Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Walk-On Warrior is my first book. I went back and forth on parts of this book for 13 years before really buckling down the past two years. Readers will see my perspective change throughout the book, and that was intentional, as I was writing parts as a much more mature adult and others as a college kid. I’m extremely proud of this book because I didn’t want to produce a recap of life’s events or a generic overview of what happened. I wanted to take readers into the story and have them feel and experience what I did. I hope folks appreciate the authenticity and sincerity.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is Walk-On Warrior. My inspiration began when I started playing basketball at Marquette in 2004. I was experiencing things that I never thought were possible, and I wanted to remember them. More importantly, I wanted to be able to accurately tell my kids some day what it was really like to play Division 1 college basketball. The book itself started to bloom as my college basketball experience turned out to be the springboard to many more unique basketball experiences, such as working for former Utah coach, Rick Majerus, or assisting the Milwaukee Bucks in public relations.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love reading a variety of genres. Specific to this project, though, I was inspired by Andre Agassi’s book, “Open.” The raw, sincere way that the story was told really appealed to me, and I wanted to take my readers on a similar, authentic journey. I hope Walk-On Warrior inspires people. I was born and raised in a small town in Wisconsin, which has never historically been a hotbed for basketball talent. And yet, I grew up surrounded by role models that allowed me to see myself at basketball’s highest level. For young people with big dreams, I hope they’re motivated by the hard work and dedication that allowed me to succeed. For all readers, the book was written to challenge our perspectives on toughness and fear and ultimately remind us of what’s possible. On the flip side, this is a non-fiction story based on real people and events, and folks will recognize a lot of names from the NBA and NFL. I hope readers enjoy the stories, the personalities, and the inside look at college basketball.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Well first, my name is Bry Ann. I’m a nerdy twenty-something year old from Texas. I have written twelve books to date. I love everything about writing, especially dark romances ;).

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of latest book is Shattered. The topic is one that is IMMENSELY close to my heart. It deals with human trafficking, which is something I actively work against in my life. So this book touched me on a level my others weren’t able to.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have no unusual writing habits, but I edit my books by uploading it to my Kindle and writing notes on my phone. It’s strange, haha.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Oh, SO many! The ones that comes to mind are TM Frazier, Marissa Honeycutt, Jessica Gadziala and Pepper Winters!

What are you working on now?
I am working on the sequel to Shattered, Accepted & Rebuilt!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
This is something I am still trying to figure out, haha!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write what is on your heart. Don’t hold back. Just write it. Therapy.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
People are probably gonna judge you anyway, might as well let ’em judge you while you’re doing what you love and building something amazing.

What are you reading now?
“Steel” by Julie Ann Addicott. Amazing!

What’s next for you as a writer?
Just working on my next book!

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Ooh, okay!

1.) “Life of Anna” by Marissa Honeycutt
2.) “Dark Light of Day” by TM Frazier
3.) “Entrapment” by Sam Mariano
4.) “Demon Heart” by Julie Ann Addicott

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Bry Ann Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my first book that I’ve written.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Glimpse: The Broken is the first of trilogy inspired by my love for all things magical and eerie. Its a story of friendship through diversity and hardship that shows what it’s like to have people that you don’t relate to and to unite under incredibly dire circumstances. It’s also pretty damned cool with all the dark magic, spells, creatures, and s**t.

But you know. Morals and stuff are in there too. *yawn*

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. I drink coffee, write, cuddle with my animals, and cry while I edit, and get frustrated, and rip my hair out, and make run-on sentences, and keep putting commas in places, and keep typing, and my fingers become lightning, and, and…

No not really.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Tons. JK Rowling… obvs.

The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Red Rising, Duskfall. There are too many books to list. I read a lot.

What are you working on now?
Glimpse: Unified.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Posting it in places and hoping people see it. Word of mouth does a lot too.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write now. Worry about all the terrible boring editing and stuff later.

And when you think your book is done… its not, and won’t be for a while. You will likely go over it again and still find mistakes and tons of stuff.

That’s okay, nobody is perfect.

Keep breathing… Keep writing.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Do not pray for a lighter load, create for yourself a stronger back.

What are you reading now?
About to start reading The Darkest Minds.

What’s next for you as a writer?
To keep writing books. And hoping that it pans 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?
I wouldn’t. If I had room to bring stuff I would choose survival stuff.

Well… maybe, it would be nice to stay on an island away from everyone for a while…

Hmm. Probably something with fantasy and magick and stuff. I should probably put my book here, but that’s kinda narcissistic. I suppose The Mortal Instrument books since I want to read them soon anyway.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Clinical Psychologist from Texas. My first book just released in September but I enjoyed the process so much, I plan on writing more books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My book is called: Wiggle: Super Powers You Never Knew You Had. It is inspired by my habit of driving intuitively. That is, I tend to take the “road less traveled” and go my own route in life. The title and book cover caught a lot of flack from my author friends and mentors because it looks like a cartoon and looks too much like a kid’s book etc. But once again, I had to do things my way and go against the traditional “self-help looking book”. I am very glad that I went with my intuition and chose the title and cover that I knew in my heart was right for the book. It has proven to be a good choice.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I tend to write at all hours and in all situations. If an idea comes to me, I might dictate a note on my phone when driving – hands free of course. Safely first…

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Many years ago I kind of overdosed on self-help books. I read all the classics and then a few that you probably have never heard of. In the end, I think the books that influenced me the most were positive thinking in nature. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale was a major influence. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl and the Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne Dyer were also important stepping stones for my personal growth.

What are you working on now?
My new project involves different Super Powers (positive traits) individuals can use to improve their life experience.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am not sure yet. This is all new to me and I am learning what works best as I go.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just do it. I waited way too long to write. If it is something you really want to do or have thought about often, do it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
That one is too hard.

What are you reading now?
I am reading research papers in reference to my upcoming work.

What’s next for you as a writer?
There are several topics I would like to cover in the self-help genre. Then I might give fiction a try for fun.

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?
3 blank journals and a dictionary.

Author Websites and Profiles
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have been writing poetry for about four years and have just published my first book At The Going Down of the Sun. I am also currently writing 3 books about my war relatives and another book of letters from a ww2 soldier to his family and friends

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called At The Going Down of the Sun. I have a keen interest in family history and ww1 and 2 and had 485 relatives who died in the two world wars. It is these relatives along with some who were war poets that inspired me

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My own war poet relatives Julian Grenfell and Ivar Campbell inspired me. I was also encouraged by Carol Rivers to write my relatives stories

What are you working on now?
Currently writing a book about the women in my family who served in the war, a book about the siblings and families who served and died and another book about all my other relatives who died. I also have a collection of ww2 letters from a soldier to his family and friends and their letters to him which I am typing up into a book

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Facebook and twitter are extremely useful. I have my own Facebook page for my books and poems and I am a member of book groups, promotion groups and military history groups in which I post my poems and links to my book and on twitter I target military enthusiasts and experts. I also make my own promotional flyers to put up and the rest is wordnof mouth

 What are you reading now?
Just read jo Thomas sunset over the cherry orchard and now reading 17th suspect by James Patterson

What’s next for you as a writer?
To publish my book about my female relatives at war and start working on another poetry collection

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 garden, any of Enid blytons famous five series and Ferney by James long

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Greetings! My name is Jsin Graham and I have just officially published my first book this month. Though I have been writing my entire life in some capacity, in the creative realm I was a poet and song writer prior to switching over to more prose work some six to seven years ago.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The title of my current offering is Unacceptable Behavior: A Thirteen Story Introduction to Storytelling. My inspiration to pursue this project was born out of my being turned down for inclusion into a short story anthology (of which shall remain nameless). Being turned down is okay, as I’m fine with accepting that my style of writing may not be everyone’s cup of tea. But let’s say, the explanation I was provided didn’t exactly sit well with me. So I set out on trying to write more stories, as the concept at that time was new to me. This eventually grew into a desire to create a collection.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My writing habits aren’t exactly unusual or unorthodox. At least not in my opinion. I live in a major metropolitan city, so a great percentage of my brainstorming and foundation building, takes place on my phone while riding public transportation. Every kind of person you can imagine, uses the metro where I’m from. So character building and even backgrounds are pretty easy to build. Outside of that, a lot of my characters are created off of the “skeleton” of people I know. I use real middle names for first names. And even build fine characteristics (physical) for my characters, from individuals I know or people I pass in everyday life.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
David Baldacci, from a scene creation/set-up standpoint is a master in my opinion. With my next project due to be a full-length novel, I am aspiring to get more intricate in the background of characters and scenes, at least to a modicum of his ability. Eric Jerome Dickey’s “Gideon” series (Sleeping With Strangers, Waking With Enemies, Dying For Revenge, Resurrecting Midnight, Finding Gideon) is the proverbial sweet spot for authors who aspire to produce suspense thriller projects, that are also sexy. When I write in that mode, that is definitely a stratosphere I’m shooting for.

