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Stephen Coombes 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Born in 1950 I grew up with James Bond thrillers and Asimov sci-fi. As a 60’s child, I couldn’t settle into a steady job and have lived the life of a nomad only settling when love took hold. As a result, I have met many interesting people which I now use to flesh out my characters. Now settled in a remote part of Thailand I have the time and inclination to turn some of my adventures into stories.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Broken Fingers. Inspired by 6-week stay in a Moroccan jail where the punishment for trying to steal from another inmate was a broken finger administered by another prisoner/enforcer.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write in spurts. For days things go round in my head until one day I open the word doc and it all comes flooding out. I wish I could discipline myself and set daily targets but they just don’t work for me.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
John le Carré, Gerald Seymour, Asimov (still!), Dwight V. Swain, Frederick Forsyth, Ken Follet

What are you working on now?
A sequel to Broken Fingers provisionally titled Broken Promises

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
So far done no promotion but soon to start with Booksgosocial.com They help me publish and I liked their style.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Join an author group where you can get advice and encouragement because you are 100% going to need some. Litopia.com is my home where I hang out.
Read Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain, take notes then read it again. It spells out step by step the craft of writing. Written ages ago, all later books just regurgitate his wisdom in bits and pieces.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never give up

What are you reading now?
The Cobra by Fred Forsyth

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finish my sequel and publish it 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?
Lord of the Rings, Ken Kollet’s Pillars of the Earth, Both nice and long.
Spike Milligan’s – Adolf Hitler – My Part in his Downfall for when I need cheering up

 

Penny Oates 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Penny Oates and I am 65 years old. Encouraged by my mother, I started writing in my teens and had a lot of short stories and half a dozen romantic novels published. Then life got in the way and I was going out to work during the day but kept doing quite a bit of proofreading and editing for others in my spare time, as well as ghostwriting four financial self-help books.
It wasn’t until I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2020 that I really started writing again as I lost 5 stone in weight and reversed my diabetes back down to normal sugar levels. This was a great achievement for me so I was inspired to write a book about it.
That out of my system, I had the writing bug again and because dogs are a big part of my life, I wrote Lifestyle Training For Dogs.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Lifestyle Training For Dogs was inspired by the increasing number of posts on Facebook from new dog owners struggling with what should be relatively simple training issues.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t really have any habits as such though I do a lot of my writing by recording audio whilst out walking my dogs. When I get back from the walk I let the play so the laptop transcribes it to text.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My mother has had the most influence as we would often discuss writing late into the night. I think the Harry Potter series had a big influence on me as well because I had never considered writing children’s books before but was in awe of the way she managed to link all the characters together throughout the series of books.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on a 5 book series aimed at slightly older children. They will all be dog-related adventure stories with a touch of fantasy. I get so involved with the stories I think I am a teenager again, which is great!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have so far relied on followers of Signatures Shows I broadcast twice a week on Facebook, Linkedin and YouTube.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes, just keep going. Remember you are not an author until you sell books so set aside a percentage of your time for marketing.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Successful people spent their time doing what unsuccessful people are not prepared to do.

What are you reading now?
Bills mainly. Though I have recently read Total Recall by Pippa Mattinson.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I think the series I have recently started will take care of this year, after that I may do a series of funny stories, sort of James Herriot style but from a trainers viewpoint as opposed to a vet’s, with horse and dog owners

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?
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, A Dog’s Purpose by W.Bruce Cameron, Mount by Jilly Cooper (because I never got round to reading it).

Author Websites and Profiles
Penny Oates Website

Penny Oates’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile

Tex Jerhand 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I really like Plato’s famous phrase: “Every problem has three solutions: my solution, your solution, and the right solution” because I believe it conveys an important truth that I fully agree with faced with any problem that may arise encounter in life, there can be more solutions but only one is right and that produces the desired result. The problem is identifying the right one for me, considering it may not be the right one for you. Starting from this assumption, I thought that the best thing is to expose various solutions and let the reader draw the right conclusions for himself, for his case, or rather for his life. With this in mind, the idea was born to write a series entitled 10 WAYS OF THINKING, which has the prerogative of being a series of books all comprising 10 chapters, or the solutions to the problem. The number 10 is symbolic, in fact inside the book there are so many solutions contained for each chapter that everyone can easily identify the one they consider most satisfying for themselves. The series all deals with topics related to Self-Help and Business Life. The first of the series just released on Amazon is a Self-Help and entitle “TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE. Achieve the Goal of a Fulfilling Life.” The second in the series, just released, is a Business Life entitled: “TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE… while drinking coffee. Test New Ideas, Turn your Habits and Awaken Decision-Making Power.” I have written 5 more books in this series, which will be available in the next few months on Amazon and all major bookstores.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The first book in the “10 WAYS TO THINK” series is: “Take Control of Your Life: Achieving the Goal of a Fulfilling Life. Self-Acceptance to Gain Mental Strength, Willpower, and Stronger Positive Relationships,” is the essence of self-help.

