Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
So far I’ve written three books and two musical play scripts.
Two of the books are non-fiction about things the mainstream media just doesn’t report.

One being the abuses of human rights by the mental health industry and how they are partnered with Big Pharma. That book is titled, “News From Meat Street: Life on a Planet That’s Lost Its Soul.”

The other non-fiction is called, “A Newbie’s Guide to Conspiracy Theory.” It covers many of the “theories” that turned out to be true.

My third book is a book of poems and illustrations created for three to eight year olds. It’s called, “It’s Weird to Grow a Beard.” Pure fun with a lesson or two.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is, “News From Meat Street: Life on a Planet That’s Lost Its Soul.”

In the 1990s I was writing a musical called Meat Street which was described as “Rocky Horror meets Cuckoo’s Nest.” For the musical I needed to do a lot of research into the field of mental health. What I found was shocking.

Years later I decided to put that information into a readable short book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Nope.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
James Clavell. Robert A. Heinlein. Kurt Vonnegut. Shel Silverstein. Many others.

What are you working on now?
Art, music, film and any other creative area I can get my hands on.

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. Then write some more.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t worry. Be happy.

What are you reading now?
Several books by friends.

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 Vedas. Bhagavad Gita. Egyptian Book of the Dead. Dianetics.

Author Websites and Profiles
Neal Fox Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Cole Adams and I’ve loved books my whole life. I love losing myself in any creative work in general but books are my favorite medium. So that it was only logical for me to give it a shot. I’ve only written one book so far but I have a multitude of projects nearing completion as well. I’m taking things slow to learn from my mistakes and grow up to be the writer I aspire to be.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Hungry Fox a Fable Told in Rhyme is my first children’s book. The idea came to me on my birthday three years ago and I jotted it on the spot. From there I spent nearly three years writing it and illustrating it myself. I was inspired by an Art style I came across on the Internet and that I really wanted to develop into something beautiful.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I guess I have an unusual writing habit when I think about it. I write on my phone instead of my computer and I tend to write everywhere and anytime inspiration hits me. Note apps are my life saviors.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
This may come off as a cliché but I would definitely say, JK Rowling. Growing up reading the Harry Potter series cemented the idea in me that I wanted to write for a living.

What are you working on now?
I’m developing a fantasy series of 7 novels for quite some time. It’s all I can think about day and night, but it’s taking me longer than expected to write. mostly because I’m working on 5 other children’s books and two sequels to The Hungry Fox a Fable Told in Rhyme.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
As a broke writer, I use mostly social media and actively post about my book. It’s not an easy task to write, illustrate and market your book but I’m fighting for it with all I got.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write good stories not just stories. Write to fulfill yourself and not to sell copies.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Be patient is one of those advices that I hear a lot. And it helps to be patient for a writer.

What are you reading now?
I’m reading fantasy novels and lost of children’s books to get inspired but you can always find me on a Wikipedia page doing research for my books.

What’s next for you as a writer?
More books and then some 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?
I’d take my Kindle e-reader and thousands of books. But something tells me I’ll end up naming it Wilson.

Author Websites and Profiles
Cole Adams Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I an an ex schoolteacher who moved into local politics and began writing novels when I retired from a period of tutoring dyslexics.
I have written seven novels and contributed to three poetry books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest novel was ” A Bend in the Lane”which was the fourth in a series about a Sussex family and their difficulties. This time the grandmother met a charming gentleman who suggested she invest in an Italian Villa. The books were inspired by a learning disabled boy and the opportunities that there are locally for the less able to succeed. I wanted to show that such difficulties can be overcome with the right help.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Only writing in longhand first, in bed or on the dining room table.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love Stephen King novels but when I tried to emulate him it didn’t work. I think the books I read as a child have had the most influence. I don’t remember much of what I read now.

What are you working on now?
After a talk on pocket novels I thought I might have a go so I have started one about a marriage bureau.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My best method is word of mouth, taking books with me and giving talks. I have a website but it is for promoting myself as an author rather than selling books.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Get your work edited. You can’t do it yourself. Even if it is just a couple of beta readers they will find mistakes that you have missed.

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

What are you reading now?
The Killer on the Wall by Emma Kavanagh.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Trying to get paid for writing. Self publishing is fun but I don’t make a profit.

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 survival manual,a book of edible plants, an atlas and an empty notebook.

Author Websites and Profiles
Julie Round Website

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an avid gamer and sci-fi/fantasy fiction fan. Over the course of my career, I’ve been a newspaper reporter, movie reviewer, bartender, tarot reader, magazine editor, advocacy trainer, instructional designer, service delivery manager, and more. What I should have probably been was a video game designer.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Dead in the Water is the name of my latest book (released May 31, 2019). It is the ongoing progression of my series, but it’s also an exploration into the mythology and lore of the Scandinavian “draug” as well as a well-loved (if such a thing can be said) Lovecraftian monster.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Well, I have a full-time job, so my unusual habits are around using every spare minute…evenings, weekends, and vacation time to write my stories.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’m a big fan of a few well known urban fantasy authors, e.g., Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, etc., but it was Dorothy Dunnett (Lymond Chronicles) and Susan Cooper (The Dark Is Rising Sequence) who have written the books that have captured my imagination from a very, very young age.

What are you working on now?
Since I just released the third book of the Unofficial Legends of The Secret World, I am starting to dig into research for the next book.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Boy, don’t I wish I knew. I have my author website: https://blodweddmallory.com/ as well as Facebook and Twitter sites, but I’m still looking for the magic means to get my series into the hands of readers who will enjoy them.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. And read. A lot.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I had the pleasure of hearing Neil Gaiman speak recently and he said something about revisions that I found to be very helpful and profound in its simplicity. He said essentially this: Get the first draft written as fast as you can. Then, when you go back to revise, make the story more of what it is and less of what it is not.

What are you reading now?
A lot of LitRPG. Also, I just finished Necropolis PD by Nathan Sumsion and hope to get a review up about it today.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Well, I’ve been a writer in one capacity or another my entire life, so I guess that means, more writing!

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Can I just bring my Kindle with the thousands of books on it? I would really like to bring the next Jim Butcher and the next Patrick Rothfuss, but of course, that would mean they’d have to finish them.

Author Websites and Profiles
Blodwedd Mallory Website
Blodwedd Mallory Amazon Profile

Blodwedd Mallory’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have been a professional business writer for about 25 years, working with companies ranging in size from multi-million dollar international businesses to start-ups and entrepreneurs. I spent many years working with non-fiction authors to publish and promote their books. I’m a devoted dog mom (German Shorthaired Pointers) living in NE Ohio and a member of the Dog Writers Association of America.

I have three books of my own out, one is a business book that was really written more as a “proof of concept,” and two that are my passion projects, the “Two Dogs’ Series.” The first of those is a book called “Dogs Know Best: Two Dogs’ Training Guide for Humans” and it’s a love letter to thank my (then) senior dogs for the lessons they taught me throughout their life. It’s a happy, feel-good book that struck a chord with dog lovers all around the world, becoming an Amazon #1 bestseller in 6 countries. I just released the follow-up called “Dogs Still Know Best: Two Angels Guide Their Human Through Grief, Learning & Love” This is a much more personal book, taking the reader along on my spiritual journey that was sparked when I lost my two beloved dogs 3 months apart. The third book in this series will be released in 2020 and is called, “D.O.G., PhD: A Year of Conversations With One Very Smart Dog.”

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “Dogs Still Know Best: Two Angels Guide Their Human Through Grief, Learning & Love,” and was inspired by the loss of my two beloved dogs. Through my grief, I began a spiritual journey that taught me invaluable lessons, all with the helpful guidance of my two newest angels. The journey is one of love, learning and renewal. Along the way a new puppy found her way to my life, and this book explores how she is also being guided and mentored.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t have any unusual writing habits, although my writing style may be considered a little unconventional from what many authors have. When I have an idea, I open a blank doc and just start flushing it out. I “brain dump” everything that pops into my head, whether it’s an idea, quote, chapter title, fact, paragraph or experience. Then I start flushing out an actual outline and building a structure, fitting in the pieces where it makes the most sense for the story. Then I build the story. It may not happen in order, I might be struck to write a section somewhere in the middle then head back to the beginning. Eventually it all ends up making sense.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I am an avid reader, consuming many different genres of fiction and non-fiction. I don’t know that there is one author or book that has influenced me most, in my case I think it’s more of a combination of them all over the years. I take little bits from each book I read, filing away things I like and even things I don’t, to use later in my own work. I enjoy reading the popular, well-known writers, and also I love discovering self-published gems that I would never have found on my own, such as Reality Unveiled, by Ziad Masri. If a story (non-fiction or fiction) or characters sticks with me long after I’ve finished the book, that’s an author I’ll pay attention to.

What are you working on now?
Right now I’m working on the third book in the Two Dogs’ series, D.O.G., PhD: A Year of Conversations With One Very Smart Dog. I’m co-authoring it with Iris Matos, who is an animal communicator. We’re spending a full year having conversations with my very smart German Shorthaired Pointer, and getting her perspective on life and the world around her. So if you’ve ever wondered what a dog is thinking or how they see the world, this will be the book for you. So far I have not been disappointed, our conversations have revealed some amazing lessons and insights that will surely touch the hearts of dog lovers.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Social media is a huge factor these days, along with well-placed online advertising. I have a book website (www.TwoDogsBooks.com) that I drive traffic to, but using online ads and social media ads is a terrific way to reach potential readers.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Tell your story!!! Everyone has a story to tell, whether it’s your own or one that comes from your own creativity. It’s so easy now to access the resources needed to produce a top-notch book, so it’s the perfect opportunity to share your story with the world. And when you think you have nothing to say or get stuck? Just sit down, open your notebook or a new doc and start getting words on paper. Let a stream of consciousness flow, and eventually something will begin to take shape. Do it at a time when your mind is clear, free of clutter of your job, personal commitments and pressures, other issues and distractions. Go for a walk, meditate, take a long shower (some of the best ideas come about in the shower, when your mind is quiet). Allow your ideas to flow, then capture them in any way you can.

And above all else? Don’t give up, don’t second guess yourself!!!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You don’t have to do everything by yourself. Having a good team in place will allow each person to focus on what they do best, taking the pressure off you to do it all and do it all well. This doesn’t mean you have to pay a lot of money or hire employees – it means having a support network who can help, whether as a friend or family member or someone you outsource part of a project to.

