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Dennis Tatro 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Morgan Horse historian, breeder, researcher, and equine photographer. I have been involved with Morgan Horses since 1986 serving on the board of the Vermont Morgan Horse Association for ten years and has been President of the Lippitt Club for three years. I own and operate a Morgan Horse breeding facility This is my first book but plan on writing more.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Justin Morgan And The Morgan Horse Living On The Town Line is the name. Justin Morgan was the owner of a stallion named Figure, who brought him to Vermont in 1792 and, in which became the progenitor of the Morgan breed of horse. He is also respected, as a musical composer who composed 18th century musical renditions of poetry and psalms known as fuguing tunes or psalmody.

It was known that Justin Morgan settled somewhere on the Randolph, Brookfield town line, but no one has ever found the exact location, until now! Finally after fourteen years of research, the location will be marked with a beautiful historic marker in order to preserve the location for many years to come.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
https://www.justinmorgan1.com and https://www.morganhomesite.com

 

Janet Philbin 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am thrilled to share my first book with you. I am a clinical social worker, hypnotherapist, conscious parenting coach and energy healer. I combined all I am and all that I do and wrote a book to offer readers a framework to heal their inner child.

I have a successful psychotherapy practice, more than 20 years. My passion is to help people heal their deep pain. I am married and I am also a mom to 3 amazing young adults.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My book is called, Show Up For Yourself-A Guide to Inner Awareness and Growth. It was because of my own trauma and my own journey to heal that I was called to write this book. All of my own healing experiences and what I have learned along the way as a clinician and through meditation have brought me to this exact moment in my life.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I do not have an unusual writing habits. When I write I like to be up early, when the world feels quiet. I find that is when I am most creative and most in flow.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Some of my favorite authors are Brene Brown, Dr. Shefali Tsabary and Ekhart Tolle. I also love fiction. John Jakes is one of my favorite authors along with Nelson Demille, Johnathan Kellerman and Jodi Picoult

What are you working on now?
Right now I am doing research for my next book. I do not have a time line when it will be out. I am also releasing an online class which is called. A Deep Dive into Showing Up For Yourself. Information about purchasing this class can be found on my website.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just write and keep on writing. Edit later. Get it out of your head and down on paper.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Do not judge what you write as you write it.

What are you reading now?
Becoming by Michelle Obama

What’s next for you as a writer?
To keep learning and keep helping others.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I would bring the Harry Potter Series and The John Jakes series called, The Bastard.

Author Websites and Profiles
Janet Philbin Website
Janet Philbin Amazon Profile

Janet Philbin’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
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Alexander Mesfin 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written five books. I’m a software engineer trying to perfect my skill. There’s too much variety in the discipline which leads to confusion andrenders my efforts useless.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The frolic pilot: vs talent. It was inspired by a dive into my own imagination and role play, on my own.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to insist on obvious errors and I find it to be a style, but it is sometimes ruined by actual unintended errors.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I really can’t claim to have a role model.

What are you working on now?
I’m currently trying to find a topic for my next book. I am also studying computer science on my own.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I would prefer to use every available site.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I don’t believe that there is a thing as a new writer. Nobody is actually new after high school.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I found the best advice on the internet. So the best advice would be to ‘use the internet” if you don’t have a experienced writer close by.

What are you reading now?
A computer science PDF book called ” The Black Art of 3D game programming” by Andre LaMothe.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m hoping to write a book that will cover an important topic.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I would take books about 3D computer graphics, because I’m really desperate to find out everything about it. I just hope the books don’t get out of the reach of my understanding.

Author Websites and Profiles
Alexander Mesfin Website
Alexander Mesfin Amazon Profile

Alexander Mesfin’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Kevin MacGregor Scott 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
At this point in life useless for anything but writing and emergency situations requiring force and on-the-fly MacGruberisms, I find myself in a state of dormancy until things get dodgy. This is the current angle of repose of a fifty-one year old, ex tree climber, ex alpha-male who’s shed his larval shell. Currently a sensitive male tuned in to the disappearing frail beauty of the world.

I’ve written two books. The first is an exorcism, a book of shorts titled Divided Dog and Other Stories. The second is a full length Pacific Northwest gothic crime novel with supernatural overtones, Two Hours Before Winter.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Two Hours Before Winter takes place in the early seventies northern British Columbia, just after the Alaskan pipeline was greenlighted. It follows two mounties working the area as an influx of men pass through to find work in the pipeline man camps. Women were going missing then, still are, and the mounties struggle to find the killers while their own lives unravel.