In the business world, it is essential to come up with new business ideas to stay competitive. It is perhaps more important than ever in today’s world. Sometimes it seems difficult because we have a lot more options today than we did a year or two ago.

In this second book in the series: “TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE… while drinking coffee. Test New Ideas, Turn your Habits and Awaken Decision-Making Power.” I mainly focus on Business Life.

The inspiration to write this book came to me reflecting on some events that have happened to me in my life and seriously reflecting on the true values ​​that should distinguish every human being. I also thought a lot about sharing, social life and the difficulties that every entrepreneur must face to be successful, both in business and in private life.

During the day, we make thousands of decisions every minute. We make most of these decisions without conscious reflection; instinctively or through responses learned as habits based on the experience of a lifetime. Unfortunately, these habitual decision patterns persist in the business world, so that owners react without thinking about changing situations without really thinking. Such behavior is not appropriate in the business environment, where change is constant.

The habits you create today influence your future. Your habits are your daily actions. Change your habits and change your way of thinking.

The secret of success is based on what you think of yourself, on how you consider life. Actual business leads you to be happy for having taken control of your life, not for being dominated by it and spending your days enslaved by it. The genuine change is in yourself because once you improve yourself then everything around you, including your business, will grow accordingly.

Courage will serve you to make the right decisions and make the changes, using fear for your goal, not as an insurmountable obstacle. It will be a fundamental step to take control of your life, knowing that to do so you must act immediately without delay and thus overcome indecision because knowing how to decide at the right time determines the success or failure of any business you are doing or about to start.

My goal in writing the book is to create a work full of tips and solutions already successfully tested, sometimes even very complex, making them understandable to everyone.

Rich in principles of life and human values, in just ten simple steps, with a direct and immediate language, “TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE… while drinking coffee.” it can help you change your private life and your business.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have refined a method. All my life I have been writing notes in a notebook, very detailed and so chaotic that now I find it hard even to reread it. Written in small print, even in the corners of the pages, sometimes the writing is scrum bled with arrows, symbols and more that I won’t tell you and the paper has turned yellow.

However, with effort and effort, I reread it, and I reassembled it and divided it into topics. This facilitated me in identifying the solutions to the various problems encountered.

Later I did a lot of research which I then compared together with some of my collaborators, experts and professionals in various fields.

This is just to say that each book has its own story. The inspiration to write it comes to me above all when I return to my home in Aspen from London, where I have a company. When I am immersed in nature, away from the hectic life of London, in my garden, near my beloved donkey or on top of the mountain, I reread and reflect on my notebook. Every time I read it, I get inspiration for a new book. I mark the ideas and then develop them.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
One of all that I would like to mention who made me think about the problems of managers to realize new ideas that work, is Dr. W. Edwards Deming, who became famous in the seventies for helping Japan with innovative and high-quality products. Other authors who have written self-worthy and interesting information on various topics that I have been able to read are: Dr. Daniel Amen, psychiatrist and specialist in brain disorders., Dr. Bryan Vartabedian, Dr. Aimee Daramus, Dr. Barry F. Vaughan, Ph.D. Suniya S. Luthar and others.

What are you working on now?
I am working on Business Life books of great social value on Leadership and Career. I am spending a lot of time in research, because the subject is delicate and I really care. I think they will be ready towards the end of the year.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Here, honestly, you find me a little unprepared. In principle, I rely on Amazon, but I am also testing some services, and awesomegang.com is one of them.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Think a lot, a lot, a lot
Take nothing for granted
Always compare yourself with others for your ideas
Test and verify your solutions
Find your way to get inspired
Leave your mark in the heart of the reader
Only write things of value

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES. Which means: get busy, don’t get discouraged or throw in the towel, don’t dump your responsibilities on others because you have all the tools to do it. Just do your research or read an excellent book.