What are you reading now?
Honestly, whatever book sparks my eye from the half dozen book email newsletters I get every day. Just yesterday I finished Her Bush, the latest romantic comedy by Penelope Bloom, part of the Objects of Attraction series (which I found to be hilarious!). Next up is Paulo Cohelo’s The Witch of Portobello.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I just had a spark of an idea for my next book after D.O.G., PhD that I have yet to flush out, but it’s one that I find myself getting more and more intrigued about. This is another dog book, which is where my head is right now. As the saying goes, “write about what you love,” so there you have it! I’ll continue to take inspiration from the world around me, and write when the moment strikes.

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… that’s so tough!
Reality Unveiled by Ziad Masri
I’d probably find a good book on outdoor survival for practical reasons
Definitely one light-hearted comedy and a good romance

Author Websites and Profiles
Angie Salisbury Website
Angie Salisbury Amazon Profile

Angie Salisbury’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve written over a dozen books, all available on Amazon. They include young adult/teen novels, fantasy novels, a science fiction novel, short stories in the horror genre, and historical novels–a Viking saga, “The Flame of the Sea”; an historical mystery set in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, “Death in the Old Dominion”; and a series of Westerns, An Adventure of the Old West, which, at present, includes “Good with a Gun” and “The Valley of the Shadow.”

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest novel is “The Valley of the Shadow,” which continues the saga of Bane Messenger, a bounty hunter-turned-sheriff. It is the second book in a projected three-volume series, An Adventure of the Old West. I was inspired to write this series in memory of my father, who was a devout Western fan who enjoyed both novels and movies in this genre. I also enjoy Westerns, especially the movies “The Shootist, “Pale Rider,” and “Tombstone” and the books of Louis L’Amour.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I probably stay at the keyboard too long.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ve been influenced by many authors, including Paula Darnell, author of the DIY Diva Mysteries series (cozies); Louis L’Amour (Westerns); William Shakespeare (plays and poetry); Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, H. G. Wells (fantasy, science fiction, and horror); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie (mystery); O. Henry, Mark Twain, and Erma Bombeck (humor); Sherwood Anderson and Joyce Carol Oates (literary novels and short stories); James Patterson, Bentley Little, Stephen King, Dean Koontz (horror and thrillers); Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy (Christian novels).

What are you working on now?
Presently, I am plotting the third novel of my trilogy, An Adventure of the Old West. I haven’t decided on a title yet, but it will involve silver mining and end with a BANG! (unless I change everything before I start writing it).

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
So far, Twitter has worked fairly well. I am hoping that Awesome Gang and similar websites will help to increase my recognition and sales. (Thanks, by the way, for your FANTASTIC service!)

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Show, don’t tell. Make sure the incidents of your plot connect through cause-and-effect. Make each incident serve multiple functions, whenever possible. Interweave action, characterization, and character development.

Keep the action going. Minimize description. Keep dialogue tight and crisp. Never leave a dull moment; if your main character is by him- or herself, use this time to (briefly) share his or her thoughts and feelings about an important aspect of the plot with the reader. Minimize or eliminate flashbacks. End each chapter on a cliffhanger.

Structure your plot (check out Gustav Freytag and Vladimir Propp.) Read Mark Twain’s essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses. Study Aristotle’s “Poetics” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Philosophy of Composition.”

Proofread, edit, and revise at least three times, using a printed copy of your manuscript. Read both classic, literary authors and popular writers, past and present (and future).

Remember you are an entertainer, so entertain!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Probably “show, don’t tell” or “connect plot incidents through cause and effect.”

What are you reading now?
I just finished reading “Death by Design,” the second book in DIY Diva Mysteries series (cozies), which is SUPERB! I also enjoyed reading “The Last Gunfight,” a non-fiction examination of the Shootout at the O. K. Corral by Jeff Guinn–AWESOME!

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will finish my series, An Adventure in the Old West, before starting a new Western series with a new setting, a new cast of characters, and, of course, new plots. I may also launch a newsletter. There may be a humorous novel in there, too, somewhere, about office workers of the future.

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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
The Riverside Edition of the Collected Works of William Shakespeare

Author Websites and Profiles
Gary Pullman Website
Gary Pullman Amazon Profile

Gary Pullman’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have had nineteen books published since 2012. Most have been historicals, but I’ve occasionally dipped my toe into this century.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Expressly Yours, Samantha is the seventh book in the re-release of the Cotillion Ball Series. The series is about the nine children of Charlotte and George Fitzpatrick, and the series is set in the United States during the 1850s and 1860s, a time of great westward expansion and great turmoil with the impending civil war. Expressly Yours, Samantha, features the Pony Express riders. The Pony Express only lasted eighteen months total, but has become one of the most colorful parts of American history.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think I do anything unusual, but in talking to other authors, I’ve realized I can’t write scenes out of order and then fit them in. Maybe it’s because in a lot of cases, my heroines are counting the months until they’re of age and beholden to only themselves, but if I write out of order, my timeline gets all messed up.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series inspired my Cotillion Ball series. I loved the concept of following a large family as each child came of age and found love. But I wanted my series to take place in America, so I had to find out when the Cotillion idea made its way to New York. It’s fortunate that the timeline for that event dovetailed nicely with all the expansion and turmoil that was taking place in this country

What are you working on now?
I just finished a manuscript that takes place during the Revolutionary War. It’s in the hands of my beta readers now.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still trying to find the right combination to this question. I promote on Twitter and Facebook, and belong to a lot of Facebook groups. With each release, I try a different promotional tool and continue to hone in on what works.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Put your work out there. Join a critique group, enter contests, let others read your work. The more feedback you can get, the more eyes you can have on your work, the better. Listen to the constructive criticism, but never forget this is your work and your voice.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I like what Stephen King says about backstory—Everyone has a history and most of it isn’t all that interesting. As an author you need to know what motivates your characters, but it’s best to dole it out a spoonful at a time to the reader.

What are you reading now?
I just finished another thriller by Harlan Coben called Six Years. He’s such a superb author. Next up is the exact opposite from a thriller. It’s by Beth Kendrick and is The Lucky Dog Matchmaking Service, where the heroine finds the perfect dog for each of her clients.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’d like to find a publisher for my Revolutionary War story, and I just got the rights back for one of my contemporaries, so I may try to self-publish that sweet book about three sisters who have spent their entire adult lives feuding and now have to get along.

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?
Does the Bridgerton series count as one? And then, of course, I’d need a Harlan book or two, preferably one with Myron in the lead role. And the report from Robert Mueller would round things out completely.

Author Websites and Profiles
Becky Lower Website
Becky Lower Amazon Profile

Becky Lower’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was born in San Francisco and raised in Sausalito, California. My family, husband and three sons later settled in rural Sonoma County where the boys grew up and began their adult lives.
My children grown and the end of my marriage opened many new doors to me. Many skills were collected over my life in a variety of professions: 40 years a Registered Nurse in several local hospitals, Real Estate Professional, and until adulthood worked in many aspects of my Family Business as a teenager where I gained many skills that proved useful later running a non-profit.
In 1985 I went on a challenging adventure to Cusco, Peru, that opened me up to many questions and a deeper understanding of who I am.

In 1987 I moved to Cusco, Peru to understand more of this Andean connection and the street children surrounded me and shared their world little by little. This relationship with the street kids moved and inspired me. I founded the Chicuchas Wasi Organization and lived in the early CW Shelter project for the next 10 years setting up and building a team for a successful Chicuchas Wasi.
We reorganized CW and since 1997 CW has been dedicated to providing free education to poor indigenous girls.

A writer for years, this is my first published book and is a fundraiser for the Chicuchas Wasi school for indigenous girls in Cusco, Peru. All proceeds go to provide free education to the CW girls.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Book is “Jump on the Love Train…many hearts await you.” and the children living on the streets originally inspired me.
Meeting this indigenous women made me say step up and do something. “A disheveled and desperate young woman, worn out and old well beyond her years approached me on a Cusco street holding out to me her swaddled newborn. She was offering her tiny baby to me, speaking softly in Quechua, her mother tongue and I didn’t understand one word. But I understood and felt her heartbreak too well, a mother myself, I silently thanked my creator for my blessings. Her eyes were clouded and too dark— dead eyes under a furrowed brow. She was beyond tragic in her desperate cry for help. Her dilemma broke my heart and it changed my life then and there. I did not and could not take her baby, but I could do something to help the thousands of abandoned kids on the street. “ quote from book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write very often, at any time of the day if inspired. My role with all of the grant writing, newsletters, correspondence of all types, plus personal essays and journals for too many years to count, has developed a love of writing. I am passionate still about the changes our 32 year old Chicuchas Wasi has created and the impact to this oppressed society of poor indigenous and isolated families.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Isabel Allende. She brings in the Spanish language and the latin culture that so permeates her writing. I live with two languages daily spoken and written, and my view of life has expanded beyond borders. I have read all of her books.

What are you working on now?
I am talking to Cusco, our director and co-leader with me, and we have girls now at the University that have a story to tell. I would like for each girls to tell her story in an essay that I can collect and create an anthology about what happens after they leave our protective arms that they have been surrounded by since they were 4 or 5 years old. Not at the University at 17 years they are building the path to their dreams. The first women in the line of women in their families to go to school at all. What an achievement. They are leaders and empowered and will be the change-makers for their society and the image of the Quechua woman going forward as role models for other indigenous and oppressed girls.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
We belong in a niche category and I see few books about philanthropic work like ours. We have many followers and I am reaching out to them to host in-home book launches all over the bay area of San Francisco, CA where we can sell directly to them and grow the funds for the school as fast as possible. Most authors receive pennies on the dollars the booksellers that are earned on the sale of their books. For that reason for the first few months I am counting on our donors and supporters to help get the word out. For the moment this is our focus to sell books directly. I have 1000 books at hand to sell.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Not yet. I am still learning. Maybe only to be active in the process after the book is published. Marketing is much more demanding than any of us knew.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Ask for help when you need it, from people with experience.

What are you reading now?
Too busy – but reading an anthology of women writers from the bay area..from Write on Mamas.

What’s next for you as a writer?
a Holiday away from technology..nature.

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?
Empty note books and pens

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a business owner who was injured on the job. I am the founder and co-owner of Kro-Pro, LLC. My injury is the reason I wrote my first book. I have four more in the works.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
How To Succeed Or Accept People After a Traumatic Event is the title of my latest book. I was inspired to write it after I saw how people treated my wife and me after we were burned with sulphuric acid.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to play music that goes with the emotions of the writing style and type that I am currently working on.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Dan Lok, Karen Traviss, Savannah Jezowski, and Robert Kiyosaki

What are you working on now?
I am working on a sci-fi novel titled: the Storm Within

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am new at it and have not discovered a best way as of yet.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Let your heart do the writing and not your head.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I think I heard was from a movie:
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!”
– Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa

What are you reading now?
After by Savannah Jezowski, Stop Walking on Eggshells, Money Master the Game by Tony Robbins

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have four books in the works right now. Currently one of them is nearing completion and it is book two to How To Succeed Or Accept People After a Traumatic Event.

