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Ron B. Wilson 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my first book! I’ve been a professional photographer for over 30 years now. I’ve been writing a travel blog and producing a yearly magazine for the past 7-8 years. Once the pandemic happened and I found myself with a lot of free time, I decided it was the best time to put all my stories into a book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Resilience Stories And Lessons From An Ardent Photographer. My inspiration came from all of my travels. I work with Photographers Without Borders and have done projects in places like Chernobyl, Botswana, and India, witnessing resilient people doing amazing work if difficult circumstances.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. But once I get into a story, I can spend an entire week without sleeping working on it.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu

7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, by Stephen R. Covey

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

What are you working on now?
A little bit of everything. I just returned from The UAE exhibiting my work and speaking:

Xposure Photography Festival 2021

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Amazon, Audible, iTunes. And my website: https://artstyleflow.com

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep working everyday. Sometimes the best work comes from the days when you don’t feel like writing.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never give up! Follow your dreams!

What are you reading now?
I’m listening to a few audiobooks such as Passionate Photographer.

What’s next for you as a writer?
The second issue of my magazine.

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?
Anything I could grab!

Author Websites and Profiles
Ron B. Wilson Website
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Anne Hagan 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m the author of more than twenty works of fiction in the mystery, romance and thriller genres. I write of family, friends, love, murder, and mayhem in no particular order and often all in the same story. I’m half owner of the weekly discount eBook newsletter, MyLesfic, the Director of Marketing for the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS), a wife, parent, foster parent, and an Army veteran. I draw from all of those experiences when I write because truth is often stranger than fiction.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Steel City Confidential was published in 2019. It was born of a dare to write a legal thriller (I’m not a lawyer) with certain themes and elements. I was having a hard time coming up with something that would combine all of the themes and elements when a writer friend made an off the top of her head suggestion that became the vehicle for the entire story.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have to have silence when I write. Writing went mostly out the window for me in 2020 during the pandemic since I had my spouse and foster children all at home all day. I do my best work in the hours between breakfast and lunch and having them here, working and doing school work was not conducive to that.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
There are so many! In my earliest memories it was Encyclopedia Brown Stories and Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. As I’ve aged I’ve read about everything from Agatha Christie, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton, Dick Francis, John Grisham, Sara Paretsky and so many more mainstream mystery and legal thriller authors. Then, there are the indies of the past ten years like John Ellsworth, Scott Pratt…it goes on and on.

And, none of that even scratches the surface of the LGBTQ/Women-Loving-Women books and authors I’ve read. It was the work of Ellen Hart and her cozy mysteries with a lesbian protagonist that finally led me to begin writing.

What are you working on now?
I’ve picked back up a book I started four years ago, a cozy mystery, ‘The Conjuring Comedienne.’ It will be the third in my cozy series that features a pair of 60+ year old moms/grandmothers who are as different as night and day but the best of friends.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’ve found email promotion to be best. I built my own small list. I also happened to luck into taking over a site and email list from another author full of readers in the genres I write in for my books that are in the LGBT arena. Since I’m the owner, I get to advertise free. Perks!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t be afraid to put your writing out there. However you do it, fan fictions, submissions, self publishing – whatever it is – share it with the world. Take some of the constructive advice you get and ignore the critics. Every story isn’t for everyone.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write the next book.

What are you reading now?
I recently finished ‘Perfect Rhythm’ by Jae. I’ve started a book called ‘Bigger Monsters’ by an author friend, Eliza Andrews, and I’m about half way through a book marketing book done by Reedsy. My Kindle is absolutely full.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m going to finish this cozy and then write a 2nd legal thriller. I had an idea for it that was about an intricate legal case but not a lot of action and an idea for a romantic suspense novel that I just couldn’t find the right angle for. My brain went into overdrive one day thinking about the legal thriller and asked me, ‘What if you combine the two ideas?’ Bingo! It’s going to be as much fun to write as the first one was.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I’d take Steel City Confidential because I’d need all the back story information as I write the next book in the series and I’d take a few other thick legal thrillers to read for enjoyment and inspiration. No idea is completely new. Writers dissect the books they read and ask ‘what if?’ all the time. We take great ideas and twist them and turn them to form something all our own.

