Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Amit Tiwari is a certified JDE developer worked with Mphasis and IBM. Currently founder at ART Info Solution.
Amit Tiwari was born in 1991, In a small town Bhind located in Madhya Pradesh state in india.Amit Tiwari started his career with mphasis in 2015 As a JDE.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is the Mysterious wind . I was inspired with the story of my freind do you can say that my latest book is inspired from a true story

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No , I don’t have

What authors, or books have influenced you?
J. K. Rowling And Stephen King

What are you working on now?
Currently I a working on a fiction book ,my latest book genre is romantic but I want to change the genre so currently I am working on a fiction book and the book is ready to publish.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I find Amazon’s own advertising tools for Kindle are a good, strong base to start with. Other free promotion sites like AwesomeGang , e-book reader is also a good option for promoting your book

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write for fun, Nobody knows who you are, and almost nobody will care about your book. YOU need to care about your book, though! If you’re not having fun with the whole process, or are only concerned with making money Another thing that would be helpful for new authors is to make sure that when you receive positive comments about your book in person, that you ask the reader to post them to your website and or review section for Amazon.

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

What are you reading now?
An Fiction book

What’s next for you as a writer?
continue my writing and I’m really hoping to grow wings as an author.

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 Geeta , The secrect of Nagas , The pendulum

Author Websites and Profiles
Amit Tiwari Amazon Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I grew up on Perdido Key, Florida.I have written four of the five books in the Perdido Key novels. Finishing up the last one. I currently reside with my childhood sweetheart and our five children just a few miles from there.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Perdido Key books are inspired by the place I call home and the locals. Places and people who are no longer there. I attempted to preserve the memory of some of them.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Like many writers I have pieces and parts of stories, novels, and poetry. I have scraps of characters, plots and settings all over the place. They are written on scraps of paper and in notes on my computer and in my phone. Most of which are complete ideas but not completely written. As I work through actually completing a novel I have learned just as much if not more about myself as I am about the process of writing. For instance, did you know that you can procrastinate for several minutes just by staring inside the refrigerator even when you aren’t hungry? Or that If you snuggle your loved one, taking a nap is easier than forming sentences?
I guess my most unusual writing habit is writing at a table where my love and his friends are playing D&D. It is loud and the creative energy is amazing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love Hemingway and his no nonsense straight forward writing style. Also, I like poetry, though I can’t write it. I like the Brownings, Robert and Elizabeth. I feature Robert Browning’s poetry in my book Almost There (Perdido Key book 2). I am a closet Sylvia Plath fan. She was incredibly insightful.

What are you working on now?
Currently we, my partner and I, are collaborating on a high fantasy series to include the band of travelers you can meet in his cookbook (Gadlin O’Hale’s Fantastic Recipes by Brendan O’Gara) more like cookbook fantasy exploit. Think princess bride meets the everyday gourmet. The story will take you ,dear reader, on a journey through strange new lands where you will meet fantastic creatures and witty characters.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Still looking for a magic place for promoting. I am no marketing genius.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing. Do not give up!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Listen to your heart. Trust your heart. Your mind will lie to you but your heart will always tell you the truth. It will always tell you what you need. Your heart is always right. Easy yet not. Simple yet complicated. Predictable however unfathomable.
Listen to your heart. Always.

What are you reading now?
The Keeper of Lost Things
A Novel

by Ruth Hogan

What’s next for you as a writer?
I plan to keep writing and publishing books. One every six months…at least. Finish the Perdido Key novels, write amazing fantasy stories and then work on a new drama series called The Last Ones. I will write whether anyone reads them or not. I hope they do find readers. It would be sad if my book friends just hang out on the shelf and no one loves them.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Oh this is a difficult question. I would have to bring The Hobbit, The House at the Edge of Night, and at least two Doctor Who novels.

Author Websites and Profiles
Lori O’Gara Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m American, but I live in the UK. I’m a IT Manager by trade and work daily with computers.

I’ve written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. Most of the non-fiction is around my main area of interests which are learning new languages and self-development. My fiction tends to run towards the action, thriller or swords and sorcery books. I like a lot of action and intrigue in the books I read.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is Africian Extrication, which is book one of the “Les Retraités” series. It is a a series about a man who has retired from the French Foreign Legion. The “Les Retraités” is a semi-secret society over 150 years old. The men who have retired from the legion, ex-legionaries, who have formed an elite secret society, a society who’s only membership requirement is your certificate of honneur et fidélité.