What are you working on now?
Currently, I am working on a novel I started during NaNoWriMo last year entitled, PSYCHO. The MC is Basil Cooper, who appears in two of the stories in my Unacceptable Behavior collection. Basil, is a psychologist who hails from a famed football family in the midwest. Looking to find a way to pivot his counseling style closer to the no nonsense, overly direct way that he chooses to view the world, he walks away from the classic by the book method. Opening up his own practice which uses a more hands-on, aggressive style to helping people.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Being a first time author, I am actually working to find a tried and true method to promoting books. From some of the varying styles I’ve seen, social media is by far the most direct means. Using an array of advertising tactics, heavy on images to alert people to your work. Sprinkling well timed use of discounted purchase options.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
The only advice I give to new authors is, to write. In my regular every day life, I am a terrible overthinker. And with that in mind, you definitely can over plan your way right out of a good idea. In my view, it is always best to get the words out. Then you can come back and re-order them, and flesh out a plan for more detailed and efficient building once you have something to work from.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Keep your eyes on your paper.” I have actually heard this from two different people this year. My loose translation, is to do your best not to focus on other people’s work. Their style. Their frequency of producing something new. We all have our own voice, methods and speeds of doing something. If you aren’t finding little tricks and tips that improve or fine tune what YOU do as a writer. Do not focus so hard on another scribe.

What are you reading now?
At the moment, I am reading “Brunch at Ruby’s” by DL White. A very well written and enjoyable read so far. From the little I’ve seen in blurbs and promo online. Queens of Beasts, by Phoenix Williams looks like it has potential to be very good. And it is a genre of which I don’t think I have ever read. Paranormal Romance. That or David Baldacci’s “Guilty” will probably be next.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Next on the docket for me, is to actually create an outline for my project PSYCHO. Immediately following that, I want to dig into a character creation workbook (by Tasha L. Harrison) I recently purchased, to fully flesh out my main and supporting characters for the book. Over the last eighteen or so months, I have read some pretty good stuff. And I am hoping that my next book, is on par if not better. Just hoping to be the best writer I can be.

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?
If I were ever stranded on an island…in no particular order. PLEASURE by Eric Jerome Dickey, DELIVER US FROM EVIL, by David Baldacci, EVIL INC, by Glenn Kaplan and the Bible (King James Version).

Author Websites and Profiles
Jsin Graham Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an Educator currently a deputy academic director with 10 years experience in the field of Education. I have written in newspapers and authored two books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The last book I wrote is “English for Rwanda Schools”. I wrote this book to guide both students and teachers in learning English because Rwanda being initially Francophone the language gap is big which requires books that students can use for self study.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write a lot of stories about every experience I go through.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Things Falk Apart by Chinual Achebe

What are you working on now?
I am now working on a study guide for literature.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
This is my first therefore am hoping awesomegang.com will be my best.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Writing is just like waking up and sing a sing in your bathroom: whatever song comes is what you sing. This is similar to writing

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If you don’t want to be forgotten as soon as you die, write things worth reading or do things worth writing about.

What are you reading now?
I am now reading 21 irrefutable laws of leadership.

What’s next for you as a writer?

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?

Author Websites and Profiles
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have so far only written short stories, but as an editor/publisher I have done two science fiction/fantasy anthologies in the last year. Mind Candy and Mind Candy Too. Mind Candy won a Florida Authors and Publishers Association silver medal at the 2018 awards.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Mind Candy series was inspired by the classic short story authors and editors of science fiction. It is an attempt to put together a group of diverse stories that all have a common theme, are suitable for all ages, while making the readers think about the world of possibilities. This hopefully will entertain all and give younger readers a love of science fiction, fantasy, and reading in general.

 What authors, or books have influenced you?
The classic authors of science fiction, Van Vogt, Heinlein, Silverberg, Gunn, and Campbell to name a few.

What are you working on now?
I am actually writing a non fiction book about mountain biking in Florida.

 What are you reading now?
I am reading several things at moment, Naomi Novik’s Temerarie series, the original Iron Fist comic book series, and The man who folded himself by David Gerrold ebook when not at home.

Author Websites and Profiles
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi, I’m Swetlana. I currently live in Berlin, Germany. I’ve actually written a lot of books, for most of which I used a few pseudonyms – to test the process, so to say. Now I’m starting to publish under my own name. I have two books out, “Modern Sculptures: Art Ideas Book” and “Growing Earth Theory”. Both are “picture books”, in a way. I’m now working on my next book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “Modern Sculptures: Art Ideas Book”. One morning I woke up thinking that I would like to have my own art exhibition.
I came up with the idea of a (cooling) fan blowing on a wig. I also wanted to make a whole gallery wall plastered with post-it notes. Before I even started thinking about what gallery to ask, I thought: Why don’t I keep it theoretical and make a book about art exhibition ideas? Since I’ve never heard of anything like that available on the market, it occurred to me that some people might be surprised by this kind of topic.
I still want to exhibit a few art ideas. You may steal the ones in the book as well.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I pre-write everything in my Notes app and switch back and forth between my computer and my iPad. This is not really unusual, perhaps.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
A lot. Let’s start with the bible. Throughout the last years I’ve been inspired by people such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Joan Didion, Murakami. I’ve read a lot of non-fiction. Since I studied philosophy, I’ve also enjoyed a lot of Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Wittgenstein and so on.

What are you working on now?
I’m preparing a series of drawings for a book called “People with Tattoos”. This book was inspired by me seeing people with a whole sentence tattooed on their arm. You know, I mean statements such as “Life Is Short”, or “Only God Can Judge Me”. I find it funny that people would have such tattoos.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’ve been using a lot of social media (primarily Instagram) recently to promote my book.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Invest time to understand related disciplines: desktop publishing and graphic design. It’s nice not to depend on other people with this one. At least in my case, I like to be involved in every part of the process, even if it means that my book formatting is sometimes a little off.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Everything that Gary Vaynerchuk has ever said.

What are you reading now?
My old M.A. thesis. I might turn a part of it into a book – maybe next year.

What’s next for you as a writer?
More books. A profile on Goodreads.

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 ones I own that I haven’t yet read. For example Henry Ford – My Life and Work.

Author Websites and Profiles
Swetlana Isstgeschichte Amazon Profile
 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a contemporary romance author who lives in a small Iowa town. Small towns are my favorite, especially in books. I enjoy a town where everyone’s friendly and knows you by name.
I began publishing in the early months of 2015. Looking back, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. I just knew I had a story to tell and I wanted people to read it. So here I am, three years and ten books later.
I enjoy walking outdoors along trails with my three dogs. Yes, I have my hands full with them. Thankfully, my daughter walks with me!
When I’m not writing my next book, I’m reading and drinking LOTS of coffee! Saying I’m addicted to coffee is an understatement…
Speaking of being addicted…office supplies and planners are my addiction. I won’t mention how much I have around my office.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Saving Jenna, my latest release, was inspired by the thought of a second chance love story where the hero comes back to town for a short time only to find out his true love has not only moved on but is in an abusive relationship.
It was an emotional story to write, but I’m proud of it.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
None that I can think of.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My two favorite authors are Tami Hoag and James Patterson. I often get asked why I read Suspense/Crime/Mystery genre and write Romance.

What are you working on now?
I’ve been invited to join a group of eleven other authors to write a novella for an interconnected series based in a small town, centering around a coffee shop owned by an older couple.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Word of mouth works wonders, but I enjoy finding new-to-me websites like Awesome Gang to promote my books. There are several I’m still finding out about, and I have a lot to learn, but for right now, it’s sites like this one and newsletter ads.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write what you know and do not, I repeat, do not give up. It’s a tough, but it’s so worth it!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Keep your eyes on your own goals.
Comparison is a thief of joy.
Figure out what you want and make it happen.

What are you reading now?
Demons Forever, Book Six – Shadow Demon Saga by Sarra Cannon

What’s next for you as a writer?
Writing, publishing, and promoting. My goal is to be a full-time author by December 2019.

