Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an actor, director, playwright, and professor of theatre. I have written several one act plays and one full length play as well as a screenplay. I recently published my debut novel, Life is But a Dream.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Life is But a Dream: A Novel is the story of Angela who is a narcoleptic. Or at least, that’s what she tells people. The truth is . . . somewhat more complicated. Angela has two lives, existing in parallel universes. When she sleeps in one life, she is awake in her other life. In one reality she is single and successful in New York City. In her other reality, she is a loving wife and mother in suburban Sacramento. But which life is real? And can she be happy in both of them? When, in one of her realities, she meets Tony, a handsome poet, she begins to think that perhaps she can find love and have the family she always dreamed of. But, as things go well in one life, they begin to fall apart in another, and Angela has to navigate complicated questions of family, loyalty, and love.

I saw a tv show years ago with a plot point where a woman wanted only to sleep because her dream life was better than reality. I started thinking about this idea again years later when I was getting married and I thought about the idea of a character having a soulmate, someone she would be with in more than one reality. That inspired me to write a book about a woman who was aware of multiple realities in which she had lives.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
In addition to being a writer, I am an actor and director, so I often read my writing aloud and even sometimes act it out a bit (the dialogue) to make sure it rings true.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Some of my favorite authors: Madeline L’Engle, Jane Austen, David Sedaris, Lucy Maude Montgomery, Audrey Nifenegger, Jeanette Walls

What are you working on now?
I have several projects in the works, including a book of monologues for young actors, picture books about my children, and a how-to acting book.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
So far, I have been using social media, but I am pretty new to the marketing aspect of things.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My advice would be just to write and then worry about making it good later. I decided to just write a book and I did it in a month, then went back later and rewrote and made it better.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I like the advice to write what you want to read. Don’t worry about what “readers” want. I write things that I would love to read.

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading Six Characters in Search of an Author. (I have been on a play reading kick lately).

What’s next for you as a writer?
I want to continue writing and I have several books in the works.

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’d bring a how-to survive on an island book, a journal, and a photo album.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a freelance writer and, to date, I’ve written five books if you don’t count fanfiction. Four are part of a series, The Accidental Heroes Chronicles, and the fifth is a romance novel. I’ve been writing novels since 2012 when I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time. That was an amazing and terrifying experience and it was a brilliant feeling hitting the 50k word count before the end of the month.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of the latest book that I’ve finished the first draft of is Deceit. It’s the fourth book of The Accidental Heroes Chronicles. What really inspired it was a love of superheroes and what could happen when you took ordinary people and threw them in an extraordinary situation. The latest book that I’ve published was Expansion, the second book of The Accidental Heroes Chronicles.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know that I’d call it unusual but I do almost always have a mug of tea with me when I write. Most of the time I forget about it and it goes cold but I don’t mind. I also usually have music playing and, when I need a shake-up in my mind or in the story, I’ll change what I’m listening to.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
There are a few authors who’ve influenced me and, going back and reading their works, I can see places where they’ve influenced my style. Mercedes Lackey, Neil Gaiman, and David Eddings are the authors who have influenced me the most. I love their stories and their style of writing and they are a source of endless inspiration for me.

What are you working on now?
Right now, I am working on the fifth and final book of The Accidental Heroes Chronicles. There’s also another book sitting in my head waiting patiently to be written. I’ve made a few character and setting notes for it.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use tumblr, twitter, and facebook the most to promote my books. They allow a lot of direct feedback and contact with readers who might have questions or comments.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My advice is that a lot of authors go through periods where they think they suck and their writing is horrible. It happens to me all the time. The way to deal with it is to accept that those periods may happen but they aren’t true. Your writing isn’t horrible and someone out there is going to love it. And, even if it is true, you can learn and improve. Never stop writing even if you think you should.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I ever heard was if you get stuck in a scene, switch to a new one. Leave a note to yourself and just move on. Also, don’t feel afraid of writing scenes out of order. You can always put them in their proper places when you’re editing.

What are you reading now?
Right now, I am reading The Blinding Knife by Brent Weeks and it’s really good.

What’s next for you as a writer?
What’s next for me is finishing The Accidental Heroes Chronicles and getting the last three published on Amazon Kindle, figuring out what I’m going to do with my romance novel, and starting the next book I have planned.

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 books I’d take are The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, The Hobbit, and The Last Dragonlord by Joanne Bertin

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have been an innovator, storyteller, promoter and celebrity-insider for more than two decades.

Since 2001, I have been the publicity/ marketing director & researcher for the iconic best-selling novelist Barbara Bradford. I also serves as an editorial and marketing consultant for a collection of first-time authors through The Editorial Department. Previously I served as a PR executive, promoting an assortment of first-time celebrity authors including Ray Manzarek of The Doors.

From 1995 – 2001, I was widely credited with inventing the “living celebrity postal phenomenon.” In all, I have worked with more than 40 legendary personalities, creating media events to celebrate their postal recognition by an assortment of foreign nations.

I am excited to share that I have my first book coming out on November 10 2016 called Poet Of The Wrong Generation. With Poet Of The Wrong Generation, I attempt to combine all my unique experiences to bring you a novel of love & betrayal, music & fanfare, downfall & redemption — a fable of stardom’s rewards, set in New York City during the 1990s.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Poet Of The Wrong Generation due to be released on November 10, 2016.

