Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a 21-year old poet and college student from Germany. I started writing when I was 14 and haven’t stopped since. I especially like writing poetry.
I have written and published one poetry collection just now.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is ‘Teenage Journal’. It is a collection of poems I have written between the ages of fourteen and twenty. It deals with growing up, loneliness, anxiety, depression and finding yourself.
I was inspired by my everyday life and feelings.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I always have a little book with me, because I find the best ideas come at the weirdest moments and I like to be prepared for them.
Writing poems is about emotions and I believe, that it is important to be in the right mind to capture them in poems, so I don’t have a schedule.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ve been influenced by many great authors. Poets especially. I love reading Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickens. But also some German poets like Goethe or Rilke.

What are you working on now?
I am working on my second poetry collection. It is still an early phase, but I want to address some topics – like love – I just touched on in my first book.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Since I have just published one book as of now. I have not established a perfect method to promote my book. But I found a lot of options on the web I like to try.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Well, I am a new author, so one advise I could give is: Just do it. Just write and take a chance. Self-publish if you can’t find a publisher, do it for yourself!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You never know if your book is a success. But first and foremost you should write and publish the book for yourself, especially as a beginner author to gain experience more than anything else.
And don’t be afraid to fail, learn from it.

What are you reading now?
the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will take what I learned from my first book and use that to start working on my second 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?
Pride and Prejudice from Jane Austen, Poetry Collection from Edgar Allen Poe, and probably a book about how to survive on a desert island.

Author Websites and Profiles
MayA PoetBe Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hello, world. I’m a young erotica author and enjoy both reading and writing naughty stories. Started with writing just for fun I have decided to publish my first book on Amazon. Besides writing, I’m working in an art gallery and also like to draw, spend time with my husband and friends.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“A Different Experience, Forbidden Relationship”. Inspired by my fantasy:)

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not yet.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
50 Shades of Grey of course and dozen of short erotic stories I read during my life, can’t remember them all.

What are you working on now?
I’m thinking of writing a series of erotic books soon.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have tried a lot so far and can’t say for sure.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I’m a new author too, so I would like to hear some advice

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Believe in what you do.

What are you reading now?
The CBT Anxiety Solution Workbook: A Breakthrough Treatment for Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Panic. I feel a high interest in CBT.

What’s next for you as a writer?
My next series of hot erotic stories.

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?
50 Shades of Grey, The Notebook (N. Sparks), Notre-Dame De Paris.

Author Websites and Profiles
Samantha Wild Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
“Until Proven Innocent” from Black Rose Writing is my second book for young adults. I have a domestic suspense novel, “Don’t Fear, My Darling,” coming out on May 4 from Black Opal Books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Until Proven Innocent” was inspired by an abandoned farmhouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, where my father lived when I was a child. My brothers and I loved to explore it and imagine what we would do if we found buried treasure or something mysterious.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I pick out music for most of my characters and play it as background while I am writing their stories.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My earliest influences were mystery writers Joan Lowery Nixon, Joan Aiken and Phyllis Whitney. Sue Grafton’s alphabet series was a favorite, and I was privileged to meet her years ago. She was very encouraging and gracious.

What are you working on now?
My WIP (work in progress) is “The Write Way to Die,” a cozy mystery. Melanie would be thrilled at the chance to volunteer at her first writing conference and work with a big-name agent–except that Brandon is the Agent From Hell. When he turns up dead, no one is heartbroken. Melanie suspects foul play. She sets out to discover who had the best reason to want Brandon dead–and the answer is, everyone.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Facebook has done well for me because posts work like a pyramid–someone shares your post to their friends, who share it again, etc. Nothing beats getting out to bookstores and doing signings. They are a fun way to meet old fans and make new ones.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Never throw any of your old stories away. All three of my published novels were first drafts years ago. As I learned my craft, I realized I had the foundation for a good story, and the knowledge to execute it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Butt in Chair”–meaning, sit down and write. Period. I will add to that, FINISH what you write, because working with a sloppy first draft is much easier than working with a stack of notes.