What are you reading now?
I am enjoying reading this novel “An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains” by Max Frisch, Smith Nicholson.
An evocative book on the motives of life. It is about a man looking to fulfill his childhood dreams never reached. Then he climbs to the peaks of a mountain that no one had ever reached, and there the story takes color with the rediscovery of the basics of life. That something similar happened to me, too. Perhaps therefore I find it interesting, a light but sobering reading. If you haven’t read it, I recommend it.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Continue the 10 WAYS OF THINKING series and improve it more and more.

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 book of books, where history, law, wisdom, values of life, the origin of everything and everyone meet, unites the past, the present and the future. The book you read, the more you always learn: The Holy Bible.

Author Websites and Profiles
Tex Jerhand Website
Tex Jerhand Amazon Profile

Taylor Rochestie 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Taylor Rochestie and I was raised in Santa Barbara, CA. I have been a professional athlete for the last 12 years and traveled the world playing all over Europe and China. I have just published my first book which launched on 2/22/21.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“A New 20/20 Vision” began as a letter to my unborn daughter, Joy. It started out as a letter to her, a hope and token of inspiration to help her find joy and happiness in her life. In a world where we are defined by external influences, it’s important to be self councilors about how we define success and how we create our authentic self. A letter turned into paragraphs and soon into chapters. It was a very organic process with a beautiful message of positivity.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My thoughts usually begin as a note in my iPhone around 2am. I lay in bed, unable to sleep and like to write down thoughts I have. In the morning I will turn them into full ideas and continue writing from there…

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I find that most of my influence comes from the places I go and the people I meet. Conversations and traveling compile most of the influence you will read about in my own book. I like to learn about people’s “truths” and from there, learn from all the things that I have experienced.

What are you working on now?
Currently on my media tour, as I communicate more and more about the book, I also continue to spread the massage of love, hope, and positivity to whomever has a listening ear, or whomever is watching my actions. I believe we lead by example.
I am also further developing my favorite idea which is teaching “Generational Happiness.” Learning ways to pass down tools and inspire joy to the next generation.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I enjoy connecting with people on social media and on my website.
www.taylorrochestie.com
www.instagram.com/trochestie

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t be afraid to develop your authentic thoughts and always believe that what you have to say is important and valuable. The process and the journey is the best part, so enjoy each step of the way.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Be the light that helps others see.”

What are you reading now?
I am actually reading my own book, trying to digest its message so I can continue to spread it to other people. The more I remember, the more I can focus outward on the message and creating happiness in others.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Learning from other writers, reading more, and continuing to grow in my knowledge of other people.

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 Bible, A New 20/20 Vision, and a really big book with blank pages with enough pencils and erasers to write for a long time.

Author Websites and Profiles
Taylor Rochestie Website
Taylor Rochestie Amazon Profile

Taylor Rochestie’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account

Dan Kammeyer 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a first-time author and publisher. My background is in technology, but my passion is in winning with money, as it affects every aspect of our lives. I have worked as a financial coach since 2012 and have helpde numerous families overcome challenges wth money. As this is where I have found my most fulfillment, I wanted to begin sharing what I’ve learned with a larger audience through writing.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Slavery to Success; A Christian’s Guide to Unwrapping God’s Gift of Abundance. Most of the clients I work with I meet through local church organizations. I have a special place for Christian’s struggling with money, as I am a member of that community myself and have had my share of challenges in that arena. This book is a reflection of my experiences on that journey.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wouldn’t say so. I’m very type A (analytic), so I’m pretty driven and focused for short periods of time, usually in the morning. That is when I have the most creative energy, so that’s when I do th emost writing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Dave Ramsey and his Total Money Makeover. Robert Kiyosaki and Rish Dad, Poor Dad. Those were the two that got me started. I’ve read dozens of other books since, but these two have had the greatest impact.

What are you working on now?
A book series geared to help entrepreneurs overcome some of their most common hurdles like discipline, mindset, and sales.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have a private Facebook Group where we discuss the challenges our community face. I also have an email list that I offer value to, as well as free copies of books as they are released. I also utilize sites like Awesome Gang to promote titles as they release.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
It’s like learning any new industry- the more mentorship you can get from people who are already successful in the market, the better!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My grandfather told me to always be part of the 20% and to do the opposite of whatever the other 80% are doing.

