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Dan Le Fever 

Interview With Author Dan Le Fever

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Well, I'm a big nerd. I play video games, watch movies, read, and practice American Kenpo. I've a degree in history from Salem State College where I focused on Byzantine/Ottoman history, most notably the border culture that developed between the two empires. I'm fascinated by linguistics and orthography and have been studying Norwegian for a while now. I'm not fluent, but I can get by in a pinch. My writing career began a few years back when I was decided to write a short story for my friend's independent publishing house, Fundead Publications, and I've had the bug ever since.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My first full-length novel comes out on 9/27/22 and is titled The Ashen War. It was inspired by a long drive home from work and listening to the song The Book of Sand by At The Gates. I had been reading a lot of post-apocalyptic stories recently, and I had begun to wonder what would it have been like if an apocalyptic event happened during a major conflict in the world and chose the American Civil War. It was a time before the internet and most of our modern conveniences, so the only thing holding the world together were the governments and beliefs. I took what I knew about the fall of great societies, such as the Roman Empire, and added new cultures and even languages based on what was going on at that time in history. The most important being the Industrial Revolution. If I were forced to sum it up quickly, I'd say The Ashen War is Mad Max meets Gangs of New York.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don't think it's that unusual, but I listen to extreme metal while I write. A lot of melodic death metal like At The Gates and Dark Tranquility. For the stories that have to be emotional, I might put on neo-pagan folk groups like Wardruna and Heilung.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I'd say I'm influenced by the works of Frank Herbert, Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Kadrey, and R.A. Salvatore.

What are you working on now?
Right now? I'm promoting my new novel, The Ashen War, I think I mentioned that before…

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I'm new to having to self-promote, so I'm learning as I go. Mostly I've been using Facebook and Twitter as well as Goodreads.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Listen to the advice of other authors. Follow them on Twitter. Ask them questions, even if you think they're too famous to answer you, sometimes they will and it's magical.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If you get paid enough to buy yourself a burrito, you can call yourself a professional author.

What are you reading now?
Sands of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien, and The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson(It's over 11,000 pages..oh boy.)

What’s next for you as a writer?
After The Ashen War, I'll be working on the next book in that trilogy. So, hopefully it'll do well.

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?
Well, one would be The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen(Because, seriously, that might take me forever to read), Dune, and Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.

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Shevy Castle 

Interview With Author Shevy Castle

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi! I'm a new author. 'Rise of the New Crown' if my first published piece. I've always loved creative writing. Once upon a time when I was in grade school, I thought I was a terrible writer, but I always loved making up stories. Turns out I didn't read enough books. By the time I started high school, I started writing fanfictions. A friend introduced me to a dragon fantasy book, and after that, I started reading more. That improved my writing tremendously! I've always dreamed of publishing my own work one day, and at first it seemed daunting, especially because I was busy with my daytime job after finishing my Master's. I finally got over that hump and pursued my passion in writing.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Well, my first book is my latest book. What inspired me? Well, since I was in grad school, I was seriously thinking of writing my own novel. I kept seeing images of knights and kingdoms, and I would try to write a story, but I would only be inspired to write a couple of paragraphs before the inspiration died. Then one Sunday night in early February, the first night I moved out of my parents' house into my own apartment, I was sitting in my new room, browsing through some fanart on DeviantArt to help me adjust. Then I saw one picture that inspired me, and BOOM! The rest was history

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not that I can think of… unless you want to call sitting on the couch unusual? I can't write while sitting at a desk!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
So many of them, actually. Michael R. Miller is one of them. Cornelia Funk is another. There's Christopher Poalini, and even Angie Sage.

What are you working on now?
Book 2 of the Kingdoms' Oath Trilogy (the one right after 'Rise of the New Crown.' As of now, book 2 is dubbed 'To Be Named')

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Using promo sites help. I'm pretty new, so I'm finding what works best for me. So far right, word of mouth has been pretty successful.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I'm a new author so anyone have advice for me?

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

What are you reading now?
Harry Potter Book 3 (After twenty years, I finally started reading that series)

What’s next for you as a writer?
Creating my author newsletter and further promoting 'Rise of the New Crown'

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. A book that would teach me how to survive on a stranded island
2. My book, of course
3. Recipes using coconuts and bananas with limited kitchen supplies
4. How to talk to animals

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Greg Garrisson 

Interview With Author Greg Garrisson

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Greg Garrisson, i'm from Houston in the USA, I am a former software engineer, young writer, and I divorced a few years ago. "Welcome the peace of divorce" is my first book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Welcome the peace of divorce : How to overcome the pain, surrender to joy and turn a painful breakup into peace and bloom.
This book was inspired book was inspired by my own experience with divorce, by the path I followed to heal. I felt like I had to put my experience into words to eventually help other people going through that situation to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I do not know if it is unusual, but when I want to start writing a new chapter for example, I usually picture it in my head for days, imagining how it will sound when written. And then one day i just wake up and start writing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I've read a lot of books in my youth, so much that I hardly remember them. but one author who left a living impression on me is Amelie Nothomb. I am fascinated by how innoncently twisted her stories can be

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on a book about parenting as a solo dad: the challenges, the wins, the losses, the joy, the love…..

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Honestly I am a begineer in that area, but so far I use facebook groups and I am discovering book promotion sites like yours

Do you have any advice for new authors?
do not be afraid to promote your book. some people will hate it, some will like it, others will just don't care… But at the end of the day you will be proud of yourself and you will be living your dream, that's all that matters.

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

What are you reading now?
Right now I do not have the time to read, but as soon as i can i will read the last Amelie Nothomb

What’s next for you as a writer?
Continuing the promotion of my book, and refine the writing of the next book

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?
"le courage d'etre soi" from Jacques Salomé
"The alchemist" from Paulho Coehlo
My book as a reminder that I made it

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