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Adriana TENORA 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Adriana TENORA is the pen name of an author who is dedicating her life to personal development. As a lifelong learner, she constantly reinvents herself through self-discovery work. She can usually be found reading or listening to anything related to mastering the best version of yourself; personal development, wellness, nutrition, health, success and fulfillment. Over the years, she made intermittent fasting a lifestyle, taught herself three foreign languages, lived in different countries, ran businesses and also had different careers in various industries. And she continues to discover new ways to push and improve herself.

Adriana is a non-fiction author, engineer, and entrepreneur. As a trained engineer she writes in a structured, accurate, and candid way, all while keeping it friendly and playful. Her inspiration comes from a combination of science-backed research and personal experience. Following her obsession with certain topics, she devours all the content available and finds ways to adapt and improve it.

When not absorbed in the latest books and podcasts, Adriana loves traveling, boxing, her partner’s cooking, mostly loses when playing Rummikub with her family, and has a weird superpower – the super smell. She currently lives in Paris, enjoying the famous French croissant between writing sessions.

 

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Steve Wilmot 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My passion is to encourage and inspire Christians on their long and sometimes treacherous spiritual journey Home. Over the years, I learned valuable lessons from my own journey of faith and developed indispensable relationships that kept me from giving up when discouragement and lack of hope told me to. My purpose in life is to pay it forward whenever I can — first as a pastor for 40 years and now as a writer and mentor.
I’ve written five books over the last three years. The first, “Cornered in Shallow Waters,” is a novel about a Christian who knows something God wants him to do, but he’s scared to death to take the risk. The story takes readers through his struggles and how he found the faith to do what God told him to do. My second book, “Do It Scared,” is a devotional taking 20 key verses from the novel to help others limited by fear work through it and grow their faith.
Book three arose from requests readers of my weekly newspaper column I’ve written for over 20 years. I put 40 of them into a book called, “Best of Pastor’s Ponderings.”
My two most recent books are devotionals where I look at a Bible character and draw lessons and inspiration from his spiritual journey to help readers with the struggles in their spiritual journey. The first was “30 Days with Joshua.” The second is “30 Days with Joseph.”
I married his college sweetheart, Becki, in 1974. She’s supported me — and many times as my anchor and chief cheerleader — during our years leading churches from 1976 – 2016. We have four grown children and eight grandchildren. I retired from my bi-vocational jobs as a pastor and a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service.
In my spare time, I enjoy engaging with my grandkids, reading, gardening, and landscaping around the house. I could not have made it through many tough times in my life without my small group, the Band of Brothers, as we travel side-by-side toward Christlike character and Home. We discovered years ago that the Christian life is not Jesus and me — It’s Jesus and we. And we are committed to encourage, support, love, and accept each other unconditionally.
I also like to share my spiritual journey and teach from God’s Word at churches and conferences.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“30 Days with Joseph: Insight from Joseph’s Spiritual Journey for Yours.” It’s a devotional that takes bite-size daily chunks of Joseph’s journey as inspiration and pointers for Christians today. I picked Joseph because he’s an amazing guy. A guy all of us would like to be like. He went through exceedingly unfair and harsh treatment — hated by his brothers, slave, accused rapist, and jail convict. Yet he never whined or complained or lost his faith or took revenge even when he was given the opportunity.
I believe Joseph is one of the perfect men of the Bible believers today can learn much from for their struggles in life.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
The only one I can think of is while I’m working on a book, thoughts and ideas often come to in bed, in the shower, or working in the yard. So, I grab my cell phone and jot the ideas down as a memo before I forget it. I’ve done that too often to rely on my memory. Write it down.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
John Eldredge has been a huge influence on me. I also like to read Ted Dekker and Andy Stanley. “Bo’s Cafe” and “The Cure” by John Lynch, Bruce McNichol, and Bill Thrall had a huge impact on my life.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on a teaching book. I’ve discovered over the years that too often new believers and their spiritual growth are neglected after they decide to become Christians. It’s as if the goal to get them saved, then “Congratulations. See ya later,” and they’re left alone to grow. We don’t do that to newborns, but we to newborn Christians. This book is called “FAQ New Believers Want to Know (and Mature Believers Need to Know). It will lay a foundation they can begin to build and grow their faith upon.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Frankly, that’s my greatest weakness. When I have a new book coming out, I advertise on book buying websites, email newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I also send out info to my friends by email and to a larger crowd on Facebook.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Know why you’re writing. That will keep you writing when you become discouraged and don’t feel like writing on a particular day.

