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Riri-sensei Arshad 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hello dear readers! :3 My name is Ririchi [リリ血] but you can call me Riri-sensei. A little bit about me! I am an Asian lady in her late 20s who lives in USA. My favorite animals are cats but I love all animals very much. My favorite colors are green, black and red. I also love pastel colors. My zodiac sign is Capricorn, yay cappies. ^_^ In my daily life, I suffer from several medical conditions and I have physical disabilities. This makes life a little tricky but I try my best to live a good life and do enjoyable things. c:

As for my interests & hobbies, I am a huge nerd who loves anime, manga, and video games! I play lots of RPG games and several MMOs in my free time. Stardew Valley, Black Desert, Tera & The Gray Garden are some of my favorites. I love old school retro games and pixel games a lot too.

I also enjoy cooking, sewing, and doing arts & craft projects. I am a certified henna artist and enjoy drawing body art in my free time. In addition, I have a passion for astrology, divination, occultism, and spiritualism.

With that being said, I have written and published 1 book so far but my goal is to publish a 20 novels.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest novel is called Ashiqui Volume 1, it is a series of novel inspired by my own history of child abuse, traumas and emotional struggles while living in an abusive home.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I can’t write or type unless I tie my hair in a bun. I often listen to sad music to motivate myself to write emotional scenes.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I am heavily inspired and influenced by Japanese manga artists and my favorite artist Cocoa Fujiwara.

What are you working on now?
I am working on Ashiqui Volume 2 and a special edition volume of Ashiqui Volume 1.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Using Tiktok and Facebook ads.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write down ideas as soon as you have them and always write drafts.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t give up on your dreams, even if everyone else is against you.

What are you reading now?
Under the Oak Tree

What’s next for you as a writer?
I plan to write a long series of novels under the Ashiqui title. My goal is to publish 20-30 books within the next 15 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?
Gintama, Kiss Me Princess, Under the Oak Tree & Inu x Boku SS

Author Websites and Profiles
Riri-sensei Arshad Website

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Twitter Account
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MARTI TALBOTT 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am the author of over 50 historical romance and mystery novels, written over the last 20 years.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
McShane’s Bride (The Dotsero Train Wreck) Based on an actual event.
In our family history notes, my grandmother said she lost a baby in a head-on train wreck. Researching train wrecks in that time period, I found this one in 1909 – the worst wreck in Colorado history.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Unusual habits? Not that I’m aware of, but then who knows?

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I learn something new about writing in each book I read, and my interests often switch genre.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on a book about a gold digger and am planning to make it book one in a family saga.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t give up, research everything, only take advice from some with a proven sales record.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write what you love to read.

What are you reading now?
Queen Victoria

What’s next for you as a writer?
Just to keep writing. I can’t seem to 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?
The Bible. There’s enough plots in that book to keep me writing for years. Would writing tablets count as books? I’d need at least a dozen of those.

Author Websites and Profiles
MARTI TALBOTT Website
MARTI TALBOTT Amazon Profile

MARTI TALBOTT’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile

PF Felix 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m originally from the West Indies but now reside in the Bay Area (CA). “The Night Professor” is my debut novel and the first of THE RENNINGTON CHRONICLES series. As a trained project manager, PF has worked for many notable industries (i.e., education, healthcare… and now, municipality). However, PF’s true passion is in writing romance thrillers, all with a dark, perceptible pragmatism for your enjoyment. With a B.S. in Management Information Systems, combined with a plethora of industry certifications, and two decades of relevant writing expertise, PF longs to take readers on a decadent journey that will explore the wicked entrapment game of love. One that seems to curse more than cure; hinder than heal and bind instead of free.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
TITLE: THE RENNINGTON CHRONICLES: (Book 1 – “The Night Professor”).
INSPIRATION: Initially, I was inspired to write these chronicles after a painful separation; and I needed a healthier way to release my heartache. When writing, I realized that many people (self-included) look to relationships/love to resolve their deeper issues not knowing that that assumed remedy could be the affliction. So my writing evolved to helping me cope with the aphotic cesspit of love, in hopes to inspire people to find other healthy venues to procure the peace and happiness they desire. Venues that aren’t tied to another human being, but one’s inner-self.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes; my unusual writing habit is writing during the witching hour (3 am). Not sure why but my best work comes during that time.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
 “The Witches of Eastwick” (by John Updike) – match due to story’s dark humor/situations
 “The Ninth Gate: (…co-written by, Roman Polanski) – match due to cynical twist in the story
 “Queen Bees and Wannabes” (by Rosalind Wiseman) – match due to similar conflicts in the story
 “The Black Dagger Brotherhood” (by author J. R. Ward) – match due to tortured love in the story
 “Rosemary’s Baby” (by Ira Levin); “NOS4A2” (by Joe Hill) & – match due to deception in the story
 “Music/Song list by scene= 98; To help melodically illustrate events in the story.