What are you reading now?
The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris

What’s next for you as a writer?
Audiobooks and book bundles.

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 Bible for my spritual health, The Code Red Revolution for my physical health, and Boundaries for my emotional and mental health

Author Websites and Profiles
Dan Kammeyer Amazon Profile

Dan Kammeyer’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile

Deborah Lincoln 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am about books and birds and bees and roses. And history. Historical fiction mined from the stories of my ancestors — America in the 19th century, civil war, gilded age, coal and coke and families. I’ve published two books (written more…), the first being AGNES CANON’S WAR. Agnes was my twice-great grandma. She’s amazing. Endured war on the Missouri frontier with all its brutality and heartbreak. And I am a librarian turned bureaucrat turned writer/gardener/hiker on the Oregon Coast; wife, mother, sister, daughter to a long line of extraordinary women.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
AN IRISH WIFE is my second and newest book; officially published in April 2021, a sequel (of sorts) to the first book about Agnes. The inspiration? to keep going the story and the memory of those people. Much more fiction than the first one (which was fiction, but lots of real stuff). Coal mining and Gilded Age and environmental destruction, raunchy politics, immigration nastiness, rich getting richer, poor getting shafted. Sound familiar? A coming-of-age story.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t write much. Very undisciplined. I stare out the window at the bird feeder a lot.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Any wonderful, rich, detailed, lovely historical fiction — Shadow of the Moon, Code Name Verity, March, Brooklyn, War and Peace, Norwegian by Night, City of Light, The Year of the French. I could go on, but won’t.

What are you working on now?
Montana just after the Civil War, an Irish general-turned-governor (acting), a restless ex-union soldier one step ahead of his best girl, invasions of Canada and Metis rebellions. Fascinating stuff.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Don’t know — still experimenting. First book: very little on-line promotion other than Facebook. This one: all virtual. Just figuring out this discount ebook thing; fooling around with Instagram. We’ll see what happens.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. Then write some more.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write every day.

What are you reading now?
The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller.

What’s next for you as a writer?
See above (what I’m working on now). One step at a time.

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?
War and Peace. Shadow of the Moon. The Bible (only because I really should read it, as a product of western civilization, and I’ve never been able to.) And through in the Koran, too — if I’m stuck I may as well learn from it.

Author Websites and Profiles
Deborah Lincoln Website
Deborah Lincoln Amazon Profile

Deborah Lincoln’s Social Media Links
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Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account

Gary Carter 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written quite a few books in the past twenty years, and have actually had seven of them published. I am an old timer (83 in May) who grew up in San Diego, moved around a few times, and now live close to the ocean in Port Orford, Oregon, one of the most beautiful places on Earth. I am a horticulturist by trade, having been in the business the last 45 years or so, owning three different wholesale nurseries, one in San Diego, one in Fresno and one here in Port Orford for 14 years before retiring (ha) two years ago.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “The Beginner’s Guide To Growing Herbs And Their Culinary, Medicinal and Mystical Properties”, a best seller on Amazon a while back. I did Farmer’s Markets here on the southern Oregon coast for many years, and grew a lot of herbs to go along with everything else. People used to ask me about the herbs I grew, wanting to know not only how to grow them but how to cook with them, what were their medicinal properties, etc., which I knew very little about. So, I decided if I was going to have to learn those things to please my customers, I needed to start studying and, since I was going to have to do one hell of a lot of research, I decided to write a book about them and hopefully make a buck or two in the process.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Sometimes I think all my writing habits are unusual.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Ayn Rand, Tom Clancy, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and John Grisham to name a few. I have to say that I don’t think there’s a book I’ve read that didn’t influence me in one way or another, especially gardening books, science fiction, military, political and historical.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on a novel with the title “Generations” which explores the trials and tribulations of two farming families starting in 1897 until the present and what they have to deal with all those years, including the Spanish Flu, the great depression, dust bowl, WW1, WW2, drought, floods, grasshoppers, plant diseases, romance, good years, bad years, terrible years, etc. Just sold another sci/fi novella “Mars Calling” which should be out soon.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My homemade, not too spectacular website is garycarterbooksherbs.com, where you can learn a lot about me and my books. Some of of my best methods for promoting my books are book signings, author readings and gatherings, etc. Probably the best method is I solicit just about all the bookstores and libraries in the United States. It’s a lot of work but it works on selling books. For instance, two of my books are science fiction, so, I check out bookstores on the internet who take an interest in promoting science and solicit them with those two books, bookstores that promote poetry get my poetry books solicitations, etc. Also, it helps a lot to have great publishers, of which I am lucky enough to have two who love (their words) my writing and promote them like crazy.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep at it. Don’t get lazy. The more you write the better you will get at it. I wrote around 24 short stories before I ever sold one. Set a time every day to do your writing and stick to it. Isaac Asimov said it best in an online writing course I took from him many, many years ago. He said “You must make time to write”, and so I do. I set aside two-three hours a day, in the mornings when I’m not tired and my mind is fresh (hopefully).