Write when you feel like it or when you don’t.

Don’t let the fear no one will read your book stop you from writing. Even best-selling authors experience those fears.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
There’s nothing bad you can do to make God love you any less; there’s nothing good you can do to make him love you more. He’s not disappointed with you; he loves you.

What are you reading now?
I’m spending most of my reading time in 1 Kings 16-18 and 2 Kings 1-2 in the Bible. My next “30 Days With…” character is Elijah. I’m studying him and asking God to give me insights that will help those who will eventually read my devotional on him. I’m also asking God to speak to me about things he wants me know or do or change in me.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ll plugging away writing. I’m 68 and I know my time is slipping away, so I want to keep writing as long as I can. Even if no one reads anything I write, I want future generations of my family to know what I considered mattered and what didn’t.

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?
Bo’s Cafe
The Cure
My Bible
All Things New

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Debra Hoffmann-Knowles 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a transplanted New Yorker-from Queens, New York to Bay Minette, Alabama. Bay Minette would remind you of Mayberry-I’m waiting to wave to Opie any day now-and in fact one of my cats is named Opie! My husband and I do cat rescue, and I have always loved cats. They are featured in every book I’ve written. In my latest series-Lords of Power-Elan the cat is a magickal cat, but this is very understated. The first book I’ve written-with my feline Spirit Guide, Orange Ruffy-is From The Between. It’s out on Smashwords and the print version is on Lulu.com. If you love cats-it’s amazing.
The latest is Lords of Power. The books take place in ancient Babylon, then the desert, Egypt and then the land of Caana which would be modern-day Israel and Palestine.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Lords of the Desert is the second book in the Lords of Power series. The Lords of Power began from a draw I’ve always felt to ancient Persia and Babylon. It’s a love story, but more than that, the story of people of this time who are Priests, Priestesses, and inhabitants of the ancient city of Babylon. I wonder if I didn’t have a past life back then. The characters seemed to create themselves and I felt a real kinship to them.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My office is my sanctuary and I love to sit down with a cup of coffee and watch my cats out on their catio before I start writing. I can’t push the actual process-the words flow when they are ready.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’m very eclectic. I love many different books. I’ve always loved Anne Rice’s works because she writes with such descriptions of places that I love as well. I loved ‘Interview with a Vampire’ and she wrote another nonvampire book called ‘Cry To Heaven’ that will bring you right to that time in history in Itay. But I love all sorts of historical fiction. I love finding stories of ancient fiction by new authors as well.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on the fourth installment of Lords of Power even as I edit the third book. Editing takes me a while as I have others go over it for me. The third is ‘Lords of Egypt’.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have used Facebook the most because I am active on Facebook with Lords of Babylon!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write, be persistent, don’t give up. Believe in yourself.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
‘Consider the Source’. If someone is telling you something, consider why they’ve chosen to impart the information. They may have their own agenda.

What are you reading now?
Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman. I love the way he incorporates Navajo life into his books.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have two books working in my head for Lords of Power and I have a vampire rock star series written that I need to edit-and then-well, just keep writing!