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?
Bible and two to three books on primitive survival..

Author Websites and Profiles
J. R. Krol Website
J. R. Krol Amazon Profile

J. R. Krol’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a freelance designer specializing in whimsical character art and started publishing my designs through the creative and decorative arts industry. My first instructional decorative arts project book was published by Easl Publications in 1995 and was then followed by 28 book titles through 2003 . When self publishing via internet websites began to take off and Easl Publications closed their doors, I decided to publish line art pattern and activity craft books through the CreateSpace independent publishing platform (now known as KDP). To date, I have 14 papercraft activity books and 40 line art pattern book titles.
However, it wasn’t until my first granddaughter arrived that I turned to publishing the first of my 10 children’s books based on character art I originally created for my pattern books. Writing and illustrating for children has been and amazing journey which I hope to continue in the years ahead.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Guess What I Heard in the Garden Today” was inspired by recent conversations in a Kindergarten classroom, reading some bizarre social media posts and my own experience as a member of a very large family! I remembered back to my own elementary school classoom days where the teacher told a secret to one student and the story took some pretty drastic twists and turns by the time the tale was told to the last remaining student. It still amazes me as to how simple comments are interpreted differently from one person to another. I thought this story would be a fun way to demonstrate the need to make sure we do our best not to misinterpret what we hear.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Sometimes I get an idea inspired my one of my characters and then build a story around them, but most of the time it is visa versa!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Beatrix Potter, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mercer Mayer are my favorite authors who’s storytelling work inspires me as much today as it did when I read their books for the very first time.

What are you working on now?
I’ve just published “Guess What I Heard in the Garden Today” so I’m going to take a short break before beginning my next book title. I have three great ideas written down in my journal, so I’ll continue to develop the stories over the next month or so.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Along with my own website, my Goodreads, Library Thing and Amazon Author Page have proven useful in getting the word out.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Books do not just happen. You have to MAKE them happen!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“You should write a children’s book.”

What are you reading now?
“Photoshop Down and Dirty Tricks” by Corey Baker

What’s next for you as a writer?
More children’s books and maybe a few more line art coloring pattern books.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I’d probably cheat and load my fully charged Kindle with as many classic titles as it could hold because one can never get enough of the classics!

Author Websites and Profiles
Annie Lang Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hello, I am Praveen from India. I write science fiction, philosophical and speculative fiction novels. For now I have just published one of my novels.

I did my masters in microbiology and worked in related fields for a time period. When I thought life was getting a bit monotonous with all the paperwork and what not, I started writing novels. I read books on various philosophy and watch a lot of science fiction films, so that is the genre I have chosen to exhibit my imagination and ideas. My writing could be found to be humorous and sometimes provocative.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest novel is Ingenium: A Speculative Fiction on Human Evolution.

The problems of the society I live in inspired me find solutions for the same. I started writing about it, when I realized how deep the problems are and turned it into a science fiction story.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes, I like to write lengthy conversations among my characters and would like to explain the logic behind ideologies in detail. Similar to a hard science fiction author.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I like books of many authors. Most of them are from a previous generation. I read the works of Arthur hailey, Harold Robbins, PG Wodehouse, Morris West, Robin Cook, Lloyd C Douglas and others. My ideas and philosophy are influenced by Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell and other books on Eastern Philosophy.

What are you working on now?
I am working on a hard science fiction novel on Artificial Intelligence.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Awesomegang, Amazon, Facebook and others.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I myself am a new author, may be after two to three years I will be better equipped to answer that question.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Live for evolution.

What are you reading now?
Reading and researching upon artificial intelligence for my next novel.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I would like to keep on writing novels till the world has run out of ideas and imagination.

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 survive on a desert island guide – if someone had written it.

Author Websites and Profiles
Praveen J Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a Cambridge University educated psychologist who researches the science of effective independent learning, collaborating with leading memory scholars around the world to decode the secrets to studying more efficiently for exams.

Ever since I achieved top 0.01% UK exam results as a teenager (ten A-star grades at GCSE and six A-grades at A-level), I have been passionate about discovering and sharing good study and learning practices ever since, helping students get higher grades and unleash their potential by studying smarter, not harder.

I have recently published my first book: Outsmart Your Exams.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Outsmart Your Exams” has been about 10 years in the making. I started writing it out of frustration, because I kept coming across so many good tactics that can really give students an edge in exam and test situations, coming out of fields as diverse as elite sport and the science of memory recall, and yet no-one was making them available to students. So I decided to change that, and wrote Outsmart Your Exams, to put the tools of exam success directly in the hands of students.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I love using the Pomodoro technique to focus when I’m having a slow day: I really find the ticking clock helps get the brain in gear!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The two books I keep closest to my desk are “Make It Stick” by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel, and “Understanding How We Learn”, by Yana Weinstein-Jones and Megan Sumeracki. Both are outstanding reviews of the science of learning.

In terms of stylistic inspiration, I love how Malcolm Gladwell weaves together human story and scientific evidence to craft his compelling narratives.

What are you working on now?
I’m taking some time out from book writing to focus on the podcast, Exam Study Expert, which is becoming a very popular way for students, parents and teachers to learn about the science of studying for and taking exams.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Be kind, and have fun.

What are you reading now?
Deep Work, by Cal Newport

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’d love to write a book called “The Student Brain: How To Tame It, And Get It Through School”, which covers a range of aspects of the neuroscience and psychology of learning and being a teenager: learning science, sleep cycles, seeing and hearing, rationalising, planning and risk-taking, all of which have an impact on a young person’s education.

Author Websites and Profiles
William Wadsworth Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a proud mom of two adult sons and two rescue kitties. I’ve always loved learning and creating ever since I was a little girl. My first book, though unpublished except in my own home, was when I was about 12 years old and was about a kingdom that lost its color until a princess and her prince brought it back.

I’ve written under contract a book on pregnancy and childbirth, a book on preventing cancer through diet, exercise, and positivity, and a book on how to be successful at work. I’ve also written over 100 articles for various publications and industry magazines over the years.

I’ve a proud geek who loves movies, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, Harry Potter, and other awesome things like that.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is the “My Happy Life Jump-Start Guide” and it was inspired by my own journey from a health crisis to transforming my life in easy steps into one that I had dreamed of. Being in control of my weight, getting more movement into my life (through walking and just doing stuff instead of vegging out), moving away from an incredible stressful environment at work to one that was more fulfilling, and just generally being happier.

Once I found that path, I wanted to naturally share it with others, but in an easy way that wasn’t overwhelming, so they could begin living their happy life too.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really, other than being diligent about writing “something” even if I’m not “feeling it” at that moment. I’ll sometimes jump to a different area of the book when I hit a creativity block on one.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The Seven Laws of Spiritual Success by Deepak Chopra, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, and The Celestine Prophesy by James Redfield.

What are you working on now?
Currently, I’m working on promoting this book and writing complimentary blog content for my website. Next, I have planned to go more into depth into each of the four key areas of happiness that I wrote about – Eat Happy, Move Happy, Work Happy, Think Happy – and do a book about each one separately.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Searching for magazines in your genre.. all over the world and sending them a press release. For example, if you wrote a book about pets, you’d want to search “pet magazines” or “pet magazines (country)” and send your PR all over the world. I got an answer back that one health and wellness website would promote my book on their website the same day I had sent a press release to them.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Have your trusted friends/family take a look at your first draft. They can provide valuable input and often one person will come at it from a different way, so by asking more than one, you gain valuable advice.

Also, I created four different covers for my book and posted them on Instagram and Facebook for votes. The one I just put in at the last minute because I thought I needed at least four choice, was the one that actually was the most popular.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Push past your doubt. I was listening to an Oprah Super Soul podcast with Eckert Tolle and they mentioned that right as you’re about to achieve greatness is when doubt and second-guessing about whether you can do this come at you the strongest. Push past those doubts and keep believing your truth and in yourself!

What are you reading now?
At the moment I am doing a lot of research on new nutrition studies that have been released this year. One that I highlight in my book is a 27-year study, and there is so much more data to drill down into on what is lacking from our diets and actually causing major health issues and early death. (Who would’ve thought not eating enough whole grains would be a big issue!)

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m really looking forward to engaging with my readers, hearing how the book (hopefully) helped them, and being able to learn more about happiness and the journey to a happier life through their experiences.

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, A book on medicinal uses of herbs, a book about survival (gotta be practical.. I’m a Virgo!), and one of the Happy Potter Books (probably the first one because it introduced the whole world HP).

Author Websites and Profiles
Francesca Crolley Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a published Christian author with a heart for inspiring and encouraging readers, especially in my romantic suspense, teen fiction, marriage, and children’s books. I have seven books traditionally published—and clearly, I’m multi-genre!
I’m a chocoholic mom of three, married to my high school sweetheart. Originally from the UK, we live in Kelowna, B.C. as audacious empty-nesters.
Details about my books and my blog can be found here: www.laurathomasauthor.com

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is The Lighthouse Baby and was just published in May 2019. It’s a Christian romantic suspense novel, the second book in my “Flight to Freedom” series.
I adore lighthouses—there is something strong and sure yet mysterious and enchanting about them. When my family and I visited the Oregon Coast for the first time, I was mesmerized by these beacons of light dotted along the coast—especially when we toured a couple of them. I began wondering what stories those stoic walls held within them and knew I had to write one myself. My ever-patient husband took me back there and I discovered the perfect lighthouse, along with a bookstore, winding roads, and setting ideas—I even wrote some of the scenes whilst sitting on the actual beach mentioned in The Lighthouse Baby. So much fun!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m rather disappointed that I’m not a “burn the midnight oil” kind of writer, who does her best work in the middle of the night—but truth be told, I get the bulk of my real writing done in the afternoons. It works best for me. My most unusual habit is that I am a TERRIBLE typist. Just awful. I am determined to take a course one of these days…

What authors, or books have influenced you?
As a child, I was an absolute bookworm and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was (and still is) a favorite and impacted me greatly. Francine Rivers, Angela Hunt, Colleen Coble, and Dee Henderson are just some contemporary Christian authors who have influenced my writing. And the book of books—The Bible—serves as a constant source of encouragement, wisdom, and inspiration to me.