I’ve been a fan of classic rock and folk music for as long as my memory stretches. So the concept of me writing a novel with a rock star protagonist should come to the surprise of no-one who knows me. I was also a novice songwriter back in my teenage years into my early 20s. So in fact, the words I scribbled in spiral notebooks 25 years ago were stashed away for decades, only to become an integral part of creating this novel when I came up with a storyline and the characters. I often wondered: what might life have been like had I actually pursued a musical career back in the 1990s? I suppose that some of this book is how that far fetched fantasy might have played out. Another notable aspect is my years of working with celebrities. As a kid, I had such reverence for the life of rock stars, athletes and other entertainers. Then I started to work closely with some of the biggest names in entertainment and quickly discovered that fame and glitz of the celebrity life is mostly a facade. These cherished individuals all have the same everyday wants, needs and problems as the rest of us.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I lose track of time… late at night, especially on the weekends when I don’t have to be up with an early alarm. If I’m locked in on writing, or polishing my work, I can work on through to sunrise without realizing the time. These are precious hours when my kids are asleep and the phone doesn’t ring. If on on-a-roll, there’s no time for clock-watching.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Nick Hornby
Carl Hiaasen, especially Basket Case
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
A Confidential Source by Jan Brogan

What are you working on now?
Promoting this current book in the moment, but I do have a second novel in development with a new set of characters.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
RT Magazine, Amazon Author Central Page, Goodreads and a pair of original music videos on YouTube featuring original from my Novel Poet of The Wrong Generation

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t let anyone compromise your values. Don’t rely exclusively upon your publisher to sell your book. Every author is their own marketing director and every avenue of promotion should be researched and considered.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t be afraid to cut some of your best writing if the content isn’t truly necessary.” This was advice came from my esteemed editor, Jeannette De Beauvoir. She attributed this suggestion to William Faulkner who referred to it as “Killing your darlings.” It’s a painful lesson in some ways. Writers often tend to fall in love with a well-written sentence or paragraph. Then comes the editing. And occasionally, a terrifically clever phrase, or idea is redundant in the storytelling. Don’t fight the urge to let it go. No matter how exceptional the lines in question may be, if they are holding up the flow of your storytelling, you need to hit DELETE and move on.

What are you reading now?
Conversations With Tom Petty by Paul Zollo

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will be launching my new blog: Musings On Music, Marketing and Make-Believe
in promotion of this novel http://authorlonnieostrow.blogspot.com/

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?
Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Night By Ellie Wiesel

Author Websites and Profiles
Lonnie Ostrow Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a chiropractor that served in the US Navy submarine force during the Vietnam War and currently am a pilot and volunteer in the US Air Force Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol with the rank of Lt. Colonel. I’ve written two books, Survive! Marooned on Planet Tau Ceti g, and a sequel, Survive! First Alien Contact.

There are many similarities between submarines and space craft. Both are self contained, travel in a very unforgiving medium, have to carry everything with them, (water and some oxygen being the exception on a submarine,) and are away from help on missions that may last for months at a time.

When I wrote my first book, I used the experiences that I learned onboard submarines, and the survival techniques from the Civil Air Patrol to make the story come alive. Of course, the second book continued the story line with most of the cast of characters from the first novel, and introduced another in the sequel.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Survive! First Alien Contact. I read a lot of science fiction and the current thoughts of the possibility of life on other planets that may be similar to ours; what chances would there be for plant and animal life, and could there be intelligent life; what the planets would look like; would intelligent life be friendly or war-like. I used relationships and conflicts of countries on our own planet as seed for thought in the sequel.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes. I write late at night when there are no distractions.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
There are too many to list.

What are you working on now?
I just started the third book in the series. The tentative title is Survive! Inter-Galactic War! It depends upon fan support if I continue with the Survive! series or just make it a trilogy.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use several methods. I love doing book signings. I have a few local book stores that I frequent. Since I’m still in practice, many of my patients look forward to the book in the series and purchase them from me directly.

My books can be purchased from most online book stores with http://www.barnesandnobel.com and http://www.amazon.com being the most active sellers.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write about something that you know. Make the story come alive by having the characters tell the story in dialogue. Narrative should be used for background set up. It’s easy to get caught up in the story that you are trying to tell and “head-hop” between characters, so beware. The main thing is to enjoy what you are writing. If you enjoy the story, so will someone else.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Keep on writing. A little bit, even five hundred words can make a book in a month or so.

What are you reading now?
ARMS War for Eden
by Stephen Arseneault

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finish the third book in the 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?
Books on space/time travel and alien conflict. I’d also probably take my books to re-read and get ideas of where I can take the story line.

Author Websites and Profiles
Charles Graham Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve written four books of young adult, family saga, coming of age fiction, part of a four part series called Broken Bottles. The next four will be released in 2017. I’ve also written a non-fiction book for introverts about networking at business conferences. It’s the first book that will be a series of books for introverts, which will include workbooks to plan strategies. I’ve also contributed to 3 anthologies, the most recent due out in October this year.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Amazing Heart – I grew up in a family battling alcoholism. There were so many ways I was affected I didn’t realize until I was much older how I had given up much of my childhood because of keeping secrets, keeping the peace under any circumstance, a severe fear of abandonment and good things not lasting. I want to reach young adults and new adults so they understand how family dysfunction can stifle creativity and brilliance so they are not stuck like I was.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write to music. If the scene is sad, I play sad music. If it’s sex, I play dramatic classical music. I fun, rock and roll and so on. I have an i-tunes collection of about 1,000 songs and add to it all the time when I hear a song that will support an idea I have brewing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Anne Rice, Jodi Picoult, Sylvia Day, Beth Barany, Robbi Sommers Bryant, Stephen King, Margaret Mitchell, Guy Kawasaki