The seed of the idea came long ago when my wife told me about a teenage girl that went missing in her hometown when she was young. She was there when the father and mother were told their child had been found. It was a horrible scene. I thought ‘what would a woman do to avenge something like this.’ A scene played out where a woman was pleading with her husband to use her as bait, to bait her out like a salt lick for killers. That was one of the seeds for the story. Where the rest came from…from the stratosphere. It’s out there. You just need to be listening.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Unusual? I treat it like a job. Like contract work. I don’t know what other writers do. Sometimes I’ll do a few hours in a day, other sessions will be a month of ten hour days, particularly when the end is in sight, everything’s coming together and it’s beginning to read well. That is the jolt. When it’s all accelerating toward a fine sharp point. I just don’t want to stop for fear of falling out of the zone. Now that I’ve finished Two Hours Before Winter, I’ve got this post-partum feeling running through me, like I should be doing something else. I’m all keyed up on the inertia of closing the story, and suddenly I have to take off the writer/editor cowboy hat and put on the marketer/self-promoter fez. I’m trying to make it fun.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises when I was a teen.
Frank Herbert’s Dune when I was twenty-two.
McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove and Horseman, Pass by when I was late twenties.
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. One of the best books I’ve read for the sheer honest portrayal of the violence in men.
Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest broke my heart. A great book reeking of Oregon. If you’ve ever lived in the state you know what I mean.
William Gay’s short story collection: I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down. The Paperhanger is a classic Southern Gothic short.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on another novel set in the early part of the civil war that I’m excited about. It follows a character named Cartwright through the hellacious battle of Fredricksburg and beyond, all the way around the horn and up the west coast. I hope to have it finished in a year. It’s now 09-13-2020. I just gave myself a deadline.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have to say that Amazon and Goodreads so far are the best promotional platforms for the money, which means free. I haven’t ‘made’ it yet, so I don’t have the built in marketing machine that the big publishers do. Things are changing. One has to adapt. These two websites allow the author to engage with their potential audience.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Develop your own voice and be true to it. Read as much quality writing as you can.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Probably Stephen King saying something like: ‘Want to be a writer? Write four hours a day and read four hours a day.’ Also, Cormac McCarthy saying ‘you must treat it like a job. You must show up even when you don’t want to.’ I’m putting quotes around this, though I’m sure it’s not word-for-word what they said. The kernel of the idea is there.

What are you reading now?
Right now I’m reading Tom Franklin’s Hell at the Breech. Tom Franklin is a good writer to study, and I have a specific weakness for Southern Gothic. I don’t think he’s written a poor book.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Next for me as a writer, the only three things I can think about are: promoting my recent novel, finishing my next novel and reading good stories.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Suttree, Cormac McCarthy
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
A huge blank tablet and a brick of ink pens.

Author Websites and Profiles
Kevin MacGregor Scott Website
Kevin MacGregor Scott Amazon Profile

Kevin MacGregor Scott’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile

Scarlet Fox 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an author by day, writing novels and other things in the traditional publishing world and doing some editing and freelance work as well. By night I’m a submissive who writes erotica.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
This I Need is my most recent book, and it’s actually the first in a long series called The Leather Bound Journal. The whole thing comes from my own actual journal and follows the D/s relationship with my husband as it develops into the most amazing marriage ever.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write furiously. I can write two thousand words an hour easily and it’s fairly good copy. Then I edit it very slowly and hate editing so much.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Anne Rice, Cormac McCarthy, and the Penthouse Forums.

What are you working on now?
More books to add to a couple series I have out. People are reading them, so I need to get the next set of books out before the readers run out of things to read and go somewhere else.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Honestly, I tweet about them, and my publisher does a few things, but most people find my work via word of mouth or amazon searches. I’m working on a newsletter and more social media, but I’m not sure it matters because most people who buy my books either read one in the past, or heard about them from someone who did.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Study your ass off and write like crazy. Work super hard. Write a million words in two or three years and study that whole time too. Watch every Master Class, every free youtube video, and read every article, and take notes of the good stuff. Never stop improving.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Stay away from him Scarlet, he’s trouble.” – I ignored it

What are you reading now?
Some fantasy and sci-fi and a few other authors erotic works.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I want to do something bigger. Maybe a series of full length books about how to maintain a good Dom/sub relationship.

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 Complete Guide to Survival on a Desert Island
Raft and Boat Building for Dummies
What Am I Going to Eat? – A complete guide to tropical foods
An Idiot’s Guide to Sailing Homemade Watercraft

Author Websites and Profiles
Scarlet Fox Website
Scarlet Fox Amazon Profile

Scarlet Fox’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
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