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Gerald Hogg 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am originally from Bedford in England but I grew up in Middlesbrough. When I was four years old, in the mid-1950s, my parents took me to Jamaica to live which must have planted in me the seed to travel, as I have been travelling ever since. I have lived in ten different countries and worked in five-star hotels and restaurants around the world as a chef. I have also worked on cruise ships, Antarctic supply ships, a gold mine in Papua New Guinea and the Falkland Islands after the war with Argentina.
I have written seven books in total, five of them are travel books aimed at retirees and baby boomers and I have also written a biography, “You will never amount to anything”.
I have now retired to Thailand where I live on the beautiful island of Koh Samui and travel extensively throughout South East Asia researching my travel books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Deptford Mask Murders; The First Capital Murder Trial In 1905 Using Fingerprint Forensics.
This book was my brother John’s idea. He was writing it as a screenplay, but sadly he died while the project was still in the planning stages and he never got to finish the screenplay. In early 2020 after finishing my latest travel guide book I was looking for another writing project and I decided to research the Deptford Mask Murders as I knew that the story had captivated my brother. Because the crime happened 115 years ago there was not a great deal of information but what information I found was fascinating and I could understand why the story had impressed John so much. I decided to write it as a tribute to my brother so that his idea did not die with him.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Being of a certain age I didn’t grow up with computers but I have certainly adapted to them since I started writing books. I do most of my writing thanks to the wonders of Wifi sitting on a beach or around a swimming pool in Thailand or some other Southeast Asian country. Quite often when the sun is going down my inspiration is helped along with a cocktail or two.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The first books I remember reading were the Just William series of books by Richmal Crompton. As I matured I read everything Charles Dickens wrote and all of The Hobbit series of books by J. R. R. Tolkien, I also loved Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. My daughter was born in 1974, and as she grew older I would read Watership Down by Richard Adams to her at bedtime. Looking back now it was probably a little scary for a little girl, but she loved the book as much as I did. Being at sea for much of my life, books were an important source of entertainment in the few leisure hours that you get working on a ship. I would read everything that I could get my hands on, from Agatha Christie to Ernest Hemingway, from Nevil Shute to Leslie Thomas. My favourite authors of today are James Lee Burke, Elmore Leonard, Dennis Lehane, Kate Atkinson, and Khaled Hosseini. I also like to read any travel-related books especially anything by Michael Palin and Bill Bryson. I don’t think any author actually influenced me, I just loved losing myself in a good book.

What are you working on now?
Thailand got off very lightly with the Covid-19 endemic compared to many countries in the world with only 3,195 confirmed cases and 58 deaths, and Thailand is opening back up again. I am planning a driving trip around Thailand to find inspiration for my next book in the retirees travel guide series of books.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have recently published a website as it seems a necessity in this day and age. Apart from that, being a retiree and of that certain age I am not very knowledgeable about computers and social media, so I rely on word of mouth and hopefully my publisher getting my name out there. I know I must be missing out on many selling opportunities but I find the whole social media thing rather boring and time-consuming.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
As I am a new author myself there is not much advice that I can offer. Just keep doing what you’re doing; even if you don’t get published you’re still improving your mind, enjoying what you’re doing and fulfilling an ambition. My brother John, who was a much better writer than I will ever be, tried most of his life to get his books published and never succeeded. I wrote my second book in 2017 (the first book I wrote was never meant for publication) and I was offered a publishing contract for it within a few months of releasing it on Amazon. What I discovered since becoming an author is that getting a book published is quite often down to luck, being in the right place at the right time and of course writing a great book.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When I was in Cambodia two years ago doing research for my book, I spoke with a lady who was just forty-two years old the same age as my daughter. Her father was arrested, imprisoned and later killed by Pol Pot’s henchmen for the crime of being a teacher. When she was one year old, with her mother, older brother, and sister, they were forced marched 330 kilometres from their home in Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville to work on a communal farm. Her mother died along the way of sickness and malnutrition and she was separated from her brother and sister, and she would never to see them again. She was taken in and raised in impoverished conditions by another family who had befriended her mother on the long march south. Being born in Cambodia during those murderous days she had not had the opportunities in her life that my children or grandchildren have had. She had no education, no real family, and had been working as a prostitute since she was fourteen years old to survive. It certainly put everything in perspective for me. You don’t see the real world by watching it on the television.