Author Websites and Profiles
Anne Hagan Website
Anne Hagan Amazon Profile

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Jewel Adams 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was born and raised in Asheville, NC. My husband and I are the parents of eight and the grandparents of seventeen and counting. I write inspirational interracial romance, YA romance, romantic fantasy, and children’s chapter books.
L love reading, traveling, doing crafts, eating Italian food, and spending time with my grandchildren.
I love sharing uplifting messages of hope through my stories.
I have written over 40 novels, novellas, and short stories.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called Mary Magdalene- Beloved of the Bridegroom, and is about the possible life of Mary Magdalene. She is one of my favorite women in the Bible, and she’s been so misrepresented, I felt inspired to give her a voice and give readers a look into her life.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m a people watcher, and many of my stories are inspired by neighbors and people I encounter in my travels. Some people are so interesting, the stories just come.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love reading Francine Rivers, Kimberly Griffiths Little, Marcia Lynn McClure, Rachel Nunes, Khaled Hosseni, Michele Ashman Bell, H.B. Moore, Richard Paul Evans, Anita Stansfield, etc. There are so many, I can’t name them all.

What are you working on now?
Right now I’m working on a couple of revisions and focusing on my weekly inspirational blog.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I do a lot of Facebook advertising and I have an email list.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just write what you love, and know that your writing will not please everyone, so don’t even try. The day you try to please everyone will be the day you lose your joy in writing.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t spend too much time reading reviews, and always have a project going, even if it’s just revisions.

What are you reading now?
At the moment, I am reading Tathea by Anne Perry for like the 20th time. Wonderful story!

What’s next for you as a writer?
After doing revisions, I have a couple of story ideas that I’ve scribbled down, so I’ll probable focus on one of those.

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 would be Francine River’s Mark of the Lion Trilogy, Tathea and the sequel, Come Armageddon. And orange Tic Tacs are a necessity!

Author Websites and Profiles
Jewel Adams Website
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Pamela McKinley 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is “Strengthened Through the Storm”. This book was inspired by a series of life-altering events that caused me to fall into a deep depression. I did not know if I could pull myself out of that depression and felt lost and alone. It was not me, but God who saw fit to pick me up. I have shared my story since that day in the hopes that I could help and support others that find themselves in the same state.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Joel Osteen, Tony Evans, and Joyce Meyers, with a twist of Allison Brennan and John Grisham.

What are you working on now?
I am working on my second book, “40 Days to Freedom”. Life-changing events can take place in as little as 40 days if we are focused on and relying on God. Many times we feel that our efforts are the determining factor in the things that happen in our lives, but God is the one that is in control of our lives. The ability to focus on God and remove those things in our lives that distract us and keep us from hearing His voice is crucial to spiritual growth. 40 Days to Freedom is a reflective journal that walks with the reader through 40 days and supports their spiritual growth along the way.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Social media, word of mouth, and book reviews are my method for book promotion. I am still very new at being an author, but I am learning and researching new avenues of promotion each day.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
The advice that I have is for authors to not be discouraged, especially in those times when they have writers block. You were not given the idea and desire to right a book for no reason. Stay patient and calm, mediate on your goals and speak life into your manuscript. It will come to fruition.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Live for today, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

What are you reading now?
Joyce Meyers, Battlefield of the Mind

What’s next for you as a writer?
I am in the process of writing my next book. I hope to have it completed by the end of 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?
Bible, John Grisham-Rainmaker, Priscilla Shrier-Life Interrupted, and Lysa Terkeurst-Forgiving What you Can’t Forget

 

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Jan Porter 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Award-winning author and philosophical muse Jan Porter brings unsung heroes to life in her notable collection of prize-winning books.
Born in rural Ontario, Canada, contemporary women’s fiction author, Jan grew up in the great outdoors, where she was captivated by the otherworldly allure of indigenous cultures, mysticism and tales of small-town rural and the northern wilderness.
She discovered her destiny to become an author during her teenage years when she came across old copies of Voltaire’s Candide, Margaret Caven’s I Heard The Owl Call My Name and the works of Robert Service. All masterpieces in their own right, the worn covers and tattered pages of these books unearthed a passion for transforming thoughts into words. Handwritten scribbles became typewritten short stories, but it was only after a long career in Human Services that Jan decided to shine the spotlight on her writing and bring her female protagonists to life.
After completing a Metaphysical Minister’s degree, she cocoons in a northern Ontario sanctuary, where she pens books with strong female heroines and self counsel books that had long been in various stages of completion.
With each new release, Jan continues to share the wisdom of unsung heroes and explore the human condition in literature. As a philosophical muse of human nature, quantum physics and the spirit world, Jan’s popular contemporary and literary fiction novels and self-help books are profound, heart-warming moving, inspiring and often humorous must-reads.