What are you reading now?
“Incarceration Nation” by Baz Dreisinger, about prison systems throughout the world.
Also “A Murder of Magpies” by Judith Flanders, a fun mystery about the publishing business.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I hope to turn “The Write Way to Die” into a series.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
A dictionary (for entertainment), the Bible (to keep from losing hope), “The Mystery Writer’s Handbook” (for inspiration) and a blank journal–the kind with a pencil pouch.

Author Websites and Profiles
Laura Stewart Schmidt Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Corey, most people call me Croft. I’m from the badlands of Surrey BC and live in Vancouver.

I have written four books up to this point with a number of short stories and I am currently wrapping up a novella. I wrote a lot before contemplating publishing and decided to lead the initiative with COWARD, which is the first release on Fly Pelican Press, my independent publishing company. All the books are very different in tone and subject, so going indie made the most sense.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
This book is called COWARD: A Novel. I guess it was inspired by some less than bright times in my life and feeling against the wall, trying to play nice in a world that has two-faces. It is about holding in things like anger, resentment and depression. In many ways it mirrors the mental state I had while writing it, needing a release and needing an outlet to avoid exploding.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Many. I tend to spend days at a time and forgetting to eat while boiling pot after pot of strong coffee and tossing empty decks of pall malls into my sadness corner. I work a few job to keep the objective of writing as a career tenable, so I have to use my time wisely. I have several processes of creating a story and inspiration comes from all angles like the noises outside of my ever-open windows – the smoke has to go somewhere.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The biggest authors in my life have Been Dostoevsky, Kafka and Marvel comics. There have been way too many to list individually beyond those three influences, but I can attest that structure and character development has been informed by them. I am constantly having my outlook reshaped by new books that I read. There is such a diversity of material and methods of telling stories that I feel like a snowball composed of everything that I have ever read.

What are you working on now?
I am working on a story about the 1998 World Cup Final between Brazil and France. It’s an existential piece influenced by Sartre and Camus, among others. It is a very dark and emotional story that loosely hinges around the sporting match. Afterwards I am set to begin on a series of smaller, intensely psychological books; the working title is the February Papers.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have a website and all the adjunct social media things. I am working with some awesome people who are helping me to sculpt the vision my timid ass is too shy to push forward. I am not a fan of the marketing aspect, as many aren’t I’m sure. It’s a a necessary evil. That said, I thirst for the opportunity to make readers and conversations about the things I have written and look forward to engaging fans and haters alike.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Put your back in to it. Sleepers get nothing but a lullaby. You really do have to start from the most bottom, sub-dirt level of creation and work to even crack the topsoil. The hardest part is splashing that pen against the pad and getting started, then keeping yourself in a routine to carry out. You have to find your passion and let it devour you from the inside, become you, and take your life over.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Be yourself. It’s corny and shit but unless you are totally committed to the cat in the mirror, there is no point trying to push forward in any venture if you don’t know where you’re going. You can smash your head forever in trying to do something unnatural or something that you are fooling yourself in to thinking that you love.

What are you reading now?
Sirens of Titan by my homie Kurt Vonnegut. I am a big fan of his dark humour and satire. This one seems to hold the shape rather nicely.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I am working on editing the other novels and continuing to create every other moment. I still have to slog at my jobs, side gigs as I now refer to them, but I use every pocket of open time to plot new stories or twist up new ones. I have several shorts for my website www.flypelicanpress.com that will be coming out in the bit, as well as blogs and other goodies. I love writing shorts as I love untangling the thread of a long form narrative. Each gives the author so much to work with.

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?
Let’s see… Don Quixote the unabridged version. Brothers Karamazov. Marvel Civil War (the first one, not the second). And… Master and Margarita.