I was inspired to write it after reading about the Legion and interviews with ex-members of the regiment.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
It probably isn’t that unusual, but I almost always use the Pomodoro technique to write. This is when you set an egg-timer for a fixed amount of time and try to write as much as you can in that time. I find it helps me to focus and the constant ticking of the timer really motivates me to go faster.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
When I was a kid I found a book series called “The Destroyer” originally by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir. I really liked the action and the humour in the books. Most of the other books I read were in the Fantasy or Science Fiction genre.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on way to much stuff! I’m just getting my reviews back for the second book in the “Les Retraités” series from my beta-readers, and my editor. That should be published in November. I’m outlining the third book in the series, while writing a separate stand-alone thriller set in Singapore. At the same time I’m also writing one other stand-alone fantasy book, and outlining other books in two fantasy series I have written. I’m also sporadically writing a historical fiction novel about the first Afghan war.

Now you see why I have to use the Pomodoro technique!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I really haven’t found a best way. I normally post my books out to Facebook or Twitter and some advertisements on Amazon. I really need to get better at marketing, but I’m so busy writing.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
For writing, I highly recommend the Pomodoro technique to keep yourself focused, and if you’re going to be prolific, then you really need to outline first. It will save you a lot of going back and editing later. If you do go off-piste of the outline, it is easier to rewrite an outline than a novel. Trust me, I have been there.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Well repeating some advice I heard a long time ago. Get your author profile picture taken when you’re young. If like me you’ve failed that already, then try to get a good professional one taken.

Read a lot. repeat.

What are you reading now?
I’m rereading Stephen Kings, Dark Tower in French and I’m also reading “Les rois maudits – Tome 1” which is about the French Monarchy in medieval times. Is a historical fiction book which rumour has it influenced George Martin before he wrote the Game of Thrones.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Write, write, write and try to learn some marketing. Because I have three open ended series on the go at the moment and a couple of stand alone books as well I doubt I’ll do anything else for the next 12 months except write.

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?
Robinson Crusoe, because he is stranded too.
The Stand by Stephen King
The first 3 Dune books by Frank Herbert

Author Websites and Profiles
Rick Dearman Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a Brazilian writer, I do this since I was just a little kid… Now I’m trying to make a tiny bit of money with this job. I have depression because I was diagnosed with panic disorder since I was 3, but it is good because I can find shelter in my books. To be 100% sincere, I’ve tried a lot of jobs, but my condition prevents me from getting a job, so I’m “forced” to do what I love – writing. Its kinda like a good part of having this stuff.
I’ve already finished 6 books, but I write most of them in Portuguese and English, so I’m reaching 10 or 11 books released (in 4 or 5 months). Still, I think I have to improve myself and release books more often…

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My last one is a compilation of my first horror texts, it is called “Steps Into Madness: Horror Pack” – yet to be released in Portuguese, but already available in English. I have a lot of stuff that inspires me… From nature itself to authors and artists… Lovecraft will always have a special place in my heart, but I might write stuff inspired on Clive Barker’s movies, or Junji Ito’s mangas… Or even a situation or news… Even a simple bath can bring enough inspiration to write a book…
I mean, something small as an ant, an atom. Nature is way too complex to be contained inside words, and we have our years of life to try to describe it with limited human minds and vocabulary…

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m a very unusual person… I don’t do drugs, not even alcohol, but I love mint pastilles and, when I’m writing an action scene, I’ll just chew my pastilles like crazy. I’ll also bite my nails, the skin on the tip of my fingers or lips (If pastilles are not around).
I tend to wake up, write in portuguese until afternoon, exercise and take a bath, come back to translate what I’ve written, so both versions of a book are released – almost – in the same day.
I write listening to anime/gaming music, since it might have no lyrics and I won’t get distracted.
I type a lot using a Bluetooth keyboard connected to my phone, because my PC is older than the oldest one I’ve ever seen, and I can keep it from overheating… And keep myself from overheating, because my country is hot and I can carry my keyboard and phone around.
I’ve also released books with characters/monsters that I’ve seen during dreams (Pale Shadows in the Depths is an example of that).