What are you reading now?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I last read it 50 years ago when I was I was eighteen nine years after it was published and it captivated me then. I am halfway through it now and it is still one of the best books that I have ever read.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I am not sure. I enjoyed writing my first novel The Deptford Mask Murders very much, so perhaps another novel. There again I may write another travel book for those retirees who may be thinking of taking a long trip after Covid-19 disappears after they have been in lockdown for so long.

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 Blah Story by Nigel Tomm. It’s reputed to be the longest book ever written. I am not sure if I would enjoy it but it has 7312 pages so it would last a while whilst waiting to be rescued. It’s probably cheating but I would take the boxed set of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. How to Survive on a Deserted Island by Tim O’Sheid would be invaluable and for a little light entertainment Adolf Hitler; My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan…Oh and To Kill a Mockingbird

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Aman Tiwari 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an Indian and my hometown is Lucknow (the City of Nawabs). I am a final-year graduate of National Law University Odisha. I am currently planning to pursue MSc. Psychology (Conversion) after graduation.
I have been a self-engrossed person since childhood. I have little to no interest in communicating with people in masses. I was inclined towards law, but practicing it as a profession seems a bit unlike of me. A massive transformation of lifestyle from home to college has reshaped me in manners which cannot be articulated. I have developed a huge inclination towards psychology, especially Freudian psychoanalysis. A part of me was always into philosophy, but it was existentialism that caught my attention. My first interaction with existentialism was through Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus. I still remembered I laughed with each para I read as it was the only reaction that came out witnessing the congruency of its conceptuality with our existence. As if now I am studying the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche along with Greek Mythology, which is another field that interests me. I find Dionysus as the fallen God of the Greeks, a very fascinating character. The Twice Born One, is the source of duality conceptualizing contradiction within itself. All who were attracted to him were fated to a tragic end just like him. This makes me wonder how one aspect which creates is also responsible for its destruction.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I have written a fictional piece of work as Novella titled, “Memoir: The Cathartic Night (Contemplating Temporality to Inevitability)”. It is an existentialist read which aims to embark its readers onto a contemplative journey of self-discovering. I was influenced by Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis to write a Novella conceptualizing my thinking in consonance with existentialism. It upfront deals with the absurdity that is aligned with our existence as meaninglessness in the world of nothingness.
It was the night of 31st May. I usually write a brief about my thoughts, which intrigue me before going to sleep. I have a habit of contemplating various aspects of my life, my past and about all that circumambient me. When I am alone with my thoughts, they tend to surface at the consciousness in the most unexpected times. That night was no different. As I was staring the ceiling in the dark, a thought emerged to the surface, “life and temporality are indispensably attached to the inevitability of death. Is ‘living’ a fight against inevitability?” I don’t know the actual source from where the thought may have arisen, but it may be an outcome of the current events of my life. I am living with my grandfather, who is at a critical age of 92. During the worldwide outburst of Covid-19, his health has been constantly deteriorating with no particular anatomical reason. I have never consciously realized the impact of his absence in my life, but it seems to grab my unconscious self.
On the next day, the beginning of a new month, I sat before my laptop and start writing whatever came to my mind. I never thought I’ll be able to form a Novella out of it. I have noticed one thing about myself, I feel my mind empty when I sit by myself, all alone with nothing to do. But when I keep my fingers onto the keypad, the stream of consciousness starts forming itself as words.
That’s how Memoir: The Cathartic Night came into being from my stream of consciousness.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
The process of writing for me is an extemporaneous act. I cannot write with a pre-conceived notion of writing. It is a matter of time when some extraordinary thought clicks which catalyse the entire process of writing. It forms a chain reaction within and that which was once an empty mind transforms into a vivid imagination of things which were yet unknown. For me writing is an articulation of consciousness, it must take its own form.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Amongst all great legends out there, this book was mostly inspired by the classic Novella, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. The writing style of Kafka is magnificent. How he creates a world of realism with its inception of something connected to mysticism is beyond comprehension.
While the conceptuality of the book is based upon my contemplation primarily over The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. Existentialism as a philosophical movement has a huge impact on me. There are some great writers with their classic piece of literature such as Either/Or of Søren Kierkegaard, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre and Being & Time by Martin Heidegger which have been a constant source of inspiration for me.