What are you working on now?
A dark erotic fiction series about murder that links generations of family. These will be novelettes 4-5. Then I’ll resume books 5-8 for part II of Broken Bottles.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’ve always used Awesomegang, also use Book Daily, Butterfly books and social medial promo.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be prepared for a long haul, and look into marketing at least a year before you finish your book. It was a shock on what kind of promotion was needed. As far as writing? Love it even when you’re stuck and frustrated. It’s an alternate world, at least fiction is, that is escape, discovery and you need to love it. Honor the part of yourself you’ve brought from inside your head, heart, body and put onto paper. It’s brave and so lovely.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write for yourself. Don’t let others get you down and be careful when taking advice. Stay true to your vision. Do the research. Explore a smaller niche in genres to find the best one for you.

What are you reading now?
Non-fiction books on Word Press and blogging – taking a break from fiction.
I did order a new Jodi Picoult book, however.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Keep pursuing my dream. We have to dream big at least I do. If I stop dreaming? What’s left?

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?
Hmmm . . . Green Mile, Crossfire, Gone with the Wind and Lost Boy

Author Websites and Profiles
Pamela Taeuffer Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
The Perfect Tear is my first book and my first screenplay. I’ve finished the second installment as a script and will be starting the book before the end of the year.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Perfect Tear was inspired both by the over supply of dystopian narratives where young girls must learn to be fighting machines in order to survive, and the really awful path commercial music is taking. made by computers, voices auto-tuned, nothing is real anymore. The power of music lies within the person making it. The power of the vibration of truth and sound together is not well understood.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Once I start I find it hard to stop.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My songwriting is more of an inspiration as opposed to other authors. The incredible way the English language can be used is what I find inspiring.

What are you working on now?
My second film and book, The Living Library, takes place nine months after The Perfect Tear.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Getting reviews at the early stage is most important. How ever you can do that is good. If you’re an independent, the selling part can be a slow burn.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Get the very best editor money can buy.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Take you’re time. Great work takes time.

What are you reading now?
The Best Seller Code by Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers was just released and it’s both terrifying and illuminating. It explains very clearly why Fantasy will never make the NYT best seller list but why Danielle Steele and John Grisham own it.

What’s next for you as a writer?
More songs, movies and 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?
Shakespeare so I could study them and turn them into modern day tales.

Author Websites and Profiles
Connie Lansberg Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
At the age of twelve, I pounded the keys on my girly-pink Tom Thumb typewriter to compose several mysteries and serial spy thrillers under the auspices of a fictitious organization—I.N.T.R.I.G.U.E. Who knew I had a leg up on the popular Sixties TV series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.!

In high school, I wrote a romance novella which earned its place on a library shelf. The book, a sheaf of orange typing paper fastened together with mod magazine cutouts on the cover, caused quite a stir until it disappeared. The bulldoggish librarian who reluctantly allowed my Chick Lit in the library at the urging of several classmates, told me it was stolen. Years later, when thinking back, I believe she trashed my enterprise.

The rigors of college, and the demands placed on a rewarding teaching career, shelved further creative writing ambitions until I retired from the profession. With time on my hands, midlife restlessness reactivated my imagination.

Thus far, as a result of that revival, I’ve written two books in the genre of Contemporary Women’s Fiction:
UNDERLYING NOTES (First Printing – 2007; Second Printing – 2009; currently available as a Kindle Edition at Amazon):

Carla Matteo copes with life by “taking to the bottle”–glass goddesses funneling perfume! During a midlife renaissance the “juice” offers incentive for Carla to find her own niche, while the ominous rose note in Paloma Picasso forces her to confront a troubled past, redefine friendships, sort out matters of the heart, and come to terms with the tenets of her life.

AN ENLIGHTENING QUICHE (Released: Sept. 20, 2016)

More than meets the eye at face value, Augusta Bergeron, stuck in a holding pattern, engages in morally destructive behavior she attributes to maternal abandonment. In for a rude awakening upon eggs-huming her mother’s quiche recipe, she unravels its significance and forsakes erroneous assumptions. Enlightened, Augusta feels compelled to redress all the havoc she’s wrought in the aftermath of a tragedy.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Latest, as in just released after baking 8 years inside the oven of my mind—ta da—AN ENLIGHTENING QUICHE.

Memories from two distinct chapters in my life surfaced as the setting for this quiche to rise to the occasion in the fictitious French-Canadian mill community of northern Rhode Island’s Blackstone Valley region. Details pertaining to the bookbinding mill are based on actual jobs I performed during summers off from college at the now defunct Sidney-Higgins Bookbinding Co.