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?
Interview with a Vampire or any of the series done by Anne Rice; then Cry to Heaven, another by Anne Rice which is an amazing historical novel. Then Where She is Right-Dis, the daughter of Kings which is an amazing book of ‘fan fiction’ done by an author on Wattpad, The Vesta Shadow Series which is about the Vestal Virgins of Rome. Since I have Priestesses of Bast the Cat Goddess in Lords of Power, I wanted to see how other authors incorporated them. Hard to pick just a few!

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Panayotis Cacoyannis 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was born in Cyprus and had a magical time growing up near the sea. I came to Britain and the rain and trained as a lawyer, but I didn’t really want to be a lawyer so I went to art school. After working as a painter/sculptor for many happy years, I started to write. I published my first novel in 2013, and my sixth this year.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Coldness of Objects. It was “inspired” by my own fixation with routine, by an interest in politics, by all the different kinds of love and the ever-present fear of loss. Grief has been a theme in a few of my novels.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
For over a year I suffered from tennis elbow from moving the mouse around while writing The Dead of August on my desktop, so I started writing in bed on my laptop instead. Five novels later, my elbow is just fine.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Kafka, Murakami, Vonnegut, Marquez, Amor Towles, Sally Rooney, Donna Tartt, and many more.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on staying relatively sane during the pandemic.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I haven’t figured out any good method yet.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Have fun!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Have fun!

What are you reading now?
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth

What’s next for you as a writer?
A break.

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 Metamorphosis, Crime and Punishment, A Gentleman in Moscow, Normal People.

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David Young 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have spent the last 7 years as a volunteer teacher in a migrant school in Thailand; very close to the border with Myanmar. Most of the students are refugees. Now I am back in New Zealand, trying my hand at writing and living in a house with 6 children between 3 and 13!
Since COVID has been around, teaching has been an interesting ride. When we started in 2020, we had very little knowledge or experience of what we were doing, for things like making videos and online quizzes. By the end of the year, the standard of the study material was so much better. When I look back on it now, the early stuff makes me cringe; it’s so bad.
A lot of this material is my personal copyright and my plan is to tidy it up, change the local names and place names, and publish it for the homeschooling market.
Wow! Looks like I’ve just made a plan for the next few months!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My first book, Baby Virus, started life for my students where English is their 2nd or 3rd language. They are looking for something where the English is easy to read but the subject matter is a bit older than frog princes and fairy godmothers. I was also trying for something light-hearted with a bit of humour. The result is a book that will meet those needs but also be satisfying for girls who are native English speakers and want to read for themselves instead of having someone read to them

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I admit that writing is not hard for me. Once I get going it’s hard to stop. My problem is that, when I write like that, it’s not very good. I will take 20 words to say what I should have said in 5. Trying to write for people who are learning English has been very good for me. It forces me to take out all those long, complicated clauses and write shorter sentences.
The real hard bit is figuring out which categories the book should be in and which keywords to choose so that customers can easily find it and buy it. That’s too much like hard work!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Cynthia Voigt is one of my all-time favourites. I love the way she doesn’t shy away from difficult situations, as if teenagers didn’t experience or think about these things.
I admit I am completely confused by the teenage book market. If you write a book about 30-year-olds, 40-year-olds, or 70-year-olds, no one assumes that it will only be read by people of the same age. But for some reason, if you write about 13, 15, or 17-year-olds, everyone assumes that only teenagers should read them. Go figure? Cynthia Voight is certainly one author that deserves to be read by a wider audience and there are many others.

What are you working on now?
The short answer is “I’m working on at least 6 projects and not getting any of them over the finishing line.”

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I sell all my books through Amazon because there are no upfront costs and the free software they provide makes the whole thing very straightforward.
Then comes the hard bit of trying to improve its visibility.

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

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Be yourself. Don’t listen to criticisms about you, by people whose opinions you don’t respect on other subjects.

What are you reading now?
Most of my reading over the last 2 years has been for work with only a little bit of reading for pleasure. I love the classics that “no one” reads now – like George Elliot. Some people say that our problems today are different than previous generations. What a load of!
I also love drama movies, so I often read a book after watching the movie.

