall short of the great by settling for the good, but the opposite is equally true. People fall short of the great because they’re shooting for perfection, and the truth is that isn’t real. The greats are great because they started in the first place. Anything can be improved upon, but first thing’s first you just need something to start with! My most straightforward experience with that is chapter four of SCD. I narrated the chapter from the perspective of my fourth main character, a zebra named Zilharé. I didn’t know much about this character going into the project because I didn’t play her. How much did her player know? Even less! She was famous for designing tabletop characters without backstory or roleplaying and just being there for the fun of it. I’m not trying to say anything about that, because that suits her style of play and I love it for that, but it didn’t give me much of any significantly developed character. I ended up slapping traits like gen Z slang to her character (an exaggeration of the zany and comical energy the original had), and although it had a bit of tweaking to do, it was just that: tweaking. Zilharé had made progress developing as a character and I wouldn’t have gotten close to those results had I continued to do nothing.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I think it’s just that, to be honest. I don’t have that much more to say.

What are you reading now?
As far as reading, I’ve set my sights on nonfiction for the time being. I really like reading motivational or self-improvement stuff like The High Five Habit by Mel Robbins or The Book of Afformations by Noah St. John.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I think it’d be fun to write some of it myself, I certainly have some potential for compiling my writing advice into a book of its own, but I’m probably sticking to the fantasy world of Wildlight for now. I have a particularly fun mega-project planned for this summer once I have The Scar Came from Destiny znfp-II published, but that’s under wraps. You can give me a follow at @joshboswchey on Instagram if you want updates on 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?
Eeeaasy. Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary, and assuming I had Kendra’s knapsack, the rest of the Fablehaven series and the Dragonwatch series for good measure.

Author Websites and Profiles
Josh Boucher Amazon Profile

 

Michael Solomowitz 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Michael Solomowitz hails from Coney Island, Brooklyn, and has cherished his roller-coaster ride as a writer. He began writing scripts for Manhattan Cable-TV and wrote for Warner Bros. in Hollywood. As a freelance sports journalist, he has published dozens of articles in national and trade publications and contributed to two non-fiction sports books. As a playwright and director, his plays have appeared on stages from Los Angeles to Long Island to Boston. BEHIND THE FOURTH WALL is his debut novel.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Behind The Fourth Wall is my new book. It was inspired by my love for live theater and my new home on Cape Cod.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not particularly unless you consider starting my writing day early, around 5:30 a.m. Earlier if I couldn’t sleep that night.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
For classics — Hemingway, Mitchell, Steinbeck, Salinger, and Malamud. More recently, Donna Tartt, Dan Brown, and Michael Crichton.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on a new novel that centers on post-war Coney Island, Brooklyn, where I grew up.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Facebook seems to have my biggest supporters but, as I said, I’m new to this so it could change.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing. The first novel I wrote took six years and I couldn’t get an agent interested in it. Failing is part of the process. Don’t give up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Lewis Carroll — “In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”

What are you reading now?
Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ve written the first draft of a new play that needs some work once I can get back to it.

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?
Gone With The Wind, The Old Man and the Sea, Angels and Demons, The Goldfinch

Author Websites and Profiles
Michael Solomowitz Website
Michael Solomowitz Amazon Profile

Michael Solomowitz’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
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Brandon van Hees 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am 45 and live in Buffalo, MN with my wife Jodi. I am the shipping lead for Stein Industries that supplies produce displays for numerous grocery chains around the country and Canada. I have an 18 year old daughter. I’ve been a drummer for 30 years or so playing in various rock and punk bands over the years.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Madness Reigns” is my first book. I never thought in a million years I would ever write a book but I was inspired by my daughter who loves writing. I started reading more books over the past couple of years and the idea of writing my own was always in the back of my head. My daughter showed me a bunch of her stories and it got me brain storming ideas for something to write. And Madness Reigns was what came into my head.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I dont think so, but doesn’t every writer have some kind of quirk?

What authors, or books have influenced you?
James Patterson for one, I read “The President is missing” and it showed me that chapters dont need to be a certain length, if a chapter is one page thats fine as long as you got your point across in it. So writing my book I wasn’t concerned about chapter length. I’ve read books by Vince Flynn, Marc Cameron, Brian Haig and Brad Metzler. All great authors that I think I’ve taken a little from each, but I’m still learning as I go.