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Lovecraft, Terry Pratchett, Junji Ito, Hajime Isayama, Hideo Kojima, Clive Barker… And many others, also, life itself.

What are you working on now?
On a fantasy/mystery story about humanity living inside an island, and the world around them is completely wild, with beautiful animals and nature manifestation… BUT, during the night there are things that appear outside the last human city… Those beings are tall, thin humanoids that try to invade houses without making too much noise. Easily scared, the invaders seem run until the day they find a new way to enter the city and reveal their savage instincts…
It has some deaths, some violence, but the mystery is the main thing, bringing questions like:
What happened to the rest of humanity? What are these creatures? Why are they doing what they do? Why they only come at night?

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
To be frank, I’m trying awesomegang.com because depression keeps me from having tons of friends to share stuff.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write, don’t copy, don’t go with the flow (just browse the number of erotic books being sold and you will know what I mean), don’t be afraid of writing weird stuff, don’t think about money (wish I could follow this advice), try to make your body strong enough to type and do what your mind already stores.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
No one ever knows how things will turn out. So choose for yourself, whichever decision you will regret the least.

What are you reading now?
Shingeki no Kyoujin (manga) – Because I think it is one of the most inspiring stuff I’ve ever seen.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Write more, publish more and MAYBE, make some money…

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?
A biology encyclopedia, a botanical encyclopedia and some survival guide. I would live happily until my last days!

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I currently reside in Rutland VT. I am employed full-time as a Certified Tumor Registrar. I have three post-secondary degrees. An associate’s degree in business administration, a bachelor’s degree in organization management and a master of science degree in health services administration.

This is my first of hopefully many science fiction/fantasy books. This series of books, Land of Jonrah, will be at least three books long.

I enjoyed reading many science fiction/fantasy books. It is my favorite genre. Some of my favorite science fiction/fantasy authors are the late Robert Jordan, L.E. Modesitt and Terry Goodkind.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I am currently working on Book 2 of The Land of Jonrah series. It will be at least a three book series. As stated above, my favorite genre is sci-fi/fantasy. I have been wanting to sit down and write a book for sometime. One day I just decided to bite the bullet, and about a year later, my first book was done.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. I always keep 3 x 5 cards handy in case something comes to me when I am out and want to write it down before I forget it.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Robert Jordan, L.E. Modesitt, Terry Goodkind just to name a few.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on Book 2 of The Land of Jonrah series: The resurrection of Argent.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m not really sure. I usually just boost a post on Facebook, but for this particular genre that doesn’t seem to work as well. I did a Google search for free ebook promotion sites and this site was listed there. This is only the second site I have visited so far.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
It’s not easy and it takes time. It’s been almost a whole year since my first book was published. And, as I said, I am working a full-time job. I do a lot of my writing on weekends and days when I’m off. I have to schedule the time. I’m one of those people who has to plan things out.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I can’t remember anything specific at this time.

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading through my 2nd book, The resurrection of Argent. Hoping to have it ready to publish by the end of this week.

What’s next for you as a writer?
On to book number 3.

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?
Probably all of my books I have on writing. I still consider myself to be a newbie author and I am always going back and forth between these types of books for inspiration.

Author Websites and Profiles
Cindy Zhn Website
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Cindy Zhn’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi there,

My name is Derek Hampton. I’m 24 years old and am currently hunting my master’s degree at FSU. I love reading, writing, and video games, and consider myself a pretty open guy. I just finished self-publishing my first novel and am very nervous about the whole thing.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
As I said, my first book just came out and it’s “The Sufferer’s Chronicle – Book 1: The Soul Prison”. After giving up being a video game designer in my late teens, I decided to adopt a game idea into a book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I made it a bad habit to drink coffee if I’m writing. Now, any time I want to sit down and get something out, I HAVE to have a cup of coffee.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
To steal from my own website, “Some of the biggest inspirations in my writing are the Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones by HBO (based on the aforementioned book series by Martin), World of Warcraft and several accompanying novels by Blizzard Entertainment and Christie Golden, and even Dungeons & Dragons by Wizards of the Coast.”

