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Fleury Sommers 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My grandmother came from a ranching family in Montana. She was proud of her heritage and loved to travel. Mother kept many of her artifacts, including cowboy chaps, Japanese kimonos, tortoiseshell cigarette cases, photographs of stern settlers who survived Indian attacks, and others. We ate meals around a table used on the ranch to feed the cowboys. These objects, belonging to and used by real men and women, suggested to me that history was more than the simple and dry facts we were encouraged to memorize in school.
Later, I began to read history more seriously. I don’t suggest in any way that I’m a scholar, but it does strike me that many of the cruelties inflicted on people derive from rancid ideas, ideas that are popularly supported – at least for a time. The next question, of course, is what happens when people are confronted by such an idea and its consequences. When and how does the little guy take a stand?
Years ago the narrator in a Jodi Picoult book (I forget which one) mentioned in passing that a character was a candidate for involuntary sterilization in Vermont. “Vermont?!!” I thought. “Couldn’t be.” I’d assumed those laws were primarily passed and enforced in Southern states. That thought stayed with me and was the germ that resulted in “Warrensburg,” a tale of a Virginia family’s fight against the eugenics movement when it threatened one of their own.
I don’t remember the precise genesis for “Beautiful Angels,” except that blaming the Jews for the bubonic plague was a popular idea irrationally embraced and in the face of clear evidence of innocence. Yet, the embrace of this “truth” resulted in thousands of deaths by starvation and burning all across Europe. “Beautiful Angels” is the story of a small group of unlikely allies, united only by their common humanity, who take a stand against the mob in their own small village.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Bayview Boulevard,” not yet published, is the story of an onshore whaling community during the golden age of whaling in the early to the mid-19th century. Although whaling made investors rich and their communities prosperous, beneath the enviable veneer, these communities and their families grappled with and were roiled by the divisive issues of the day including slavery, women’s rights, and others. Part love story and part coming of age story, the book also touches on the little-known, but an important avenue of escape provided by the whaling community for fugitive slaves.
I genuinely don’t remember how I stumbled on this idea since whaling has never been of any particular interest and I’ve always thought that Herman Melville could have used an editor. An onshore whaling community, however, provides ample fodder for someone interested in how ideas affect lives and behaviors.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I doubt it. I write in the morning and usually aim for a certain number of words. Sometimes, it’s a slog, a painful and slow process. Sometimes it comes easily. I suspect I’m not alone in this approach.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
During Covid when we were all house-bound, I read or re-read all the old Ross Macdonald books, the wonderful noir detective stories set in California in the mid-50s. I stumbled on the glorious “All the Light We Cannot See” and the little-known, but beautiful “The Tilted World,” a story about the 1927 Mississippi flood. I read Neil Gaiman for the first time and loved him, and I tried reading a couple of Pulitzer Prize-winning books I will not name that produced an uncomfortable level of irritation.

What are you working on now?
A story about Philadelphia in WW1.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am feeling my way with promotion sites. My website is fleurymillssommers.com

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Early on, I joined Romance Writers of America. Although I learned romance writing wasn’t for me, I’ll be eternally grateful for the craft I learned from that wonderful organization.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Neil Gaiman said something like “I’ve always read, but then I learned to read.”

What are you reading now?
James Lee Burke.

What’s next for you as a writer?
More of the same: reading, learning, 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?
Something light, but uplifting: a Dean Koontz “Odd Thomas” book
Something stunningly beautiful: “All the Light We Cannot See”
Something dense (in case rescue is slow): Maybe the Bible – to contemplate all my sins.

Author Websites and Profiles
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Jonathan Ross 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I love writing romantic suspense novels set in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe. I’ve travelled to almost all the places I write about, including the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America. I’ve written and self published a half dozen books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book ins “Stowaway on the Island,” inspired by sailing on the Caribbean.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
It’s not a habit, but perhaps unusual: I’ve discovered that my characters talk to me quite a bit, gifting me with great dialogue that I simply write down. They all love their work, but sometimes balk at plot twists. We think about it for a day or so, and always agree on a compromise. By the end of a book, I know my characters much better than many people I meet.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I like Dick Francis, Roald Dahl, and especially John Grisham.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on my next series of three romantic suspense novels set in the Caribbean, with romance, danger, and a touch of magic, starring the protagonist in my book, “The Jumbee’s Daughter.”