What’s next for you as a writer?
No plan. Who wants to follow a railway track for the rest of their lives? It’s much more interesting if you make it up as you go along and listen to people you meet along the way.

Who can seriously believe that having a plan for your life is worthwhile after experiencing Covid for the last 2 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?
George Elliot – Silas Marner.
Persig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Cynthia Voigt – Homecoming.
Something about how to grow veggies in your garden.

 

Pat Adeff 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi! I’ve been an author and playwright for a few decades. My parents met on the set of “Arsenic and Old Lace” at the Redlands Footlighters Theater in Southern California, and I was raised at the theater; both on stage as well as behind the scenes. I started writing plays for my theater arts class at the private school where I was teaching so that everyone who wanted to be in a show could! When I was confronted with a divorce in my own life, I turned to writing to help me heal. Well, that turned into “Take Another Chance.” Since the first draft of that was completed, I started cranking out more books, as well as more plays. I’m so happy to share that 13 of my plays have been produced at various theatres from California to NYC!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Take Another Chance is Book 1 in the 5-book series Second Chances DO Happen! Although Take Another Chance started out as a way to help me heal from my own divorce, it is definitely fiction. The only similarities are the fact that I have two daughters, as does Grace, the heroine in the book. The rest of the characters actually were brought into being by talking with other women who had gone through divorces of their own. The ex-husband in the book is a conglomeration of all the bad traits from these women’s tales rolled into one super-ex. The hero is a cop. I was raised around cousins who were firefighters, cops, and sheriffs. So, of course, my first hero is a cop! Take Another Chance was first published with the working title of To Protect and Serve. I received some awesome feedback from readers and I went back to the book and made some changes, additions, and subtractions. I then gave the revised version to some of the readers and they loved the changes.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m not so sure it’s that unusual, but I like to write in a busy coffee shop. The people and the noise seem to give me the perfect background noise I need to create. If I’m writing at home, I have an iTunes Playlist I put together called Romance Background for Writing. I plug in the earphones and it’s almost as good as the background noise at a coffee shop.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Stephen King’s “On Writing” has been phenomenal for understanding the craft. Kathleen Woodiwiss was my first romance author where I devoured everything she wrote. I was introduced to Michael Connelly by the detective who side-checked my police procedure writing for Take Another Chance. I love the way Connelly’s characters tell parts of the story through inside thoughts.

What are you working on now?
A lot! I’m just putting the finishing touches on Mahi-Mahi Matrimony as the 2nd book in the Second-Chances-DO-Happen series. I’ve already started The Romance Writer and the Geek as well as Doctor’s Orders and In His Arms as the next books to round out the series. I’ve also been commissioned to write a play for a theatre group in Lake Arrowhead, California. And finally, my composer husband and I are developing a new musical to get onto Broadway! www.talent-anewmusical.com

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Two major things:
1. Self-Publishing School training and 2. Dave Chessen’s Kindlepreneur training. I also love working with Awesome Gang. They work really hard to help us get our books seen by readers who love our genre.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write! When you’re writing, don’t edit. Just write. Let the story pour out of you. Don’t have any attention on its correctness or grammar or anything else. Just write. Nothing else can happen until you get that rough draft out of you.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I attended a great seminar at the Writers’ of the Future in Los Angeles. They stated: “Regardless of the unique voice and vision, the first – and most important- thing that will make a writer different is actually finishing the story! It doesn’t matter how ragged, battered and pathetic that story is when it crosses the finish line. It doesn’t matter whether it is flash fiction or novel length…finishing is what will separate you from 90% of the writers who start to tell a story.”

What are you reading now?
I’ve gotten hooked on Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series. I’m also thoroughly enjoying all of Elana Johnson’s books!

What’s next for you as a writer?
Get Mahi-Mahi Matrimony published along with the rest of the series! I intend to publish a new book every 30 days. Finish the new play for the theatre in California. Finish writing the workshop script for our new musical.