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?
Anything by James Patterson

Author Websites and Profiles
Christina Butrum Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m Christy and I’ve been writing for a long time now. How many books is a hard number to guess. I’ve filled entire five subject notebook with words for the better part of 30 years now. Only 6 of them so far have been published, but there are many just waiting to come out.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Fogoyle: The Beginning is my latest book. It is book #4 in my Fogoyle Series. I wrote this book because the first three books in the series demanded it. They are short stories that just give glimpses at single scenes. This book reveals the bigger picture, and opens things up for more stories to follow.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not that are unusual to me? I do tend to procrastinate a lot. I’ll go days without writing much of anything, and then write until my fingers and eyes bleed trying to catch up.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Dean Koontz and Steven King are staples for me. The Stand and the Odd Tomas series have greatly influenced me personally, and my writing.

What are you working on now?
Right now I’m finishing up a rewrite on a new story called Terrible Friend. It’s a new, paranormal adventure duo. Two books is as far as I’ve gotten in the planning stages so it could end up being a series of at least three, but right now it’s stopping at two.

I’m also working on a non-fiction series of ebooks and a program For Writers. It deals with the fundamentals of customer relationship and reputation building, heavy on the professionalism.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m just getting into the real marketing game. I’ve been published for 3 years and I’m just now reaching out beyond Facebook to promote. I’ve run a few ads on AMS and Facebook, but panicked and stopped everything. I don’t like to gamble with money I haven’t made yet, so I’m going with as many free and cheap methods as I can find and submitting to all of them and reading everything I can get my hands on about marketing to learn how to do it right.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Two pieces of advice for new authors.
1) Learn to market from the beginning.
2) Your author reputation is EVERYTHING! Build it to be what you want it to be so no one else can build it for you.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I’ve ever heard would have to be, “You can’t do that!”

I’m a “hold my beer” kind of girl. The more often I hear you can’t, the more often I have to do it to make sure that I can.

What are you reading now?
Brian Meek’s My Facebook Ads Suck and blogs and articles about marketing, promoting, and running ads to boost book sales.

What’s next for you as a writer?
As a writer? Hard covers and being in actual stores. My current goal is to get a selfie from a young girl holding one of my books at a check out counter at a Barnes & Noble. My books are available and selling there online, but they aren’t in actual stores yet. I have 6 more books scheduled to release in 2019.

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 Odd Thomas Series and blank notebooks.

Author Websites and Profiles
Christy Mann Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have been writing professionally in the world of advertising for more than twenty years. In Our Blood is my first novel, and the first in a series featuring Detective Jake Hawksworth.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called In Our Blood: A Jake Hawksworth Thriller. I have always been intrigued by police procedurals and detectives of old, such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. Before plotting out my storyline, I invested in developing my protagonist, Jake Hawksworth.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I typically begin with a loose outline, which then quickly derails as my characters “tell” me what direction to take the story. I always have the beginning and end game worked out, but let everything in between just flow freely.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have been greatly influenced by the writing style of Dennis Lehane, and am an avid fan of his books. I tend to write very brief chapters in order to keep the reader turning the pages, a style inspired by James Patterson. And I have always been a fan of the jaw-dropping plot twist, with my favorites being Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow and Primal Fear by William Diehl.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on the second in the Jake Hawksworth series, entitled Little Red Herrings. Readers can expect lots of twists and turns, and, of course, some murder and mayhem.

I am also writing a stand-alone novel called This Guy Walks Into a Bar… The fast-paced thriller pits an “Average Joe” against the Mafia.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have tried promoting myself on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn; however, in order to reach a broader audience, I have run paid ads on Facebook, Bookbub Partners, and various promotional sites. I have also run free giveaways on Goodreads and Amazon.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Never give up! Writing can be a lonely sport, and there are times when you may wonder if it’s worth the time, effort, and dedication involved. Trust me, it is. There is no greater feeling than seeing your words in print and hearing strangers tell you how much they love your work. One of my favorite reviews came from a woman in New Zealand! It blew my mind that my book has traveled to the other side of the planet!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Dialogue is key.” This advice came from someone who knows this very well. Since hearing this, I have given extra care when crafting dialogue. I want my reader to become invested in the characters. If they do not come across as real and believable, the reader is not going to invest in them or the story.

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett, another of my favorite authors.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Well, I’d love to see In Our Blood optioned up as a feature film, and would be thrilled to be involved in the creation of a screenplay for that. In the meantime, I will keep doing what I do best, writing novels.

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?
Goodnight Moon – I read this story nightly to my daughters when they were young. Having this with me would allow me to feel their presence.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – one of my favorite books as a young boy.
War and Peace – because I’ve never read it; if I were stranded, I’d have plenty of time to get through this tome!

Author Websites and Profiles
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I graduated from the school of knocks but I became wiser and smarter. I began writing since I was twenty years old. My best friend Gee gave me a Donald Goines book and it brought out my passion for writing. I had a life-altering accident and pushed me to pursue my dreams. I always wanted to be a writer and decided to take it to another level and wrote my first book, Dark Secrets.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Killadelphia Soldiers. A lot of the men who came back from Afghanistan and a lot of men didn’t have an opportunity. I created it to deal with the issues of the men who feel neglected after the war. I talk about the struggles and having to result to other things when jobs are available and you have PTSD. I started writing it because of what my father dealt with the Vietnam War, PTSD, and drug addiction.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Some of it is that I work on two or three stories at a time like Charles Dickens.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, James Elroy, Chester Himes and Walter Mosley.

What are you working on now?
I am working on Almasi, Killadelphia Soldiers 2 and Death Rises Steel Horse.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Using social media, Pinterest and paid sponsored ad.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read other people genres and keep writing. Write every day to grow and become strong in the craft.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Do not rush the process and keep learning in your craft.

What are you reading now?
B.L.A.H Diaries by Tamyara Brown.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Almasi, Killadelphia Soldiers 2 and Death rises Steel horses.

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?
Donald Goines Whoreson
Kwan Animal
Ashley and Jaquvis Cartel
James Elroy American Tabloid

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a writer, editor, and publisher in Coral Springs, Florida. I have written thirteen novels and four middle-grade chapter books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book, The Bear, The Werewolf, and The Blogger, is the fifth book of my Wolf Boy series. The books are about the trials of a sixteen-year-old nerd as he tries to deal with being a werewolf in Loxahatchee, Florida. The books tend toward humor and sweet romance rather than sex and violence. No werewolves were harmed in the making of The Bear, The Werewolf, and The Blogger.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I get up at 5:00 each morning so I can write in peace and quiet for at least three hours before the rest of the household wakes. I outline the entire book then write the first draft in longhand. I expand and enhance the second draft as I type it on the computer.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
J.K. Rowling is my favorite author. She is an inspiration both as a writer and as a woman.

What are you working on now?
I am currently writing the sixth and probably final installment of my Wolf Boy series, which is loosely titled The Amazing Super Wolf.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The best way to sell books is to write more books, because if a reader likes one, they may go back to buy others. That said, I find that Instagram has a strong writing community and is a good way to get the word out.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Every single sentence must do one of two things–either further the plot or define the characters. No exceptions.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Everyone’s first pages are awful. Just hold your nose and write. Today’s sh*t is tomorrow’s compost.

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading No Time Like the Past, which is the fifth book in The Chronicles of St. Mary’s by Jodi Taylor.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I think after this next werewolf book I might go back to science fiction. But who knows? The important thing is that I will still be writing novels and taking readers to places they haven’t been before.

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?
Harry Potter. I never tire of reading Harry.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Kaleidoscope is my first published book, however there are many others that I hope to complete in the future. Sometimes it’s a little hard when you have so many ideas floating around in your head at one time.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Kaleidoscope is inspired by the many things I have been through and that my friends and family have gone through. It’s pure emotion based on heartache and triumph.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to try and think about thing from other people’s perspective, which can be very painful. Sometimes it can make me fall into a really dark place.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Rupi Kaur for sure! I have always enjoyed drawing and writing. Once I saw her book “Milk and Honey” I felt a sudden burst of courage that I could do it too!

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on a coming of age story following the events of a young girl navigating high school and home life…while also seeing the ghost of her dead brother in the process. It’s been a lot harder than writing poetry, but the characters have been in my head for so long that I just want to tell their story.

I also have another poetry book coming out soon. I write them in between working on my other projects and the next thing I know there’s enough for a book.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
That’s a great question! I’m very new to this so I’m learning as I go. Besides the obvious social medias, Awesome Gang has been a great experience so far. Just typing this interview makes me feel like I’ll be able to connect more with readers. GoodReads is also a great place to get people talking about your book.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t rush it! I know how exciting it is to want to showcase your work to the world, just make sure you take the time to read it again…and again…and again. There always seems to be something new to add or change and then you’re like “Wow! I’m kind of glad I waited for that idea to hit me!”