What are you working on now?
I’m currently finishing up the manuscript for The Orphan Beach, book 3 in my “Flight to Freedom” series of Christian romantic suspense novels, published by Anaiah Press.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think casting a wide net is wise when it comes to promoting. I have much to learn, but local book signing events and school presentations for children’s books are great—and promoting online on social media and growing an email list is definitely beneficial.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be patient. I know it’s awfully hard. This particular book took three long years to make its grand entrance into the world—one of my other books took six! Patience is definitely not one of my virtues but it’s something every writer needs in spades. And in the waiting, keep writing. Move ahead with the next project and continue to hone your craft, build your platform, and live your life!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Always have a teachable heart.

What are you reading now?
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Roots and Sky by Christie Purifoy

What’s next for you as a writer?
It’s been a crazy year so far—launching 2 novels and completing a third, so I’m looking forward to taking some time off this summer (other than ongoing marketing, of course!) so that I can gain a little headspace and decide which story needs telling next. In fact, I’m going to live a little and put this beloved quote into action:
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” Henry David Thoreau

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
Little Women
The Works of Shakespeare

Author Websites and Profiles
Laura Thomas Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Wen Soon I am a certified health and wellness coach. I spent my life in the public health and wellness space and am now in graduate school pursuing a degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. I’ve been fascinated through my life about people and how we can help them through behavior change. The majority of my free time is spent in a dance studio practicing for ballroom and latin dance competitions.

I’ve written only one book which I poured time and energy into sharing with others on how to best take care of themselves.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
It’s called Self-Care: Ideas and Stories for Putting Yourself First. I noticed there were many authors who have doctorates in the self-help field. Though I appreciated their expert advice, I wanted to hear stories from everyday people who tell their story on how they take care of themselves. Everyone is different and they all have varying ways of self-care and I wanted to highlight that in my book. Each person I interviewed inspired me.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to write a little every day. I’m not the type of write huge chunks of text in one day unless I magically get a huge idea that pops in my mind.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Brene Brown is my biggest influence. She wrote about vulnerability and about what courage is. Her words inspired me to write my own book and stop doubting my own abilities. I also loved how she integrated stories and evidence-based research into her book which I integrated into my book.

What are you working on now?
I’m in graduate school so I hope to finish up my degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. Who knows? There may be a book on that in the future!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think social media is the best. Your friends and peers trust you to do your best and want to support you to be the best that you can be.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t strive to be perfect. It’ll hold you back from ever publishing. Do your best and accept it. It’ll be better than you think.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Jia you! It means “go!” in Mandarin. These words remind me to keep going and never give up. It’s helped me complete so many large projects in my life.

What are you reading now?
I’m taking a break right now but hope to get back to reading Eight Dates by John Gottman.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m looking forward to specializing on one pillar of self-care (physical, mental, social, spiritual, or emotional) and writing more in-depth on that topic. I’ll hear feedback from the readers and go from there.

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?
That’s tough!
1. Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life: Decode Your Emotional DNA-and Thrive by Margaret Moore
2. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown
3.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman

Author Websites and Profiles
Wen Soon Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a long time poet from the Big Easy a.k.a. New Orleans. I’ve had a passion for writing as far back as I can remember. I’ve recently published my first book and I’m elated to receive feedback on my work. This book is a collection of poems written over time that I decided to gel together and create an anthology of sorts. This is Volume 1 of many more to come

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
‘Blizzards In The Desert’ is the book title. My life inspired this book unequivocally

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I feel to believe I’m a very unorthodox writer. I don’t necessarily stick to any script. I actually feel like I create my own script meaning that there is a method to the madness, and that is where you’ll find the magic.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Mitch Albom, Sun Tzu, James H. Cone, Robert Greene, Jack Canfield, Malcolm Gladwell, Eckhart Toole, Ivan Van Sertima, Anthony Browder, Baltasar Gracián, Niccolò Machiavelli

What are you working on now?
Volume 2 of Blizzards In The Desert

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be fearless, follow your heart, and just do it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Seek God and find yourself. Seek yourself and find God.

What are you reading now?
Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Stop Smoking

What’s next for you as a writer?
A lot more writing. Sky is the limit. Autobiography, novels, more volumes of poetry.

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?
Blizzards In The Desert
The Art Of Worldy Wisdom
Tuesdays With Morris
Art Of War
..
All 4 of these books have had a significant life changing impact on my life in their own individually unique way

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi. I’m aged 55 and live in Kent, England. I’ve always been passionate about humour – reading and writing it since I was a child. In fact, I have a tub full of everything I’ve ever produced. When I started publishing my cartoons on social media, it was basically a lifetime’s work in cartoon format!

My following has continued to grow on Instagram and Facebook, so I wanted to publish it in different formats, hence paperback and Kindle. I have produced two books: ‘Cartoon Headcase: Cartoons to make you happy’ and ‘Cartoon Headcase: Making the whole world laugh’. I have more in the pipeline…!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
‘Cartoon Headcase: Making the whole world laugh’ is my latest book. Cartoon Headcase is my brand name. I receive compliments almost daily from my followers, and I love that my humour is appreciated by so many nationalities and age groups. That’s where the book title came from – ‘Making the whole world laugh’! My first book ‘Cartoon Headcase: Cartoons to make you happy’ reflects my desire to be positive and not cynical in my humour.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I see everything through a humour lens just as a photographer sees everything as a potential photo. So be careful – our chats might fuel my next cartoon! I’m always listening to people’s conversations, observing personalities and body language. I pick up on funny facts and quirky ideas. I’m never off duty. Reading stuff is great, but you can’t beat human interaction for obtaining more material!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I try not to steal other peoples’ work – I want to be original – so I read far less humour material than you’d think. However I do love cartoons on social media. My sons say I’m ‘old school’ with ‘dad jokes’ due to my age, but I’m always evolving and experimenting. Tommy Cooper was great although he never wrote his own jokes. The two Ronnies, Morecombe and Wise, Monty Python, newer people too. The list is endless.

What are you working on now?
I have several more cartoon books to do but may also venture into short stories- just a couple of paragaraphs long and possibly alongside the cartoons. Some things are better written than drawn, and vice versa.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have my own website cartoonheadcase.com. Good reads is great too.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Get advice on your work before you publish and choose book covers the public will be drawn to. Employ someone if you have to. What is your brand and what makes you unique? And if you self-publish you’ll need a game plan to ‘put it out there’ in the marketplace.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Whilst you need to be original and true to yourself, the public are your employers – they will be the book purchasers! So you need to know who your audience is and if they’ll be interested.

What are you reading now?
Napoleon Hill, Anthony Robbins and lots of books on neuroscience.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I also have a Christian book planned. Totally different genre.

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
Then I’d swap the other three books for an Ipad and wifi connection

Author Websites and Profiles
John King Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Herbal Medicine BSc (Hons) graduate and I have written three herb monographs so far.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The latest monograph I have published is entitled “Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale): Monograph on a herb reputed to be medicinal”.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy by Kerry Bone and Simon Mills.

What are you working on now?
I am working on a number of different herb monographs, including one on bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I do not know what factors have contributed most to the sales made thus far.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
No.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
It is difficult for me to judge without knowing what has contributed most to the sales made thus far.

What are you reading now?
I have started reading a book called “The New Creationism: Building scientific theories on a biblical foundation” by Paul Garner.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I intend to continue working on herb monographs for now.

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 KJV Bible, Food For Free by Richard Mabey and Wild Food by Ray Mears and Gordon Hillman.

Author Websites and Profiles
Gabriella Smyly Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
So far I have three full length novels published, and a short story. I am in the process of a fourth novel, and have many more planned!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Deeper into Darkness is my most recently published book. It's a sequel to my first self-published book, a dark thriller from the point of view of a serial killer. Both books are from the point of view of a killer. I love the dark twists, and it was super fun to write. I had the idea to write from a dark point of view and just srarted running with it!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to write with white noice in my headphones. Usually I prefer the sounds of rain. I also love writing at night.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have so many favorite authors that have influenced me. Some include Gillian Flynn, Chuck Palahniuk, Tana French, Ruth Ware, Megan Miranda, Jamie McGuire… and there's so many more! I love writers who can string togehter big twists and dysfunctional relationships.

What are you working on now?
Right now, as of 2019's summer, I'm working on the third book in my Darkness Series. It's the final book in the series/trillogy, and I'm super excited about this one!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I'm currently working on establishing a newsletter. I also promote on all of my social media. I am just starting to branch out to places like Awesome Gang, BookBub, etc!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My best advice is to write what you want to read. If you enjoy your writing, someone else will too! Not every story is for every reader, and becuase of that your stories won't be for everyone. So don't get discouraged, because even if they're not for everyone your stories WILL be for someone! Every story has a reader!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I've heard is to get my but in the chair and write! The more you write, and the more you read, and the more you exchange with other writers, the more you improve. I learn and grow in my writing every single day, and with every single project!

What are you reading now?
Right now I'm reading a few horror books, that I'm loving! I'm also always looking for thriller and dysfuntional romance recommendations.

What’s next for you as a writer?
My next steps are writing and publishing new stories that excite me. I have a few ideas I'm so ready to outline and then start writing!

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I'd bring Night Film by Marisha Pessl, Gone girl by Gillian Flynn, and Beautiful Disaster by Jamie Mcguire.

Author Websites and Profiles
Maria Ann Green Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hello! I’m Stephanie Fazio, fantasy author of the Bisecter series. I currently have 3 books out in my debut series, and I have three other fantasy series in the works!
I’m from Syracuse, New York, where winter makes up 3/4 seasons. Now, I live in sunny Austin with my husband and our dog.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My newest book is titled OPAL SMOKE. The title is part of the mystery, so I can’t explain it fully without ruining some of the surprise, but it has to do with the deadly opal contagion. The disease kills most people, but gives a select number iridescent skin (like opals) and superhuman abilities. And the most dangerous of these survivors is known only by the alias of Opal Smoke.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really; I’m pretty boring about the whole thing. Sometimes when I’m feeling really crazy I’ll paint my nails when I’m procrastinating writing a difficult scene

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Sabaa Tahir’s Ember in the Ashes was a huge inspiration. I also love the style of Leigh Bardugo and Laini Taylor.

What are you working on now?
In addition to Opal Smoke, which is in its final stages of revision, I just stared working on an Urban Fantasy story that I’m really excited about!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Amazon…I’ve embraced the machine.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read as much as you can in your genre.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Find a way to make money at doing what you love (thanks, Dad!)

What are you reading now?
Spider’s Bite by Jennifer Estep (I’m really enjoying it!)

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finishing up these new books!