Inspiration for the close-knit community of Beauchemins with its fabricated major and minor characters sprang from my deep admiration for the predominantly French villagers of Manville where I began teaching at Northern Lincoln Elementary in 1973. Though the village embraced other ethnicities throughout the ensuing years leading up to my retirement 29 years later, I chose to preserve its original flavor in my book. Lastly, but of no less importance, my own creative rendition of a quiche recipe enlightened me to plot storylines and concoct prevalent themes in my book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
While I’m rarely at a loss for words, bursts of brilliance for how to best articulate an idea or parlay snatches of dialog overtake me when I’m away from the keyboard doing housework. I immediately turn off the vacuum or abandon my dust cloth to heed my inner voice by scribbling the message on a notebook kept on my desk for this purpose. Another quirk of mine is to play music conducive for plying my mood to write a scene. For example, listening to “Wicked Games” by Chris Isaak provided the heat I needed to better convey my thoughts:

An excerpt from Chapter 10 – “Timing may be everything, but so is tempo when it comes to priming one’s libido for ribald, raunchy sex! Strange, what a woman’s desire can influence her to fantasize through envisioning a wicked game of trailing an ice cube from sternum to steel-panel abs on a select male!”

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ll give a shout out to author, Stephen King. For years, I thrived on a steady reading diet of his books. More than mastering the genre of horror, I admire his genius for character development, realistic dialog, and a prevailing sense of humor. I credit King for the unleashing of my own perverse sense of humor where I deem it needed. For instance, this snippet from Chapter 5:

The school teacher could use the extra cash since grappling with her husband’s much publicized conviction for first-degree child molestation sexual assault. Facing a minimum of ten to fifteen years in prison for the least invasive criminal scenario more than likely sparked the voluminous, luminous, bituminous pyre two days prior to Vern’s court appearance for sentencing. Death by hibachi! Vernon Blais went out in a blaze of glory, smoked to death barbecuing charcoal briquettes while locked inside the bathroom with the window shut, an apropos exit strategy for the junior high guidance counselor caught stalling a thirteen year old boy in his office privy.

What are you working on now?
Since the release of my second novel, I’m going full steam ahead with leaving no stone unturned to market and promote it. This means I will not be starting my next novel, although there’s plenty of food for thought on my plate. However, I will continue to write my weekly blog which is featured at Authors Den, Goodreads, Amazon Author Central, and LinkedIn. I’ll also compose an occasional memoir or essay to post at Authors Den where everything I’ve ever written or intend to write has its place there.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
For starters, I’m counting on promotional sites like Awesome Gang to boost my author visibility and acquaint subscribers with my latest book, hoping to whet their appetite for a literal slice of quiche.

I’d say the websites where I feel most comfortable and confident in promoting my work are:

Goodreads – the site facilitates reader interactions with authors through interviews, giveaways, author blogs, and profile information.

Facebook – connecting with other Indie authors offers support and opportunity to share posts to gain more publicity. I’ll give a shout out to Scribes & Bibliophiles and Marketing for Creatives,

Do you have any advice for new authors?
The only advice I can give to new authors is based on what I practice: write to please yourself and go with the flow of your creative instincts. An innovator always stands apart from a crowd pleaser.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I take to heart comes from other indie authors in the same literary gene pool who think the same way I do. The true measure of an author’s success is the achievement of having published a literary work—not the number of book sales or royalties. And, also of importance—do not dwell on a negative review

What are you reading now?
In my zeal to support other Indie authors, my TBR list is growing. Currently, I’m finishing up A MIDSUMMER’S WISH by Tinthia Clemant, a Contemporary Women’s Fiction novel, and will write a review to post on Amazon.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Down the road a ways, I envision novel no. 3 beckoning me to organize and embellish the jumble of colliding thoughts ricocheting in my mind. Look out!

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?
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë’s only novel)
Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier)
Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell’s only novel)

Author Websites and Profiles
Eva Pasco Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a retired pharmacist, having worked in the profession for 42 years. My wife, Kitty, and I have been married 35 years and now live in New Braunfels, TX. The Prophet’s Secret is my first book and hopefully will not be my last.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Prophet’s Secret was inspired by an article about a letter, reportedly written by Jeremiah the prophet, mentioned in 2’nd Macabees of the Books of the Apocrypha. It stated that Jeremiah had taken the Jewish Tabernacle and all of the articles of worship from the Jewish Temple to Mount Nebo and hid them in a cave to protect them from invading armies from Babylon.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My writing habits are not very unusual. I do depend upon a number of life experiences and stories shared with me by ministers and missionaries for events in the manuscript.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Brock and Bodie Thoene, Tim LeHaye, Joel Rosenberg, Tim Ferguson, Frank Perritti, and Paul Maier. I loved J. R. R. Tolkien for his fabulous stories and prosaic style.

What are you working on now?
I am working on a sequel to The Prophet’s Secret, including the same central characters going on a whole new adventure.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
To date, I have some good results from FaceBook. I am currently expanding by searching for more promotion websites.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t be afraid to write. Choose your genre to suite yourself because there are plenty of potential readers who love the same one you love. Don’t worry about other people liking as long as you like it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
John D. McDonald said, “If you want to be a writer, then write.”

What are you reading now?
I just finished a trilogy by the Thoenes, When Jesus Wept, Take This Cup, and Behold This Man. I’m starting on Visitation by Frank Perritti.

What’s next for you as a writer?
In the immediate future, I will be promoting The Prophet’s Secret. Afterwards, I’ll finish a sequel to self publish.

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 first book would be the Bible (NIV), followed by the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, The God Portal and a pharmacognosy textbook for medicinal purposes.

