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Aaron Goff 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an independent author who has many interests that include writing (obviously), reading, exercise, traveling, coaching youth and high school sports, basketball, track and field, the UFC, Professional Wrestling, and history.
I was born and raised in Maplewood, Minnesota. I received my high school degree in 1983 from North St. Paul High School. In 1987, I received my Bachelor’s Degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.
I have seven great children and have nine wonderful grandchildren (with more to come). I am happily married to a loving and supporting woman.
I think I always wanted to be a writer since I was a little kid. In addition to my History degree, I also have a minor in Journalism. The first story I wrote was when I was around eight-years-old. I wrote a Green Lantern Comic. It was all illustration and no dialogue. I then wrote a Fat Albert Comic with pictures and dialogue. I probably have written 10-15 stories. I now have two novels on the market. My first book is titled Babyfaces & Heels (A Pro Wrestling Story). My newest book is called We Now Sell Sea Monkeys (A Call Center Story.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
We Now Sell Sea Monkeys was inspired by my 30-plus years working in the Customer Service/Call Center Industry. That industry is full of innovative, eclectic, and colorful individuals. It is a bizarre world with its own subculture.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I continuously research history, facts, and reference information to add realism and authenticity to my stories.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have always been a fan of John Grisham and his talent of creating well-rounded characters and captivating stories.

What are you working on now?
I am starting research on a few projects. I will not reveal too much, but I have an outline for a novel that includes my cousin and a popular 1970s Pop Music Group.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
There are a lot of options

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Develop a passion and patience for writing. If you do not have those traits, then there is little reason to be a writer.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Do as much research and gather as much information as you can about all the success and pitfalls of self-publishing.

What’s next for you as a writer?
To continue marketing my books and improve my author website.

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 Andre the Giant Biography, A John Grisham novel, and a picture book of exotic places and paradises around the world.

Author Websites and Profiles
Aaron Goff Website
Aaron Goff Amazon Profile

Aaron Goff’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Ivan Obolensky 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have published one book, a novel called “Eye of the Moon”. Novels tend to involve people and their interactions. To write with insight, empathy, and to some degree, accuracy, requires experience. One must have loved, lost, won, struggled, and persevered through many ups and downs to be able to describe and understand what that feels like. Simply reading the latest self-help book on relationships will not aid a writer with characterization and dialogue because a self-help book is only a synthetic model of the world. Reality is different. It is not synthetic. It is quirky and utterly boring until it isn’t. It’s that “until it isn’t” part that makes all the difference. Until one has lived, one hasn’t a clue as to how weird things can get, and believe me, they can get mighty weird.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Eye of the Moon” was inspired by three facts and three ideas.
My grandmother was an Egyptologist who died reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead. “W Magazine” reported that she may have been murdered. Her house in Rhinebeck, NY, that passed to my father when she died, had been visited by the ghost of my grandmother according to several adult eyewitnesses. Those were the facts.
I was a kid. I didn’t see a ghost, yet I wanted to very much. My lack of positive results may have been due to the time I went to bed (early) compared to when apparitions would appear (late) or a peculiarity of the perceptions and general psychology of adults in general. The psychological angle piqued my interest. “How come” is always an important question that I try to answer in my writing.
The three ideas were:
The action had to take place within a finite time frame of five days. This was based on the Greek model, which restricted the action to twenty-four hours. Since I wasn’t in ancient Greece, I extended the time allowed.
The plot would evolve from the situations the characters found themselves in. No outline was permitted.
The characters in the novel would be free to act in any way they saw fit with only one proviso, whatever they had a mind to do had to take place within the time frame allotted. I said, “begin!” and things happened. The plot took off in wild directions and often left me as surprised as I hope the reader is. I mean if the author is surprised, how could the reader not be?