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use the advertising on Amazon KDP.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write down those thoughts that zing into your head when you are away from actually writing. They only come once.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Tension always.

What are you reading now?
“My Uncle Oswald,” by Roald Dahl.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Being immersed in my next series. My characters are already talking and I’m writing it down.

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?
Books that are fun to read and have a happy ending.

Author Websites and Profiles
Jonathan Ross Website
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Vladamir Jones 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
About me?
Oh, boring on the outside, tempest in a tea pot between the ears.

Books?
I’ve the two out on Amazon now, An Unknowable Quality and The Coyote, books one and two in The Perimeter series.

Now, I have two Steampunk and a Dieselpunk and I suppose one that would be termed Weird West, none of which I felt were good enough to even take to editing, but they did help build the ‘finish what you start’ muscle.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Coyote. Inspired, of all things, by an episode of The Blacklist.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No. I work a 2nd shift. I have 3-4 hours in the morning to work.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
George R.R. Martin compiled a series of books call The Wildcard Series that has stuck with me.

I liked the Spencer for Hire series

The Travis McGee series I think got me a lot of that ‘hard-boiled’ flavor.

Mike Carey wrote a five book series with a protagonist name Felix Castor that I have read at least three times.

There was a sci fi series call Area 51 that I think really opened my eyes on how to keep action flowing.

Also Jim Butcher’s Dresden series was really nice. In face it got me back into reading after years away.

What are you working on now?
The 3rd Perimeter book, The Triad.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am a fledging at this. Get back to me at the end of the year.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Carve out time for a routine.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Sprinting. Sprint. Short spurts where you are nothing else but Writer You. I started off at 12 minutes, now at about 20-25 depending on what the morning throws me, usually 2-3 sprints.

What are you reading now?
The Alienist by Caleb Carr (2nd time)

What’s next for you as a writer?
GET BETTER.

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?
2 books on survival on tropical island and then something very very thick.

Author Websites and Profiles
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Quanda R. Graves 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Until. I’m from Los Angeles, California born and raised. A poet, author, journalist and entrepreneur. So far, I have written two books and currently working on a third.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is entitled Dreaming Of A Place “On The Wings Of My Imagination”. What inspired it? The state of the world today. I just wanted to provide the minds of the world some temporary relief of its current state. Give a blissful moment, a brief escape to breathe.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t believe so. Outside of, I have a different pen for different genres.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The authors and books that has influenced me are the following: Nikki Giovanni, Terry O’Neal, Walt Whitman, Dudley Randall and many more to name a few. A few books are, The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours by Jill Scott, A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, A Poet and Her Book: Autobiography of Edna St. Vincent Below by Jean Gould, and The Bible by God and many more.

What are you working on now?
Wow! That is a loaded question. LOL! I’m working on so many fruits. In a nutshell, I’m working on QS Simple Treasures & Greetings, my latest book that has yet to give me title. My next poetry CD and a wonderful cup collection I’m excited about.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My best method to promoting my books is my website. Please visit at www.untilnomore.net.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes I do. Learn yourself, in terms of what makes you happy. Learn to be a little selfish with your time, and your whole being. Set boundaries now, so when writing takes over, people understand why you don’t want to be bothered. Lastly, two in one, take on a belief system to help you get through those challenging times, (mine, is Jesus). Also, enjoy life, live, and while living, work to be of great character so you can feel amazing about you because, how else are you going to become inspired to inspire others. *smile*

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
From my mother – 1. Delight thyself in the Lord and He will give you your heart’s desire. 2. God bless everyone all the time, just not at the same time. Your time is coming, so be patient and wait on Him.

Random – Be you, because everyone else is taking.
Random – If you’re being anyone else other than you, you and the world is missing out. How dare you not be original. LOL!

