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Eyta Jade 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve always thought that although actions speak louder than words, there are so many times when words have cut deeper.

In the light of that, I’ve always seen words as a two edged sword. It’s very empowering to be able to use that sword to positively pierce through the hearts and bodies and minds of people through romance and eh eh…steamy scenes. This in itself is the embodiment of who I am, because a writer is not all I am, but it is who I am.

I’ve written several books, but my first published book is Awakened by Him. I currently have 5 other books I am working on. So, you can expect prolific publishing of books from me.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Awakened by Him was inspired by a dream I had of faceless characters meeting each other. I knew it was an inspiration because the characters were asking me to give them a face – that translated to me giving them a voice with my words. And so I did.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No…but I can write through a tornado.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Danielle Steel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Brenda Jackson
Tiffany Parker

What are you working on now?
I’m actively working on finishing my trilogy and three other books I’ve started writing. You can expecting scorching romance with an hint or more than a hint of suspense from them all. You will also see diversity and inclusive because why not.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still in a learning curve so I’d rather not assume.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
You are capable and if you are willing, you will do it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Nike – Just do it.

What are you reading now?
Fool For Him by R.C. Martin and I’m loving it.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Progress and growth. I can’t and will never stop.

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 walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks
Full Circle by Danielle Steele
Thoughtless Trilogy by S.C. Stephens

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Deborah Natelson 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a former copy- and substantive editor with a Master of Theology and a beautiful dog. I’ve written around ten full-length books of my own in addition to some false starts and ghostwriting (which I don’t count).

At the moment I’m . . . sigh, looking for a different job. Because sitting alone in one’s living room all day year after year, hunched over the computer isn’t great for one’s mental health . . . and because editing other people’s books takes too much creative energy away from mine. Wish me luck!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Land of the Purple Ring.
So, Fisher Price has these toys called stacking ring toys, where you stack rings of different colors. The top, smallest one used to be purple — and it pretty well always gets lost. In my family, sure, but not just there. Everyone’s gets lost. So my mom started saying that when something got lost, it went to the land of lost things: The Land of the Purple Ring.
Honestly, how could I not write a book about it, after that?

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write over breakfast, first thing in the morning.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Diana Wynne Jones, Jonathan Stroud, and Walter Moers are some big ones. But honestly, there are so many . . .

What are you working on now?
At long last, I’m taking a break. But a new idea is already developing . . .

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Don’t just use one! Use them all!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
1. It takes 1,000,000 words to get good. Keep at it.
2. Read more than you write.
3. Get exercise! Expose yourself to new things!
4. Find great critiquers and think over their advice, but don’t take all of it.
5. Find a great professional copy/substantive editor, and take 60-80% of their advice.
6. Find a great professional proofreader and take 99.9% of their advice.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Take one day off per week to refresh your brain. Read something fun during it.

What are you reading now?
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, volume 2 (light novel)

What’s next for you as a writer?
Endless patience. I need to take a break, but an idea is welling up. I might write it as a web novel first, I think.

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 long am I going to be stranded? If a fixed amount of time — a year or two — and then I’ll be back, I think I might as well learn a new language. But German or Japanese? I’d pick one, then get a grammar book, a dictionary, and two novels in that language.

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Michael Pronko 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve written three books about Tokyo life, non-fiction memoir-like short writings. I’ve now published three novels in the Detective Hiroshi series set in Tokyo. I’ve also published textbooks and three sets of essays in Japanese.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Tokyo Traffic was inspired by writing editorials about Japanese society, politics, and education. Japan is a very advanced country, but there are pockets of old practices, like the treatment of women, which never seem to change. I don’t think novels should be like editorials, but there is always an ethical element to most mystery/thrillers. I was inspired by the people I observe in Tokyo and by the city itself.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Writing itself is an unusual habit. Anything on top of that would be normal. I keep paper and pen everywhere. Bedside, living room table, the couch where I nap, my pocket, my office at university, my bag. I stop wherever I am and jot down what comes into my head.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I teach American Literature, so all the classics of the ‘canon’ have influenced me deeply, but I also did my Ph.D. on Charles Dickens, and read so many French novels as a grad student. Living in Japan, I read as many Japanese novels as I can, and those are now influencing me a lot. As for mysteries and thrillers, I just romp through as many and as varied a selection as I can.