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
SAS Survival Handbook for practical reasons, and then probably The Hobbit and Pride& Prejudice because I never get sick of re-reading these books.

Author Websites and Profiles
Stephanie Fazio Website
Stephanie Fazio Amazon Profile
Stephanie Fazio Author Profile on Smashwords

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Dead Girls is my debut book published by Tree District Books. I have three other completed novels and two works in progress as well as several short stories which will one day be part of a compilation. Writing is my passion and I do it every chance I get. I am a happily married father of five with many varied interests.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Dead Girls was inspired by a trip I took many many years ago to the Wisconsin Dells and some of the memories that I’ve carried with me since then. There was no Cleaner, no Windigo and no murder but the setting was perfect.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write almost exclusively at night. I write from an outline. After I’ve crafted my concept I take it from beginning to end in an aoutline format with several sentences per chapter. It’s amazing how much the story changes from the original concept sometimes.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My favorite authors through the years have been Stephen King, Hemingway, Poe, Michener and Crichton. My recent favorites include Rowling & Gillian Flynn. I enjoy historical nonfiction as well.

What are you working on now?
My primary WIP is a post-apocalyptic adventure-thriller.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still figuring all this out but for me Twitter seems to be the best place to promote. I’m hoping Awesome Gang can surpass that.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Edit, rewrite, edit, rewrite, edit, rewrite repeat ad infinitum until published. Oh and never give up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
All those highly successful authors with tales of hundreds of rejections; those keep me going.

What are you reading now?
Just finished Stephen King’s Desperation and about to start Where the Crawdads Sing.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Hopefully the publication of a second book. Would love to get to work with a good agent.

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 Stand, The Deathly Hallows, The Discoverers by Boorstin and hmm, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Author Websites and Profiles
Russ Trautwig Website
Russ Trautwig Amazon Profile

Russ Trautwig’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I wrote my first novel at the age of 18 but upon reflection, I decided it was a teenage, angst-ridden gripe, so I shelved it (where it still sits today). I took various jobs and got bored and penned the start to hundreds of books, joined a cult, got married and divorced, trained as a natural health practitioner, took up martial arts and got my 5th dan – but all the while many stories cried out to be finished.
When my son was 5, I finally decided it was time to finish a novel and stop having so many finished manuscripts around the place. Eight drafts and five years later I had a polished manuscript done and chose to publish on Amazon and other platforms.
Through my studies in Ayurvedic medicine, I came to see that most ill health happened when a person lost their innocence and sense of discovery – these qualities being active when a person is young and decaying as they aged. It is around this concept – maintaining innocence in the face of power and responsibility – that ‘The Omega Children” was born.
Currently, there are 5 books written in the series.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Omega Children – The Final Imbroglio – is the last book in the Omega Children series.

As mentioned above it was inspired by my studies into Ayurvedic medicine and the concepts of staying innocent and pure when power and responsibility is given to a person.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I slouch way back in my chair when I write, need a steaming cup of tea and must have warm feet. If my feet are cold, I cannot write.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Frank Herbert, author of Dune probably had the biggest impact on me. His story seems to well other worlds up inside and speaks across time and space.
Stephen Donaldson – The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. His world building and wordcraft is almost second to none.
Tolkien – almost goes without saying.

What are you working on now?
Try to nut out what to write next? Fantasy. Time travel. More Young Adult.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use Amazon and FB ads a lot, though spend time searching for relevant audiences that will like the books I write on various platforms. Searching for the best websites is in itself a small adventure.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write in the genre you love and study what the successful authors are doing and check out their bad reviews as to where you can improve on them.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t take any notice of 1-star reviews (unless all you have is 1-star reviews). Not everyone likes every book.

What are you reading now?
Rumi – by Coleman Barks

What’s next for you as a writer?
More books to write, but as I have a small acting background, am attempting to convince friend into making a short movie with me.

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?
Any book on Rumi.
The Omega Children Series (of course)
The Lord of the Rings
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Author Websites and Profiles
Shane A. Mason Website
Shane A. Mason Amazon Profile

Shane A. Mason’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Writer. Reader. Perpetual student. Nerd.

Born in New Zealand to a Brit and an Australian, I am a writer with a passion for all things storytelling. I love reading, writing, TV and movies, gaming, and spending time with family and friends. I am an avid fan of British comedy, superheroes, and SuperWhoLock. I have too many favourite books, but I fell in love with reading after Isobelle Carmody’s ‘Obernewtyn’. I am obsessed with all things mythological – my current focus being old-style Irish faeries. I live in Adelaide (South Australia) with my long-suffering husband, delirious dog, mad cat, two chickens, and a lazy turtle.

I’ve had fourteen books published as of April 2019. Mostly these are Young Adult Contemporary Romance, but there’s also some Fantasy in there as well. I’ve also written three other novels which need an edit before I even think of publishing them, and a lot of partially finished pieces.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book was ‘[Bad Boy’s Guide to…] Being Not Good’ and I can’t really remember what inspired it. I think I’d binged too many 90s/00s teen rom-coms and it just got the creative process going. I wanted to try my hand at more of a parody of all the movies I love so much, and ‘Being Not Good’ was born.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write in the bath. Full regalia – laptop, mouse, notebooks. It somehow keeps me a bit less distracted than my desk.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Who hasn’t is probably a better question. Some of my favourites are Rick Riordan, Jane Austen, Kate Forsyth, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Kasie West, Terry Pratchett, John Flanagan, Isobelle Carmody, Christina Benjamin, Bram Stoker and Emily Rodda.

What are you working on now?
About a million different things. I’ve got an adult romance I’m trying to get out in the next week, plus a YA rom-com due in August, and there’s a new novella series I’m working on, and part five of my current novella series. It’s all a mix of romance but some is Fantasy, other Contemporary. I’ve got short pieces and long pieces – last I checked there were over 150 WIPs. I tend to bounce around from idea to idea until something’s finished unless I have a deadline.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I find a fan-base is actually working the best for me at the moment. I’ve got a small but very loyal group of readers and they find my books through various channels – social media, mailing list, Amazon or Goodreads follow.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read everything. Write everything – don’t worry about the elusive ‘perfection’ because you can work with anything from terrible to half decent to excellent words, but you can’t work with no words. And don’t wait – do it now! Also don’t listen to naysayers or people who tell you there is a right way to write or publish – find your own path and travel it proudly.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story – Sir Terry Pratchett
This is actually not totally true for me as most of my first drafts end up published, BUT it’s still great advice and I love Terry Pratchett.

What are you reading now?
Ha! I am actually reading something at the moment. First time in about a year, though. ‘Introductions’ by C.L. Stone.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Many more books to write and read. I’ll just keep on keeping on until I’m dead.

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?
That’s like asking on what day of the week I prefer to breathe… If I absolutely had to come up with one…right now it would be Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’. I just love Austen’s humour and wit, and her play on Gothic literature is hilarious.

Author Websites and Profiles
Elizabeth Stevens Website
Elizabeth Stevens Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a full-time kid wrangler–AKA mom–and just finished up my second book. I live in Southern PA with my husband, son, and daughter, and I savor the beauty among the chaos.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest work, scheduled for release on August 30th, 2019, is called “Herding Cats”…and it’s all about the life I call my own. The life of parenting toddlers. There is no better way to describe what I do on a daily basis.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Hmm…I’ve discovered that I have to have a drink handy while writing but absolutely can’t have food. It’s too distracting. Is that unusual?

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Anne Lamott, Jen Hatmaker, Brene Brown, and Luvvie Ajayi are a few that jump right into my brain. They’re fabulous.

What are you working on now?
Promotion! My latest work launches on August 30th, so I’m gearing up to get the word out.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Go big! As my hubby says, you’ve got to pay to play. This time around, I’m doing lots of research and trying to utilize as many outlets as I can.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing, keep promoting, and keep believing.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My husband is full of advice and encouragement, so basically anything he says to me is gold. He’s my biggest supporter and fan. I love this guy.

What are you reading now?
“Capital Gaines” by Chip Gaines

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ve got a few ideas up my sleeves, but addressing the stay-at-home parent is surely included.

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 my. “Small Victories”, “The Art of Imperfection”, and “I’m Judging You”, perhaps!

Author Websites and Profiles
Whitney Bausman Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written fiction, creative nonfiction, spiritual nonfiction and academic nonfiction. I have a total of seven self-published books so far.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I recently published a book of contemplative prayers. Its title is “Mystic Prayer”, and it is a more intimate, devotional reading on the themes of my other books on mystical philosophy and spiritual psychology. The inspiration was William Blake’s works of mystical poetry. I cannot imitate Blake, but I wanted readers to have a more accessible mystical devotional in the same spirit.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I do not aim to write but only to grow in wisdom, and when I pray for it, the answer may come in the form of contemplative insight, new books to read or a calling to write something myself.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My main influences are interfaith Bible scholars Neville Goddard, Thomas Troward and Emmet Fox. They were extraordinary individuals as well as groundbreaking spiritual authors. I make some of their ideas more accessible to a new generation of readers, but there is simply no substitute for the pioneers.

What are you working on now?
I started a series of short stories in the medieval fantasy genre, for young readers. Two installments are on Amazon, and more will come later.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I stay with Amazon because they have proven their stability. I once had to migrate from another site after the company crashed; after that, I became very conservative about choosing a platform. I promote my work by simply being of service whenever there is an opportunity to help someone.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Feed yourself first, and then feed your readers. Don’t make it about self-expression. Make it about service.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
A very wise man I know once said, “Find something you think will change the world, and share it”.

What are you reading now?
I read the same things again and again, even my own books sometimes, in order to go deeper into what I thought I knew. I read for food rather than novelty, and my favorite topic is Biblical mystical theology.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have the beginnings of a short fiction series that needs to develop further, but it all depends on where the spirit leads.

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 take “Out Of This World” by Neville Goddard, “The Hidden Power” by Thomas Troward, and “Power Through Constructive Thinking” by Emmet Fox. I would also take my book, “How Desire Works”.

Author Websites and Profiles
Arifani Moyo Amazon Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Only one – the current title in promotion.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Its title is, How to Avoid Unplanned Pregnancy WITHOUT Using Contraceptive Drugs,
which I wrote only after learning about the women’s unnecessary suffering caused by the pharmaceutical, hormonal and other intrusive contraceptives. Otherwise, the persistent idea to do it came to mind nine years prior. I didn’t embrace it, because it was somewhat foreign to me, but part of me was saying that it’s only fair to let women know of something I learnt from another small book precisely when I was 16.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Once I get on with it I’m a pretty fast writer.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I was my own inspiration. Besides, hardly anybody writes on this useful topic. It’s practically unknown that one can avoid unplanned pregnancy whenever they choose to without harming themselves.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on an English Pronunciation Manual, The Method, specifically developed for Spanish speakers, during my work with them over a number of years.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Haven’t found one yet, not because there isn’t one, but because I’ve just started to promote my titles.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Get on with writing as soon as you get an idea. Soon more will start flying out of your head. If you’ve got one in the first place, chances are you have something to say to the world.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
To never give up!