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“You can do it!” It’s the one you’ll get the most and the one you’ll need the most. When writer’s block sets in and you’re sitting over your computer or notebook, the cheers and encouragement are like coffee (at least if you like coffee, anyway.)

What are you reading now?
I’m currently taking the time to reread some of my favorite books from when I was a kid. I saved as many as I could in hopes that my children will enjoy reading if I ever have any. I also like keeping them long enough for me to forget the details of the story so it all seems fresh later. Recently, I came across “A Childe Called It” and screamed because I recognized the title but couldn’t remember a thing about it. That’s when I knew it was time to reread it.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Other than completing my works in progress, I’m not really sure. I don’t really plan out anything other than telling a story that others can relate to. What happens next is always an adventure. Hopefully it’s something great though.

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 complete works of the Grimm Fairytales as well as Edgar Allan Poe. Those will have a decent amount of stories in it to keep me entertained. Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves is one of my favorite books from when I was younger. Also, probably a survival guide because I would not know what to do if I was stranded on an island

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written seven books to date. I am besides an author but I also a website designer and podcaster. I am a mother of six children and love writing.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
B.L.A.H Diaries(Broke, Lonely, Angry & Horny) The side effects of his Secrets.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wake up every morning at 4 a.m. to write. I have to have a cup of tea and lemon.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Alice Walker, Terry McMillian, Toni Morrison and Eric Jerome Dickey.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on A missing girl named Reshonda.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I love using social media as well as awesome.gang.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Learn how to market your book. Build an audience and establish a platform before the release of your book.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Sell thy book shamelessly!

What are you reading now?
Eric Jerome Dickey Harlem a short story!

What’s next for you as a writer?
My goal is to hit the New York Times Best Seller’s list. To sell a million books across the world but most of all empower people to read more.

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?
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Eric Jerome Dickey, The Other Women
Bebe Moore Campbell, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a (late) 30-something lawyer currently living in Dubai. I grew up in the Peak District in the UK and was a prolific writer in my youth, spending hours after school writing and illustrating short stories as well as compiling non-fiction lists of sports results. Outside of my day job, I developed something of an obsession with running in my 30s and have just written my first published book, about the running adventure.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The book is called How Not to Run 100 Marathons (and Other Stories) and it was inspired (as the title implies) by my somewhat unorthodox route to running 100 marathons around the world. In short, I managed to get myself into a number of scrapes along the way to the century, often as a result of celebrating completing the marathons with a night out before the run, which generally had fairly predictable consequences. I also saw a lot of the world along the way – running events in 21 countries – and met a number of weird and wonderful people…

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My mind seems to become more active and creative when I go to bed so I will often create a few notes of ideas between midnight and when I finally get up in the morning, to make sure that the ideas are preserved. I also send myself emails of any interesting quotes or facts I pick up from time to time – again, to avoid things slipping from memory.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have read a number of inspirational books about human achievements and running, including “Eat & Run” by Scott Jurek, “Born to Run” by Christopher McDougall, books by Lance Armstrong (before the Oprah interview). I would not put myself even vaguely in the category of the people who are the subject of those books, nor my writing style as having any similarity but the books inspired me in my running adventures, which ultimately spawned the book.

What are you working on now?
For the time being, I’m focusing on the day job although I am definitely keen to find a creative outlet and hope to start work on another book in the near future.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think that a variety of approaches is key. The majority of initial sales were prompted by publicizing the book via Facebook, which resulted in a number of my contacts purchasing the book and then (without prompting) becoming my marketing team by re-posting and sharing via social media. I also think it is worthwhile to give away free books as getting people to read it is what the whole exercise is about.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I think it helps just to start writing, whether or not you have a clear direction at the outset. Once ideas start landing on a page, the mind starts to work with them and potentially take them in directions which may never have been envisaged and may not have happened if too much pre-planning went into the process. Even if ideas are ultimately abandoned for the immediate project, they may find an alternative purpose in the future.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Trust no one…(ha ha – I’m not really that cynical)

What are you reading now?
The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille

What’s next for you as a writer?
I would like to write a fiction book next but I’m not sure I have the patience.

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?
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy – really long and I enjoy the layover between fiction and historical events; Les Miserables by Victor Hugo – for broadly the same reasons; How to Survive on a Deserted Island (Prepare to Survive) by Tim O’Shei – hopefully self-explanatory.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have been publishing for a few years now but previously under a pseudonym. With my most recent novel, my daughter persuaded me to publish under my own name. (Visualized Reality is the first time I’ve dabbled with young adult fiction. Because of the fact that I teach high school students, I never wanted them to read my adult fiction and question any violence, profanity, or sex that may occur in my work. But with this shift to the YA genre, I decided that I could comfortably have my own child or my students read the story and know that it is my own creation.)

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Driven by the anxiety that my daughter and students experience with the unending and profit-motivated standardized tests in American schools, I began to shape the idea of an Academy more concerned with the profitability of children than their own emotional and mental welfare. It is an issue that I have come to care deeply about as federal and state government officials continue to require the repetitive testing of children at the expense of the children, their education, and even their emotional health. Tests, pre-tests, test booklets, and testing tutorials are provided ad nauseam—for a nominal fee. And while our kids lose sleep over their ability to correctly fill in bubbles, these corporations are patting themselves on the back for building a multi-billion dollar industry that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere soon. Government officials have preached the need to collect data to evaluate the broken educational system, but its necessity is a fallacy. (And multiple investigations have revealed testing corporations lobbying and donating to any number of political officials.) Any teacher with a couple of years experience can tell in short time whether a student is falling behind grade level or working far beyond it. For the professionals who are tasked with the responsibility of educating these children, they don’t need the data. They only need an opportunity to work with these kids in an educational setting. Consider that other nations with proven educational systems are out-performing ours and only require a single standardized test at the end of high school. The only real benefits of standardized testing are the billions of dollars flooding the corporations who have cornered the market and demonstrate ironically absolutely no concern for the education and health of our children.

And these frustrations and feelings of being powerless have prompted me to create the world of Pierce Academy, an institute responsible for building an empire to create billions of dollars off of the creativity and imaginations of children. Visualized Reality is a dystopian novel that really serves more as a metaphor for the disturbing trend of placing business interests above the safety and well-being of our children.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have a lot of unusual writing habits. I’m fairly psychotic, actually. My best scenes tend to come to life when I drive, which is why I am a huge fan of cruise control. I also develop maps, character sketches, detailed outlines, pacing documents, and song playlists prior to beginning a novel. The ideas often stew for months before I begin. The most frightening part is that I get immense gratification from each of these steps in my process.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Tons of authors and books have influenced me. I have been an avid reader of Dean Koontz since I was thirteen. I own 80% of what he’s written (and am ashamed that I haven’t yet completed my Koontz Library). I also have really been digging the dystopian and feminist lit genres that have ballooned in recent years.

What are you working on now?
I am working on another dystopian YA novel. It is not related to Visualized Reality at all. I am particularly proud of my deliberate efforts to take the dystopian formula and flip it on its ears a bit. Plus I’m paying tribute to Pearl Jam within the pages. I don’t feel one can go wrong with referencing Pearl Jam in daily life as often as possible.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am trying some new promotional ideas these days. I guess that my plan is to simply diversify as much as possible. I have Visualized Reality on Kindle, Nook, iBooks, and others (through Amazon and Smashwords) and plan to promote through at least ten sites, beginning with Awesome Gang, of course.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Very simply…enjoy the ride. Write because you love it. And when you don’t become an overnight best seller, don’t invest in obscene amounts of brownie bites. Instead, invest in the next project.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I am ridiculously stubborn and tend to only hear advice when they tell me what I want to hear. This isn’t bragging. It’s a very serious and mortifying character flaw.

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading four books. I’m wrapping up The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine, which is fascinating! I’ve just finished reading the third book in Dean Koontz’s Jane Hawk series (The Crooked Staircase). Jane Hawk is pretty kick-ass. The challenge is that I’ve learned that the fourth book is out on paperback and crying for me to order it. But then I have to wait until May for the fifth book. So I’m trying to parcel out my reading months to make the wait more bearable.

I’m also reading a book by Tony Buzan about speed reading in an effort to learn some tools to help my students perform better on ACT Reading test. (Read 4 passages and answer 40 questions in 35 minutes? For years, we’ve recognized how obnoxious this expectation is. But they don’t change it. So we try to find strategies to work within the confines that they create.)

And I’m re-reading Huck Finn for the twenty-third time. I adore that little rascal! (Plus I’m teaching the book and wanted a refresher.)