What are you working on now?
I’m actually writing a company history book for the engineering titan Danfoss Turbocor. Having to do a lot of interviews and factual writing is an odd shift from my usual fantasy, but is helping me become a more robust writer.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Frankly, I don’t know! I’m still learning and trying to expand my network. I hope working with Awesomegang will help us both!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
READ, READ, READ! When I first started writing I was resistant to read, as I felt it would muddy my own ideas. My fiancee would always chastise me about it. Oof, I had to eat my pride. Looking at other material helps expand your mind and give you points of view you may have never considered! Especially today, do not neglect reading!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My old art teacher from middle/high school, Al Baruch. He’d tell you you’re great, then break down everything that could be improved on with the work. He always reminded me, that no matter what anyone says, good or bad, you can never give up. I took that to heart and live by that even today.

What are you reading now?
Emily’s Saga. Travis Bughi, the author, was kind enough to give away the complete series on reddit. I’ve only started it, but it definitely has my recommendation!

What’s next for you as a writer?
If people want more Sufferer’s Chronicle, they shall receive. I’ve also been playing around with the idea of a horror comedy involving a celebrity and his stalker.

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?
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin, Ranger’s Apprentice Book 3: The Icebound Land by John Flanagan, Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War by Christie Golden, and Eragon by Christopher Paolini.

Author Websites and Profiles
Derek Hampton Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi! My name is Russell Holbrook. I’m 42 years old, married, and my wife and I live in Mableton, GA, a neighborhood on the west end of Atlanta where I’ve spent most of my life. I’ve been reading, writing, and listening to Heavy Metal since a very young age. Concerning my artistic output, my mother once asked with a deep sigh, “Why can’t you make something that’s uplifting to the human spirit?” Apparently, I never gave her a satisfactory answer. I’ve written four books so far. Three have been novellas and my most recent release, Lucy Furr, is my first full-length novel.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Lucy Furr is my latest book and my first full-length novel. It was inspired by my cat, Lucy Furr, who was an absolute joy and a total terror when she was young. I gave her the name “Lucy Furr” when she was a baby kitten because she was always getting into some kind of mischief. I loved her dearly and we were very close. When we lived alone she would occasionally bring me dead birds in the morning or leave a gutted squirrel behind my writing desk for me to find when I got home from work. When she was hit by a car and killed in 2012, I was devastated.
While this book was written over the last year, the story idea began in 2005. By 2009 it was a feature-length screenplay and by 2011 said screenplay was collecting dust in a drawer. When I was making a list of book ideas in 2013 I realized that I would like to novelize the Lucy Furr script. However, I avoided it because of the emotional pain involved. Then, in 2016 I felt like I could finally write the novel and in 2017 I actually did.
Novelizing Lucy Furr was an integral part of my own grief process regarding the loss of my most beloved kitty cat as well as that part of my life that was lost with her. It is also my tribute to her, a cat the likes of which I have never known and may never know again.
In addition to Lucy Furr herself, other elements in the book were inspired by the prominence of the Christian religion in our town, being surrounded by conservatives, and the weird Orwellian times that we’re currently living in.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. I sit at a little desk like pretty much everyone else and write on a laptop with a cool, retro-style keyboard that my wife gave me for my birthday.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I feel like I’m influenced by everything I read, but I’ve definitely found huge inspiration in the works of C.V. Hunt, Jeff O’Brien, and Carlton Mellick III, whose books Ritualistic Human Sacrifice, Bigboobenstein, and Apeshit are huge to me. I also love reading Ryan Harding, Stephen King, Richard Laymon, and Jack Ketchum, so I’m sure they’ve influenced me in one way or another. Also, Walt Disney’s illustrated Peter Pan was very, very important to me, especially as a child. My mom read it to me every night for I don’t know how long and it still sits safe on our bookshelf. And, I must admit, The Bible has also been a big influence, I’m just not quite sure how to articulate how.