What are you reading now?
Anthony William’s book ‘Liver Rescue’.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m not taking myself seriously ‘as a writer’. I’m just having fun with it, which will increase with the book I want to write after I finish the English Pronunciation Manual. It will be about alternative, healthy, useful and practical ways of doing anything really, including alternative system for life on our hijacked planet. I regard ‘traditions’ as repetition of other generations’ mistakes.

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 not bring any books but notepads to write my thoughts and experience in surviving on a desert island. I would also draw and enjoy the sounds of nature.

Author Websites and Profiles
Pett Corby Website
Pett Corby Amazon Profile
Pett Corby Author Profile on Smashwords

Pett Corby’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Meri, and I live in Texas with my husband and three children. I started writing a few years ago. It all started after I read a book by one of my favorite writers. She writes about Disney villains, and though she does so very well, this particular story I felt could have been better. I decided to try to write such a tale myself. I found that I had a great passion for writing, and before I knew it… I was writing another. I have now written three books, and I am on my way to the fourth.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Blood in the Water: The Lost Tale of Captain Hook is my latest creation. In all honesty, I was rather surprised that out of all the villains, I chose Hook. I am a Disney fanatic, but the tale of Peter Pan and Captain Hook was never my favorite. Still, my heart and soul poured into the story as if by magic. I grew to love my characters the more they came alive. If I had to say what inspired my book, it would be the other fairytale retellings I have read and loved. I think every story has two sides, and I think people will be quite surprised to hear things from Captain Hook’s point of view.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to put on YouTube, and listen to creepy short-stories before I start writing. It gets me in the mood to write.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Serena Valentino- Fairest of All

What are you working on now?
I am editing the second story in my Fairy Chronicles series. It takes place in Wonderland!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
This is my first- so far.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Let your passion take the wheel. You might be surprised how far you’ll go.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Nothing last.

What are you reading now?
Nothing right now, though I am waiting for a new book that will be released in July.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Once I am done with editing the Wonderland story, I am excited to start on the third and final book in the series. I think my readers will be thrilled to discover what villain comes next.

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, Grimm Fairy Tales, Fairest of All, and my book.

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Meri, and I live in Texas with my husband and three children. I started writing a few years ago. It all started after I read a book by one of my favorite writers. She writes about Disney villains, and though she does so very well, this particular story I felt could have been better. I decided to try to write such a tale myself. I found that I had a great passion for writing, and before I knew it… I was writing another. I have now written three books, and I am on my way to the fourth.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Blood in the Water: The Lost Tale of Captain Hook is my latest creation. In all honesty, I was rather surprised that out of all the villains, I chose Hook. I am a Disney fanatic, but the tale of Peter Pan and Captain Hook was never my favorite. Still, my heart and soul poured into the story as if by magic. I grew to love my characters the more they came alive. If I had to say what inspired my book, it would be the other fairytale retellings I have read and loved. I think every story has two sides, and I think people will be quite surprised to hear things from Captain Hook’s point of view.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to put on YouTube, and listen to creepy short-stories before I start writing. It gets me in the mood to write.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Serena Valentino- Fairest of All

What are you working on now?
I am editing the second story in my Fairy Chronicles series. It takes place in Wonderland!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
This is my first- so far.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Let your passion take the wheel. You might be surprised how far you’ll go.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Nothing last.

What are you reading now?
Nothing right now, though I am waiting for a new book that will be released in July.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Once I am done with editing the Wonderland story, I am excited to start on the third and final book in the series. I think my readers will be thrilled to discover what villain comes next.

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, Grimm Fairy Tales, Fairest of All, and my book.

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m technically new to the author world, as I have just recently released my debut novel, however, I have been writing since I was old enough to hold a pencil. I grew up in a remote area without things like cable and internet or even a park to play in. The woods were my playground and I spent a good chunk of my formidable years packing a backpack with snacks, a notebook and a pencil and wandering into the woods to either make a little writers fort or to climb a tree where I would stay for the day and write all of the thoughts that came to my mind. Song lyrics, poems, short stories.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My debut novel is titled “Out Of Nowhere”. If you have read the book, this answer may come as a bit of a surprise, but it was inspired by my husband. Or at least the general idea came from him. We were having a chat, a good old fashioned ‘lets talk about life and all the different paths one can take, how people present themselves and make impressions’ kind of chats and he said something that just sort of rattled my brain a bit. It struck a chord and the idea for Out Of Nowhere was born. I won’t say what he said as it may give away too much of the book, you’ll just have to read it!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m not sure they are unusual, but I can not write unless I am alone. If anyone is home while I’m trying to get writing done, I can’t focus and I can’t seem to allow myself to get utterly lost in my characters. I also don’t really have any rhyme or reason to my path. I will write whatever scene seems to pop into my head and go from there, often needing to go back and write chapters before or after in order to put it all together.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
As a young teenager, I was very heavily influenced by Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. I liked the depth of her stories and how there was a certain romance to the darkness. Those books made me feel something that I had yet to feel. It set the tone for me to really want to bring out emotion in my writing and create something my readers could really and truly feel.

What are you working on now?
Currently, I am working on a historical romance piece. It will be a little darker than Out Of Nowhere and is set back in time whereas Out Of Nowhere is a present day story. I’ve always felt I was born in the wrong time, so this is a fun adventure to take on.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think this can differ from author to author, but for me, my online presence whether it be via my website, twitter or goodreads page is the best way for me to connect with readers. I am in that sense, much like my Out Of Nowhere main character Hailey. She too is a writer and shares in my introverted ways.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I believe it is of utmost importance that when you decide to become an author, that you do it for yourself. Throw the rule book out the window and write what you want, the way you want to write it. It’s easy to get caught up in dollar signs and formula’s but if you are writing for the sole purpose of selling books, I think that will show in your writing. Likewise, I think if you are writing for the love of the story, that will be what your readers take away from their experience.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I have ever recieved came to me a few years back. I was at a crossroads in my life and although I knew there was something out there waiting for me that I could be passionate about, I hadn’t yet found it. Pressures from our ever pushy society to be 25 years old with a spouse, children on the way and an already successful career had me reeling when I hadn’t completed that check list. I wish I could remember where I read this little tid bit of information, sadly I can’t, but it changed my life.

“What did you want to be when you grew up?”

It’s so startling simple. When we are young we have the world at our finger tips. There are few expectations on us to fit a mould and we are free to be an artist one day, a dr. in the making the next and finally to decide that in reality we want to be both. Somewhere along the line, we grow up and misplace that sense of being true to ourselves and we begin to cater to what others have in mind for us. We aim to please and we sacrifice ourselves in the process. After hearing those words, I chose to honour my childhood self and really discovour who I was and what made me the happiest. I discovered that I had utterly forgotten my love of writing and that I could indeed bring that back into my life.

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I didn’t know anything about the books or the tv series until this past Christmas. I know, I’m a little behind on what’s currently popular. I was skimming netflix looking for a new series to dive into and was coming up short. Outlander had been suggested on the service many times, but I hadn’t really understood what it was about. I finally gave it a shot and was hooked from episode one. This past month I grabbed a copy of the book and haven’t been able to put it down since! It’s a fantastic read and I have to admit, I have gotten just as caught up on learning about the author as I have about reading the books. She’s quite open and honest about her process and I just find it facinating. Every night before bed I tell my husband I’m heading to Scotland before getting lost in the book and realizing somehow my inner voice has a wicked good scottish accent! I dare you to read her books without finding your inner scot!

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ll be caught between two worlds for the next little while. I’m right in the thick of promoting the release of Out Of Nowhere, all while beginning to put some meat on the bones of my yet to be titled 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?
I think I would have to bring the Outlander series since it’s an ever-evolving story and the books are fantastically long. It would keep me occupied for a good chunk of time.

Author Websites and Profiles
Claire Whitmore Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a journalist who worked with the Palm Beach Post, The Associated Press in Chicago, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Tampa Tribune, Joliet Herald-News, and Palm Beach Media Group (magazines). My byline has been on thousands of news stories, features, and entertainment reviews. For several years, I’ve been a freelance writer and editor. My résumé includes numerous writing accolades and several awards, including three for Palm Beach Illustrated, which won the Best Written Magazine award from the Florida Magazine Association after I became copy chief and senior writer.

I was a reporter for the Palm Beach Post when the crime that is the basis for my current novel, Murder in Palm Beach, occurred. It was an enormously sensational event, and famed journalist Geraldo Rivera reported on his investigation six years later on ABV-TV’s 20/20 show. The case made newspaper headlines for 15 years.

Besides dabbling in short-story writing over the years, I immersed myself in learning to play the clarinet and tenor saxophone. I performed many years with an estimable 65-piece community symphonic band, and played a few professional big band gigs. I relegated music to the back seat to become an author.

I ghost-wrote a short memoir, A Tale of Two Continents: Jetting Across the Globe to have a Baby, and the coming-of-age novel BREAKING OUT, before authoring MURDER IN PALM BEACH: The Homicide That Never Died. It attracted two publishers, and I chose the one that turned out to be unscrupulous, whereupon three of us authors sued to terminate our contracts. I then put out a Second Edition with resequenced early chapters and a new cover. I compiled a book of short stories titled THE WAY IT WAS: Short Stories and Tall Tales.