Awards:
2018 Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist for ‘Maddy’s Wings’
Two-time winner of the Bookworks Book of the Week Award
Reader’s Favorite Award for ‘Soul Skin, Woman, have you had enough?’ and ‘Angel Guides, love communication’

Literary fiction novels and novellas
NEW RELEASE: Barefoot Alice
Maddy’s Wings
Soul Skin, Woman, have you had enough?
Peaceful Warrior Woman

Self counsel books
Angel Guides, love communication
Angel Guides, love communication – workbook journal
Spiritual Biz, passion and fulfillment in a changing global community
Soul Calling, your angel guided life purpose
Sacred Space, body mind soul after sexual abuse
Life After Abuse, a practical healing guide for survivors

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I began writing “Barefoot Alice” while living in and renovating a 200 year old school house in Nothern Ontario. Some of the story lines were inspired by the house and area’s anecdotal history.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I make photo boards of the location and key characters then write story bits in a journal. Coffe, lots of coffee. When I write, it is usually for 4 day stretches at a time.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Margaret Caven, Robert Service, Voltaire, Margaret Lawrence

What are you working on now?
What About Annie? novel

What are you reading now?
Robert Service – poem collection

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?
survival and spiritual books

Author Websites and Profiles
Jan Porter Website
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Jennifer Crandall 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Jennifer Crandall, some of you might know me as Prudence MacLeod. I’ve been writing LGBTQI+ novels for over twenty years and have sixty-eight still in publication. Lately I’ve begun writing for a more general audience under the name J.L.Crandall. However, the same themes and storylines keep appearing.
Also, I’ve recently begun to publish a number of short stories on Patreon under the J.L.Crandall name. this is giving me a great opportunity to test out new characters, story lines, writing styles, and I encourage all patrons to give me feedback. Go ahead, I can take it. Here’s the link: https://www.patreon.com/JLCrandall
Join me there and get a much closer look at how I do what I do, maybe influence the direction things might take, get a much closer relationship with this old author.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called IGEN. It is book seven in the Forgotten Worlds series. IGEN is the tale of what might happen aboard a generation ship Generation ship? If you can’t exceed the speed of light, then to explore other star systems you send out a ship whose crew will never reach that destination, but their descendants will. At least that’s the idea. What could go wrong?

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m a bit feral about the writing. When the muse hits I can’t stop, but I jump from story to story, working on whatever enters my mind and excites me at the time. I know, that’s not how you’re supposed to do it, but it works for me. I also listen to epic music to get the juices flowing. You Tube has a vast selection to choose from.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
They are many, and some long forgotten. Mercedes Lackey comes to mind, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tolkein, Amada Quick and Nora Roberts and …

What are you working on now?
Right now I’m working on those short stories for Patreon, plus the sequel to IGEN. Almost finished the first draft there.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Still looking for that one. Face Book, Goodreads, for beginners and I’ve tried a few others but was never thrilled with the return on investment. I prefer to blow my own horn on social media and let the readers judge for themselves.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Try everything, never quit, write what you want to read, take chances, then try again. You’ll get better the more you write.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write what you want to read. I stopped trying to write to the market and began to write the stories I wanted to read. I’ve been a lot more successful since then. (Having more fun too.)

What are you reading now?
Amanda Quick, Crystal Gardens. I’ve read it before several times and enjoy it every time.

What’s next for you as a writer?
For now I’m putting a lot more effort into the short stories for Patreon. It’s allowing me to try out lots of new things, yet build a closer relationship with the readers, learn more of what they like best, and find where that jives with my style and stories. I expect lots of new novels to be spawned from this experiment.

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 first four books of my Forgotten Worlds series. I love those stories, and if I can have only four, that’s the four I want.

Author Websites and Profiles
Jennifer Crandall Website
Jennifer Crandall Amazon Profile

Jeremiah Ukponrefe 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am 23, and both a stand up comedian, and an author. Hive is the first book that I’ve written.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The novels name is Hive. It is a New Adult Soft Sci-Fi Dystopian. It was inspired by an image I had in my head of the main cast being surrounded by the enemy.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I always have to have some kind of drink with me. Either coffee, tea, and the occasional alcohol, but never water.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
George RR Martin, Stan Lee, James Baldwin, Brandon Sanderson, and a lot more.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on the second novel of The Arcane Volumes.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I find that both Instagram and twitter are a great way of communicating with the reading and writing community.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Discipline is essential

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
To see if you want to be a reader, ask yourself if you never made any money off it would you still do it, if the answer is yes keep at it.