What are you working on now?
As if now, I haven’t started on another project, but who knows when some abstract thought hits you and form a piece of art.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Promotion of a book is a hectic task and more so for an indie author. Goodreads is a great platform to connect with a like-minded audience. Also, one should check out the lists of websites uploaded by professionals of the self-publishing industry such as Kindlepreneur and Dale Self Publishing. That’s how I happened to stumble upon Awesome Gang.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
As a debut author myself, I would like to share my experience with the fellow authors without any authoritative influence. There is no one who can advice the other about the ways one should write. It is all subjective and I believe that writing is something that is the actualization of the uniqueness of ourselves. Through its outwardness, it projects our inner self in the most beautiful way possible. One should always try to be true to oneself while articulating thoughts which are not the products of outside influence but are fundamentally belonged solely to the writer.
Do not write for others, but for yourself.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I haven’t had much time in the writing industry to be blessed with any advice which I can term as best.

What are you reading now?
I have currently indulged myself with the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. The Modern Library edition of Walter Kaufmann’s translation is one of the few beautiful pieces of work that I have ever encountered. I find Nietzsche to be the most enigmatic writer of all times who has a unique and convoluted anima which differentiates him amongst the rest.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Future is quite uncertain. This I believe to be one such commonality that unites us all. I don’t know how will I be pursuing my writing career, but I am confident that the adventures of my life will forever be the companion of my writings.

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?
Away from the known, stranded to the unknown, I’ll prefer to carry along with me the books that portray a reality different from the illusory facade of realism that binds us together in the world of consumerism.
Far away from others and hence, closer to ‘self’.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Transcendence of the Ego by Jean-Paul Sartre

Author Websites and Profiles
Aman Tiwari Website
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Sally Mooney 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Having retired from the corporate world, I spend half of my time in Australia and other half in England if I can. With more time on my hands, I have just written my first book, and with the help of my good friend, Sam Clarke, we recently launched it on Amazon. We sold over 250 copies and received some fabulous reviews in a short amount of time, so a promising start we believe.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My book is called “The Illustrated Book of Funny Old Sayings.”

Growing up in the small town of Blandford Forum, Dorset, I used to hear funny old sayings all the time:- “Don’t let the cat out of the bag”, “It’s raining cats and dogs” and “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”. We often know what they mean, but do we know their origins and where do they come from?

As a small child, I was intrigued by them, probably because the thought of it actually raining cats and dogs seemed so ridiculous! Over the last few years, I have been writing these sayings down and researching the history behind them. It’s been both fun and fascinating to say the least. I still visualise a playful image of the saying itself which makes me chuckle and the origins are truly intriguing. I don’t know about you, but I think it would be very sad if these odd little sayings were ever to be forgotten.

So for this reason, I decided to finish the book and get it published. Amazon has been a great tool for achieving this!

As I mentioned, the book is called “The Illustrated Book of Funny Old Sayings” and it includes a number of well known sayings and phrases. Each saying is matched with a beautiful, fun and original water colour painting, together with a couple of paragraphs explaining both the meaning and the origin of the saying.

This book is written for people of all ages and is designed to entertain, inform and enlighten. It will appeal to lovers of trivia, history and language. It makes the perfect gift for someone that has everything, they can keep it on the coffee table and provide a little bit of entertainment for all.