What are you working on now?
Right now I’m working on promoting Lucy Furr and doing some editing work on a new novelette called Chandler Bolt Versus Dehumanizer, a campy story about an author fending off an otherworldly monster who’s pestering the author to help him with his unfinished manuscript.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have no idea, haha! This is something that I’m really just beginning to learn about because in the past I was always so timid about any sort of self-promotion. My only promotion experience comes from what I learned playing in punk, metal, and indie rock bands, which is: book an event, make fliers, and tell everyone you know about it. So, I organize and put on release parties for my books, but now I’m learning about online promotion. I suppose I use Facebook more than anything else at this point, just through writing posts and creating pages for the books. Awesomegang is awesome, though!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I’m still a new author, so I don’t really have any advice. I just want to encourage everyone to keep writing what’s in your heart and stick to what you believe in. I agree with Brenda Ueland, who said “Everyone is talented and has something to say”. That quote is so rad, and so, so true! Keep that belief close, and do it, just write! Let it out! There’s nothing stopping any of us from becoming amazing writers other than our own unbelief! We can do this!!!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I always scoffed at practical advice when I was younger and now I truly regret that, haha! A great piece of practical advice I heard came from Joe R. Lansdale. Regarding being a writer, he advised that aspiring authors make sure to have a way to financially support themselves that they at least somewhat enjoy and that allows them time to devote to writing. I’m totally paraphrasing, but I agree. We all have to support ourselves and our families, and being a starving artist really isn’t all that.

What are you reading now?
At the moment I’m reading The Halloween Man by Douglas Clegg. It’s the October selection for the Horror book club that I belong to here in town. As soon as I finish it I plan on diving right into Home is Where the Horror Is by C.V. Hunt. After that, I have to make up my mind on which ’80s paperback Horror novel I want to check out from my to-be-read bookcase/personal library.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I just want to keep learning and practicing the craft and working on becoming the best writer I can be. I’m fully devoted to the Horror genre and I want to continue to become more active in the community and contribute and help out as much as I can in whatever ways are possible. Oh, and conventions! I want to go to all the conventions!

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 Dark Thoughts on Writing by Stanley Wiater because this wonderful collection of quotes and interview excerpts from Horror writers is truly comforting and inspiring, Duma Key by Stephen King because it’s climate appropriate and I really love it, The Stand (uncut version) by Stephen King because it’s really long and I might be able to stretch it out until I got rescued, and, I’ve also heard there’s lots of hidden symbolism in there and that you have to re-read the book to really get it. Lastly, I’d take any Christopher Pike Omnibus I could find, because he freakin’ rules.

Author Websites and Profiles
Russell Holbrook Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
The Counter Terrorist is my maiden attempt at fiction writing. Now about me:

Robert Donator writes about what’s important and not just what is interesting. He sides with difficult ideologies and unpopular arguments. To muzzle an individual who struggles with history and an ideology turns him into a dangerous figure in times that command great conformity. This book may be barred in India as it demolishes several sacred shibboleths promoted by political parties.

Robert, an intense observer of Indian politics and an occasional writer is a descendant of Englishmen who came to India to serve the British crown was born in May 1966. His grandfather Nigel, as a major in the British army saw action against the Japanese in Burma under Field Marshall Sir William Slim. Robert’s father Richard became a part of the legatees of John Company or the East India Company. He became a tea planter in the hills of Darjeeling, the same place where Robert grew up and went to school. His two siblings, both sisters, went away to London to settle down there after finishing their schooling in Kurseong, in the district of Darjeeling.

However, Robert who was too much in love with Bengal and India had decided to settle down in Calcutta permanently, which was once the capital of Lord Robert Clive’s business empire. It later became the first capital of the British government in India before it was shifted to Delhi. He is married to Dipti, a quintessential Bengali who hails from an old aristocratic family of Calcutta. They had met at a golf club of which they are both active members. They have two sons, Prasun and Sujon who though they found cricket more alluring than their studies, yet managed to pursue higher studies in New College, Oxford.

Robert is a tea taster with a former British firm now under Indian ownership in Calcutta. He lives in the same sprawling bungalow that his grandfather had built decades ago in Alipore, surrounded by stately trees with acres of green lawns interspersed with flower beds of various hues, which both he and Dipti personally nurture with much care. They still play their rounds of golf starting at dawn at the green Tollygunj Club, whenever they are not holidaying in exotic locations. Otherwise, it is tennis or the swimming pool that keeps them active in the event of the golf course becoming out of bounds due to the vagaries of nature.