Author Websites and Profiles
Corey Croft Website

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Jamaica, New York based author with the gifted ability to hear God’s voice and communicate His messages to the world. I undertook the writing of this book after receiving a calling from the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob that is, the Almighty God, to abandon everything and come and serve Him.
My non-fiction book, The Heart of God is approximately 190 pages in length. The Heart of God is a transcription given to me, through the inspiration and direction of The Holy Spirit. Every word of the 163 subjects and 190 pages of content in the book were given to me by The Holy Spirit; all of which are currently trending in the news and very relevant in our society today.
This is a book of God’s love and mercy for His creatures (all human beings); His thoughts, heart, desires and urgings for all human beings. Not as apparent is the fact that God used me – an untutored, unlicensed, untrained individual in anything spiritual – as an instrument to receive these messages with the directive to publish a book, dedicated to the world and His planet. These messages, subjects and truths, were received while engaging in prayer, fast and scripture reading. The book demystifies the approach process for any child of God on how to get closer to God; it also helps people prepare for and find a way to get connected to one’s own spiritual gifts endowed at birth.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Heart of God by Dorcas Massanga Germaine

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No unusual writing habits except I only write down what is dictated to me by the Holy Spirit

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The Bible

What are you working on now?
Sup With Us dinner celebration event project, a community engagement initiative

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do a lot of research and find ways to find earned media

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Your publisher can do but so much, you have to be active in promoting your own book

What are you reading now?
The Bible

What’s next for you as a writer?
Publishing my book The Heart of God in French

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
Architectural Digest
The African-American Century
The 48 Laws of Power

Author Websites and Profiles
Dorcas Massanga Germaine Website
Dorcas Massanga Germaine Amazon Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
To begin with, my real name is Ostap Kushnir. I use Ost Neer as a pen-name to distinguish my academic and popular car-science books. I’m a blogger, journalist, moderate petrolhead, fantasy writer, lecturer, and researcher. I’m employed as an assistant professor at Lazarski University, Warsaw, and lecturer at Coventry University programmes, UK. I graduated a number of Ukrainian, Polish, and Welsh Universities. I hold MA degrees in journalism, public relations, and international relations, as well as a PhD in political sciences. In the early 2000s, I worked as a reporter for Ukrainian regional and national papers. In 2009, I published a fantasy novel “The Appearance of the Magician”, and sold out of paperback copies in three months. Afterwards, he switched I publishing some “boring” academic books which are on sale today (search for Ostap Kushnir and you will find them).

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “An Introduction to Academic Driving”. It opens the Academic Driving series and will be available in Kindle version (two parts), paperback, and audiobook (two parts). Kindle version is already on sale. The book is about cars and science. It contains dozens of illustrated articles which discuss curious scientific and social stuff. My aim is to popularize social sciences on “simple” examples which are automobiles and automotive culture in general. To write it, I got inspired by the books of Jeremy Clarkson and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Cars and science, mates, cars and science.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I run a blog on Drivetribe platform with 14K readers. I enjoy interacting with my readers, who very often raise some curious questions. So, one of my writing habits resides in answering these questions. I do my best to provide as personalised answers as possible, which usually come as articles. Another habit is constantly asking myself “what else can be said on this topic?” When writing about cars, the majority of people usually describe how good and comfortable these cars are. But this is very basic stuff. I want more. I want to exceed descriptions of seats and engines and connect cars to something bigger. To something nerdy and curious. To the unbelievable diversity of the world, we live in.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
In the “automotive dimension”, I was influenced by books, articles, and TV-shows by Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. In the “scientific dimension,” I am inspired by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Joe Scott, and Michael Stevens (Vsause). Also, I have a deep respect for Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Robert Bigelow.

What are you working on now?
I’m working now on a number of projects. Above all, I need to finish recording “An Introduction to Academic Driving” audiobook. I’m also in the process of finalising “An Advanced Academic Driving” book, second from the Academic Driving series. Should be on sale by the end of 2019. Apart from this, I’m working on two purely academic books about global and regional geopolitics.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
This is Drivetribe. Definitely. My cars-and-science books would not exist without Drivetribe platform. It was on Drivetribe I met Matt Parsons, a super-talented illustrator who draws sketches to all my articles. Now, I keep on using this platform to interact with readers and promote my books. Apart from this, I set up a profile on Goodreads.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Great things never come easy. You should be ready for sweat, failures, frustrations, and tears. But if you do a great job leaving your “comfort zone”, the success will definitely come. Don’t be afraid of experimenting. Don’t be discouraged with not fulfiling your dreams immediately. And yes, you should always sketch a winning plan before you start doing anything. Make odds join your side.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When you are at the top of the world, everyone will speak about how good you are. And none will mention bitter failures which paved your way to the top of the world.