It’s been really fun project to work on.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I keep a note book and pen next to my bed as I often get all of my best ideas in the middle of the night. If I don’t write things down as they come to mind, I might forget about them.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Whilst I love reading all sorts of books, I really enjoy writing short stories, silly little poems and children’s books. So I have to say, I think I have been inspired by authors like Roald Dahl and Julie Robinson – they write fabulous children’s books.

What are you working on now?
I have just finished a children’s rhyming book for ages 3-6 year olds. It is due to be published at the end of this month. It is called “Chicken Chook – A Greedy Bird that likes to Cook.” It’s a funny little book about learning to share and eating well.

The next Chicken Chook book is already beginning to take shape in my mind.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Too early to tell at the moment. Let’s hope I can say Awesome Gang!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t procrastinate, just do it! Like most things, we learn as we go, so the best thing it to just make a start and don’t give up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
No doesn’t mean No – it just means “Not Now!”
So don’t be disheartened and don’t give up.

What are you reading now?
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I would like to keep writing books for children. What ever I do, it needs to be fun and enjoyable.

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 a hard one, but here are my 3 book choices for 3 different reasons.
The hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
Where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens
A short history of everything by Bill Bryson

Author Websites and Profiles
Sally Mooney Amazon Profile

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Laura DiBenedetto 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi, I’m Laura TEDx Speaker and #1 Bestselling author of The Six Habits. I teach people how to create the life of their dreams without sacrificing what they love. I’m also the Founder and CEO of Vision Advertising, a company that I built aged 19, which has helped hundreds of companies build and grow profitable enterprises.

So far, I have only written one book – but book number two is brewing and I can’t wait to get started with it!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My debut book is titled: The Six Habits. The book is a chronicle of my journey into finding the happiness that so many of us search for, using loads of practical examples that are meant to serve others. I provide researched, proven strategies that reliably provide a consistent result of genuine, sustainable happiness. The book is a result of my own struggle in acheiving happiness, despite lots of commercial success.

A few years ago, I felt like the world had let me down. I was as everything I had strived for had been pointless. The fancy car, the big house and the designer shoes left me unfulfilled and empty. I was miserable, but determined to find a solution.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Perhaps it’s unusual that I had no particular writing habits, even though I was writing a book about habits! This book NEEDED to come out of me, so I wrote whenever the urge struck in huge deep-focused blocks that completely consumed me. To be honest, once I began, I couldn’t stop. Well, until my back screamed at me to take a break!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I really enjoy The Four Agreements – I have read it cover to cover, and still return to it often. It is written so well and easy to understand. It inspired me to create something just as simple, just as clear, just as straightforward.

What are you working on now?
I’m busy working on my next book which will integrate more business ideas and principles to serve the entrepreneur audience.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My best method for book promotion is to find great humans!! Nothing was more effective for me, than creating a launch team filled with loyal followers and brand enthusiasts.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t start without an outline!

I outlined the main ideas of my book on index cards – which I laid out across an enormous table so that I could see everything and shuffle the pieces around until they made sense.

There really is something very powerful about being able to physically move things around and being able to see your thoughts start to resemble a book. From here you can see where and when you’re ordering topics, and that allows you to build on ideas.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Suck it up! Just go and do it anyway! You can always whine later.

What are you reading now?
Deep nutrition: Why your genes need traditional food – four pillars of the human diet.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m excited to release the audiobook version of The Six Habits!

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 am on an island!! I live on the beautiful island of Maui in Hawaii, and it turns out you don’t read as much as you think you’re going to when you’re in paradise, because you’ve got beaches to play on!