What began as a casual diary for recording his reactions to world events, specifically to matters relating to escalating Islamist terrorism that has affected India no less, he took to writing seriously. Out of his meticulously researched efforts, a political thriller, a maiden attempt he has called The Counter Terrorist has emerged. It is about an ordinary young man rudely jettisoned from a cozy life of domesticity and thrust into an unfamiliar life of a detested and short-lived Jihadi. Can he survive in such violence charged surroundings of which he had no desire to be a part?

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Counter Terrorist. It is inspired by the fact that trying to eradicate terrorism by force alone will not work like trying to wipe out malaria by spraying insecticides. Only a counter force from within can tackle it by striking it at its roots.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes, I write against the mainstream that endorses politically correct writings with an eye on winning awards and good reviews from the Left and Liberal cabals that control public opinion to compel people to stay within the parameters set by them. I have my own rules that refuses to fall within any watertight compartment like Right Wing, Leftist, Liberal etc.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Too numerous to list here as it includes classics, contemporary fiction, thrillers, religious books, management books, books on psychology etc.

What are you working on now?
My second book also a fiction with action and adventure as its central theme where a lone wolf tries to rectify things he feels needs to be set right without being accountable to anyone but his own conscience.

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
You can write the best books in the market but unless they get reviews they won’t sell as people will be moved when others have liked it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Show don’t tell.

What are you reading now?
The five Hadiths of Islam

What’s next for you as a writer?
My next book tentatively titled The Tyranny of Memories

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.How to make a tent out of leaves and branches. 2. Spearfishing in the sea. 3. Making potable water from seawater. 4. How to make fire out of dry leaves and twigs.

Author Websites and Profiles
Robert Donator Website
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Robert Donator’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
One book now. Working on the second. I am an engineer and freelance consultant. He is the founder of DeveNova Consulting. He works in the field of new product development, project management, ergonomics, and idea management with 21 years of diverse international experience. He has several publications in engineering, management, and education.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The latest is my first. It is : From Panic To Success: My Journey to Control Diabetes without Medication. I am a diabetic. I controlled my diabetes with a lifestyle change. I succeeded after I was scared of my diagnosis…I am sharing my story to inspire people. If I can make you can make it.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Lots of them like Carnegie, rich dad poor dad, etc

What are you working on now?
A book on how bad managers destroy the employee morale

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Hit the YouTube it’s full resources. But be careful not to pick outdated info.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Work hard and reward will follow

What are you reading now?
Mars and Venus together forever

What’s next for you as a writer?
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?
The secret, management consulting, idea machine

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written seven novels, one novella and taken part in one anthology.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
THE SLIGHTLY ALTERED HISTORY OF CASCADIA is my newest novel, published fall of 2017. I primarily write mysteries, but this book is my first fantasy.

I believe world events have caused me to think a great deal about good and evil, and the unending conflict between them. This fantasy is about the gods admitting they screwed up in the creation of humans. They create a spirit whose job is to find out what’s wrong with people and fix the problem before the gods give up on the whole damn planet. The book was a lot of fun to write and hopefully, a lot of fun to read. How can you miss with a flying bear, a sexy Helen of Troy, a logging horse and a whole host of bad apples?

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
1. Coffee. Way too much coffee.
2. I ignore the good advice of getting the plot down then going back to revise. I plot and polish as I go, so it is a slow process.
3. I have a critique group I trust. It took a long time to find such a group but it is well worth the effort.
4. While writing, I go deaf. Doesn’t matter what the noise level around me is, I can tune it out.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Wow! This list could go on forever. But instead of thanking Shakespeare, here is the most immediate group.

1. I have written psychological fiction in LESSONS OF EVIL and A TIME OF SECRETS. I think Thomas H. Cook is brilliant at building a psychological story … give The Chatham School Affair a try.
2. For dark subjects, Andrew Vachss is a master at ‘open wounds’ as deeply as some things deserve.
3. I write a mystery series of PI Bear Jacobs books. I call them cozies with bite because beneath their humor, they tell dark stories. I believe Louise Penny’s series is a terrific example of modernized cozies. I love how she slowly laces her stories together, making the reader surrounded by her characters.