What are you reading now?
You won’t believe it, another Jeremy Clarkson’s book.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I want to launch a series of global presentations for my books. Hope to start in Canada and slowly move to Europe. Follow me on Drivetribe and Goodreads for more details.

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?
Three books about “How to survive on a desert island” and a huuuuuge encyclopaedia for setting up the fire

Author Websites and Profiles
Ost Neer Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a poet and a writer from central New York, my work consists of poems and lyrics of the divine nature. My rhymes tell my story, they convey each step I’ve taken in my journey towards personal freedom. My books are dedicated to my lovely girlfriend Alaina, who helped me see my worth and grasp the meaning of unconditional love. Growing up I always felt the call to do something beyond the norm, to follow my heart regardless of what others told me I was. Beneath everything I find myself called to put out my message, my heart-song. It’s very easy to forget that life is completely subject to each individual choice made, and writing these rhymes helped me grasp the potential of trusting my true self.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Woman Beneath My Feet
The story of two souls that found each other under unlikely circumstances. A story of growth, hardship and unconditional love. The love they share burns to this day, and each poem is a reminder of the moments they share together.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Ram Dass, Rumi, Paul Selig, Aubrey Marcus, Be Here Now, Alex Grey

What are you working on now?
A soulmate poetry book called The Woman Beneath My Feet!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Awesome Gang DUH!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Flow from the Heart!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Love each other and tell the truth.

What are you reading now?
The Book of freedom by Paul Selig

What’s next for you as a writer?
Hopefully getting traditionally published!

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?
Be Here Now
The Five Agreements
The Book of Mastery

Author Websites and Profiles
Matt Buonocore Website
Matt Buonocore Amazon Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve been writing over fifty years and began with book reviews, letters articles, and anything I could get published. Then in the 1980s started writing children’s books and had about 28 published. I wrote a few non-fiction books before turning my attention to novels; I’ve published about 8 novels, probably my most successful one has been A Cross of Crocuses, but others have done reasonably well too.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Most recent novel is BODIES, the last in a trilogy of Romantic/Erotic suspense stories that began with WASTED PAIN and had PROTECTION: sex, revenge & romance in the middle. My inspiration, as you call it, was the desire to try my hand as writing American English; after three novels I actually prefer writing in American lingo.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Make it up as you go along, that way you’re as interested as the reader because you don’t know what’s going to happen. I find this method, after all these years of writing, gives me the most excitement.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Chiefly 19th Century novels by English and French writers, as well as poetry from the last three centuries.

What are you working on now?
A novel loosely entitled CRY OF THE SINGLE about two folks in their late fifties who are attempting to rekindle a relationship after a thirty years separation.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The obvious method is coughing up money, then more money, and if you’re lucky you get some of it back in royalties. This does work, but you need to persevere.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Writing is about massive amounts of thinking and a great deal of commitment. If you’re not prepared for these tasks, choose another occupation.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When Percy Shelley wrote a letter to his friend Hogg, who was in York at the time. In a letter he wrote, ‘Nothing should shake a truly great spirit which is not sufficiently mighty to destroy it.’ I live by this rule.

What are you reading now?
Haven’t time to read. As soon as I finish writing one novel, I start another.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Turn out more books, and then more books. Sooner or later someone’s going to think, ‘Hey, that’s one hell of a good 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?
A very big book, and I’d hide a gorgeous gal inside it.

Author Websites and Profiles
Ken Ross Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I live in Gettysburg, PA with my wife and two children. I love to write young adult mysteries with a twist. I have written three books so far. All three of those are in the same series.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is The Resistance – Mermaid Cliff book 3. It is the third book in my Mermaid Cliff series.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I enjoy writing while it is raining.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I am not much of a reader.