What’s next for you as a writer?
My new dystopian book. I am still in the development stages but am getting close to being ready to begin writing. And I think that I’ve settled on The Dissidents as a title. I expect it will be the start of a trilogy, as is done these days. And I should mention that the title of the book is a throwback to a Pearl Jam title.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I would bring the 3-4 that I’m currently reading. I suffer borderline panic attacks if I leave a book unfinished. (Except for the one time I started reading The Tommyknockers in 8th grade and simply couldn’t do it any more. I discovered Koontz in the midst of this crisis and officially converted. Sorry, Stephen.)

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an award-nominated erotica, paranormal, and urban fiction author and indie filmmaker. To date, I have penned over twenty books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Queens of Beasts: Taming Revy. My love for anime and old samurai movies inspired this entire paranormal collection.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m a weirdo so I have a lot of unusual habits! The one that comes to mind is talking out loud while I write. It gets on my family’s nerves.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
L.A Banks, T.S. Joyce, Millie Taiden, Madison Faye, Zane, Mary B. Morrison, and Omar Tyree have all inspired me throughout my career.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on Queens of Beasts: Breaking Mika which will be released in November 2018.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Newsletters are the best way. Also, sites like Awesome Gang. You can’t beat exposure.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Breathe. Please just breathe. You will not hit the bestsellers list overnight. Take your time, do the work, and never compare yourself to anyone.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t compare your level five to someone else’s level five hundred.

What are you reading now?
The She Was A Friend Of Mine series by Jasheem Wilson.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m currently crafting scripts out of my books. I have already shot one short film and am working on the next. That is the next step for me, films.

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 boy! This is hard. Anything by T.S. Joyce. Where There’s Smoke by Terra Little. Plain Jane by Tamika Newhouse. And, Heal Me by A.C. Nixon

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Since my senior year in college I have always been interested in the underlying nature of reality. That might sound like a strange statement because, to most people, you’re born, you pay taxes, you die and that’s reality. But, really, that’s just the thin veneer of reality and there is a lot going on beneath the surface in terms of psychology and metaphysics and behind the curtain in terms of political and financial intrigue.

This is what I portray through my writing and this is what I portray in The Vagabond King which is my 1st novel and portrays a boy’s coming of age and coming to grips with life.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is The Vagabond King and was inspired by a spiritual/psychological crisis I had in my senior year of college. In a history test I was asked to decide whether the rise of Napoleon was an example of the great man theory of history or the wave theory.

Without getting into details, the theories are diametrically opposed. It is either this or that. But I saw Napoleon being representative of both things at once. Well, in a dualistic reality, this is impossible. This means that good and bad, right and wrong, this and that are the same.

It was as if life was pulling on a single loose thread in the fabric of everything I had been taught to believe was true and my world view unraveled in a matter of months. I no longer knew what was true and what wasn’t. I had nothing to believe in anymore.

This is the same kind of issue the sixteen year old protagonist of The Vagabond King faces after his mother dies and he discovers the man he was raised to believe was his father is not.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Writers are fairly unusual people so I think that the something that a normal human being would consider unusual would be the norm for a writer.

I’ve written on toilets,
I’ve written on forklifts,
I’ve written by the light of a kerosene lamp,
I’ve written on the back of checks at a wedding,
and those are just the things I can remember.

I find that writing at night is better for creativity and writing in the day is better for editing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Though I don’t care for fantasy, Tolkien was the first writer who caused me to realize that you could use language to rouse people’s emotions. I loved his heroic use of language. In that same vein I love the historical of Winston Churchill and Francis Parkman. One of my favorite books is Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen which is the pen name of Karen Blixen of Out of Africa fame. I love he imagination and the way she uses language as well.

I terms of imagination I like the works of Italo Calvino, He is always pushing the envelope on creativity.

Then there is Franz Kafka and his great book The Trial. I love the psychological complexity and the metaphysical implications.

I’m also a big fan of poetry with Yeats and Keats being two of my favorite.

The work of Joseph Campbell has also been central to my writing.

What are you working on now?
I started writing a book called The Mythological History of Chicago which has the Chicago fire as it’s center piece. But I’ve put that away temporarily and I am currently working of the first of a series of books which will be titles The House of Mirrors, The House of Cards and The House of Many Mansions.

The House of Mirrors is the coming of age story of a young girl who is abducted by a conman shortly after 9/11. Over the course of about 7 years, ending with the financial crash of 2008, he teaches her that nothing in life is as it appears to be and that reality is a really just a fantasy that we communally decide to believe in. It is our belief and only our belief that makes things real.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I like using book trailers like this one https://youtu.be/BDtKhbAFsac

It gives the potential reader an idea of what the book is about and has a link to a landing page where they can download the first few chapters for free. If they think it is worth continuing to read they can buy the rest of the book.

I think this is a fair and honest way to deal with readers. By the time they spend their money they know what they are getting.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I think Charles Bukowski said it best in his poem Go All The Way

“If you’re going to try, go all the way.

Otherwise, don’t even start.

This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind.

It could mean not eating for three or four days.

It could mean freezing on a park bench.

It could mean jail.

It could mean derision.

It could mean mockery — isolation.

Isolation is the gift.

All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it.

And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds.

And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.

If you’re going to try, go all the way.

There is no other feeling like that.

You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire.

You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.

It’s the only good fight there is.”

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
It wasn’t advice really but a realization that occured to me over the course of about twenty years and was corroborated by other writer, psychologists and philosophers and physicists throughout the ages.

Your thoughts shape reality. In fact reality is nothing but a projection of your thoughts upon the screen of your life. Plato said this in his parable of the cave.

The things of your life are the children of your thoughts. Today’s reality is the product of yesterday’s thoughts.

What are you reading now?
I read a number of things at the same time. I’m currently finishing Les Miserables which I enjoy. But I’m also rereading Your Faith is Your Fortune by Neville Goddard, The Second Coming of Christ by Paramahansa Yogananda and The True Believer by Eric Hoffer.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Beside the “House of” series of books I intend to write along with The Mythological History of Chicago, I would like to write a book about the Irish in diaspora.

I also have a website called http://www.e-novel-advisor.com/ where I teach people how to write and market their novels.

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 book on ship building and sailing. The Ferrar Fenton version of The Bible, The Second Coming of Christ, Your Faith is Your Fortune and just one more with the Tao te Ching and one last one The Way of Chuang Tzu.

I’ll stop now.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Liese Sherwood-Fabre knew she was destined to write when she got an A+ in the second grade for her story about Dick, Jane, and Sally’s ruined picnic. After obtaining her PhD from Indiana University, she joined the federal government and had the opportunity to work and live internationally for more than fifteen years—in Africa, Latin America, and Russia. Returning to the states, she seriously pursued her writing career and has published various pieces. Her debut novel Saving Hope, a thriller set in Russia was based, in part, from her observations while in that country. She then turned to a childhood interest in Sherlock Holmes and researched Victorian England for an as-yet unpublished series on Sherlock growing up in a rather unusually gifted family. Along the way she has written and published a number of short stories, garnering awards such a Pushcart Prize nomination. She recently collected eleven of these tales into the volume: “Virtual Harmony and Other Short, Sweet Romances.”

Other published works include:
“Reindeer Wars:” A contemporary romance novella. Can a budding romance survive when the couple find themselves in a knock-down-drag-out competition to win their office’s “most outrageous holiday sweater?”

“Corazones:” A collection of three literary love tales (one a Pushcart Prize nominee).

“Saving Hope:” A thriller set in Russia. What would you do to save your child? An unemployed microbiologist stumbles onto the sale of a bioweapon to Iran. She must choose: save her daughter, or the world.

“Curious Incidents: More Improbable Adventures:” 15 authors of horror and mystery have come together to create a unique anthology of stories where Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart companion venture into alternate universes, histories, and futures to solve puzzling cases of the paranormal far beyond the bounds of imagination.

“The Life and Times of Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Victorian England, Volumes 1 and 2:” Step back to London, 1895. Various bits of Victorian life appearing in the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories are explained to twentieth-century readers.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Virtual Harmony and Other Short, Sweet Romances” gathers a number of very short stories I authored over time into one volume. All of them examine the connection that sometimes occurs between two people. In some, it is the “meet cute” where a couple sees something in the other at their first encounter—a woman in search of the owner of a music playlist mysteriously appearing on her computer or when strangers sit next to each other at the opera. Others take an existing relationship to the next level such as the temporary employee and her boss who obey company rules about dating between supervisors and employees or two neighbors who meet while one is in disguise. Finally, one shares a couple’s efforts to reconnect on a camping trip.