Author Websites and Profiles
Ron Clark Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hey there! My name’s Spencer Spears and I’m an author of M/M romance, publishing on Amazon.com. I’ve written 3 novels and 2 novellas with more on the way! I’ve been writing since I was a kid but I’ve only been a published author since April, 2016. Writing is my dream job so I feel phenomenally lucky to get to do it every day. When not writing, you can find me reading, running, or eating tacos.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called Billion Dollar Bet and it’s inspired by my love of the lakes and woods in northern Minnesota and the way that opposites attract. It’s funny how sometimes, the person you click with best is the person you least expected. And if you can learn to let them into your heart, it can be life changing!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have to write barefoot. No idea why, but trying to write with socks and/or shoes on feels impossible. Maybe they’re impeding my creative juices!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Too many to name! But to pick a recent one, Marilynne Robinson’s Lila was sitting on my TBR pile for ages and I finally finished it and loved it. Her prose is so beautiful and it has sunk its hooks into my brain.

What are you working on now?
What are you working on now?
My next project! It’s top secret but it’ll be another M/M romance and I’m soooo excited about it.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I feel like I learn new websites and promotional methods every day, but I’d say that my mailing list and Facebook are two of the biggest components for me. Also, The Rainbow Shelf is a fantastic (free!) promo site for readers looking for M/M books and for authors looking to promote.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
There’s nothing magic about writing. Even though I’d spent my whole life creating stories, I always thought I couldn’t be a “real” author – that real authors had some sort of alchemy that made their books different from mine. But guess what? There’s no alchemy, no magic. It’s just sitting down at a computer and typing one word, then another, then another. It might not feel “real” to you, but it will absolutely be real to your readers. So don’t let fear keep you from trying like I did. Write something and send it out into the world. You’ll be amazed at what happens next

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
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What are you reading now?
Currently, I’m reading a great M/M romance called Our Reunion by Harper Logan. I’m also in the process of (slowly) rereading the entire Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson – but this time, in Spanish! It’s taking a while, but it’s great practice for keeping my language abilities up to snuff.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Who knows! The sky’s the limit…

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?
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Author Websites and Profiles
Spencer Spears Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I worked as a writer and director in film and television for most of my adult life. So, mastering the art of storytelling came from writing many, many teleplays and screenplays. My work has been produced on television and my feature length screenplays optioned by major studios and production companies.

When I decided to give writing a novel a try I chose to adapt one of my screenplays, “Black Shadow Moon,” mainly because it had been optioned three times by major production companies. Although none of those companies ever produced it, I new it was marketable from the attention it had received.

“Black Shadow Moon – Bram Stoker’s Dark Secret: The Story Of Dracula” was published October 2016 to excellent reviews. Prior to “Black Shadow Moon” I authored two non-fiction books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I just completed the sequel to my first novel, “Black Shadow Moon – Stoker’s Redemption” and the manuscript is currently with my editor. You might say I was “inspired” to write it by readers who kept asking me if there would be a sequel to the original book. Originally I had no sequel planned, but I gave in to the reader requests.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know that any of my writing habits are particularly unusual. Generally I’ll get an idea and carry it around in my head for several weeks, or sometimes months, mentally developing the concept and the story. Then I will sit down and quickly outline the story. Sometimes my outlines are very thorough and sometimes they’re not. When they’re not it’s usually because I’m too impatient to actually begin writing the book.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ve always enjoyed the novels of James Michener and Ken Follett. They are superb writers and their scope of research is always impressive. I also enjoy reading Stephen King, David Baldacci, James Patterson, and John Grisham.

What are you working on now?
I’m currently writing two novellas, both with stories told in the spirit of the old “Twilight Zone” television series.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m so new at the publishing business that I am still a student of marketing and promoting my books. Currently my author website, www.pgkassel.com, and my Amazon book page get the most traffic. I’m certain that once “Black Shadow Moon – Stoker’s Redemption” is published I’ll be initiating more effective promotions.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I taught screenwriting for over five years and never ceased to be amused by my student’s displaying shock and dismay at how difficult writing can be. The first thing I generally tell aspiring writers is to take the time to really learn what a story is. What elements are inherent in a good story? What is effective story structure? It’s surprising at how many new writers don’t really know what makes a good story work.

The second tip I give aspiring writers is to discipline themselves to sit at their keyboard and do the work. Start with fifteen minutes a day, and don’t leave your keyboard even if you spend the time just staring at the screen. It won’t take long before you actually being using that time to write something. Then expand the time to thirty minutes, and then forty-five, etc. Learning the discipline of writing every day will get you a finished book before you know it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
As a young screenwriter a good friend of mine, an immensely successful script analyst and story doctor, told me, “Great scripts aren’t written, they’re re-written.” The same adage applies to novels. A great novel is going to come to life out of one rewrite after the other until it is as perfect as it can be.

What are you reading now?
I recently read two of the John Milton books by Mark Dawson. Next on my list is “The Girl on the Train,” mainly because I’ve heard so much buzz about it.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have a suspense thriller series planned with an interesting, and hopefully ‘different’ protagonist that will be featured in each story. I’m working from a rough outline and already have several rough chapters done.

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?
This is a really tough question. I never like it when someone asks me what my favorite movie is, or my favorite music artist, or my favorite book. I like so much of what’s out there and it scrambles my mind to think of narrowing down the list to just a few titles. One title I can think of is a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle; there would be a wide variety of stories to read.

Author Websites and Profiles
P.G. Kassel Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am the second of six children.  Although I was born in Queens, NY, I grew up on my maternal grandparents’ farm in North Carolina.