Author Websites and Profiles
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Y.Y. Chan 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Brisbane, Australia. After graduating from university with a Bachelor of Education, I returned to Hong Kong to teach English in a primary school.
After 10 years of full-time teaching, I wanted to pursue new passions and follow my dream of becoming an author, and finally made that dream come true! I published my first picture book in May 2020 and just recently released a chapter book for early readers. I hope to keep writing and to publish more books in the future!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called ‘Can You Hear Me?’ It was inspired by my personal experience of loss and grief. My father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and passed away after eight months. It was a really painful and heartbreaking experience for me as an adult and I couldn’t imagine what it would be like if I had been a child. I wished that I had read a book that could help me understand and cope with loss and grief when I was younger so I could have been more prepared. These kinds of inevitable events could happen to anyone at anytime, no matter how old we are. I wanted to write about my experience from the perspective of a young girl, imagining how my younger self would have felt or what might have been going on in my mind. I realised that a lot of the feelings I was had would have been the same even as a young child. The shock, confusion, doubts, uncertainties, guilt, regret, anger, sadness, helplessness and so on… So even though the events in the story are entirely fictional, all the emotions and feelings portrayed are very real. A lot of the conversations between the father and the young girl are conversations I wish I had had with my own father. I wish I could have read him the stories I wanted to write, so I included them in my book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t really have any unusual writing habits. When I am busy, I think a lot about writing and have ideas ruminating. But when I actually have the time to sit down and write, I end up procrastinating!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I really love Jodi Picoult’s books. Her stories are so powerful. There is always some kind of moral dilemma or a really difficult choice to make in them. They take you so deep into the storyline that it makes you think about your own life choices and how you would react in that situation. I don’t know her work has influenced my writing, but they have definitely influenced the way I see things and given me a lot of new perspectives on life.
I also love Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking. Pippi is such a fun character and I hope to create such a lovable character in my books one day.

What are you working on now?
Right now, I am working on a new story about a young girl and her grandmother. I just started brainstorming a few days ago. I am also trying to work on the resources to go with my last two books which will hopefully help children and young teens deal with loss and grief.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My only advice is to just go for it! I had wanted to write a book for about five years and kept putting it off. When COVID-19 hit, I saw it as an opportunity to really just sit down, switch off all the devices, forget about everything else, and write until it was done. I finished my first draft within two weeks. It doesn’t have to be perfect – it just needs to be done. Don’t edit while you write either! You can edit AFTER the draft is done!

What are you reading now?
I am simultaneously reading about 10 books. I like variety and switching to different books that suit my moods. Right now, I am reading a lot of books by other indie authors – including children’s books, romance, and even thrillers.

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 am a very practical person, I would like to have some books that could teach me to survive on a desert island – one about food, hunting, fishing etc., one about camping or building a tent / boat. I’d also bring the Bible as I think that would really help me through the tough times. I might choose one book for leisure but would likely pick a non-fiction self-help kind of book – something motivational.

Author Websites and Profiles
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Dan Lawton 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an award-winning literary suspense, mystery, and thriller author from New Hampshire. I’m an active member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW) Organization and the New Hampshire Writers’ Project.

I’ve written and have had five novels published. My sixth manuscript is done and in the editorial phase. My fifth novel, The Green House—a Bronze Medalist in the Adult Fiction E-Book category for the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards), a finalist in the Fiction category for the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and a finalist in the Mystery category for the 2020 Book Excellence Awards—will be released on 7/30/20.

My fourth novel, Plum Springs, won the 2019 New Hampshire Writers’ Project Readers’ Choice Award for Fiction. My first novel, Deception, was named one of the best thriller novels of 2017 by the Novel Writing Festival.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Green House will be release on July 30, 2020. It was inspired by truth. At the time I started it, someone who I was very close to was struggling with mental illness and I failed to understand it. As a writer, the best way for me to try and comprehend it was to put myself in their shoes and write from someone’s POV who was in a similar situation. That was the general inspiration. There’s another aspect to it, the green house and the flowers and the symbolism, that came later and wrapped it all together.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think so. I used to write every day, but that’s not the case anymore. I’ve learned what it takes to write one, so I can write in bursts now. I can write 10,000 words or more in a week when the story is coming, and other times I step away and wait for inspiration to kick in—which it always has!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
John Hart has been my biggest influence. He writes literary suspense—a beautiful juxtaposition of literary writing with fleshed out characters and descriptive writing, and suspenseful plots. I try to write like he does.