What are you reading now?
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker PhD.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Publishing my latest book by the end of this 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?
The Bible
Round The Corner
Sweet Lavender
A Room of One’s Own

Author Websites and Profiles
Quanda R. Graves Website
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Moena salman 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Mechanical engineer but very fascinated by history especially the pre-history and philosophy that is why I wrote my first book “Egypt History and The Ancient Wisdom”

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Egypt History and The Ancient Wisdom

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Antony west

What are you working on now?
The Pharaoh of the exodus
the History of the Israelites in Egypt

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

 

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Ana Cristina Caelen 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a writer, music composer, and vocal artist with a passion for the fantastical realms of sound, silence, and language. I have a bachelor’s degree in Music and a master of arts in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. I love exploring the nature of magic in everyday life. Like many of my characters I spends a lot of time in the shadowlands knitting together stories from the potent imagery of my own dreamworlds.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Wilding Souls is my debut high fantasy novel. It was inspired by many years of working with different aspects of my own psyche and a poignant series of dreams which brought the whole story to life.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes! I write much like I do most things: through free improvisation. I sit and let myself free-flow with words as I watch a scene unfold within my mind. If I lose the thread of the story I will pause until a character beckons to me once again. I leave my editing towards the end of the creative journey so I don’t get too in my head about the details.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman. It’s a fantastic experience of what I call “circular writing.”

What are you working on now?
A second novel set in the same universe as Wilding Souls which continues aspects of the story with a different cast of characters and perhaps a few surprise returns.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m learning as I go! The personal touch is always my preference.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write your heart.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never underestimate the revolutionary power of giving yourself permission to feel, think, act, and express exactly as you already do.

What are you reading now?
Nothing at the moment! Sadly, I find I cannot read much when I am in the midst of writing.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I would love to collaborate with other artists on shared creative visions as well as publish my second book (hopefully by next 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?
The Merro Tree, The Madness Season, Tantric Quest: An Encounter With Absolute Love, and Body and Voice (A Somatic Re-Education).

Author Websites and Profiles
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Adam Pascarella 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a former practicing lawyer who now runs an investment management firm in New York City. “Reversed in Part” is my first book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I was inspired to write Reversed in Part because I was looking to do something different with my career. At the same time, I couldn’t find many resources on lawyers leveraging their law degrees and legal experience in different areas. In effect, I wrote the book that I would have wanted when I was thinking of making a major early career move.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Nothing in particular. I try to write when I am most energetic (typically, in the early mornings). The goal is to make it as seamless as possible—especially on the days when I don’t feel like writing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
For writing, Steven Pressfield is a key inspiration. In The War of Art, he shows how important it is to become a professional—no matter what it is that you’re trying to do. It is the only way to overcome so-called “Resistance” and bring new ideas into the world.

Jack Schwager is another inspiration. His “Market Wizards” series was one of the key inspirations behind my book Reversed in Part. I like how he brings readers into the room with famous investors and provides an up close and personal view of their investing philosophies and strategies.

What are you working on now?
I’m not working on any books at the moment. I’m completely focused on growing my business. But I can never rule out writing another book in the future.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
One of the most effective ways is to rely on your personal connections. Sure, your first level connections will buy your book. That said, the more powerful thing is when your first level connections refer your back to their first level connections. From there, anything can happen. The closest digital replica is LinkedIn.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Stay disciplined. It’s always easy to put off writing for “another day.” In fact, there is no perfect day or time to write a book. The best thing to do is get started and create an environment which makes it as easy as possible to write.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Life is all about action. It is easy to be overly analytical, whether we are thinking about our next book or our dream jobs. The much tougher, yet rewarding, thing is to take action toward those goals. Even if you fail, the real-world data that you receive will get you closer to your long-term objectives.

What are you reading now?
“The Changing World Order” by Ray Dalio and “The Cold Start Problem” by Andrew Chen.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ll mostly be focused on shorter form media (like blog posts and tweets).

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?
1. Courage is Calling by Ryan Holiday.
2. Atomic Habits by James Clear.
3. The Bible.

Author Websites and Profiles
Adam Pascarella Website
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Ravi Ranjan Goswami 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a native of Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India. I am a retired Indian customs officer and a writer. I have penned around 20 books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is inspired by yoga, its title is the Asht Yogis.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Premchand, MK Gandhi, Graham Green.

What are you working on now?
I am converting my short stories to audio books.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I prefer Awesome gang, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read more and write regularly.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Trust in God and do your duty.

What are you reading now?
A Hindi novel Shiv se Shivatva

What’s next for you as a writer?
To write better and better.

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 Vedas.

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