A product of Michigan and Iowa, I have a bachelor’s degree in English and German from Drake University in Des Moines, and completed graduate journalism studies at the University of Iowa.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is a novel titled Blood on Their Hands, a legal thriller that is months away from publication by TouchPoint Press. My primary current book is Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died, a mystery roman à clef, or faction – a novel based on real events and/or persons. The idea for it fell into my lap. I was a writer/editor for a magazine group, and the flagship magazine, Palm Beach Illustrated, needed stories for its 50th anniversary edition in 2002. I was a reporter with the Palm Beach Post for 15 years beginning in 1974, and this sensational murder happened in the posh town in 1976. I decided to interview the principal people involved in the case for an updated story. The last person I spoke to was a colleague at The Post. He had discovered who the real murderer was, and it wasn’t the person convicted and imprisoned. More important, the reporter learned that a powerful person was behind the deed. But, understandably, my colleague wouldn’t give me the names. The paper never printed his story, probably out of fear of the powerful instigator. Years later, I inadvertently came across the reporter’s chief source, and we planned a nonfiction book. But he was afraid to reveal certain secondary names, and I abandoned the project, writing a novel, instead.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
If most novelists prepare an outline, or at least have a firm idea of where the story will head, I am unusual. I do have a rough idea for the early parts of the book, but don’t necessarily know where it’s going from there. I let the plot lead me; ideas pop into my head as I write. When I end a writing session, I may know where I want to go next, and type a few notes at the end of the text. And I don’t write furiously as an idea strikes me, leaving the editing to later. Probably because I was a newspaper reporter, along with obsessive-compulsive tendencies, I can’t write sloppily and let it be; before I move on, it has to be polished. Perhaps another somewhat unusual writing modus operandi of mine is the time of day in which I engage: night, when all is quiet.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The level of detail in Pete Dexter’s National Book Award winner, Paris Trout, was insightful for its level of detail and its subtlety in plot development that left me wondering where events were heading, elevating the suspense. John Grisham’s capacity for empathy in revealing a character’s personality and feelings shined through in The Chamber. Frank McCourt’s style of stringing thoughts together in an uninterrupted stream had a comic or satiric effect that I have found useful on occasion.

What are you working on now?
While I await word on time of publication for Blood on Their Hands, I am doing research for a book on a woman who led an amazing life of crime and redemption. Her misdeeds, none especially violent, are proving difficult to track in the criminal justice system. I don’t know yet whether I will write it as a straight nonfiction account, or as a roman à clef, which might be necessary due to gaps in her life that I won’t be able to factually delineate.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I would say Ryan Zee Author Marketing (ryanzee.com). It’s fantastic for garnering large numbers of email subscribers to one’s newsletter, or blog. And Sandra Beckwith’s BuildBookBuzz, which recommended Author Gang.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
First, assess your writing accomplishments to honestly determine whether you have the talent for writing. If you do, attend writing clinics. When you write something, have it professionally edited before submitting it for publication. Finding an agent is a lengthy, arduous process that is more difficult, in my opinion, than landing a small or medium publisher. I came close, with a venerable New York agent adjudging me a good writer whose dialogue was “true to life, hard to do,” but having reservations about focus in the early story lines. I subsequently received contract offers from two traditional publishers.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“You have a flair for writing,” a college professor told me, and advised me to pursue journalism as a career.

What are you reading now?
After finishing the long, dense novel The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen, I have dived into a mystery that I bought in a library sale, The Scarpetta Factor, by Patricia Cornwell. This woman’s knowledge of physiology surely is comprehensive enough to rival that of any medical professional.

What’s next for you as a writer?
In the midst of battling computer technical issues involved in promoting Murder in Palm Beach, I am finding whatever time I can to gather information for the aforementioned book about a woman who led a fascinating life of crime and eventually made an impact on prison reform in Florida.

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?
Ones that I haven’t read and don’t have time for. Perhaps Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward Angel, and any of several novels by Saul Bellow, maybe Humboldt’s Gift, just because it won the Pulitzer Prize.

Author Websites and Profiles
Robert Brink Website
Robert Brink Amazon Profile

Robert Brink’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I come from a very interesting family during an era of epochal change, and grew up at the confluence of Eastern and Western cultures.

My father joined the guerrillas that fought the Japanese occupation in the Chinese province of Shandong before and during the Second World War. He was just a young teen at the time. Most of these local resistance groups were organized by the Chinese Communist Party. It was a fact of life for someone who wanted to fight the occupation. I have based one of my characters on my father. Many of the characters in the story are based on real people, including the one-eyed slave girl.

When the Chinese Civil War resumed after the Second World War, my father decided that he did not want to be a part of that conflict, and he left home to find his fortunes in Hong Kong. He became a regular actor for a major studio and met my mother who was the family tutor of his studio boss.

My mother was born in Hainan Island (South China) and grew up in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, of Vietnam. Practically everyone on my mother’s side of the family left their village in Wenchang (hometown of the Soong Sisters) and emigrated to Saigon and Haiphong. Some of them would make their fortunes from the Vietnam War. After the collapse of South Vietnam, the wealthy relatives would leave on chartered planes with gold bars strapped to their belts; others less fortunate—such as my uncle—would have to risk their life trying to cross the treacherous seas in little boats. They are known in history as the Boat-people.

My mother was a strange breed. She came from a line of strong women. Despite growing up in a highly patriarchal culture which did not care about girls being educated, she left home in her early teens to attend a famous State run (Nationalist) high school (Hanmin) at Guilin during the Sino-Japanese War. She was determined enough to take the trip from Saigon by herself on foot. When the Nationalist government collapsed at the end of the Civil War, my mother went to Hong Kong instead of returning home to Saigon.

My adventurous father’s northern genes met my conservative mother’s southern genes in the British colony of Hong Kong in southern China. North, South, East, and West collided and here I am.

My father was a naturally talented artist, being able to play the erhu (two-string viol) by ear and sing Peking opera without any formal training. Similarly, I never received any musical training, but I find that I have a good ear for music. This tale is interspersed here and there with musical elements.

My father never attended much school but decided to become a writer. His first book was a spy novel based on the Sino-Japanese War. It was an instant best seller in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and was made into a movie. That was before James Bond became a phenomenon. My father would go on to write a series of historical novels. I am told that his books are collected by some libraries in North America, including the University of Toronto and Princeton University.

Given my father’s acting connections, both my older sister and I acted in small roles and walk-ons during preschool years. My mother’s younger sister was married to the son of a studio boss, and I grew up watching how movies were made.

Being an actor and an author with a Bohemian streak, my father was seldom home. Financial support was also intermittent and not always timely. We grew up in a dysfunctional family with my mother as the head of the household working three jobs and raising three kids. It was perhaps by inexplicable luck or some say providence that I was accepted into La Salle, an elite English boy’s school in Hong Kong established and run by Irish Catholic brothers. I would spend thirteen years getting my entire primary and secondary education at the school. I would say it made me into who I am.

I became a confirmed Catholic and at one time attended Church and chapel on a daily basis, volunteering to lead rosaries after lunch rather than playing with the other boys, quite convinced that I wanted to become a priest or at least a brother when I grew up. That did not happen because my spiritual guide left the school as I was having teleological questions. He would return to be the school’s headmaster the year after my Form 7 (grade 13) graduation. Brother Thomas would remain a fixture of La Salle to this day. But his absence during those crucial years dampened my religious fervor. I moved on. One can’t help but wonder what if.

After graduating with an Engineering degree in Canada, I returned to Hong Kong and got my first job as a production assistant at one of Hong Kong’s only two TV stations, Rediffusion-TV (RTV), later Asia TV. It was a natural choice for me because I was returning to familiar environments. I worked there for one year, learning practically every facet of television production before immigrating to Canada. I made fast friends at the station, some of whom would later become mega-stars (one received the Palme d’Or for Best Actress; another graced the pages of Playboy), and a connection would inadvertently take the unexpected turn to impact my life many years later. But that’s another story.

At that time, Toronto had just launched its first multi-lingual television station CFMT (now bought by Rogers and renamed Omni). I had missed their hiring period by about six months. I decided to volunteer. When their senior producer found a solitary mad man simultaneously working three edit bays on Christmas Eve, he hired him on the spot. The only person working that evening in the darkened building on Lakeshore Boulevard was an unpaid and starving new immigrant from Hong Kong.

At first I was the field director of English news, even doing a stint as their Chinese news anchor. Soon I found myself producing their Chinese language program, which quickly became the most successful time slot at the station. I became a minor celebrity in Toronto Chinatown. Even Martin Yan came to me asking for my help to produce his first syndicated cooking show Yan Can Cook. This would become one of the longest running cooking shows in North America, and it is still airing on PBS. Martin and I have remained friends for nearly four decades.

A Chinese person from Hong Kong approached me and asked me if I could help him apply for a Chinese language television license. It was a far-fetched idea at the time, but persistence paid off and we got a license several years later. The burden of building a television station from scratch on a shoe-string budget fell on my shoulders. My one year experience at RTV came in handy. I also solved the problem of program delivery to small markets across Canada. Later, I wrote a dBase IV program to facilitate traffic (logistics) for the TV station. All of that is without formal training in broadcast engineering, television production, business administration, or computer programming. I just winged it.

Later, when the original owner/investor defaulted on his debt, I was appointed by court to act as joint receiver-manager with Ernest & Young to save the station. Both the creditors and the CRTC (broadcast commission) supported the appointment. They knew it was not a job for chartered accountants. Using the same staff and by then dilapidated equipment, I was able to increase monthly advertising revenues by twenty-five times within ten months, doubled subscription income, and used cash flow to build a brand new studio. When the station was sold in an auction a few years later, all creditors were repaid in full.

A friend from Hong Kong saw the new production facility that I built and made me an offer to work in China. He happened to own the largest broadcast and telecommunications technologies company in China at the time. That was the time when China had just taken back Hong Kong from the British government, a new century was dawning, and everything seemed possible. I was able to experience up close and personal the seachange in China.

Living in China gradually opened my eyes. Having worked in the mainstream media in the West for a couple of decades, I began to realize that in the West, the story of China has been seriously warped by people who do not know Chinese history and do not understand Chinese culture, but rather project their own misconceptions and disparate values on a whole country and its people, usually based on false narratives, jaundiced prejudice, or outright lies.

Since retiring and returning to Canada, I can finally begin this new project which has always been close to my heart. I have always wanted to tell a better story of the China I know, but I don’t want it to be pedantic. There are lots of non-fiction books written by Western experts on the subject. I therefore decide to follow in my father’s footsteps and write a historical novel, infusing it with puzzles and mysteries, thrilling adventures, Homeric battles, literary and cultural allusions, both from the East and the West, and at the same time, making use of sci-fi elements to tell the possibility of a better socio-economic future if we can somehow avoid destroying ourselves in the first place.

The first book “The Unconquered: Children of the Divine Fire” lays the scene. The reader will learn much about China while enjoying a sci-fi adventure story. Some of the material are from original research and will baffle the most erudite Sinologists.

The second book which is work in progress is provisionally titled “Antebellum.” This will explain the origin of the one-eyed man and the Watchers, and tell the story of a technological paradise on a planet long ago and faraway. We will learn how their culture ended up on earth to affect human civilization. This is of course a parable.