What are you working on now?
My next novel will be the fourth in the Detective Hiroshi series. It’s tentatively titled, “Tokyo Overtime,” and focuses on the overwork culture of Tokyo. With a word like, “karoshi,” which means death from overwork, the workplaces of Tokyo are dangerous.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I wish I knew. Each one has some advantages. Readers are picky, and I mean picky in the best sense of being careful to save themselves disappointment. So, I try to promote widely and diversely in order to catch various kinds of readers. I try to think about how readers find new books that fit them.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write every day. Work out a treaty with your significant others. I think reading widely helps immensely, especially outside of your chosen genre. Outlining novels to teach them to university students was one of the most helpful things I’ve ever done. Read a lot of craft books, but take them all with a grain of salt. BIC: butt in chair.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Try to write the novel you can’t. I think that means always strive to write in ways that are fresh and challenging.

What are you reading now?
“Tsundoku” is the word for my reading. That means piled-up unread shelves. I have stacks of books, jam-packed e-readers: American politics, a biography of Jerry Garcia, a renegade history of American culture, Japanese manga, Kurt Vonnegut, Daniel Woodrell and John Cheever for classes, and a couple of craft books I take with a grain of salt (glass of wine, actually).

What’s next for you as a writer?
I want to write more in this series, but also a book on Japanese jazz, which is almost finished. I’ve started some short prose pieces about Tokyo, too.

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 Decameron, Catch-22, something by Dickens, Balzac, short stories by world authors, how to survive on a desert island, but it would be absolute agony to choose and I’d probably drown in the ocean before I could make the final selection.

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Jeff Ayers 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an English teacher from Arkansas, with a wonderful wife and two very young boys. I love reading and writing, and I especially love stories most of all. I’ve written two novels, but only published one.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Skate the Thief” sprung from a conversation with a friend about getting stabbed and how terrible that would be. My friend brought up the fact that there are mythical creatures who wouldn’t be hurt by it, but could still be annoyed. That was the start of it, and I went from there to try to tell a story about poverty, danger, and difficult choices.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to title my working projects something goofy to give my spirits a lift before setting down to write. “Skate the Thief” had the working title of “The Liar, the Lich, and the War Robes.” Whenever I would workshop parts of the book with other writers, that was the title I would use, and I would always get feedback about how much people either loved or hated that name for it.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I think the first author that I read that made me want to write was R. A. Salvatore. I picked up “The Dark Elf Trilogy” from the library in junior high, and never looked back. Alongside him, I’d have to put down J. K. Rowling and George R. R. Martin as big influences on the kind of story I want to tell (not necessarily in content, mind you, but in styles and themes).

What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on book 2 of The Rag & Bone Chronicles, the direct sequel to “Skate the Thief.” I’ve got about four other projects started to various degrees, but all of my attention is on Skate right now.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
For me, Facebook has been the best place to gather an audience and get my work out. I’ve had some success with Twitter as well. Constant content creating and sharing keeps would-be readers engaged while they wait for updates on the book, so I try to keep up with it all.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t give up. Always try to improve. No matter how good or bad you think you are at writing, you can always do these two things.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“In writing, kill your darlings.” You may have written what you thought was a really good sentence at the time, but if people are telling you they’re bad during the editing process, get rid of the sentence or cut it out.

What are you reading now?
I just recently finished a re-read of Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, and I’m going to pick up a graphic novel for my next read. I’m either going to do a re-read of Gaiman’s “Sandman,” or else try to find an omnibus of Gillen and McKelvie’s “The Wicked + the Divine.” It’s on-going, so I may have to be satisfied with the first half or so.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finishing the R&B Chronicles first. After that, one of my projects. R&B is YA fantasy, but the next project is going to be more adult fantasy, I think.

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 can’t answer that. I can tell you which book I’ve reread more than other, though: Salvatore’s “The Cleric Quintet,” which is technically five books, but it’s usually sold as one cinder-block of a book.

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Brennan McMahon 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Brennan McMahon and as I like to say, “I grew up in a small town and did small town things.” What that means is that I had a yard to play in, a world to explore, and life wasn’t all “hustle and bustle” like the city can be. It was also the 1980s and life was more relaxed. This was before public access to the Internet, smartphones, and social media, so news was delivered on paper or through a handful of TV channels. It seemed easier and less dramatic – even if it really wasn’t.