While all the stories have love in common, they also show how each couple’s story is unique. The spark between them can be initiated by an apparent apartment break-in, a snowball fight, or a flat tire. What follows after is where the magic lies.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I work full time, so writing is usually at nights and other odd hours.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Arthur Conan Doyle (obviously), “Save the Cat,” Steve Berry, Amy Tan, and Carolyn Keene (I know she’s not a real person, but I devoured Nancy Drew mysteries as a child).

What are you working on now?
Book three of my yet-to-be published series on Sherlock Holmes at age thirteen. How the world’s greatest consulting detective came to be.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Word of mouth is always best.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing. Join a writers’ group. Be fearless.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My ah-ha moment was a one-on-one session with Michael Hauge. The reason for the protagonist to do something has to be that he/she has no other choice. Any alternative has to be life-shattering, and the alternative appears to be the only escape from it.

What are you reading now?
Sherry Thomas’s “The Hallow of Fear.”

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will continue to work on my Sherlock Holmes series, and may also work on a contemporary women’s fiction book that appears to making a come-back.

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?
Some really BIG ones, so I have something to do. Probably the Bible, a Dickens novel, an Alexander Dumas, and maybe a Tolstoy novel. (You can see I lean toward the classics).

Author Websites and Profiles
Liese Sherwood-Fabre Website
Liese Sherwood-Fabre Amazon Profile
Liese Sherwood-Fabre’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a single parent of a beautiful daughter. I was born and raised in Washington, DC and have what some may deem to be an unnatural obsession with The Walking Dead.

I have currently self-published three books; Job: A Modern Perspective, Sins of a Father and The Prodigal sons.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is titled, The Prodigal Sons. I grew up in church, and one of my favorite stories was the parable of The Prodigal Son.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I think my most unusual habit is the fact that I rarely complete one book at a time. I conclude my novels as the inspiration comes to me. I had the rough draft for my latest book completed when the inspiration for Job: A Modern Perspective came to me.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Most of my books are modern adaptions of Bible parables and stories so I would have to say that the Bible is a huge influence.

I am also a HUGE fan of Stephen King.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on a manuscript about a troubled relationship between two brothers. I am hoping to have that project complete by December.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My greatest flaw is that I do not professionally promote my books. I am trying to do better with that in the coming new year.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I still consider myself to be a new writer, but I guess I would have to say, never give up. If writing is truly your passion, write.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice that I have ever heard came from my mom when I was a child. She told me to always treat people that way that I want to be treated.

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading Girl Last Seen by Nina Laurin.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I would love to ultimately have my books adapted into movies.

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 Color Purple
Stephen King’s It
To Kill a Mockingbird

Author Websites and Profiles
LaQuanda Washington Amazon Profile
LaQuanda Washington’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
The Language of Cicadas is my very first book, but I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I landed on the title for many different reasons – I wanted to pay homage to my love and history working in the field of linguistics, and since the lifespan of cicadas is just the perfect metaphor for the relationship between my two main characters, it just seemed like it was meant to be and I couldn’t shake it.

The inspiration for the story itself came mostly from my personal experiences becoming an adult and navigating different loves, and wanting to translate that into a way to connect with other young women who might have experienced similar types of love. The idea to write it in a way that brings in themes from Korean dramas came from a conversation with my Mom of all people!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wouldn’t say I have any unusual habits, at least I don’t consider them that unusual, but I tend to picture my characters like they real people, and I often talk to myself out loud wondering if what I’m writing really seems like something they would do or say.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Haruki Murakami is one author who has impacted me the most in the last five years. I stumbled upon his book, 1Q84 by accident, and since finishing that book, and several other titles by him, I was drawn back into the dream I’ve had from childhood to write my own book.

What are you working on now?
Right now I’m working on my second novel, it’s a bit of a shift away from contemporary romance, so I’m entering in new territory! It’s more of a psychological thriller, falling into the fantastic realism genre, and I’m really enjoying the process of writing it and seeing it all come together.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
So far, Twitter and Instagram have been great channels for me! They both have thriving writing communities, and you can’t beat the intuitiveness of using social media to promote your work!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I know it might sound cliched, but just don’t give up! Especially if you are writing as a side-gig. I am the type of writer who is trying to balance my normal 9~5 job with my writing. I learned a lot in the past two years while I worked on and published The Language of Cicadas, and I’ve found it’s all a matter of maintaining your drive and passion for pursing your dream.

Just get into a habit of writing as much as you can every day. Some days it’s a lot harder than others, but you’ll eventually get into a flow and it stops feeling so daunting when you come home from work and sit down in front of your computer. It’s also important not to beat yourself up when you need a mental break. Breaks are just as important as finishing that next chapter! I’ve found if I push myself too hard, ultimately it’s my writing that suffers most.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My husband is a never-ending source of life counseling, but one thing that’s really stuck with me is the way in which he’s always pushes me to really try my best even if I fail.

He’s taught me that there’s no one type of way to succeed – even if my book doesn’t become a best seller or no one else likes it, no one can take away the pride that I feel at having actually have accomplished a dream that I’ve for years.

What are you reading now?
I’ve been really digging mysteries lately. I just finished Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz and The Ex by Alafair Burke, both of which were pretty great! I just picked up The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino today actually.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Just to keep writing. Keep pursing my dream and producing work I can be proud of.

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 what a toughie…

I have to say probably anything by Murakami, The Great Gatsby for sure, The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber to remind me of my childhood, and maybe something by Nicholas Sparks when I feel the need for something sappy.

Author Websites and Profiles
Lydia Spanier Website
Lydia Spanier Amazon Profile
Lydia Spanier’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Twitter Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I started out as an archaeologist and participated in excavations in Israel, Bulgaria, and all around the United States. In my mid-thirties I switched over to writing. I’ve done everything from guidebooks to military history and a lot of novels, a total of more than fifty books so far. I’m a professional ghostwriter so about half my work is under other people’s names.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Tangier Bank Heist: An Interzone Mystery is set in Tangier in the 1950s, when it was an International Zone run by half a dozen major powers. Life was crazy then, with many things legal there that were not legal anywhere else. Tangier is a little less crazy now, but still a great place to have a writing retreat. I go there two or three times a year. The book is inspired by a real case in which a man stole a bank.
No, he didn’t rob a bank, he stole it.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I always have at least two different projects going at the same time. This helps me keep up a better daily word count. If I need to think a scene through or figure out a character motivation, I can switch to the other project for a while and maintain forward momentum.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My first great inspiration was Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series. I read those several times when I was a kid. Then the Beats as a young man (I’m less enthusiastic now), the Russians of course, and I’m reading a lot of Arabic literature lately.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on the next book in my Interzone series of mystery novels, with many of the same characters as Tangier Bank Heist. The provisional title is Three Passports to Trouble.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Advertising in newsletters when a book is on discount.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write every day, without fail. All else is distraction.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When I was just starting out, a multi-published mystery author told me, “If you write a page a day, by the end of the year you’ll have a book.” My initial response was, “What if I write two pages a day?”

What are you reading now?
I just finished Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, a retelling of the classic tale set in Baghdad during the American occupation. Mindblowing. For nonfiction I’m reading The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor, a classic book on the Spanish Civil War. The detective of my Interzone series is a veteran. Too keep up my Spanish I’m reading La Belleza de la Serpiente by Lou Carrigan, pen name for prolific pulp novelist Antonio Vera Ramírez.

What’s next for you as a writer?
After I finish the second in the Interzone series, it’s back to Cairo to research the third book in my Masked Man of Cairo series. These are mystery novels set in Egypt in 1919, when the first wave of the independence movement was rising.

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 I haven’t read. Thick ones. It’s going to take a long time to build that outrigger canoe.

Author Websites and Profiles
Sean McLachlan Website
Sean McLachlan Amazon Profile
Sean McLachlan Author Profile on Smashwords

Sean McLachlan’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was born in Chicago but my parents moved to California when I was twelve because of my mother’s “medical problems” (being drunk and belligerent and hallucinating). When they tried to have me incarcerated I became homeless at fifteen. I lived in residence hotels and worked as a dishwasher until I met someone who offered me a job teaching English in Eastern Europe. After a few years of that I moved to Paris and found a job working as a security guard in the housing projects around the city.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Shock and Awe” is inspired by the chaos, insanity, and violence of my life. I don’t really feel like a human being but a hunted animal. I can’t even understand how society even works. Why does the world even keep spinning and not just explode into pieces? Why do people even bother? Once I had to keep some drug dealer from putting a cigarette out on a baby’s face. He needed money to pay for his BMW. I don’t care about owning a BMW I just take the subway, but some people having a BMW is important enough to them to put a cigarette out on a baby’s face. I just feel that there’s so much hatred what’s keeping people from going insane and murdering each other?