What are you working on now?
I am outlining possibilities for my next book/s.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I haven’t found the best way to promote and am still learning.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Never give up. Even when people tell you your book will never make it, never give up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When you fall off the bike, get back on and try again.

What are you reading now?
Nothing currently.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Promote, promote, and promote.

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?
How to make a fire, how to build a shelter, how to survive on a deserted island, and Game of Thrones.

Author Websites and Profiles
Brandon Rohrbaugh Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an English singer/songwriter/author. I have written 5 books. Two are available. One is “Classical Masters for Acoustic Guitar” The other is a fantasy novella: “Through The Lair”

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My new work is entitled “TROUGH THE LAIR” Book 1. from the triology of THE LAIR AT CULA’S FORD.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I tend to rewrite and rewrite and rewrite and…

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My fav authors are all fantasy: Tolkien, Gemmell, Feist, Holdstock and many more!

What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on book 2. of THE LAIR AT CULA’S FORD” saga: WEB OF MANY SPIDERS

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
No website as of yet for my fantasy efforts but my music site, for those interested is:
www.leemitchellmusic.com

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write what you know. Or at least what you think you know.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
It’s all circumstantial…

What are you reading now?
“Mythago Wood” Robert Holdstock.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finish my book 2. WEB OF MANY SPIDERS

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?
LORD OF THE RINGS
LAVONDYSS
MAGICIAN
LEGEND

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I used to work in freelance journalism and have always had an interest in fantasy…but it was only last year I moved into writing my own novels. The Caged Kingdom is the first book in The Unforgiven Series, but a prequel novella is also available!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Caged Kingdom and The Unforgiven Series is something that has been rattling around in my head for years. The idea has changed somewhat in that time, but I love the version which has ended up in print. The characters are exactly who they are meant to be and that, to me, is one of the most important things.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have to admit I do a lot of writing in my pyjamas. I always have done and unfortunately probably always will. For someone who has a lot of clothes, they don’t get as much use as they should! I’m also not the best at writing in order. I can jump around slightly depending on what scene arrived in my head that morning, but it seems to work.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
This is such a hard one! I’d be lying if I didn’t include George R R Martin. I’m also a big fan of V.E Schwab, Sarah J Maas and Leigh Bardugo. I love the worlds all of those Authors have created. Sci-fi wise I adore anything Peter F Hamilton has ever written. He is an absolute genius. The Expanse series is also one of my favourites. Other influences would include: Laini Taylor, Nicholas Eames, Mark Lawrence, Cassandra Clare, Stephen King, Patrick Rothfuss, Jay Kristoff and Samantha Shannon.

What are you working on now?
I’m currently preparing The Heir to Chaos for release. It’s the sequel to The Caged Kingdom and so much bigger in scale, in every way. It’s been a challenge but one I adore.
Then it will be book 3…4 in total. Another novella is also in the pipeline.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I love talking to people, other Authors and readers. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t actually love the promoting. I love to read and meeting other people who make the stories I love…that’s sort of 13 year old me’s idea of heaven.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just keep writing. I didn’t think I could do this for years, anxiety told me not to, that everyone would hate it if I did…you know the things your mind can make you believe, but it’s entirely worth it. Even if one person loves your story and you really help them. Completely worth every second of work.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Always focus on the character. Big battles and fantastic sequences are wonderful, but it’s the character moments that touch people and make your story stick with someone.

What are you reading now?
I’m just finishing Samantha Shannon’s Priory of the Orange Tree. It’s an absolute beauty. I’ve also been reading Rebecca Hefner’s book series and I would recommend that to anyone who loves a good strong female character, or simply a good story. I’ve got a very long reading list at the moment and am incredibly excited to get a few more ticked off!

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finishing The Unforgiven Series and hopefully growing with each book. I intend to be writing for a very long time, so just keeping at it and making sure I’m always delivering the best book to my readers.