I’ve written a few books (a YA Christian novel and a fun little science-fiction short story collection), penned a few produced screenplays, and I’m currently writing a dystopian novella as I simultaneously continue to build a crazy world around the Professor Peppercorn character.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“The Irregular Inquests of Professor Peppercorn” is a series of experimental poems where I chucked the rules aside and went with an AAAAA rhyming scheme as opposed to a more traditional ABAB or AABB set up. It was a challenge I issued to myself: Rhyme every line in the stanza and still make interesting stories.

The inspiration came from a love of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and a love of writing in general.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t do outlines. I know where I want to start and where I want to end, but the story comes alive and dictates our course. I’m like a boat Captain at sea that isn’t too concerned with how I get somewhere, just that I’m entertained along the way.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare

What are you working on now?
The next adventures of Professor Peppercorn, and a dystopian novella I’m hoping to finish sooner than later.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
So far? Reddit, Twitter and some SEO magic.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write for you. If you do, your passion will shine through and draw in the readers that you want to read your work.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Procrastination is the thief of time. My great-grandmother Muey told me that.

What are you reading now?
Google results for “Amazon book promotion”

What’s next for you as a writer?
More Peppercorn.

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 complete works of Poe and Shakespeare. Something with Star Wars stories in it. If they had an anthology of all the combined canon books that’d be sweet. And then something funny. Maybe a Dilbert or Pearls Before Swine book.

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Avinash Meshram 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an entrepreneur in education field. I like reading, writing, watching movies and TV series. I also like swimming, chess, and carom. My favorite male actor is Akshay Kumar and my favorite female actor is Genelia D’souza and Alia Bhatt.
I Don’t Need Reasons. I Need You! is my first novel. I am very excited and nervous both!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I Don’t Need Reasons. I Need You! is my latest and the first novel I have written.
I was interested in reading and writing since I was 13 years old. But it was always a hobby. I didn’t have a confidence that someone could actually pay to read my content. But it was always in my heart to try it once. So finally, I decided to tap into my creative potential as an author and see if my writing is worth reading or not.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know if it is unusual habit or not. But I write the first draft of my novel in my mobile whenever I feel like to write it. It could be at work, before sleeping, while sitting idle. Anytime, anywhere. And, I don’t write much. I write a 500 or something words and stop. Once the first draft is completed in my mobile. I transfer that file into my laptop and start editing it. Again, I don’t edit my novel for more than an hour in one day.
Also, I focus more on conversation and expression, than narration.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Chetan Bhagat have influenced me the most. I have read all of his romantic fiction novels and loved most of them.

What are you working on now?
Right now I am editing my second novel, which is a love story of 3 boys falling in love with the same girl. The novel is about a very strong female character and how her life changes because of these three guys.
I am also writing one more novel, which is again a romantic fiction about how a guy and a girl meet in covid 19 pandemic and what happens after that.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am a newbie writer. I have published my novel, just 15 days ago. So right now, it is too early for me to answer this question.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I myself am a new author!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
There should be 3 stages in every story.
1. beginning
2. middle
3. twist

What are you reading now?
I have just finished, A Girl in Room 105 by Chetan Bhagat. And right now, I am waiting for the author copy of my novel. I am dying to touch it and read it again!

What’s next for you as a writer?
My next novel. I was writing as a hobby since a very long time. Just never thought about publishing my work. So now, if my first novel is loved by people then I have enough stories in my mind that I will at least be able to publish 15 novels in next three years!

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?
It is hard to decide because there are so many books. But let’s say, The Alchemist, Game of Thrones series, and Five point someone.

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Stephanie Thoma 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi, I’m Stephanie Thoma and I have written two books and published one of them! I am currently residing in San Francisco, CA marveling at the state of the world right now as I type: a global pandemic, civil rights movement….and I wonder what is next. I am hopeful for the future and the place that books have in storytelling and inspiring people into a better present, reframing of the past, and future.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Confident Introvert is the first brain baby I’ve put out into the world in published book form. It’s a combination of gaining confidence to then be able to connect personally and professionally. I rarely make a concrete distinction between personal and professional development and expression.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’d say that I go from one extreme to the other with habits. For anything business-related, I take a regimented and disciplined approach of writing a little every day to compose an article or book. Alternatively, if I’m writing a song or poem, inspiration can be sporadic, and I may find myself writing a song that perfectly illustrates how I feel in an hour. In both instances, I feel as though I am in a meditative flow state.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love nonfiction self-help, so it’s no surprise that’s what I often write. Authors I love include Erich Fromm, Marie Forleo, Vanessa Van Edwards, Ryan Holiday, Seth Godin, and countless others.