The last book of the trilogy as yet untitled will talk about the final conflagration and renewal. It explains the power by which existence is possible. This power is inexorable, ubiquitous, and indescribable; infinite in the past and the future, infinitely large and infinitesimally small, and it cannot be understood without enlightenment, which involves the awakening from our stupor and the acknowledgment of the Big Lie. It sounds religious but it’s actually science. I have tried to use real science as much as possible. In the story, this power must be wielded for salvation, but this power is also merciless to all those who dare to wield it. The answers will be revealed as the story progresses.

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What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The title is “The Unconquered: Children of the Divine Fire”
This is based on China having been invaded and conquered by foreign tribes almost without respite throughout most of its history. This included the last dynasty of Qing which preceded the modern Chinese republics. Few in the West realize that the Qing dynasty was not Chinese. They were Manchurians, descendants of the Jurchens from south Siberia. They were ethnically, culturally, and linguistically very different from the Chinese. The name of the ruling house was Aisin Gioro … not a Chinese name at all. They ruled all of China for 268 years. They had ruled even longer in Manchuria. In the end, China the conquered conquers their conqueror, not by the sword, but by the word. The Manchurians have become Chinese and they now call China home.

The Unconquered also has something to do with the main character’s name Victoria Solana and with a mysterious oracle of the “Stopping-of-the-Sun.” The answer is in the book and it is for the reader to find out.

The Divine Fire refers to the fire of Prometheus that sparked the beginning of human civilization. The first archaeologically proven dynasty of China is the Shang, and the first father of Shang is the god of fire. His star in heaven is known as the Big Fire, later known in China as the Heart (star) of the Dragon (constellation). The Shang dynasty collapsed in the 11th century BCE. The physical existence of Shang disappeared from the face of the earth. History became legend and legend became myth, until oracle bones and bronze vessels of that era were discovered a little more than a hundred years ago. While there is ample evidence, and no scholars and historians have ever contemplated it, my story openly declares that the children of Shang have always been around, hiding in plain sight. Their lineages exist to this day, some of which have become very well-known and influential.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have been a night owl since very young. I like to be secluded in my library and write until the sun comes up.

Being a hybrid creature of the East and the West, my writing is suffused with literary and cultural elements from both worlds. For example, there are chapters titled “Hill of Beans” and “Doing a Hudsucker,” both alluding to Hollywood movies. The Watchers named Vincent and Jules is a tip of the hat to another film. The names “Watchers” and “Grigoris” are of course biblical, if not canonical. There are also lines from classical literature, popular songs, musicals, poems, and Shakespearean plays. The careful reader will discover numerous examples all through the book.

I am also not averse to using archaic words or applying ancient meanings to common words. Some readers may puzzle at the last paragraph of the book, which says “Victoria will tickle their catastrophes.” This is Shakespearean. The explanation is in the next line. I advise the serious reader not to peek.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I read very widely and I enjoy reading the classics. I am very interested in antiquities, history, and etymology. I am a serious student of the Bible, although no longer in the religious sense. I have therefore also studied the Gnostic texts including the Nag Hammadi scrolls and other non-canonical books such as Enoch I. If I have to list a few influential books, I would say the Iliad and the Odyssey, The Histories by Herodotus, Livy’s History of Rome, Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul and the Civil Wars, Ovid’s Metamorphosis, and Virgil’s The Aeneid. I have read Dante’s Divine Comedy several times, once in Italian, and all of Shakespeare’s plays at least once. Milton’s Paradise Lost is a personal favorite, and it is the title of a chapter of my book. I was reading the Milton masterpiece on a flight with Meryl Streep seated behind me. I threw decorum to the wind and begged her to autograph my Milton, which she gracefully complied without protest. More recent works of note include The Lord of the Rings, Slaughterhouse Five, Holy Blood Holy Grail (the historical mystery used by Dan Brown in his Da Vinci Code), Michio Kaku’s Hyperspace, and Beinhocker’s Origin of Wealth. I also read Chinese classics and Chinese history written in Chinese. My most favorite Chinese books would be the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dream of the Red Chamber, and the Annals of the states of Eastern Zhou.

What are you working on now?
I have already created the story of the second book Antebellum in my head. I am in the process of putting it into words.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have just begun to promote The Unconquered through book promotion sites. I’m still learning and gaining experience, so I will not make any judgment at this time. I may have a better idea after a couple of months.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do what you love, write of things you’re familiar with, and share something meaningful with the world rather than just trying to sell books. Writing a book for the first time is a learning process. Think of it as going to school. It will get better if you do not give up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Confucius said, “Put yourself into other’s shoes. Do NOT unto others what you do not wish others to do unto you.”

What are you reading now?
Winston Churchill’s biography of his ancestor: “Marlborough, His Life and Times.”

It consists of four books. I read it when I was young. I have decided to read it again to refresh my memory. The recent movie “The Favourite” is based on the extraordinary relationship between Queen Anne and the wife of the first Duke of Marlborough Sarah Jennings.

The book relates Marlborough’s (John Churchill) multiple cycles of rise and fall in the service of king (sometimes queen) and country, and describes in detail his unrivaled military achievements. He did not suffer a single battlefield setback, which even Napoleon could not boast. Churchill also made public for the first time many private letters written by Marlborough to his wife. It is amusing to note that Marlborough in almost every one of his letters always swears undying love for Sarah, calls Sarah his soul, and professes he can never be happy until he is with her again. He would do that even in his fifties while dodging bullets in the battlefield. That is something one never reads in history books.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I would like to share my book with as many readers as possible. I will also attempt to translate it into Chinese and share it with a billion Chinese 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?
The Bible, Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Dream of the Red Chamber, and the Annals of the states of Eastern Zhou.

Author Websites and Profiles
Peter Man Website
Peter Man Amazon Profile

Peter Man’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My first name, “Dulce Amor”, literally means “Sweet Love”, so I think that’s why I put a lot of sweet love into everything I do. I’m very passionate about the things I do, and I’m into a lot of things. I love baking, cooking, playing the guitar, composing songs, engaging in a variety of sports such as archery and martial arts. Of course I love writing stories. It allows me to express my thoughts, my dreams, my understanding of the world and the messages I want to convey to people. Aside from writing, I also love drawing. In fact, I made all the drawings for my books from the covers to the inside pages.

So far I’ve written four books in English. One of them is a children’s book. The other three are part of a young adult fantasy adventure series. They are as follows:
The Apple Seed
Blood of Angels (Elioud Chronicles Book 1)
Flight of Angels (Elioud Chronicles Book 2)
Clash of Angels (Elioud Chronicles Book 3)

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is Clash of Angels which is Book 3 of my series, Elioud Chronicles. It and the books before it, Blood of Angels and Flight of Angels, are all inspired by beings called Eliouds (antediluvian children of the Nephilim) from the Book of Enoch.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I do like watching movies and TV series and/or listening to music to spark ideas in my head before I write. I also get a lot of ideas when I’m taking a bath or before I go to sleep.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The authors I like who probably influenced me are J.K. Rowling, Anne Rice, and my sister Jocelyn who was a writer long before I started writing stories. As for books, my major influences are Harry Potter, the Book of Enoch, Exorcism (Encounters with the Paranormal and the Occult) and the Holy Bible.

What are you working on now?
Aside from promotions, which is very challenging, there are a couple of stories in my head I want to put into writing but I’m still thinking which one to prioritize.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m trying Facebook ads at the moment. I might try Amazon ads soon. I’m not really sure yet what the best method is. I’m still experimenting on that.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t write for money. Write with a mission in your head. What do you want to accomplish? Write to communicate a good story that’s not just a copycat of other already famous stories out there. Write to influence your readers into doing something good. Don’t be too influenced by the real world. Instead, influence the real world with your story. Make sure the readers get something good out of it, lessons worth sharing with the world, morals that could make a difference. Your story is your voice shouting out to the world. Your story is your legacy.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Get it done.” That’s the best advice I’ve heard. I’m a bit of a perfectionist so as much as possible, I plan and organize things before doing anything. I tend to go over what’s already been written and do tons of edits and revisions that I couldn’t move on to the next chapter. If I didn’t listen to that advice from my sister, I’d probably still be writing the books I have now instead of promoting them.

What are you reading now?
Right now, I’m reading Poems of Love and Letting Go by my sister, Jocelyn. I’m also reading See How She Loves Us: 50 Approved Apparitions of Our Lady, and the Book of Revelations from the Holy Bible.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I might come up with some children’s books and a few shortreads related to my series, Elioud Chronicles.

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 with me the following books:
1. The Holy Bible
2. Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere – Alive!
3. Bushcraft First Aid: A Field Guide to Wilderness Emergency Care
4. Boatbuilding: A Complete Handbook of Wooden Boat Construction

Author Websites and Profiles
Dulce Amor Soriano Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
La Fonceur is a Dance Artist and a Health Blogger. La Fonceur is Masters in Pharmacy specialized in Pharmaceutical Technology. She has published a Review Article on “Techniques for Producing Biotechnology-Derived Products of Pharmaceutical Use” in Pharmtechmedica Journal. She is a Registered State Pharmacist. She is National Level GPAT Qualifier in the year 2011 and among Top 1400 nationwide.
Being a Research Scientist, she has worked closely with drugs and based on her experience she believes Vegetarian Foods are the remedy for many diseases, one can prevent most of the diseases with Nutritional Foods and Healthy Lifestyle.

Books by La Fonceur So Far:
Eat so what!: Smart ways to stay healthy
Eat so what!: Smart ways to stay healthy (Mini Edition)
Eat so what! The Power of Vegetarianism Volume 1 (Mini Edition)
Eat so what! The Power of Vegetarianism Volume 2 (Mini Edition)
Eat so what! The Power of Vegetarianism Full Version

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Eat so what! The Power of Vegetarianism Volume 2 (Mini Edition)

I see various Diets trends catching fire every day but these are far from Healthy
diets, they may give temporary solution for health issues whether it is weight loss, diabetes or other disease but for healthy life one must have a thorough knowledge of food that they eat, what is the actual purpose of that food and how actually nutritious they are. I am trying to help people to understand their food in a scientific and real way.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on my next book which will be a Guide to how to stay healthy in the rainy season as most people fall sick or feel depressed in this season. Also, this season comes with problems like hair fall, skin infections, and many others. I will give a to z guideline to prevent these problems in my new Book.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Social media and my blog www.eatsowhat.com are my main two ways of promoting my work.

What are you reading now?
Health Journals

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?
Maybe Romantic Short Stories, Self-improvement, Motivational books and will surely keep some of my books with myself too

Author Websites and Profiles
La Fonceur Website
La Fonceur Amazon Profile
La Fonceur Author Profile on Smashwords

La Fonceur’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
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