My paternal grandparents immigrated to America during the Russian Revolution.  My father grew up in the magical city that never sleeps and met my mother after she came to New York City as a young nurse. When I was two, my parents moved to be near my mother’s family. I was blessed to be raised on a farm in North Carolina and also visit New York City throughout my childhood to visit my grandmother.

I was definitely a tomboy and I hated being inside. I was always ready for an adventure. I loved heading out the door and not coming home until dark.  The adventures were endless. Hide and seek was a summertime event.  Along with my brothers, sisters and cousins, I loved climbing the big pecan trees that covered my grandparents’ front yard with shade.

I am a graduate of Appalachian State University, where I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Concentration in Management.  I worked most of my adult life in the healthcare industry using my degree in administration.

With my childhood memories, and lots of imagination, I have written an exciting, family saga for readers young and old. In my seven book saga, I memorialize an old oak tree that was truly on the way down to the family pond.  It still stands today surrounded by a forest of younger trees.  The arrowhead that I featured in my books was actually found by one of my younger brothers.  And cats were everywhere.  One of my fondest memories was finding the new litters of kittens in the hayloft, in the granary or under my grandparents’ home.

I have an awesome family of humans, immediate and extended, and animals.  I cherish them dearly.  Although my first marriage ended in divorce, my ex and I were very involved parents with our one son being the most important thing in our lives. I am now engaged to a wonderful man, Henry, who I met years ago, but we waited until our children grew up to begin our lives together. He is the one person who actually told me to stop talking about writing that one book and just do it. I don’t believe he ever thought I would write seven.

I completed my seven book family saga in July 2015 and I have just recently published my first children’s picture book, “The SeaCrit Garden”.

Laura Beth is my pen name, as it was my birth name.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“The SeaCrit Garden” just came out for sale in July of this year. After selling our homes in Tampa, Henry and I bought a small beach condo. I was all by myself for seven days. As I walked along the beach near the surf, I continued to see this one particular rock. After noticing it over three times, I picked it up and took it home. I thought it resembled a sea lion and I decided to glue some sharks’ teeth for eyes, cat paw shells for front flippers and a rather large shark’s tooth as a back flipper. Hence, Sampson was created.

I got so excited I began picking up other animal looking coral or beach stones. That week I created Plato, which resembles a pelican or a platypus; Dink, which resembles a dinosaur; Duke, which resembles a dragon and adorable Mumba, which resembles a manatee to my eyes.

I was so excited to introduce my five SeaCrittures, as I decided to call them, to family and friends. When I introduced my creations to Henry, he looked at me and asked, “Are you okay?” Two of his co-workers had to have their very own SeaCritture for their desk!

Then, I packed them up and took them on a trip to North Carolina. I stopped in SC to visit my son in college and showed him my new creations. As Henry had done, my son laughed and looked at me. “Mom, I’m worried about you. You’re playing with rocks.”

When I reached my older brother’s and sister-in-law’s home, I introduced them to my five, adorable creations. They both laughed so hard that I began laughing. My brother kept looking at them and then at me and he would just burst into laughter. But everyone fell in love with them and soon they began getting one as a surprise. My sister-in-law placed hers in a flower pot. That is where I came up with “The SeaCrit Garden” title.

My twenty-seven-year-old niece, and all of her close friends, had to have one.

Still everyone was making fun of me, so I decided to create a book. This was very hard for me as I am not an drawing artist. I began taking pictures of our beach and I taught myself to create pictures using a cheap photo shopping program.

My artist friends are quite impressed. My sister, who is an awesome artist, was totally excited when she saw it. She now wants me to help her publish her first children’s book in the near future.

I have another book planned for my five SeaCrittures, but it may take a year or two as this one was over a two year project for me from Sampson to putting my book up for sale. I learned a lot and I still cannot believe I did it. My three-year-old great-niece calls it her comic book. She has her own SeaCritture and if you could have seen the look on her face when I presented it to her. It was classic. She looked at me like I was crazy, but I hear she is now accepting this strange, small creature.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I am not quite sure what you mean by unusual writing habits, but I do like to write poems whenever something hits me. I wrote a poem after 9/11. I wrote several poems when my wonderful nephew lost a battle to a very rare lung disease. I have so many writing ideas, but not enough time to devote to typing them all out.

I have written several short stories with the intention of publishing a book of short stories one of these days. Some people just don’t want to read a book, but they love the short stories in magazines. I used to read the magazine short stories and really loved some of them. I used to read a magazine from front to back. There is so much information in them. I love my AARP magazines and newspapers.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
As I wrote earlier, I was a tomboy and I was usually outside or with a cousin on their farm. I didn’t sit to read much unless I really had to read for school. My two most memorable books from my youth are “The Island of the Blue Dolphins” and “Star Girl”. Of course, I loved “Charlotte’s Web” and some other books. I loved reading out loud, which I did a lot in third grade. I read books throughout high school and college, but mainly those that were assigned to me. I worked most of my way through high school and college, so I didn’t have much time to devote to reading for pleasure.

When I was in my twenties, I moved to Tampa, FL. Besides my fiancé and my co-workers, I didn’t know anyone. I joined Doubleday Book Club and began reading books. I think I read twenty-two books in less than a year. I loved: “The Trail of Tears”, “One Thousand White Women”, “The Bronze Horseman”, “Zoya”, “Granny Dan”, “The Notebook” and others. I also want to mention I loved reading “Embraced By The Light” and “Questions From Earth, Answers From Heaven”. I am a believer.