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have trouble concentrating. I just keep reliving ugly experiences like it’s a film loop of some kind. Again and again and again the horror, ugliness, and fear just like when it happened and I’m trapped and I can’t get it out of my head.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
William Burrroughs, Yukio Mishima, Edgar Allen Poe, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson

Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you can get a real job that makes some money do that. Buying and selling things. Why try to be creative? I’d just buy and sell things myself but I don’t know the right people.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
People don’t usually give me advice they just insult or threaten me.

What are you reading now?
“No Longer Human” by Osamu Dazai

What’s next for you as a writer?
probably obscurity

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?
Can I maybe take a laptop instead? But then hey there probably won’t be electricity on this island will there?

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Holly Bargo is a pseudonym and the registered name of an Appaloosa mare I used to have. (The horse has long since crossed the Rainbow Bridge.) I’ve been writing every since I could form a story and published my first book in 1995. That was followed by a long hiatus as I focused on building a career and raising a family. In 2014, I self-published Rowan, the first book in my Tree of Life trilogy. Since then I have published around 20 books, plus short stories, and nonfiction articles. I work as a freelance writer and editor and live with my husband on a small farm in southwest Ohio. We no longer have Appaloosas, but we do have Morgans.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Bear of the Midnight Sun. I’m not entirely sure what inspired it, except that I like paranormal romances. Most of the shifter-type of paranormal romances that feature bear shifters focus on black bears (and get them wrong) or grizzlies. Few have polar bears. Noodling on that, I envisioned a totally unique way of meeting and claiming, something different than the common “grab and bag” style found within the genre. It seemed a good fit to link to an existing 2-book series that began with The Barbary Lion. Atlas Leonidus from that series’ first book makes a brief, but important, appearance in Bear of the Midnight Sun.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t follow a set schedule or commit myself to a certain quantity of words or pages or hours per day to write, which is exactly opposite of what the “experts” recommend.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Robin McKinley, David Eddings, Robert B. Parker, Robert Crais, Nora Roberts, C. L. Wilson, Dick Francis, Robin Hobb, Julia Quinn, Madeline Hunter, and Mary Blalough happen to be among my very favorite authors and I learn a little something from all of them.

What are you working on now?
I’ve just completed Bear of the Midnight Sun and haven’t quite figured out what to tackle next. With over two dozen manuscripts started, there’s plenty from which to choose, assuming a new idea doesn’t capture my attention.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use my own website for promoting my books. I tried Facebook ads a few times. Results were not impressive. I tried a virtual book touring company a few times. Only one of my books did well with them. I tried advertising through Amazon and got dismal results. So, I hired a publicist, because apparently my marketing efforts leave much to be desired.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Hire a professional editor. I read a lot of indie work and much of it suffers from a lack of editing, everything from a failure to understand the difference between plurals and possessives to weak writing. A good idea does not automatically confer excellence in execution.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Focus on active voice.

What are you reading now?
Lately, I’ve been watching the BBC’s Father Brown Mysteries rather than doing much reading. It’s part of the winding down process when finishing a book. I have read some books, but nothing memorable, nothing that makes my mind work.

What’s next for you as a writer?
If I get really lucky, bestseller status. To be more realistic, I’ll soon embark upon a collaborative project with another author. Together we will build a collection of western short stories. Something different, something fun.

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?
Tough decision. Beauty by Robin McKinley, The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais, and I’m not sure.

Author Websites and Profiles
Holly Bargo Website
Holly Bargo Amazon Profile
Holly Bargo’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
i am a UK based Author, I started writing in 2014 with the award winning novel The Whale Kingdom Quest, which was published as a paperback. Since 2017 I have started to publish further books in the Ocean World Series via e-book format, as I feel this is the direction that book publishing is moving in. Publishing in e-book format allows me to publish my work at very low costs to book readers, much cheaper than the traditional paparback prices.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book “The Rise of the Catfish Kingdom” blends together different elements and potential threats of global warming and climate change in a science fiction way. I am concerned about the future dangers of climate change which is the main inspiration being the entire ocean world book series.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My stories so far use creatures as the main characters, inspired by the movies Watership Down, Saving Nemo, The Chicken Run, and the TV program River Monsters. I have created a future Earth were humans have been replaced mainly by sea-creatures.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have been inspired more by movies and TV shows, rather than books. The TV program River Monster was the biggest inspiration of all. Watching this programme, got me thinking that I could use sea-creatures for the main characters, without being too boring.

What are you working on now?
(Oct 2018) I am working on the 3rd book in the Ocean World Series, the novel will be published under the name “The Whale Kingdoms Ice Fort”. In this story the Shark Kingdom will lauch an all out attack against the last remaining Whales, it will be abit like the Battle of Starlingrad during World War 2. I anticipate publishing this novel during 2019. And once this book is complete, I anticaipate writing another 6 books in the Ocean World Series.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
(Oct 2018) The website I use are Smashwords, I use this as my author page were all my books are listed together, and were customers can purchase them. I also use the website www.thebookawards.com to promote my work/books, and the website www.goodreads.com for a place were my customer reviews are all located in one place.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write about things that interest you.
Find 1 website to use as a author page.
Find 1 website to promote your work.
Find 1 website to have all your reviews placed upon.
It usually takes (in my opinion) 1 year to write a book.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write about things that interest you, then writing does not become a slog.

What are you reading now?
(Oct 2018) The Japanese Graphic Novel Vagabond, by Takehiko Inoue.
I really enjoy graphic novels.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I would like to see The Ocean World Series transformed into comics or graphic novels.
In the meantime I shall continue to write books in the Ocean World Series.
But I also have other science fiction stories to 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?
Battlestar Galactica Graphic Novel (any one would do)
Titan Graphic Novel called Samurai the Island with no name.
Showa a History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki

Author Websites and Profiles
Ming Wei Website
Ming Wei Author Profile on Smashwords

Ming Wei’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was having a quarter-life crisis and dropped everything to go soul-searching for my passion in life. I’ve always loved reading and writing, so I took a leap of faith and now I’m here! I published my first book on October 25, 2018, and I’m working on my second.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Hard Focus. I guess I felt a little bit like my female protagonist, Maria, in that she makes a big career change because she realizes she wants to do something different. I wanted to portray a developing romantic and passionate relationship between two characters, and so Benji and Maria told me their story.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Does sitting at my laptop for 16 hours a day count?

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I grew up reading Harry Potter, and it was such a huge inspiration for me to read more and even try my hand at writing (fanfiction!!!). I also love Chuck Palahniuk’s articles and short stories. The Messenger by Markus Zusak is also an amazing book with a funky style that definitely inspired me to develop my own writing voice.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on the second book of the series, Troublesome Affections. Each book occurs in the same universe but can be read as standalone novels. It’s about more people who feel like they shouldn’t fall in love but do!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Haha I’m still trying to figure that out.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write first, think later.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
With regard to writing: “Even at my 20th book, I sometimes feel like I don’t know what I’m doing. But the difference between my first and 20th book is that there are 19 books of experience between them.”

What are you reading now?
I’m juggling a few ARC books. Other than those, I’m going to start Good Omens by Neil Gaiman.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Write, write, write. Figure out what I want to do. Develop my voice. Practice. Love what I’m doing.

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 Messenger – Markus Zusak
The Lord of the Rings trilogy – JRR Tolkien (I have one huge book with all of them, I swear!)
The Sherlock Holmes Collection – Arthur Conan Doyle

Author Websites and Profiles
Vic Tyler Amazon Profile
Vic Tyler’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My bio says something like I am a Husband, Father, Youth Leader, Mentor, Coach, Influencer, Filmmaker, YouTuber, Ultramarathon-runner, Outdoorsman, Woodworker, Believer, Son, Brother and Friend. Sounds really cool, I guess, but I’m really just an ordinary guy with an interest in “living” while I am still alive and helping others do the same. I have found that writing is fun. Plain an simple. I really enjoy it. Which is surprising because I had a hard time learning to read and tried to avoid it for most of my life. Somehow along the way I have learned to enjoy it and now I could refer to myself as an avid reader. Well, compared to the past anyway. I like telling stories, which lead me to filmmaking. In order to make a film you need a screenplay so the first thing I did as a “writer” was to write a screen play. Now I have written 2 full length Screen Plays. I am actually just getting started as an “author” and have begun my journey with small steps. I have written a short eBook available on Amazon and have 2 more in the works, plans for many more and ultimately plans to write multiple full length books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
PROCRASTINATION
STOP THE THIEF OF YOUR FUTURE
FIVE SIMPLE WAYS TO STOP PROCRASTINATION NOW