What are you working on now?
I am working on book promo, to be frank. There’s a lot to learn, and my book has now been out for only 5 days.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Perhaps awesome gang? Get back to me after you publish this piece!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Start with things you’ve already written, and expand upon them. You have the beginnings of a book already.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
What people think of you is none of your business, so don’t bother trying to figure it out.

What are you reading now?
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad, and Why Him? Why Her? by Helen Fisher.

What’s next for you as a writer?
To write the next thing! And to plan a virtual and/or socially distanced book signing!

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The ones that take on new meanings each time you read them: A man’s search for meaning, Don’t sweat the small stuff, The Four Agreements, and Anything Wayne Dryer!

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Max Kwoa 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a traveler. I lived all over Eurasia, observing and trying to understand people’s kindness and evil. I wrote two books and countless poems to explore the different facets of humanity.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called “Hell Lingering Within”, and was inspired by the struggle every face, between our youth’s idealistic and endless ambitions, and the limitations and constraints of real life responsibilities. And as any good struggle, I made the fiction visceral, spilling some guts out…

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I always set a color and musical style for each chapter, to set a specific mood. For example in Hell Lingering Within, the chapter dealing with the aftermath is about blank, white, void, and sound art. Most of my table of contents start by laying down color and music style, which I then flesh into words and subtitles. That’s probably an unusual writing habits…

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My inspiration comes from all kind of writings. A fundamental author for me has been James Ellroy, for the raw feeling. Another source of inspiration were american black and white graphic novels from Frank Miller, Daniel Clowes or Dave McKean.
In parallel, chinese philosophy and poetry also greatly impacted the way I perceive structure and writing. Li Qingzhao, Lao Zi, Mana’s epics, so many different ways of delivering an idea. Apart from classic literature, I’m also a huge fan of commercial literature, and especially leaflets. I have a big collection of leaflets I gathered from around the world. There’s so many different approaches from so many different culture. That’s a real reflection of human diversity right there. I even published some of these leaflets on my website, there are true gems…

What are you working on now?
I’m doing promotion right now, but my next book will probably be an anthology of my best poems. Throughout decades of world travel, I built up a collection of poems on notebook. Coupled with pictures of my stuffed dog… yes, I have a stuffed dog named Kwoa that followed me all around for decades now… this could be a great anthology to introduce poetry and the world to children. It’ll also be a gift for my daughter which is now old enough to understand poetry.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
There’s no best method, but probably a mix of method. In any case, the book must be worth promoting, or else promotion is only a waste of time.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep practicing and working on your skills. We all fail, and fail again, and fail some more, up until the point that our production become decent enough. So failure is an important and necessary part of the process to move forward.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Was ist ist, was ist nicht ist moglish”. It’s from a German industrial bands lyrics called Einsturzende Neubauten, and it means: What is is, what is not is possible.

What are you reading now?
I’m currently reading the original 1001 nights again. Simple tales, countless storytelling methods.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Keep on the poetry, and probably a new book centered around the concept of “accountability”.

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?
Lao Zi – Dao De Jing
Dave McKean – Cages
James Ellroy – The Black Dahlia

Author Websites and Profiles
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Brandon Kane 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written several stories about romance and erotica.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Jennifer (Untold worlds 1) was brought about by a combination of romance and confronting uncertainty with another person. What does it take to confront the infinity of possibility? I think that you need the support of another, and to have the love of another.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
When I get stuck with writer’s block, I have a selection of fountain pens, typewriters, to try and unblock myself.

What are you working on now?
Part 2 and 3 of course!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
It is easy to do. I am not the first person to say you need to write, write, and write, but I want to explain in my words. If you can’t write, right now, then write a different way. The only way I have found to remove writer’s block is to push the clog out with volume. It doesn’t have to be good, you don’t have to release it, but you have to write it to get that blockage out.

What are you reading now?
I am actually consuming audio mediums right now, The Magnus Archives and Stella Firma are great at combining horror with other genres. I have never heard of a story where the fanbase ships the main character with the emissary of an elder god.

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?
Terry Pratchett-Small gods. Lindsey Sands – Love Bites, Deborah Blake Wickedly Dangerous.