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I think the above is unusual for a start, but I must confess to several others. I write every day, until I can’t take it anymore and have to stop. I sometimes take a “flop day” that can stretch for two or three. I read, ride motorcycles, enjoy time with Mary Jo, explore and photograph Uruguay, and a host of other things when I’m not writing.
I do dislike planned writing hours. If someone told me I had to write from ten to four I would likely begin plotting their demise. I write when I want, which lucky for me is often.
I am also old-fashioned enough to invoke the muse every morning. This may seem completely anachronistic in this day and age, but it works for me. I know a muse has taken a hand when what I read is something that I could not have written had I planned it. Details form, thread, and weave into patterns that are opaque, before suddenly popping into view like pulling back from a single tile in a mosaic to the full image.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The number is very large. Even bad books help. After reading one, you know what not to do, and that can be just as important as knowing what to do in the first place. I love the classics, but they can get a little trying. I do like taking a break by picking up a quick read like the Murder Bot series, and going off into the cosmos before landing back in Combray and reading more of Proust, or Thucydides, Xenophon, Chandler, James, Huxley, Wilder, Wodehouse, and the list goes on and on.

What are you working on now?
I am up to Chapter 64 in the sequel of “Eye of the Moon”.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have a team composed of my wife Mary Jo, and daughter, Joanna, who like to promote and connect with others. Without them I doubt very much would happen. I suppose I could do what they do, but then I would not be writing, and I would be very grumbly.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t write for others. Write to please yourself. Read a lot so you know what a good read is and know what you like in a book. Write that. When you write fiction, you have license to do whatever you want, go wherever you want, overhear whatever you want, create whatever you want. Why restrict yourself to what you think others would like or what they might buy? Who cares? That being said, it is a good idea to have at least one person other than yourself who adores your work. That helps a great deal.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My advice to myself: if you want to be truly great, you can’t think like everyone else.

What are you reading now?
Proust… still. It’s really long. Thucydides for a political comparison to today. “Brave New World”, because I didn’t read it in high school. (I hate it when that happens.) “Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity” by Carlo Rovelli, and “A Student’s Guide to the Schrödinger Equation” round out my immediate list. Oh, and “Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel” by Martha Wells when I need a break.

What’s next for you as a writer?
The sequel, followed by a novel I am one-third finished, followed by a collection of short stories about Percy and Johnny growing up. (They get in lots of trouble.)

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?
Gibbon’s “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, “The Feynman Lectures on Physics”, the complete works of Plato, Jane Austen and Raymond Chandler, as well as the 21 volumes of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series. As you can tell, going on vacation with me can be trying. Nowadays, I carry all my volumes in a waterproof Kindle, and nobody can tell I’m packing serious literary heat.

Author Websites and Profiles
Ivan Obolensky Website
Ivan Obolensky Amazon Profile

Ivan Obolensky’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account

FAVOUR IDAKA 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am honestly a novice in the self publishing world. But I can describe myself as an avid reader and lover of books

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
THE CARRIER. I drew my inspiration from the ongoing pandemic.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes, I sometimes write the chapters from the end. I only do that when I have a serious writer’s block, though.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have read books from all genres mostly nonfiction. I can however say countless authors have influenced me. Coming from my country, Chimamanda Adiche.

What are you working on now?
I am currently on writing vacation. But I hope to work on something special anytime soon.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am totally new to all this. But Awesome gang will do.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I can only say these three things.
Write!
Write!
Write!
Never stop writing. There is indeed power in the pen/thumb(if you know what I mean)

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The only way to succeed is just to try, just one more time.
Also, – Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.

What are you reading now?
THE CARRIER.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I wish to take on new genres and explore more creative aspects of my writing.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
THE CARRIER
YOU HAVE A BRAIN
THE LAST BLACK UNICORN
HARRY POTTER – FULL EDITION

Author Websites and Profiles
FAVOUR IDAKA Website

FAVOUR IDAKA’s Social Media Links
Twitter Account

Blakely Buckles 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I love photography, small towns, and travel. These passions inspired my debut novel, The Lost Moments.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My debut novel is The Lost Moments. It’s inspired by an idea I had one day while waiting in a car. Boredom does wonders for writers.

I was working on a series of books for children at the time, but this idea just wouldn’t go away. I finally committed to writing it. I hadn’t planned on a series, but I’m in love with my characters now. I can’t wait for their next chapter.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. I do prefer to have music playing while I write. More often than not it’s ’70s soft rock or ’80s tunes. I suppose that might be a little unusual.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I really love Jane Austen, Mitch Albom, Stephen King, Nicholas Sparks, Sophie Kinsella, Jen Lancaster, and Helen Fielding.