What are you working on now?
I am a genre jumper which, in terms of sales, is deadly to an author, but what the hell, it makes me happy. So I am working on a historic novel, set on the Oregon coast in the 1890s.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I pulled books off all other sites and stick with Kindle Select. This allows me to be part of the rental program. Since my books tend to hold readers, and since Amazon payments are in part related to number of pages read, I actually can make more on a book that is rented than sold.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
1. Learn to write deep. If you have to worry about what your mother will think, you won’t do your best work.
2. Know your goal. Knowing what you want to accomplish will lead you to making right decisions about how/when to publish.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
This may not be the best advice I ever heard, but it is the best I discovered:

Eavesdrop. If you are going to be good at dialog, listen to any conversation you can in which you are not a participant. Listen to the ebb and flow. I guarantee it will improve your dialog writing.

What are you reading now?
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

What’s next for you as a writer?
My friend Heidi Hansen and I have formed a group called Olympic Peninsula Authors which gives a voice to the many fine authors who work out here in the far NW corner of Washington State. We are editing for others, offering seminars, and helping them format for self-publishing.

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?
New York Times crossword puzzles
Still Life by Louise Penny
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Whatever Bill Bryson writes next

Author Websites and Profiles
Linda B. Myers Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was born and raised in the Caribbean, on a healthy dose of science fiction. Everything from Star Trek to Star Wars, Stargate to Firefly, Space Above and Beyond to Farscape. During my spare time I enjoy reading many independently published fiction novels, from the Man of War series to The Lost Starship and Black Fleet to The Expanse.

I’ve written three space opera books. United Star Systems books 1,2 & 3 .
Border Worlds
Beyond the Frontier
Unite the Frontier

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Latest book is Unite the Frontier. It is inspired by the friendships, loyalty and sacrifices seen on series such as Stargate, Firefly and Farscape. It’s a light-hearted story but touches on serious themes, honor, loyalty, betrayal, friendships…all in space with small starship skirmishes to large fleet battles and galaxy spanning adventure.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Sometimes I listen to certain music when writing certain scenes.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Man of War series to The Lost Starship and Black Fleet to The Expanse.

LA GRAF. Dean Wesley Smith. Michael Jan Friedman. Dianne Carey. MR Forbes, Vaughn Heppner, J Dalzelle, Nick Webb, Glynn Stewart, Jasper Scott

What are you working on now?
Book four in the United Star Systems series

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Haven’t settled on one.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing, keep publishing.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Shoot first.

What are you reading now?
Crimson Tempest by Anthony James

What’s next for you as a writer?
More 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?
1) How to get off a desert island
2) How to survive on a desert island
3) How not to get stranded on a desert island again
4) Bible

Author Websites and Profiles
J. Malcolm Patrick Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I grew up in the Midwest and graduated with honors from Princeton University. After graduation, he spent five years in Europe studying literature and preparing to teach meditation. He taught meditation full-time for two years before serving as the Vice President of Sales for seven successful high-tech startup companies. In 2005, he retired from the business world to concentrate on writing.

I have written the 9-book series “Remembering Eternity,” a double international bestseller, as well as “The Whisper of a Saint.”

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“The Whisper of a Saint”
My writing deals with spiritual Enlightenment, the goal of attaining permanent happiness. This book was inspired by my meeting with a truly Enlightened Master and my experience with his teachings. I became fascinated with the idea of a cross-lifetime Master/disciple relationship, culminating in a final teaching in India.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write wearing headphones that eliminate all outside noise. I use essential oils to match the mood of my chapter work.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I read the great fiction writers “from the top down” for decades. I have great respect for Tolstoy, Mann, Thomas Wolfe, and Hugo.

What are you working on now?
I am writing a novel about an enlightened couple’s manner of living.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
http://richardmaddox.com/
Facebook: rememberingeternity page

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read a great deal. Write regularly. Study various fields of knowledge related to your work.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Meditate regularly to improve all aspects of life.

What are you reading now?
spiritual books

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m working on a new novel and have a novella and a collection of short stories to 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?
“Yoga Vasistha”
“Brahma Sutras”
“War and Peace”
“Magic Mountain”

Author Websites and Profiles
Richard Maddox Website
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