What are you working on now?
I finished my six novel a few months ago and will be starting my seventh very soon. For the first time for me, I have a three-book series planned (all my other books up to this point have been standalones). The first in the series is done, so I’ll be starting on the second soon.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I try to stay active on social media (though I don’t love it). I’ve run social ads and have done book giveaways and newspaper/podcast/blog interviews, speeches, a television appearance, and the list goes on. My current publisher has contributed amazingly to the launch of The Green House, which I couldn’t be happier about. I try new strategies and tactics all the time to see what works. It’s still a work in progress for me to find what works and what doesn’t.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just write. The only way you’re going to improve is to keep doing it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
John Grisham once said that many new writers try to be too flowery with their writing—to try and prove how good they are. Often times (though not always, depending on the type of story you want to tell), a story can be told simply without all the unnecessary stuff that goes along with it.

What are you reading now?
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I finished my six novel a few months ago and will be starting my seventh very soon. My fifth book, The Green House, will be released on 7/30/20, so I’ve spent much of my time this year preparing that for launch. I did just recently finish editing a few manuscripts for other authors, which took quite a while too (for details, visit: https://www.danlawtonfiction.com/for-writers/editorial-services/).

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?
Great question. It’s a strange thing, but the truth is, I don’t have a favorite book. In fact, I’ve only read one book more than once—and that was The Last Child by John Hart. There are so many books out there, I prefer to spend my reading time exploring new books rather than revisiting the same stories. With that said, I’d pick the longest books I could find (so to not run out of material to read!) and go with it. I have a behemoth from Greg Iles on my bookshelf that I haven’t gotten around to, so that feels like one that would make the cut.

Author Websites and Profiles
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Misty Black 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Author Misty Black enjoys picture books as much as her children do, if not more! Why? Because a good book can take you anywhere in the world! (No need to get out of bed!)

Misty has been winning awards for writing since fifth grade. She enjoys reading, playing board games, gardening, and spending time with her husband and 3 children.

When asked why she writes, she said, “Books should be fun and exciting. Children deserve to love reading, and I want to be a part of that.”

Misty is the author of several children’s books including:

With Love Collection:
When You Feel Better: A Get Well Soon Gift
When you Feel Better companion coloring books
You Taught Me Love
You Taught me Love companion coloring book
Grandmas are For Love–Coming July 2020

Fizzle Fun Series:
Unicorns, Magic and Slime, Oh My!
My Mom the Fairy

Punk and Friends Learn Social Skills series:
Punk the Skunk Learns to Say Sorry
Can Quilliam Learn to Control His Temper?
Brave the Beaver Has a Case of the Worry Warts

Follow her on social media at Misty Black Author.
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linktr.ee/mistyblack

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Brave the Beaver Has the Worry Warts is my newest release. It was inspired by a series of anxiety attacks my daughter was going through. I wanted to write something to help children understand anxiety and how to deal with it.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love Max Lucado, Audrey Wood, and so many others.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on the third book in my With Love Series called Grandmas Are for Love. The bond grandkids have with their grandmothers is so special. My mom was an amazing grandmother and I dedicate it to her memory.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Take classes, join a beta group, read read read!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You can do anything but you can’t do every thing. Doing a little at a time goes a long way.

What are you reading now?
Educated

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m going to start on my 4th book in my Punk and Friends series next.

Author Websites and Profiles
Misty Black Website
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Lance Strebeck 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is the first and only book I have written. It took me eighteen years from writing the first chapter to finally getting the mindset to finish it.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Dress Reversal. I guess the inspiration came from my own personal life experiences.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I am sure I do and there will be plenty of people to tell me what they are.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My mother Nancy Strebeck.

What are you working on now?
I will not write any more books.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I will self promote the best that I can.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do your research.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Do your research.

What are you reading now?
Dress Reversal, duh.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Nothing is new or next or coming up.

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?
Treasure Island (cliche I know), The Three Musketeers, Harry Potter (any of them).