What are you working on now?
I’m in the beginning stages of my next fiction novel, I don’t have a title for it yet and I can’t really give a description of it without giving away the ending. I’m working on that as well LOL

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Madness Reigns is currently available on Amazon

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Have patience!!!! Before I starting writing I got into painting and I learned with that you need patience with that, extreme patience! The same is true with writing, you cannot rush it, and you need to love the process. Go on YouTube and search other writers and listen to their advice and tips, Steven King was amazing to listen to, and most of what he says applies to every writer from beginner to experienced.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Love the process. Steven King. I’ve watched several videos from him, James Patterson, and others and they’ve all said the same thing. You have to love the process of writing and it will help guide you through it.

What are you reading now?
“Last Second in Dallas” by Josiah Thompson about the JFK assassination. It’s something I’ve been studying since I was in junior high.

What’s next for you as a writer?
to continue reading and working on my second book. The good thing is I don’t have a deadline, I can work on it when I have the time. I hope I can finish it and get it on Amazon by the end of the year but we’ll see what time allows.

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 Inner Circle” by Brad Metzler is good!
“The President’s Assassin” Brian Haig
Anything by Vince Flynn

it’s hard to say there are so many I’ve read over the past couple years

Author Websites and Profiles
Brandon van Hees Amazon Profile

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Facebook Profile

Dee Dauphinee 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I seem to be building a following with readers interested in the out-of-doors, history, travel, human interest, fly fishing, and the construction of essays.
I have been a photographer, a farmer, a fishing & mountaineering guide, and a semi-pro wide receiver.

Back in the early days of the adventure travel industry, I was a guide in places like El Salvador, Peru, the Arctic, Honduras, Europe, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Ecuador, Jordan, the UK, Panama, and many places in between. Now I write about those places.

I’ve had four other books published; “Stoneflies & Turtleheads,” a collection of fly fishing essays from Maine and around the world, “The River Home,” a novel, and “Highlanders Without Kilts,” a “poignant telling of a storied Canadian battalion’s odyssey during the Great War.” –Alan Cameron, Founding CEO & Producer, Veterans Voices of Canada. “When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian trail,” was released by Rowman & Littlefield on June 1st, 2019.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My newest book, “All the Creatures that Breathe: A Novel Based on Real Events” was a story that had been sticking with me for thirty-five years. At a dinner for writers at Maine’s capital a year ago, another writer whom ALL of you know suggested I write it and “get the think off my chest.” So, I did.

As I mentioned, it is based on real events. They were things that I either I or my expedition buddies witnessed or experienced. The love, trauma, and memories from those heady days inspired the book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes. I type with only three fingers.

Also, I only take handwritten notes on (at home) “Ampad Gold Fibre” tablets, or (in the field) “Rite-in-the-Rain Universal No. OR73-LG” notebooks.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Steinbeck, Dostoyevsky, Quammen, and E. B. White.
Interestingly, I got to meet and have a chat with EB White the year before he died, which is quite rare because he was notoriously shy. But I knew someone who knew him well. We sat in his kitchen and talked about writing. He asked me to call him “Andy.”
A cherished memory.

What are you working on now?
I am half finished with a Middle-grade novel (inspired by White, incidentally) about a boy–an only child–growing up on a farm whose father had died in a tractor accident when he was only six. Some people come into his life who guide him through the rights of manhood, teaching him about compassion, acceptance, self reliance, and give him confidence. Oh…and he is taught to fly fish.
The theme of the story is the value of mentorship and legacy.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use three promo sites– the first being Awesome gang.
I also to Facebook ads (though I haven’t seen that help very much), my email newsletter, and website blog page… https://www.ddauphinee.com/blog

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes. If you’re serious about a writing career, don’t play games. Allow for a certain amount of time to read, and then read, read, read. Read Dickens. Read Steinbeck and White. In my twenties, I taught myself to write by studying EB White’s and James Thurber’s essays in the New Yorker. I bought second-hand copies of “The Essays of EB White,” and his collection “One Man’s Meat.”

Then, write SOMETHING every day…every single day.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I’ll quote Mr. White’s advice while sitting next to a woodstove in Brooklyn, Maine in 1984: “Learn the tools of grammar and rhetoric first, then write stories ‘by ear’ as if you are sitting at a campfire telling them to your mates.”

What are you reading now?
Guess! I’m re-reading One Man’s Meat.
I’m also half-way through Isaacson’s “Benjamin Franklin.”

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ve finished the preliminary work on a history of orthopaedics, from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs to present day. I also hope to retrace to trip Steinbeck took in “Travels With Charley: In Search of America.”

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, the Quran, and the Torah. Might as well cover my bases in case I don’t get rescued.