I think you can see that I love historical fiction. I know I haven’t read but a tiny bit of what great works are out there. Now that I am writing, I find myself reading inspirational books for motivation. Oh, I love ghost and the stories about them. I have bought a couple of short books as “Ghosts From The Coast”.

What are you working on now?
Presently, I have two books in the works. When I had a writer’s block as I wrote my book, “Nadia’s Sweet Tea”, I got really frustrated and put it away for a couple of months. I began writing a book for the teenagers and older. I have my cover already designed, but my book needs quite a bit of research and I began rewriting it. I have lots of typing to do on this one.

My second book, which has more priority than the book I mentioned above, is for young boys. My son was a bit upset because he felt my seven book saga looked like it was for girls. It’s not, but the covers do give you that impression. Hey, I’m a girl and I grew up on a farm.

My son, who is a Sports Management major, is co-authoring this book with me. It’s going to be really cool and we’re dedicating it to his cousin, my nephew, who we lost several years back. It’s going to be about a sport, but also it’s going to have some cool history in it. My love for historical fiction is coming out. I have someone in the family who reads my chapters to give me a thumbs up or down. She is a retired teacher and she told she would have really loved history if she had been able to read a book that began like this. I think boys will love it.

I was hoping to have it done by the holidays, but I am not so sure. The entire book is outlined, but it’s filling up the chapters with words so the adventures are awesome. We want it to be a short book for young boys to enjoy and not dread reading. My son was a lot like his mom. He began playing sports at three and he didn’t enjoy sitting around reading. But when he did read, he really got into what he was reading and would tell me all about it. We want this to be one of those books.

I have began crocheting in the past year too. Along with my books, I am selling crocheted cat bookmarks. I did it just to see if they would be well received. Well, people are loving them. So, I’m crocheting quite a bit and I’m about to launch a first time ever holiday store with one of my sisters. It’s just something we’re trying out. I’m crocheting beanies and hand warmers and my sister is making the most beautiful jewelry from shells I collected from my beach. She’s quite amazing with her what she can create.

Of course, people have a choice to also get a book along with a beanie and a set of hand warmers, which would be great when you’re reading a book and your hands are cold!!!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I strongly believe meeting people face to face is the best way to promote my books. There are so many choices out there and I haven’t done a book signing yet without selling at least five books. I believe handing out bookmarks is the second best way.

I tried the Facebook page, but I took it down when people began stating their personal life information on it. It just didn’t seem to get people to talk about my books or buy them. That was before I finished my series, so I may try again. I may try blogging, but I don’t want to begin something I won’t keep up with on a regular basis.

I have had a website since I began my first book and I have changed it up for the third time and I really like it. I get lots of compliments by other authors, friends and family. I need to work on the exposure as I had it analyzed and I was told it was all good with the exception of needing more exposure. I have helped another author learn website building and I have recently been asked by two older women, one being an artist and one being an author, to help them build a website.

I have my books set up in three small town stores and I am getting good results. With our four children all in college or out, my fiancé and I are in search of our retirement home and we are traveling quite a bit. I am able to promote my books along the way.

As I found your site, I try and introduce myself and my books now that I am certain that people are really enjoying the read. I have done some free Kindles and I have seen quite a few downloaded, as well as I have had sells in Great Britain, Japan and a few other countries. This is always exciting.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
It’s never too late to become an author. When you have an idea, build upon it with an outline for your chapters and try to envision how you want the book to end. I wrote the last chapter of my final book when I knew I was going to have to write multiple books to tell my story. It really helped me. The last book almost wrote itself. My last chapter had to change a bit, but it ended almost the exact way as I wrote it years earlier with different names and a different chapter title.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t stop promoting and never take the “sorry, but your books are just not what I am looking for right now.”

What are you reading now?
I am trying to read through the Bible and it’s been a two year project for me. I just read “Ghosts of New Bern”, as I am visiting here. I haven’t read a lot in the past two years, other than trying to read The Bible. I have been writing and crocheting.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I believe I will be writing as long as my fingers are able to type. The more books I can type out before I leave this world, the better. If I should be blessed with grandchildren and great-grandchildren, they will have something to either remember me by or to know me.

I just received a note from an eight-year-old distant cousin, who received my books for her 8th birthday from her great-aunt, my cousin. She drew me a picture of her new cat and told me she was going to read my “JILLIE And Her Sassy Cat” first, because she loved her new kitten so much. That made my day. She doesn’t know me, but now she kind of does.

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 Holy Bible”, because I would have plenty of time to get through it and I believe I will have plenty of time to really understand the word. It’s a hard read, especially The Old Testament.
“Island of the Blue Dolphins” would be a must. I would be living out the story!
“The Largest Book Of Survival”, which I just made up to include everything from building a structure, to building a canoe, to catching fish and maybe island clothing.
A book of memories with pictures of my family. I could look at pictures for hours and enjoy the memories. My son used to get so mad when I would take pictures at his basketball tournaments and all of his teammates would see me and they would shout “Memories!”. I love those memories.

Author Websites and Profiles
Laura Beth Website
Laura Beth Amazon Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Well, I’m 30.. a successful real estate entrepreneur, and this is my first book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
How To Get Loans For A Black Business With Bad Credit.