What are you working on now?
Right now I’m working on two sequels to The Lost Moments. I don’t want to give too much away (spoilers), but one takes a deeper look at some events in a character’s ancestry . The other book follows a character off to college. Both will be suspense novels.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I love Twitter. It’s the best place to keep up with me. You can find me there @blakelybuckles.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t give up. I’ve always been a late bloomer, and staying true to that nature, I am publishing this book while I’m in my 40s. This is just the beginning of my career as an author, and I have no regrets about pursuing my dream now. It is never too late.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Follow your instincts.

What are you reading now?
Right now I’m reading DIY MFA. As for fiction, I just watched Holes again today. My niece first told me about that movie and book when she was a young girl. It’s next on my reading list now.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Right now I’m focused on building my author platform. I will obviously also be spending a majority of time of the two sequels, and I hope to release the first within the year.

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?
Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Pride and Prejudice, and Jaws.

Author Websites and Profiles
Blakely Buckles Website
Blakely Buckles Amazon Profile

Blakely Buckles’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account

David Kprake 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
David Kprake is an African creative writer from Nigeria. In 1991 he was a councillor in the Warri South Local Government with the rank of a minority leader. In 2011 visited Egypt and Israel on tour. When he was a kid, he enjoyed the fairy tales and folklore that his mother told him and his siblings. These fables usually loaded with morals and values which differs from the present-day pastimes of computer games, internet, and televisions filled with crimes and violence. Parents are encouraged to read these stories to their children while they are young to inculcate in them good morals as depicted in these stories.
He started his writing career in the ’80s. The Monkey with Seven Tails is his first-ever published work. His bestselling titles are the LITTLE DAVID SERIES which includes: LITTLE DAVID AND HIS FLYING UMBRELLA; LITTLE DAVID AND THE THREE ANGELS; & LITTLE DAVID AND THE SEVEN GIANTS. Other of his books include Ayuwa and the Wicked Queen; The Circumcision; The Tortoise and the Cricket; The Greedy Python & Other Stories; & Tiny Mosquitoes. All published as eBooks in various retailers. His tales are often characterized by animals that play tricks on each other and ends up with dire consequences to the evildoer. Of such stories are The Tortoise and the Cricket; and The Circumcision. They centred on teaching morals to readers.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Zero Capital Self-publishing Secrets: How to publish eBooks & paperbacks on over 20 publishing companies without a dime.
My inspiration to write this book came by the strong desire to help indie authors to overcome the struggles I went through over the years to publish my books in different platforms worldwide.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
None. Writing comes naturally through inspiration and studying.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My primary influence to write books was from Prof. Wole Soyinka’s poem, Telephone Conversation, and S.M.O Aka.

What are you working on now?
A crime series titled: Troubled Minds.

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
To become ‘a bestseller’ takes time and patience. So, keep on writing and promoting your work.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
‘if you want to be great, be a thinker’ Pst. David Ibiyeomie

What are you reading now?
SUPERNATURAL ABUNDANCE BY DAVID IBIYEOMIE

What’s next for you as a writer?
promoting and promoting my books and writing more 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?
Firstly, the Bible, the troubled mind manuscript that I am currently working on and the book that I am currently reading ‘supernatural abundance’.

Author Websites and Profiles
David Kprake Amazon Profile
David Kprake Author Profile on Smashwords

David Kprake’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account

Oshea Wright 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a author of the romance, drama, comedy, and horror genres. I have been writing stories since the beginning of 2014, and I love the job that I do. Many of my books come from things that I notice. Strippers are People too was developed based on a meeting I had with a stripper at a strip club. As I began to feel that she was working a job that didn’t suit her, this amazing idea was blossomed into my mind, which, I then turned into a book. A New Kind of Relationship was blossomed into my mind when I talked to a female of a Caucasian descent. Her parents weren’t up to her dating a man of an African American descent, and that experience was made into a story. I have created a lot of other books off of imagination. Such as, The Transformation. “A veterinarian tries to help dogs get over their sicknesses. So, he makes a cure, but, that cure turns him and the dogs into werewolves, then, a killing spree begins!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book i’m working on is Dj Cupid. It’s inspired by relationship problems.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Walter Dean Myers

What are you working on now?
Dj Cupid

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AO%27Shea+Wright&s=relevancerank&text=O%27Shea+Wright&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing, just do it, and edit it after you write it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Just f****** do it.” Dan Pena

What are you reading now?
My stories

What’s next for you as a writer?
What’s next is making some sells.