I’ll change that to The Grapes of Wrath, Dicken’s Collected Works, and (also in case no one rescues me) Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

Author Websites and Profiles
Dee Dauphinee Website
Dee Dauphinee Amazon Profile
Dee Dauphinee Author Profile on Smashwords

Dee Dauphinee’s Social Media Links
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Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Therese-Åsa Karl Namo 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a non-binary, autistic writer and storyteller. Together with my partner, I write queer fiction for the LGBTQA and neuro-divergent family and allies.

We have a special way of working, where we’ll first record the story as it comes to us (sometimes over several months), then write it down into fiction format. By now, we have 18 (eighteen) finished stories recorded and we’re working on publishing our first novel. We have published two short stories already.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Our latest book is a short story, a queer fantasy for all ages. I believe it came to us to cheer us up because it’s a really funny little story with a lot of heart. It always gets me into a better mood listening to it or reading it.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
It would be the process of writing the stories, from beginning to end. They always come to me and my partner first as something that wants to be told. So we sit down and record them, telling them to each other. This process can be really quick, or it can be spread out over several months and with breaks in between the “chapters”. Then comes the process of writing it, and filling in the gaps that make it more coherent in written format.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Priscilla Cogan’s Wiona series. It’s so full of heart and I feel so good reading them (I’ve read them several times). Those books taught me what an impact an author can have just from the way they write.

What are you working on now?
Our first novel, a queer sci-fi story about Bianca, a lost space traveler who encounters a forgotten ship. Once in, she meets Alicia and together they start to form a bond that goes beyond what they thought was possible.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Still working on that one, there are so many ways and I guess it’s about finding the way that works best for you.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do it. It can be scary to write and publish your books, but if you have something to say it’s worth the whole journey.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“The mind cannot understand everything.” That there are things beyond what the intellect can grasp and those are the things worth striving for in life.

What are you reading now?
Priscilla Cogan, Double Time. The only book left of hers that I haven’t read yet

What’s next for you as a writer?
Start spreading our short stories and finish writing our first novel. That’s the next exciting step in our author journey and one that I’m looking forward to very much.

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 the ones I keep coming back to, which are Pricilla Cogan’s Wiona series and Sarah Luddington’s all books (gay romance in different genres). They are all so lovely and I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve re-read them.

Author Websites and Profiles
Therese-Åsa Karl Namo Website
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Goodreads Profile
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Tony Brassington 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written around tweny books, and I have many more planned.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
There are some things YOU need to known… That is the first title in my new YOU Series, I was inspired to write this book series because I know that there are a great number of important things we were never taught eariler on in life. This series tries to correct that.
Second book in this series will be out soon.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Don’t think so?

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Tom Butler-Bowdon’s 50 classic series… check it out http://www.butler-bowdon.com/

What are you working on now?
My YOU series, more title out soon.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
For me, it is too early to tell yet.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write, and then write some more.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
David Gaughran… everthing he says.

What are you reading now?
The midnight library.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Keep writing more books, both fiction and nonfiction, and sell more 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?
In that suituation, I would have to chose 3 or 4 good survival books.

Author Websites and Profiles
Tony Brassington Website
Tony Brassington Amazon Profile
Tony Brassington Author Profile on Smashwords

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adam s barnett 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve always wanted to try different things creatively. I’ve recorded music, written books, and even taught myself how to edit videos. I’ve always loved indie creators. I have currently written two books:

The Judas Goat, and
What Happened and Why It Wasn’t My Fault

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
What Happened and Why It Wasn’t my fault was inspired when states started changing marijuana laws. I got to thinking about how awkward it would be to have a lot of money into something you bought illegally that suddenly became legal and, ergo, worth a lot less than you paid for it.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I know all the rules for effective writing. I follow none of them.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love autobiographies and memoirs.

What are you working on now?
I am working on a piece of historical fiction that takes a completely new approach. I strive to be the Frank Zappa of literature.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Beats me. I am fifty shades of terrible when it comes to self-promotion.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you aren’t enjoying it, don’t do it.
If you’re writing for the sole purpose of making money, stop now.
Relax and have fun with it. Writing is like cooking: If you “cook with love,” it shows.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I learned most of my lessons the hard way in the world of music publishing. There’s not a lot of difference. At the end of the day, if someone “established” wants to work with you, make sure you understand exactly what you’re getting and what you’re giving up in the relationship. The same advice works for dating, by the way.

What are you reading now?
Graphic novels. I love ’em.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I think I’ve got one or two books left in me. After that, I’ll wait for Mark Wahlberg to call and let me know he wants to play Kyle a movie based on “The Judas Goat.”

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?
E-Mails from an A**Hole
Shut Up and Give Me the Mic by Dee Snider
You Can’t Win by Jack Black

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