 

Kimberly Cox 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Kimberly Cox has a sincere passion to help others, especially the youth. She experienced a great amount or problems growing up, many of which made her a stronger person and fueled her passion to help others. At the age of seven, her parents divorced. Her father served in the Armed Forces and was only able to spend very little time with her during her adolescent years. Her mother suffered from an addiction and was in and out of her life for many years. As a result, Kimberly became the “Mother-Figure” for her younger siblings. These experiences are what made her realize that parental and familial relationships are a necessity. They are needed more now than ever.
Kim Cox currently works as a Corrections Officer. As such, she has experienced first-hand the strain that is placed on families when a parent is absent from the home. Her organization, My Brothers And Sisters, is the culmination of her vision to serve as a mediator for the youth in her community. She informs others it is her GOD-given mission to aid at-risk juveniles so that they aren’t sent off to juvenile detention facilities that never deal with the underlying issues these youth are facing. My Brothers And Sisters has many community outreach segments that allow adolescents to obtain counseling and mentoring as well as many fun-filled, family focused events in which they can take part. In 2012, Kim Stepped out on faith and hosted her first event an event, “Daddy’s & Daughter’s Date Night.” This event allowed fathers spend a special evening with their daughters full of good food, fun and, most importantly, making the most of the time to strengthen the special bond between them.
Kim Cox was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida. She attended and graduated from Escambia High School in 1993. She continued her education by attending Pensacola Junior College (now Pensacola State College) where she earned her Associate of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Troy State University from which she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. Kim is married to her husband of 14 years and they share four children. She is the oldest child born to her parents and also the oldest grandchild. She was practically raised by her grandparents who kept her in church. Kimberly also states with pride that her granddad was an awesome quartet singer. She has published two books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“The Seeds They Sow” is the name of the latest book. I was inspired to write this book because of my mother and what I see daily on my job.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No I don’t think I do. I often write while I am working night shift as for some reason this is when I get downloads. It kind weird like when everything is quiet and the lights are out, I can type a lot.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Rekesha Pittman is one of the biggest influencers and authors that I truly admire. I also love Priscilla Shirer, Tony Evans, TD Jakes, Joyce Meyers, Joel Osteen.

What are you working on now?
Right now I am working an a book all about MEN and how they vary. This is something that I hope will help women realize that they are not all the same.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I would say there are multiple. As now a days since social media is very popular anyone who writes should be sure to promote their books on it. I also think that the other is Amazon Author Central.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t allow time to keep passing by without pushing that book out. There are so many unpublished stories laying dormant in the grave.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Writing Comes By Discipline NOT By Inspiration”

What are you reading now?
The Properous Christian book and a book by Steve Wilmer.

What’s next for you as a writer?
To start doing speaking engagements as well as publish my 3 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?
Kimberly Daniels book on spiritual warfare. Priscilla Shirer book on praying. Steve Wilmer book called Nobody cares work harder.

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Danny Walker 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Danny Walker… Great guy, great writer. Over the years I have had people really appreciate my works for how much it’s touched them or entertained them.

So far I have written about 8 books that includes fiction and non fiction

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is one I titled “Agent Ikenna” and then “How not to be a victim of religion”

The first was inspired from a short scary dream which I turned into a book and then the second was born from my experience with religion and it’s burdens

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yeah, I bite my teeth a lot when excited about an idea… Lol… Weird I know.

Also I wake up suddenly at mid nights just to write down a new idea from my dream or a story from my dream

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Well, none… I just love writing by default

What are you working on now?
Wow… I have a lot, I am working on the continuation of Agent Ikenna which I titled Salvation Army…

Also I am working on movie scripts…. Yes I love directing too…

Many more books too… Like the one about the death of Jesus and his journey in the underworld

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Well I am new to promoting my book with sites, so I am just trying out yours to see how wonderful it can be

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write… Write… Write

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Originality is the key of attraction

What are you reading now?
My books… Lol…

What’s next for you as a writer?
Film directing is my biggest dream in life… Oscar’s here I come…

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, Unholy Alliance (my unpublished book), It, How not to die… Lol.

 

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