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You must make time to write.

What are you reading now?
We have a lot of local authors on the south coast and I support their writing, of which everyone writes differently and in different genres. Currently it’s a poetry book by Weld Champneys titled “Wirds”, a guy who has a great sense of humor in his work, along with heartbreak and you name it. Just finished “Midnight Beach” by local author Kay Jennings, a murder mystery.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finishing “Generations” and getting it published. I also write garden articles for a couple of national gardening 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?
My own. I love my stories. I think an author has to love what s/he writes or s/he is not going to be very good at it.

Author Websites and Profiles
Gary Carter Website
Gary Carter Amazon Profile
Gary Carter Author Profile on Smashwords

Gary Carter’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
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Ed Teja 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve been writing and traveling for years. I’m the author of humorous books about the Caribbean, the Martin Billings Series of Caribbean thriller, and a variety of literary and mystery fiction.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My current book is A VIABLE THREAT and is the fourth in the Martin Billings series. A combination of current events, and a deeper understanding of where Martin’s life is headed led me to write this one.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to travel to places and write about them. My sometime writing partner, J. Lee Porter and I visited Colombia and wrote a story based on visiting Cartagena. I lived for several years in Cambodia and have written stories based there. I lived years in Venezuela and the Martin Billings stories began there (physically as well as in concept). So, my writing habit is to absorb a place and let it tell me stories.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Too many to count, but certainly Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises and his short stories), John O’Hara, Isabelle Allende, Murakami, Henry Miller, Celine, and James Jones.

What are you working on now?
Developing ideas for a new crime trilogy and taking the existing one further (and making it better).

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m just learning marketing and very poor at it. I’m using Amazon ads and studying David Gaughrin’s course (and The Creative Penn–great videos).

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write because you love writing and minimize commercial expectations. There are easier ways to make money.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“If you get the urge to write a novel, lie down and put a damp cloth on your forehead and let the feeling pass.” I don’t recall where I heard it, and I’ve always ignored it, but that’s me.

What are you reading now?
Books on writing, mostly (James Scott Bell’s are good, as are those of Donald Maass), but I’m just starting The Leviathan.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m working to dig beneath the superficial story and connect with readers by evoking powerful emotions. In a sense that requires knowing my own stories better… not just what happens, but how the happened and what that feels like.

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 books I haven’t read yet… rather than rereading old friends, I’d take a gamble that the ones I picked would be worth studying. And it depends on how many notebooks I could have.

Author Websites and Profiles
Ed Teja Website
Ed Teja Amazon Profile

Ed Teja’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Twitter Account

Willisa Clarke 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a wife, mom of 2, pharmacist and VBAC all natural home birth goddess. I truly enjoy traveling and spending quality time with family and friends. I’m originally from St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands and currently reside in Florida. I’ve got dreams to take my little family (unit of 4) exploring around the world one day.
My book, The Deliver Method, is the first book I’ve written. I enjoyed coming out of my shell and putting my ideas on paper.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My book is entitled The Deliver Method: The How To Guide on Moving From A Difficult Birth Experience to Manifesting Your Perfect VBAC Story.

I was inspired to write this book after giving birth to my daughter naturally in the comfort of my home. After having my first child, I questioned the integrity of the medical system when my birth resulted in a c-section. Amidst the COVID pandemic, I manifested a way to change things about my first birth and created a way to feel more in control of my birthing experience.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m an audiovisual learner so I have to write things down. Plus I’m still learning to trust hearing my own voice. I journaled throughout my pregnancy journey; which I’m so grateful for. In my book I show you how to trust your body, create a support team that you can trust, and journal your way through the entire journey too.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The Bible. Becoming by Michelle Obama.