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?
Jude Deveraux’s Wishes.
Kathleen Woodiwiss’ The Wolf and the Dove.
Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.
Stephen King’s The Stand.

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Aaron LA.V.R. 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Well, I love all things space and I really love nature, so I’ve been searching for the door to Narnia since the age of 7 (I still have not found it). But I’m just your average hermit writer for the most part! These days I spend most of my time in front of a computer screen writing about adventures that I will probably never experience until I’m a real adult (real adults do more than write stories, play video games and watch movies/anime). Needless to say, I’m working on getting out more, hahaha. But I’ve only written one book so far.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The title of my book is called “Absonbrite: Shadows in the Lighthouse.” It’s a dark sci-fi story inspired by some lore about a forest on the island of Bermuda and also a cartoon about an African-American superhero I watched as a kid (also aliens and space). The idea of mixing the two together to create this kind of creepy-action-sci-fi-adventure-mystery came from the fact that I have just never really seen anything like it done before.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I actually do! I do this really annoying thing where I write the same word twice at the beginning of a sentence every now and then. As much as I try to catch myself, the habit always finds its way back to me!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
“The Hobbit” and “Lord of the Rings” series had a big impact on me growing up. Also, as much as I don’t really want to say it, the “Harry Potter” series as well.

What are you working on now?
At the moment, I’m working on a follow-up to the events of “Absonbrite: Shadows in the Lighthouse.” I plan on making this next book much longer than the first one, so it’s going to take a bit of time to finish it.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Hmm well, awesomegang.com of course!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
From one new author to another, I say this, be ready to spend money before you make money! Marketing and promotion are by far the “hardest” parts of this process. Have something saved up specifically for it. Also, plan your stories out before you write them; having those notes helps down the road when you get hit with writer’s block.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I ever got was about self-copy editing. The person said to start at the bottom of a page and read every sentence out loud, working your way to the top. It helps because you focus on finding the errors in the story instead of reading the story.

What are you reading now?
At the moment, I’m not reading anything new. I try not to read anything while I’m working on my own books. That way I don’t get any ideas from other authors, even though it’s pretty much impossible to be completely original these days. I mean the Simpsons have done everything already anyways, hahaha.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Well, I want to finish the main Absonbrite trilogy. I will probably do a couple of spin-offs of it afterward. If I get lucky, maybe some streaming service will make it into a movie 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?
I would bring “Green Eggs and Ham,” “The Grinch,” “Maze Runner” and some self-help book on how to not go crazy while being stuck on a desert island!

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Ninus J. Piter 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my first book.
I translated this completely by myself. So I apologize in advance for any translation error I may have made. I invite you to report them to me but, above all, I invite you to continue reading because what I have to tell and demonstrate is much more important than the small mistake you may have come across.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Quantum Physics” Wonderful Story
Each reader is invited to read this book in a different way, according to the path he will want for an independently trace: following the chronological thread of the adventure from Planck to the recent confirmation of the Odderon and the discovery of the Muon G2; or by choosing the chapter casually to read and building the plot himself; or by investigating the scientists who built Quantum Physics and closely following the men to whom this book is dedicated.
The experiments, the obstacles, the intuitions will be investigated and assimilated with different interpretation compared to what has been done. Until discovering a new way of understanding this branch of science so as to transform himself into the protagonist of a story yet to be written, if only he will have the desire.
The author’s hope is that readers, after reading up to the last line, will see the world with new eyes and decide without any conditioning what is the reality in which he lives.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I can’t think to a only one book. All my physics studies influenced me.

What are you working on now?
On a new book about Artificial Intelligence.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I don’t have a best method.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
No

What are you reading now?
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

What’s next for you as a writer?
On a new book about Artificial Intelligence.

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 Little Drummer Girl by John le Carre
The Fifth Day by Frank Schätzing
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
A Thousand Suns by Dominique Lapierre

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