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 wow. That’s a decision.
– Game of Thrones – You could keep yourself busy for a few hours looking at all the theories and what has/hasn’t come true.
– Kings of The Wyld/Bloody Rose – Whenever you needed a laugh or just a good adventure these would be perfect.
– Priory of the Orange Tree – It’s a beautiful dome of a book. Re-reading it would take a while and I’m in awe of that world building.
– Can I say The Caged Kingdom? I’m sure it would give me some excellent ideas for further books/ maybe a prequel or sequel trilogy.

Author Websites and Profiles
M A Price Website
M A Price Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Ben Apfelbaum AKA Benjamin Tyler. I was born in Burlington, Vermont July 8, 1999. I have only written one book, but I plan to write many more!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Apple Tree” and what inspired me to write this poetry book was the class of poetry I took at college, as well as my love of poetry in general, including the work of “Milk and Honey”.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I HAVE to write with cerebral music playing with no words in it.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
“Milk and Honey”

What are you working on now?
My second poetry book, currently untitled.

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Try your best, and keep on writing!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Try, try and try again.

What are you reading now?
Looking for my next poetry book to read.

What’s next for you as a writer?
My second poetry book, and figuring out my writing style(s).

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 sonnets of William Shakespeare, period.

Benjamin Tyler’s Social Media Links
Twitter Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a native Californian. As a child, I was an adequate reader, although my elementary school teachers would have been shocked to find out I am an author. I say author to separate myself from the number of writers out there, who choose to create other content than short stories, novellas, and novels. I have written about ten books, but only five have made it to publication as I write this.
I write in series because I write short novels and it takes several stories to take my heroes on their arc. The first four books are part of the Jonas Watcher Series, a 1930s detective adventure written in the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. My fifth book is the introduction of my first female lead character, a woman who serves at the pleasure of the Queen as a spy in Victorian England.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“M’ Lady’s Gentlemen” is the name of my latest book. It started out as a play on words where the story was about a woman having a gentleman’s gentleman. It dissolved into the first story of a spy series with a Lady whose family has always served the Crown, undercover, so to speak.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I would like to say that I sit in my den writing on the back of a beautiful naked nymph… Fantasy over. No, I just sit at my computer and write. I will outline an idea on a page and when I decide to write it I will broaden the outline and begin fleshing it in. I don’t really start writing until my first rewrite; before that, I am just telling a story. A man was born, he lived, and then he…

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The first book I actually read from the beginning was “Bambi” by Felix Salten. This is not a cartoon Disney version, but the novel. When I was older, I read Edgar Rice Burroughs; Tarzan, The Princess of Mars, Pellucidar. While Burrough was a bit stilted when it came to the dialog, he drafted heroic adventure stories better than most writers. From there I read Dashiell Hammett, Rex Stout, and Raymond Chandler.

What are you working on now?
The name of my latest book in development is “A Wee Bit of Murder”. It is the story of an Irish Police Detective in New York in the Roaring Twenties. He has been promoted/punished to Detective Inspector on Staten Island. His first case to solve in the murder of the previous Detective Inspector of Staten Island.
My son gave me the idea of a “policeman” looking into a series of killings where all is not as it seems. He gave me more details, but that would be telling, wouldn’t it?

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am still working on that.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Learn grammar. Before you can break the rules, you have to know the rules. Then Write, rewrite, and rewrite again.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
See above.

What are you reading now?
My grandaughter’s English papers as I help her analyze stories.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have a dozen projects in the pipeline, more of the Jonas Watcher series, the On Her Majesty’s service, and A Celtic Cop on Staten Island series. I am working on a series of illustrated books called the Adventures of Booh and Babbott.

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 how things work and how to build anything. The complete works of Shakespeare and Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a quirky old lady with too many stories to tell. I was born on Halloween, I’m a Scorpio, and I’ve dabbled in psychic phenomena, including out-of-body experiences. I’ve written about a dozen books, but some were not published.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest books were for my young grandchildren, but not for the general public. I also published a private book titled Guru’s Path, which was inspired by my experiences with psychic phenomena.

My latest adult novel was The Ghost of Calico Acres, also inspired by my love of mysteries and ESP.