What are you working on now?
Promoting my book. Getting honest feedback. Then gathering info for the second book to my series.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Not sure yet. But I’m loving the ease of Awesome Gang!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Seize The Moment!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Love your neighbor as yourself.

What are you reading now?
The Bible. I wasn’t much of a reader growing up. So I figured The Bible would be a good place to start since I’m an author now.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Coaching mommas through pregnancy. Gathering info for the second book in my series.

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 Bible. The Alchemist. We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers. And something about parenting.

Author Websites and Profiles
Willisa Clarke Amazon Profile

Noe Segal 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
If you’ve checked my Author description, I mentioned I was a biology student. I’ve always been busy with my school work so I’m pretty much stuck reading textbooks like my life depends on it. On free days, I enjoy lazing about in my room or in a cafe with a romance book at hand. There’s just always something to enjoy under that genre, you know? Reading through the turmoil these fictional couples encounter and the happy ending while drinking my caffe latte is a guilty pleasure. After reading like this for a few years, I started writing stories I’ve kept hidden in my desktop. I finally decided to publish these stories starting with the Drifting Series and my upcoming Doctors in Love Series. Each series has multiple books under them which are all slowly being edited and prepared for release. Currently, I have Drifting Book 1 out and Cursed To Love: Doctors in Live Series Book 1 open for pre-order.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Drifting Book 1 is a paranormal romance novel that’s a combination of my love for romance stories and my curiosity. Honestly, I’ve always been curious about the different sleep-induced phenomena. Astral projection, lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis. There’s a bunch of those happening to people and I always wondered “What if there’s more?”. The idea that connects sleeping, brain waves, and memories eventually formed into “drifting”. I created a universe in writing that had this rare phenomenon and the main character, Dr. Nadia Markoff, that would embody my curiosities. Of course, it would only be right to give her a hot partner as well.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
How unusual is unusual? I just write for personal enjoyment so it’s not like I learned or researched how to write. My writing process is probably really normal subjectively. I start with conceptualizing the overall plot. Then I slowly make an outline of major events I’d want to put in and then insert details in chronological order. So, you could say that I start from vague and then slowly fill up plot holes.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Well, in general, romance novels and authors have all influenced me since I just can’t put books under that genre down. Because of that, no matter what I write, it’ll have romance in it. I guess if I had to name a specific author, it’d be Nalini Singh. I always find her romance novels interesting since they exist in unique parallel universes.

What are you working on now?
I’m actually pretty busy now. Like I said before, I have Cursed To Love going live soon too so I’m basically trying to arrange its publishing and marketing needs as well as trying to maintain Drifting’s promotion. On top of that, I’ve got Drifting Book 2 waiting to go into editing so you can watch out for the release of that soon too.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
You never go wrong with social media. People never let go of their phones these days so I naturally gravitate towards Facebook or Twitter where it’s easy to connect with people and join communities. There’s nothing more reliable than people to help spread the word.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Well, I guess I could say that it’s best to just put what you’ve got out there and work hard to try and get your book across because books exist to be read, right?

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Nonverbatim, it’s definitely got to be “It doesn’t have to be perfect, you’ve got to start somewhere. Let the world read what you have.” My friend told me that before I decided to start releasing my book and here I am.

What are you reading now?
Drifting is a story that slightly plays with time so I’ve been looking into a few time travel type romance novels and came across Trapped in Time: A Historical Time Travel Romance by Denise Daye. I haven’t finished it yet but it’s pretty interesting to see the present conflict with the past.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Right now, I’m just trying to get my book out there. I’ll continue promoting what’s already published and I’ll also work on getting the rest of what’s stuck in my PC edited, formatted, and released. It’s going to be very busy for me but I’m really excited to hear from people who like what I write.

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?
This is a pretty difficult question. But I guess I’ll bring what I haven’t read yet if I get stuck in the middle of nowhere. Definitely finishing up Trapped in Time: A Historical Time Travel Romance by Denise Daye and the rest of the series so that counts as three books. The last would be what’s next on my personal Reading List, Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright.

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