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 Father in Law, True Love does Exist, The Baseball Killer, and It’s a Funny Story Actually

Author Websites and Profiles
Oshea Wright Website
Oshea Wright Amazon Profile

Oshea Wright’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile

Noelle Nelson 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a psychologist, trial consultant and author. This is my 15th book. All of them focus on empowering individuals to be happier, healthier and more successful in their personal lives, at work, at home and in relationships. I’m a monthly contributor to Sixty & Me and regular guest on HitchedMag podcasts. I’m also a screenwriter with “My Daddy Is In Heaven,” which was released in 2018.

I received my education from the United States International University, the University of California at Los Angeles and the Sorbonne, Paris.

My books include The Power of Appreciation: The Key to a Vibrant Life, Your Man is Wonderful, and Happy Healthy…Dead: Why What You Think You Know About Aging Is Wrong and How To Get It Right. My interest in happy, healthy longevity led to the Facebook page, @MeetTheAmazings, which celebrates dynamic, thriving, inspiring 60+ers.

Whenever I can I indulge in reading and travel, but my true passion is dance, from jazz dancing to ice-dancing, to square dancing, and my greatest joys—ballet and ballroom.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“I Survived COVID-19, What Now?! Finding Happiness and Success in a Post COVID World”

Everything is different now. The future is so uncertain, How are we supposed to live and love and just plain survive when everything is upside down and backwards? It can feel positively overwhelming.

But what I realized is that maybe, just maybe, we can turn what we learned about ourselves during these long months of quarantine, about how we think and work and dream, about how we function in relationships with our family, friends, or the world at large—into something good, something positive.

Maybe we can use this global reset as a way to go forward into individual, personal greater happiness, health and success.

All it takes is our willingness to move forward instead of backward, to embrace the lessons that emerged for us in this time of forced introversion. To come at life a little differently. With, say, optimism. Positivity. A belief in the possibility of good things happening. A willingness to say “thank you” to Life regardless of its bumps and hurdles.

Study after study show that optimists, those with a positive, appreciative, forward thinking take on life—thrive. Pessimists do not. Optimism doesn’t mean going around with a “glass is half full” mentality. It’s much more. Optimism means making the best of what is. Optimism is an expansive perspective, an opening towards possibilities and opportunity. Optimism means choosing deliberately to see how things could work out, what might be a better way, what resources or help might be available. To see the good in our lives.

Good happens all the time, in every corner of the globe. Whether it’s José Andrés rushing in to feed the world’s hungry, front-liners giving their all 24/7, or perfect strangers coming to the aid of someone in need, the more we recognize and appreciate the good in all, the happier we get, the longer we live, and the healthier we are. All it takes is a shift in attitude.

“I Survived COVID-19, What Now?! Finding Happiness and Success in a Post-COVID World” is designed to give you insights and inspiration as to how to accomplish this powerful life-enhancing shift. It provides you with strategies, tips and techniques for how to find the positives in life despite awful/painful circumstances, along with examples of real people who have done just that. It’s easier than you might think, and the rewards in terms of your happiness and success will truly be remarkable. Welcome to your brave new world post-COVID-19!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write constantly. Love it.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Louise Hay “Heal Your Life”
Wayne Dyer “Excuses Begone!”
Stephen Covey “The Seven Habits of :Powerfully Effective People”

What are you working on now?
I’m working on my next book. My home was destroyed in the 2018 wildfires that swept through Southern California. It’s about going through that terrible few days, the amazing people I met along the way and the recovery process.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
AwesomeGang.com of course, but also GoodReads and Amazon.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Find the story within you and start writing!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Stay optimistic even during the most difficult times.

What are you reading now?
Ron Chernow “Hamilton”

What’s next for you as a writer?
Besides writing my next book, I’m also preparing my next screenplay.

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?
Elizabeth Peters & Joan Hess “The Painted Queen”

Author Websites and Profiles
Noelle Nelson Website
Noelle Nelson Amazon Profile

Noelle Nelson’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Olive Neil Noseworthy 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Olive Neil Noseworthy, renowned inspirational speaker, is an author who has dedicated her life to helping others.