What are you working on now?
THE RENNINGTON CHRONICLES: Book 2 and Book 3…

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My best method is to use my website (www.pffelix.com), platforms like this, my personal network, and of course, and lastly, paid marketing (although I haven’t found one for myself yet).

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My advice is to keep writing. It doesn’t matter what it is or how significant you or others deem it, at the moment. Keep up the craft… it will pay off in the end.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If you can tell a good story, you’re a storyteller, but it takes convictions to put pen-to-paper.

What are you reading now?
“The Goal” by Eli Goldratt (for business school)

What’s next for you as a writer?
I love writing and releasing my book gave me a thrill like no other. For me, I want to complete books 2 and 3 of my Rennington Chronicles; then move on to horror novels.

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?
1. The Scofield Bible for divine inspiration;
2. The dictionary for education; and the final pick of course…
3. My Rennington Chronicles for a thrill-sensation.

Author Websites and Profiles
PF Felix Website
PF Felix Amazon Profile

PF Felix’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile

Sheetal Sisodiya 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have been delivering motivational seminars and workshops for last 8 years. I have also taken several personal counseling sessions and training sessions in various organizations and brought noticeable productivity.
Also I have helped several people to change their habits with a 5 steps formula through which they could become more productive and could achieve more in life.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
With the practical implementation of several tools and techniques in the lives of many people, I have got to know its effects in transforming the lives of people. So I chose to write a book that could guide as many people as possible to use such tools and basic life skills in the best possible way to achieve more in life. This book is based on a long experience of 8 years in bringing changes to the lives of people.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Tony Robbins, Shiv Khera, Robbin Sharma and Paulo Coelho

What are you working on now?
I am highly dedicated to create the reach of my book – ‘Get up once more’ to as many people as possible.

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Writing is a skill that requires unusual creativity to imbibe your thoughts into the mind of the reader. Use this skill in writing a book with firm belief that it will reach many people and work upon it with excitement.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I have got the best advice from my mother. “When someone can do it, you can do it too.”

What are you reading now?
The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma

What’s next for you as a writer?
I am planning to write a book on ways to change habits.

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 Alchemist, The Witch of Portobello, Tuesdays with Morrie

Author Websites and Profiles
Sheetal Sisodiya Website

Sheetal Sisodiya’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile

Amber Branch 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi, this is Amber Branch here. My poetic pen name is Sapphire Rhymes. I am the author and editor of two poetic novels, The Lyrical Journal of Sapphire Rhymes and Becoming a Beautiful Articulate Person (available on Amazon). My books are about love, joy, pain and every emotion in between. I fell in love with the rhythm of words the first time I heard my favorite childhood book my Dr. Seuss read out loud. I have been reading, writing and rhyming ever since.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Lyrical Journal of Sapphire Rhymes (new version): Tear-drop Stained Confessions

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wouldn’t say I have any unusual habits but when I get in a zone I just write nonstop. During the recent pandemic, I pretty much quarantined myself in my office and wrote from the time I woke up until bedtime (only stopping for meals). Even when I got sick and had to be hospitalized, I had my journal and tablet by my hospital bed.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The authors that have influenced me most are, Maya Angelou, Shel Silverstein and of course Dr. Seuss (lol).

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on building my brand as an author. I’m taking a sabbatical from the publishing world to focus on marketing my current books and helping others share their stories.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am an avid advocate of guerilla marketing and word of mouth promoting. Go hard or go home!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing even when the tears are flowing and you feel you can’t go on. Keep pushing. Your unique story is what makes you beautiful. All of our individual unique stories unite us as articulate beauties (works of art). That’s an amazing concept!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My great-grandmother told me “never stop learning…. keep striving to learn more and become better”

What are you reading now?
Honestly, The Lyrical Journal of Sapphire Rhymes (new version): Tear-drop Stained Confessions. I often go back and read my stories again. It helps me progress as a writer.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I feel like the sky is the limit. I’m open to whatever God has in store for me.