I have been thinking a lot about what holds people back from living the kind of life that they really want. Most people didn’t grow up dreaming about not being able to pay the bills, being tired, overweight and out of shape. No one said, “When I grow up I want to sit on the couch and watch TV to forget about my problems and escape my otherwise dull existence.” I have realized that we all can have a better life. We all can have greater happiness, fulfillment and purpose. And it’s not as hard as we all think!
We have been conditioned to believe that people who have that kind of life are “lucky”. They are somehow blessed more or just “meant” to have a better life. We have been conditioned to believe that one big lucky break will change it all. That’s why the lotto is so successful at earning millions upon billions from poor souls who are hoping to change their stars.
We can all change our stars and it’s easier than people think. As I have gotten into ultra-running I have realized that you can do just about anything one step at a time. When I first started thinking about running 30, 40, 50 or even 100 miles it seemed utterly impossible. Instead of thinking about running the whole distance I think about just going a few miles then going a few more. What it all really comes down to is one step. One step at a time. Taking just one step is doable for anyone. It’s easy.
But what’s easy to do is also easy not to do. Enter Procrastination. We all fall prey to procrastination at least at some time in our life. It’s easy to put off “one step”. Put off joining a gym. Put off starting a diet. Put off taking a class. Put off running just one mile. We think, “it won’t hurt I’ll do it later.” And later never comes. And our life never becomes what we want it to. Not because of luck or lack of luck, but because of one small thing left undone over time. And much like a thief procrastination steals our life away one small step at a time.
I wanted to do something to get something out there that could help people take that one small step. To realize that it’s easier than you think to move your life in the direction you want it to go. I wanted to urge people to wake up and realize if you don’t do something now you will wake up later and realize your life is a shadow of what you once hoped it would be.
This book is my attempt to do that.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know If any of my writing habits are that unusual. I seem to do my best work at 4 in the morning however. I think a lot of people would consider that “unusual”.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The first book I ever read from cover to cover was The Hobbit.
I guess that was the first time that I really enjoyed actually reading a book. In many ways that was the foundation or anchor for me later on when thinking about reading other books. I had a good experience reading that book and realized that reading could really be enjoyable. These days I read mostly non-fiction personal development books. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen is very high on my favorites list.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on another short eBook about my experience with the ketogenic diet. I have been doing a lot of trail running and training for some big long runs. I started a keto diet to train my body to burn fat more efficiently. Little did I know there would be so many other incredible benefits. I’m writing about that. It should be ready in the near future.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Not really sure yet. I’ve just started this so I guess I’ll find out.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write a little something everyday.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Ever, or about writing? That’s a hard one. I think something like, my mom would always tell me to treat people the way you want to be treated. I also really like the quote by Maya Angelou – “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Those probably rank high on my best advice “ever” list. As for writing? “Write a little something everyday.”

What are you reading now?
I’m currently reading Unshakable by Tony Robbins and Start Late, Finish Rich by David Bach.

What’s next for you as a writer?
More writing. : ) I plan to write several eBooks and I have at least three full length paperback books planned. All of these are non-fiction personal development focused. I have been contemplating writing a fiction novel or novels based on my screen plays but IF I do that it will be much further down the road.

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 Book of Mormon, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Author Websites and Profiles
Jared Taylor Website
Jared Taylor’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a storyteller, as an actor and as a writer. I am a Nigerian, born in Akure, Nigeria; I am a lover of hilltops and tropical plants; I am a husband and a father. I am the author of the novel ‘Kasali’s Africa’ and the novella ‘The Night My Dead Girlfriend Called’.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book, ‘Kasali’s Africa’ is inspired by the constant social media clashes of feminists, misogynists, hypocrites and archaic traditionalists. I wanted to create a character and a story that could bring these diverse opinions to a sort of boxing ring.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I doubt it. I read, then I write; I have a sudden burst of inspiration, then I write; if I can be alone anywhere ideas would be born.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Alice Munro, T C Boyle, John Grisham, Wole Soyinka; Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ is a huge influence, as well as C S Lewis’ complete non-fiction collection.

What are you working on now?
A short story collection titled “How I Got Here”.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have a relationship with Bella Naija (My short stories feature regularly on the site) and with Brittle Paper, which is Africa’s flagship literary blog; then other platforms that place value on what I do as a writer. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter also works wonders; wherever booklovers could be reached, I explore.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Never give up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Keep writing; some people would see you as a great writer, some would think otherwise. Don’t be ruled by people’s opinion of your craft.

What are you reading now?
John Grisham’s ‘The Associate’.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Taking over the world, one street at a time! I’m kidding. I will just get to work on my next project.

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 Bible, The Signature Classics of C S Lewis, Wilderness Station (A collection of Alice Munro’s works) and a notebook, one I could write on for years.

Author Websites and Profiles
Feyisayo Anjorin Website
Feyisayo Anjorin Amazon Profile
Feyisayo Anjorin’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hey! I’m Larry Taylor, born in Cleveland (OH), raised in Frankfort (KY) and Birmingham (AL). i’m a Kentucky State university alumni! I’ve written one book, and planning on writing more!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
It’s A STORM WITHOUT GOD… IT’S THE PERFECT JOURNEY WHEN YOU KNOW THE NAME OF JESUS IS GUARANTEED!!!: MY LIFE TESTIMONY: There’s NO excuse to not be who you want to be… GOD’S SO GREAT!!!
Realizing this journey God has me on inspired me to write this book! here’s A little of my story. In 2012, the doctors told my family and I, that I only had 48 hours to live… BUT GOD!!! In 2013, I had a house fire, and my family and I lost everything… But God!!! In 2016, I Had brain surgery, and was diagnose with brain cancer… But God!!! 2018, I’m an inventor, I’ve created 4 business plans, I’m an Author, I’m a deans list student, I’m a 2018 college graduate, I’M A SURVIVOR!!! GOD’S SO GREAT!!!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Steve Harvey- Jump
Joel Osteen- Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on my prototype for my first invention and getting my patents/copyrights, working on promoting my book I just published in September 2018, working on my business plans, working on finding a team to prosper with, and thanking GOD EVERYDAY!!!

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Tell your story, people need to hear it!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If you tell people your dreams and they don’t think your crazy, then your dreams aren’t big enough!

What are you reading now?
Joseph Prince- Destined to Reign: The Secret to Effortless Success, Wholeness and Victorious Living

What’s next for you as a writer?
To Write about my journey to success!

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?
Steve Harvey- Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life’s Riches
T.D. Jakes- Healing the Wounds of the Past
Tim S. Grover- Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

Author Websites and Profiles
Larry Taylor Amazon Profile
Larry Taylor’s Social Media Links
Twitter Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a Texas girl with an amazing family. I have several books written, but only one, Lonesome Wolf, is published.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Lonesome Wolf is my latest, and first, novel. I have always loved Texas and the Old West. I also love Christian Historical Romance. One day, I read a book by a prominent author – I hated the ending with a passion. I decided I could write a book with a similar couple but a more satisfying ending; so, I did.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m not sure how unusual it is, but I often write for hours in the middle of the night. I’ll wake up with a scene in my head and grab my computer and write it out.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Tamera Alexander is my absolute favorite author. Her works inspire me to create. I also love Louis L’Amour. I like to think of my writing as landing somewhere between the two, equally influenced by both.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on the sequel to Lonesome Wolf, Jack Ellison. It tells the story of a character from Lonesome Wolf sho is not-so-well-liked. It has been an awesome journey, growing to like him through his actions and heart.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think maybe Facebook has been my best help in promoting my books. I love my personal website, but my Facebook author page gets much more traffic.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My advice for new authors would be to write first and edit second, Get your story down on paper. No matter how careful you are with your first draft, it will need changes. So, why not write out your story as you’re thinking about it, so you don’t forget it, and go back and edit it when you have time.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Write what you know.” I fully believe there is a time and place for writing about something as you’re learning about it. But, to write what you know gives you a freedom that allows you to write more easily and let the story flow. As a new writer, it is advice that allows you to create a work and have something under your belt. Then, you are free to write about whatever you want.

What are you reading now?
I am reading “And Then There Were None,” by Agatha Christie.” I teach high school English and am reading it for my curriculum.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Next for me is a, hopefully healthy, mix of writing the sequel to Lonesome Wolf and marketing Lonesome Wolf at the same time. I foresee it taking up a lot of my 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?
Wow. Hart to choose. I think I would take Louis L’Amour’s “Hondo,” Tamera Alexander’s “To Whisper Her Name,” and the Bible.

Author Websites and Profiles
Lanna Webb Website
Lanna Webb Amazon Profile
Lanna Webb’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account