I also published three novels set in the Arctic: The Haunted Igloo (8-12), Spirit Lights (9+), and Drum Dance (YA -Adult). All my books are in digital and print editions.

I have a special interest in the Arctic and global warming and have owned two wonderful Siberian Huskies.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m a right-brain writer and I often play special music to help set the tone of my stories. For example, for Face the Winter Naked, I played banjo music, and for a hazardous canoe venture in Drum Dance, I played Enya’s “Watermark.” To this day, I can play those songs and be immediately transported back to those scenes.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Stephen King has influenced me, as have Mark Twain and Tom Tryon. Favorite books are Giants in the Earth, Steamboat Gothic, and many others too numerous to list.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on women’s fiction, using a pseudonym, since it’s somewhat erotic. I’m about halfway done and crack myself up when I read it through, because the one-liners seem to come out of nowhere. The 2016 election took some of the humor out of me and gave me a huge writer’s block. But I’m feeling the urge to pick up the works again and actually finish it. I LOVE my characters. (Sorry I can’t reveal the pen name.)

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I really struggle to promote my books. It’s a chore I dread, but must do if I want to sell books. I use Amazon.com, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but not consistently.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Advice to new writers: Get that first draft down before discussing it with anyone. The story is in YOU, and if you discuss it with others, they’re going to tell you what to write and how to do it. So don’t. I’ve seen writers blab their work, then put it away, never to work on it again. By talking it out, they had no more reason to write it. Your subconscious knows what to put in your story; your friends don’t.

Other than that, PLEASE get a few beta readers as soon as you can. They can point out errors you can correct before paying for expensive editing. A good copy- or line-editor is worth their weight in gold, as is a proofreader. Writers need these types of help to make their work shine.

Unless you’ve had some art classes, don’t make your own book cover. There are some very good and reasonable cover artists.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I’ve ever heard was “write what you know.” You don’t have to personally experience something, though, as long as you can research online. I enjoy researching almost more than I do the writing itself.

And read read read. Read everything you can. Writers cannot write unless they read a lot.

Pick up some good grammar books and study them. My favorite is The Chicago Manual of Style. This is the publishing bible for most professionals.

What are you reading now?
I’m currently reading The Trail Drivers of Texas, by J. Marvin Hunter. (Sketches of cowboy tails from the old west.)

What’s next for you as a writer?
I don’t know if I’ll have time for all the books I want to write. First, I need to finish the women’s fiction. Then I want to write requested sequels to The Ghost of Calico Acres and Face the Winter Naked. I never considered doing a sequel for FTWN until after I recently wrote an epilogue for that book. Lo and behold, there’s another story bumping around in my mind. The epilogue is three years after the end of the novel, and one of the characters is now 15…and he’s going to take off and have a story of his own to tell (if I can swing it).

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?
Giants in the Earth, The Complete Works of Robert Service, and Steamboat Gothic are my first choices. There are others, which would probably sink the ship that strands me on the desert island.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a writer based in Oslo, Norway. I have worked as a dental surgeon for eight years and took a brief hiatus from my profession to pursue a career in writing.
A career in clinical dentistry and research provided an outlet for writing research papers, training and policy manual, articles and newsletters, but never fulfilled my desire to write a novel.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Secret of His Turquoise Eyes
I was a long time fiction and science reader and so I have knitted a fictional world which interlinks my susceptible thoughts to my scientific knowledge and approach. The Secret of His Turquoise Eyes is my first novel.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes, I wake up in the middle of night to note down thoughts and ideas related to my stories. But I think this trait is common to all the writers.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I always loved Sidney Sheldon and I used to read all his novels during my teen years. I think that had developed in me a passion for reading thrillers.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on the second book in the Mindblood Series.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think it always has to be a combination, but nothing can beat the word of mouth promotion, which can only be achieved by a great book.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
It just takes a beginning….

What are you reading now?
Daisy Jones & The Six by TJR

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?
Life of Pie
The Beach
The Power of Your Sub-conscious Mind
Norwegian Woods

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