Olive professes to be a spiritual medium, who is blessed with spiritual gifts, including the gifts of clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, telepathy, psychometry, remote viewing, spiritual healing, past-life regression and the gift to make contact with loved ones who have died and who have crossed over to the Other Side. The other extraordinary gift she possesses to have is the rare ability to make contact with missing children and missing adults, and donates her time and special abilities to this great cause.

She is the founder and Executive Director of the Olive Angel Foundation, a non-profit organization, which is dedicated to help find missing children and missing adults; The Olive Branch, an organization established to promote love and peace throughout the world; and, Olive Seminars, and has given numerous presentations, such as, A Past-Life, A Trip to The Other Side, and Guardian Angels.

Olive is currently writing her second book, On The Wings Of The Blue Butterfly, which is also an extraordinary true story. She has also embarked on writing her third book, The Blue Butterfly Diet and Cookbook. After being diagnosed with Hashimotto’s Disease and then Cancer and needing surgery and treatment, she concluded that there is a hidden pandemic throughout the world with the different diseases, yet, she claims that she is living proof that it all can be prevented and beaten!

For further information regarding Olive, please visit her at: www.facebook.com/oliveneilnoseworthy
Email: oliveneilnoseworthy@hotmail.com

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Secrets of My Soul. My Guardian Angel, Gabriel, spoke to me and told me I was to write this book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Dr. Brian Weiss

What are you working on now?
My second book, On The Wings of The Blue Butterfly.

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Follow your dreams!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“It is necessary for the people of the Earth plane to learn; for many have faltered. Go, my child, in peace and love; and always remember your greatness.”

What are you reading now?
I am not reading anything right now because I am busy writing my second book.

What’s next for you as a writer?
To have my second book, On The Wings of The Blue Butterfly, published and then to write my third book, The Blue Butterfly Diet and Cookbook!

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Books by Dr. Brian Weiss and my own books.

Author Websites and Profiles
Olive Neil Noseworthy Amazon Profile

Olive Neil Noseworthy’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account

June Summers SUMMERS 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m old but not dead yet. At the age of seventy-six, I had my first novel, Let Freedom Ring, published by The Wild Rose Press (2016). Two years later, my second and third novels were released (Before We Fade Away-The Wild Rose Press and A Conflict of Time-Full Moon Publishing, LLC.) In February 2020, my fourth novel, Whatever It Takes, was published by Moonshine Cove Publishing LLC.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is Whatever It Takes (What are the odds? Gabe Wakefield is a thief. He is burglarizing the immaculate, suburban home of Dr. Derrick Byrnes, a local podiatrist, and his wife, Denise, when Gabe notices a rank odor coming from a garage closet. Upon opening the door, he discovers an emaciated child clothed only in dirty underwear lying in a fetal position in the midst of filth, excrement, and urine. What should he do? No child should live in such deplorable conditions. Against his better judgement, he kidnaps the child.

WHATEVER IT TAKES is a tense suspense/thriller of 92,300 words. Throughout the manuscript, Gabe, a single guy of twenty-five who works as a stocker in a local superstore, is challenged with how to deal with what he has done. He is hell-bent on bringing down the couple who grossly mistreated the child. But how is that possible when he just committed both a felony and a kidnapping? )

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
When I write, I actually become the characters in the story. It is as if I am in their world taking part in their challenges and endeavors.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have recently become a big fan of books by Linwood Barclay. I’m not a series writer, nor do I usually read series. I figure at my age I might not be around to read or write the last in a series. A few other authors whose books I enjoy are Harlan Coben, David Rosenfelt, Lisa Scottoline, and Mary Kubica.

What are you working on now?
I recently finished another thriller manuscript called There Was An Old Woman. I am having it professionally edited before I attempt to get it published. My other four books were set in the mythical town of Nawinah, Florida. However, since I’ve moved back to Ohio, this book and another I have just started (1010 Colleda Avenue) are set in Northeast Ohio.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My first three books did well with book signings. However, Whatever It Takes was published weeks before the pandemic, and I had to cancel all my personal signing dates. I have resorted to online publicity.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t give up. It took me three attempts to get my first book published.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I’m not sure of this. I’ve lived a long time and have had advice given to me by so many people. Some of that advice turned out to be garbage. Some of it was phenomenal. So now when I’m given advice, I wait; I test it; and if I find it truly works, I accept it. I have become skeptical in my old age.