What are you reading now?
I’m reading Beyond the Gates by Kayla Davenport

What’s next for you as a writer?
My next book

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Probably 4 books of survival

Author Websites and Profiles
Jeremiah Ukponrefe Website
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Vinod Balan 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am from India. I had worked in the Software field for about 5 years. I quit my software job in the year 2018 and decided to pursue my passion for sports and writing. I along with some of my friends started a Sports based NGO (Non-Profit Organization) named Play2Discover. Through our NGO, we have been supporting underprivileged kids to excel in their sporting activities.

Along with sports training we have also been providing Life-Skill sessions to help them deal with the problems that they face in their lives. We have also been supporting kids to fulfil their academic requirements as we believe in the right balance of Sports and Education.

I am also a freelance writer. I have created a blog for our NGO and I have written a few posts on sports life-skill sessions. I have also written articles on a few sites that focus mainly on sports life-skill sessions and general/social issues. I have also been writing motivational speeches for my clients on freelancing platforms.

I have written 4 books so far. I have self-published 1 of them as an eBook. I will be publishing the other 3 books before the end of this year.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I have self-published an eBook titled “PLAY2DISCOVER: Improving Lives through Sports” on Amazon KDP. This eBook comprises 10 short stories which try to connect certain aspects of sports with real-life scenarios.

I have written blog posts and articles explaining about sports life-skill sessions that we conduct and how it creates an awareness and improves the mindset of individuals helping them solve the problems that they face in their personal, academic and professional lives.

However, I realized that when teachings are presented as stories with characters and plot twists, they will have a much bigger reach and impact when compared to articles and blog posts. This was my inspiration to write these short stories as I want people to realize the importance of sports which is not taken seriously in many countries, especially India.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I am a big fan of non-linear narration and that reflects in my writing as well. When a story conceives in my mind I usually try to develop it with a straight forward linear narration, but I end up drifting towards non-linear narration when I start writing or typing it. The concept of having 2-3 different sequences and then connecting those towards the end really excites me both as a reader and as a writer.

I also have this habit of having twists and turns in almost every story that I write. I like to surprise the readers. This is understandable for thriller concepts, but I am so obsessed with twists and turns that I also try to include it in stories with simple concepts. My first eBook falls in the self-help category and is meant to inspire. But I couldn’t stop myself from having twists and turns in these stories as well

I also like to end stories with unexpected endings. Surprise endings excite me more than the usual happy endings. Even if the ending is tragic it doesn’t stop me from proceeding with it, but I make sure that such endings are not forced and I make sure that it suits the storyline.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
As a reader, I am a big fan of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series but as a writer, the books that fall under the Historical Fiction genre have inspired me a lot. I have always been fascinated by the idea of taking up a real incident, real places, real things and then develop a fictional story around it. Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” is a big inspiration for me. And some of Ashwin Sanghi’s books like “Chanakya’s Chant” have also inspired me big time.

What are you working on now?
The book that I am currently working on comes under the Mystery Drama genre. I wanted to deviate from the genre of my first book and write a completely different one as I didn’t want to be labelled as a particular genre writer. Being a big fan of the Historical Fiction genre, I have tried to develop a fictional story around real places and some real incidents.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am just 1 book old. Being a first-time author, I do not have much knowledge about promotion and marketing, and I am trying to explore every possible option to get my work published across various platforms and help my content get a wider reach. I am still learning a lot of things. There are various promotion options for writers but very few free promotion services. I am looking for free promotions as it is a little difficult for me to shell out money at the moment for advertising my book. So for a new author like me, social media platforms are the best options. But this is definitely not enough.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you are passionate about writing but not able to proceed because of various reasons then just get started by writing short stories. Many have ideas in their mind but find it difficult to get started thinking of how to develop the story as a novel. Instead of doing that just start converting those ideas into a 2-5 page story. Write around 5-10 similar short stories and then club them into a book, an anthology.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Always write for yourself and not for the market. The story, characters and style should be what you want to read and what you enjoy writing.

What are you reading now?
I am trying to publish 3 books. So I haven’t been able to read any book for a long time.

What’s next for you as a writer?
My next is a Mystery Drama, and I am trying to get it self-published by the end of this month.

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 like to take those books which I have not read. So it rules out all those books which I have already read. The books that I would like to bring with me are;

Angels and Demons
Inferno
Shiva Trilogy
Under Suspicion series

Author Websites and Profiles
Vinod Balan Website
Vinod Balan Amazon Profile

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