I was inspired to write this book after realizing all the pitfalls that a black business owner has to go through to get funding for his business. Maybe I can help by letting people know about alternative routes.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I might get up in the middle of the night sometime and write.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Ice Burg Slim straight up …too bad we don’t have writers like him anymore.

What are you working on now?
Just promoting my book. “How To Get Loans For A Black Business With Bad Credit

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
TheUrbanRapport.com

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Take your time and get it right the first time. You can’t rush a master piece.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Find someone who lives the life you want to live and do what they do.

What are you reading now?
Nothing

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m working on theurbanrapport.com first magazine which will be out in about a week. Then I have two books I plan on writing next year. The first will be released before the summer and the second one will be released around this time.

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?
Pimp, white widow mother, and ice burg slim

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Sejj Jackson Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Classics graduate from Trinity College, Cambridge and had a successful career in the insurance industry. I co-authored two books on public sector risk management which were adopted by the Institute of Risk Management as their standard text books.
Since retiring I have had the opportunity to develop his interests, mainly reading, writing and thinking or, as my wife puts it, locking myself away in my office for a few hours a day. In particular I have been blogging and writing in my tongue-in-cheek, irreverent style about the quirks, idiocies and idiosyncrasies of life, both modern and ancient. My latest book, Fifty Clever Bastards, reflects this change in direction.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called Fifty Clever Bastards. I have always been fascinated by inventors and Fifty Clever Bastards is my paean to human ingenuity and a celebration of those who came unstuck in some way.
Have you ever stopped to wonder who invented the magnetic strip and PIN on your credit card, the ATM, the computer mouse, the conference call facility on your office phone, the telephone – all things that we take for granted as we go about our daily life? Have you assumed that their light-bulb moment opened up the path to untold fame and fortune?
The ability to spot a problem and develop a solution is a truly wonderful and awe-inspiring gift but for many inventors that is the easy bit. In Fifty Clever Bastards I shine the spotlight on 50 individuals who in their different ways made a major contribution to the way we live our life today.
The inventor’s lot is not always a happy one. When you are pushing at the barriers of human knowledge and technology, things can go disastrously wrong. If your invention doesn’t kill you – and in these pages you will find some whose demise was caused by their inventions – you may not profit from your endeavours either because somebody rips you off or you haven’t the financial resources to make it commercially available. Sometimes your invention is just so game-changing that out of a spirit of philanthropy you give it gratis for humanity to enjoy.
Each brief, slightly tongue-in-cheek pen picture concentrates as much on what happened after they hit upon their idea as what the idea was itself. After all, that is the more interesting part. Within the book you will find aviators from the first millennium CE, pioneers of transportation from bicycles and submarines to aeroplane trains, inventors of the zip, light bulb and the match. You will find that many who took the acclamation for an invention, weren’t the ones who came up with the idea in the first place. Life can be cruel sometimes.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Early morning and plenty of caffeine

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I wouldn’t say I have any specifically direct influences but I like pithy, witty, opinionated writing. I read a lot and along the way I’m sure lots of influences have lodged subconsciously in my brain.

What are you working on now?
I am working on a book, provisionally called Fifty Curious Questions, which seeks to answer some of those nagging questions that sometimes strike us and we have either just assumed we know the answer or haven’t had the time to find out.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Word of mouth and social media

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be brave and follow your dreams

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never be afraid to make your own mistakes

What are you reading now?
Purity by Jonathan Franzen

What’s next for you as a writer?
To extend my range of subject matter and to write more succinctly and wittily

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?
My favourite books are Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and George Eliot’s Middlemarch so they would have to come and because of their size would allow me to while away many hours. I also love Catch 22, the best book about World War 2.

Author Websites and Profiles
Martin Fone Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Her other published works include Shine published by Faith and Reason Publishing in 2013, Dragon Tears in 2014, and The Journey Home released in late 2015 all from Faith and Reason Publishing. Her story The Owl and the Pussycat will appear in the box set Love Potion #9 on September 1, 2016, and her award-winning novel, When You Wish Upon A Star is scheduled to be re-released in September, 2016 by Faith and Reason Publishing.

She has a Master of Arts in Religion from Northwest Nazarene University, and a Masters of Liberal Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a retired college English professor, and is a lifelong learner, who takes continual college level MOOC courses on anything that piques her interest. She is an avid animal activist and owns five rescue dogs and six ornery cats, and is active in slaughter horse rescue.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“When you Wish Upon A Star” will be released in mid-October and was inspired from my personal experience as an abused wife. It is a romantic suspense novel with the HEA ending that I personally love and found eventually.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No, none really, but I have been know to get up at 2 a.m for its feeding, and back to bed at 6 a.m once the “baby” had been put safely to bed for the night

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Issac Asminov, Robert heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, Grimms Fairytales and Hans Christian Andersen

What are you working on now?
The next book in the Dragon Tears series. It is titled, “Dragon Songs.”

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Networking and researching the Internet for sites like yours

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Never give up, and even if you cannot write that day, do something related to writing like research or marketing. As long as you never give up and do something related to the field you are a writer.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never give up, and even if you cannot write that day, do something related to writing like research or marketing. As long as you never give up and do something related to the field you are a writer.

What are you reading now?
The complete books of James Herriot and Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews

What’s next for you as a writer?
My goal is to hit the USA Today and the NY Times bestseller lists. Almost made it with this box set. The next one will, I hope.

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 complete works of Dickens, the complete works of Shakespear and the complete works of Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Author Websites and Profiles
Nancy Segovia Website
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