What are you reading now?
The Chain by Adrian McKinty

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will continue to write more books for as long as I can. I have a backlog of ideas waiting in this brain of mine. Whether or not I’ll be able to put them on paper before my eyes or heart gives out, remains a question.

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 decide to bring on of Linwood Barclay’s series. Then I’d know I’d have a chance to read them from the first through the last.

Author Websites and Profiles
June Summers SUMMERS Website
June Summers SUMMERS Amazon Profile

June Summers SUMMERS’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile

K. S. Daniels 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Before becoming an author of the children’s book, “Where Is Baby K?”, I was an international educator living in Shenzhen, China. After teaching the Spanish language in Baltimore City for a few years, I decided to accept an offer to continuing providing foreign language instruction to young eager minds in the Far East. I taught Spanish to students ranging from elementary aged to secondary students in an IB program. During my expat and educator years, I had the privilege of traveling to several countries around the world, including, but not limited to Nicaragua, Cuba, Spain, Morocco, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and South Korea.

I have written one book so far.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
In 2019, I welcomed my first child into the world in Shenzhen, China. I knew that we were destined for some amazing adventures. I decided to create a memory book for her first year, as most parents do, and upon planning this memento, I realized this book was something the whole world may read and find joy with. As I want my daughter to continue to thrive in an environment that is linguistically and ethnically diverse, I also see value in promoting the idea of global connectedness, understanding, and compassion for our fellow global citizens. Teaching and traveling alone was the beginning of the journey. Baby K has taken the journey to a new realm, so the plan is to nurture her upbringing and curiosity as we explore the globe together. In the book, parents and children are transformed into her travels during that first year of her life.

Our second book is set to release in late September. Where is Baby K going this time? Stay tuned for the reveal!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wouldn’t call the habit unusual, but I ask my 15 month old daughter for insight into our storyline.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Eat, Pray, Love certainly influenced my life decisions. Paulo Coelho’s book the Alquimista is my all time favorite book. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novels are a runner up for me. My favorite children’s books to read to my daughter are Night Night, Dino-Snores, In My Nest, and I Love My Hair. My all time favorite children’s books are Where The Sidewalk Ends and The Phantom TollBooth.

What are you working on now?
I’ve started researching the sites and countries for the setting for Where Is Baby K? (book 2)
Also, I continue teleworking for an international school based in China.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Social media marketing and international teacher forums and networks.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
The only advice I have for new authors relates to the business side of promoting a book. The sooner one starts with networking and building the platforms for marketing their books, the better.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t sweat the small stuff; It’s all small stuff.

What are you reading now?
True Love by Jennifer Lopez

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’d like to embark on a series of “Where Is Baby K?” children’s books. Also, I would like to produce a novel that encompasses my experience as an expat in China.

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?
El Alquimista, Love in the time of Cholera, Where the Sidewalk Ends/Phantom Tollbooth

Author Websites and Profiles
K. S. Daniels Amazon Profile

K. S. Daniels’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Aidan Benincasa 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am from New York City. Devoted to writing horror, thrillers and especially about the paranormal so much, I have a degree is parapsychology. I have penned over 12 books, but my latest is the first to be published.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is titled Shadow Bay.
Eleven years ago in 2009, I was 21. Seems like so long ago now I’m old. But thankfully I dont need to remember it, as on my computer I have the first draft of Shadow Bay created in 2009 to remind me.

It was a crazy time in my life. A lot of tragedy, bad decisions and anxiety left me with agoraphobia – fear of leaving the house. All I had was my computer, YouTube and an old TV which is irrelevant, but just to paint the picture I had enough to be grateful for, entertained by, but also which created the dark gothic scene of days leading to insanity. And the greatest idea for a novel.

I had penned novels before, but mostly about vampires and ghosts. I am deep into the paranormal so much I have a degree in parapsychology. I knew I’d publish them one day and didnt stray from the supernatural.

Until… I came across a film clip by the band RED. The song was called… and still is “Breathe into me”.
I was hooked. I listened and watched on repeat. I was crazy about it. So much I would go to sleep listening to it and letting my dreams follow the lyrics.
It only took a couple of nights before a scene played in my head where a character – without a face at this stage – was trapped after falling into a coma. In this dream at the time, that character was real to me, even became me and through my phobia at the time, I felt like I couldn’t get out. Human monsters surrounded me. I couldn’t breathe and all my fears and regrets became the chains that kept me there. Although I was moving around subconsciously, my body still lay in bed unable to move.

When I woke up, I started to pen this idea and with it came so much research on people in comas and how some woke up speaking different languages, and having different personalities, like they went somewhere else while laying in comatose.

I had this book finished after a couple of months. Thankfully it gave me no grief in writing and flowed (hard to say that about some of my other writing), but the idea stuck with me, so much now I’m scripting 3 more to follow this one.

The reason it took me so long to finally publish it and get it out there: I was trapped in my own version of Shadow Bay with human monsters and phobias I had to overcome before I could wake up, take control and find a way out of my own personal hell.
It never felt like the right time until now.
Before I could let the world into the horrific place that is Shadow Bay, I had to get out of my own horrific place, work on myself and now confidently and proudly share Shadow Bay with you.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I do hand exercises before I begin typing, or I get really bad hand cramps haha.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Edgar Allan Poe will always be a favorite of mine. I was inspired to put my creative thoughts onto the page after reading the darkness of his writing.
Anne Rice is incredible in her ability to captivate with beautiful words.
When it comes to authors, I’m very dedicated to looking for text that hooks me. If I love what I read, I’m a fan for life!

What are you working on now?
The sequel to Shadow Bay, although it doesn’t follow the characters and has new ones and a new plot.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Right now, its Instagram.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My best advice is to write what your heart and mind are captivated by, not what the market is looking for. Everyone, although they might not realize it, crave difference.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
This advice I was given to by my Grandpapa in Italy: “There is enough negative criticism in the world to bring you down, don’t stand with them and agree. You are made for this and once you stop believing you are, you turn away from the gift you were given and your life will feel forever unfulfilled.”

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. I’ve seen the movies over and over with the Twilight Saga and to be honest, even though Vampires aren’t the latest thing right now, I’m still a fan.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Continue to write. Even if I never sell one book, I Iove being a writer. I love being able to create a scene out of nothing. And if I couldn’t write, I’d rather be labotomised – my mind would just become like a zombie’s.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Red Riding Hood – David L. Johnson and Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Interview with the vampire – Anne Rice

Alan Wake – Rick Burroughs

Author Websites and Profiles
Aidan Benincasa Website
Aidan Benincasa Amazon Profile

Mark Everglade 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Mark Everglade has spent his life as a sociologist, studying conflict on all levels of society. He wrote Hemispheres to sooth our ideological divisiveness at a time of increased polarization as he explores how our underlying values are more similar than we think, regardless of how we look, act, or vote. An avid reader of science fiction, he takes both its warnings, and opportunities for change, to heart. His previous works have appeared in Exoplanet Magazine and Unrealpolitik.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Hemispheres. The book was inspired by the real tidal locked planet Gliese 581g in addition to the increased polarization in our country, which I hope to minimize by creating a book with complex group dynamics where neither side is all right or all wrong.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, R.A. Salvatore, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll

What are you working on now?
The prequel.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Work together in a dedicated workgroup!

What are you reading now?
Chawlgirl Rising by T.K. Young

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?
Pattern Recognition by Gibson
Snow Crash by Stephenson
Chawlgirl Rising by T.K. Young
Into Neon by Matthew Goodwin (cyberpunk masterpiece)

Author Websites and Profiles
Mark Everglade Website

Mark Everglade’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile

Om Pandey 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written 2books, and I am a student I recently passout my high school.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book was not a book basically it was just a story which written. And it’s name is “the war of Corona with middle class family”

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki has influenced me to write books

What are you working on now?
I am a student

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Always try to find a new way to modify your story

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Hard work with Smartwork makes life easy and secure

What are you reading now?
The book “zero to one” By Robert Kiyosaki