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 Holy Bible (it holds the answer to everything)

The Lyrical Journal of Sapphire Rhymes (new version): Tear-drop Stained Confessions

Becoming a Beautiful Articulate Person: The Genesis of Transformation

It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way by Alyssa Terkeurst

Author Websites and Profiles
Amber Branch Website
Amber Branch Amazon Profile

 

Trevor Jones 

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

I graduated from the University of South Carolina with BA in Interdisciplinary Studies. This means I’m a well-rounded individual and have no marketable skills to apply to the workplace. Considering I took ten years to get a four-year degree, I have an eclectic work history and a large slice of life experiences to draw on.

I started playing Dungeons & Dragons my first year of community college in 1991. Being broke I could only afford a used copy of a 2nd edition player’s handbook and a single set of dice, but that didn’t stop me. I played once every couple of weeks for a few months, but then my DM wasn’t around anymore. I was in love with the game and so I put on the DM hat and did my best. I rounded up a bunch of weirdos and misfits from college that were loners, stoners, goths, and just plane wallflowers.
We formed a daily gaming group and all came out of our shells and the game was the method we all learned how to make friends.
My first book, The Dark Gift, book 1 of the Penta Ka Wa Series, started as an oral story I shared with the group. Each telling got longer and longer and eventually, I had to write it down so I wouldn’t forget important details.
Life moves us along at a strange pace sometimes and I found myself with a long novella that inspired a dozen other short stories and linked tales. When I attended a gaming convention and got to talk to published authors, I was given a good piece of advice that gave me the motivation to actually finish the story. It sat for two years while I went through a rough time, break-ups, the illness, and death of my father, and other things.

My new wife discovered I had this treasure just sitting around, and after a year of encouragement I finally self-published. And I kept writing and kept publishing.
I’m three books in when she realized how long and slow the process is to get a book out and into the market. I like to think I inspired her a bit too. She took adventures we had actually played together and used them as the inspiration to write up a novel too. With a lot of collaborative effort, a little bit of screaming, and hair-pulling, we actually put out a book together.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Our latest book, The Blood of Orcs by April Nia Raine and Trevor Jones is inspired and drawn from actual gameplay. This may fall into LitRPG or RPGlit, but don’t let that fool you. This isn’t a case of characters being self-aware or ‘level-up metagame stories. This is a full-fledged addition to the epic fantasy world of Kinthur. And it’s the start of a new trilogy, which makes it the third running series we are undertaking to date.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
This is always an interesting question. So April needs near silence to write in. Nothing can interrupt her thoughts as she pounds the words into her keyboard with something that sounds like the very violence her character is going through. Short breaks might be necessary to tend to our needy fur babies (we have a corgi and a pomsky that have a set schedule that doesn’t care about books or deadlines).

My writing habits often involve a good pair of headphones and music to inspire the mood I’m writing in. If I’m writing an epic combat scene, a little heavy metal goes a long way. A touching moment of drama or heavy emotion might need some classical music. The scenes of sweeping landscape or world-building might call for a good instrumental. I’m always thinking of what the music score for these books would be, should they make it to the screen one day.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
So, so many…

I was an eclectic and voracious reader as a child and teen. I’ve read most of the greats: Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison, Author C. Clarke, Neil Gaimon, Terry Pratchett, Spider Robinson, Terry Brooks, Ben Bova, Timothy Zahn, R.A. Salvatore, Stephen King, Ed Greenwood, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, T.H. White, Laurel K. Hamilton, Barbara Hambly, P.N. Elrod, Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and so many others, I couldn’t keep up. I once had a library of over 1,500 books that I enjoyed and often re-read.

What are you working on now?
I am in the middle of the rough draft for Lord of the Undead, book 3 of the Penta Series. My wife and I are also collaborating on Deities, Dragons & Demigods, book 2 of the Knights of Airygon Series. After that comes book 2 in the Adventurer Series and book 3 of the Knights.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Unfortunately, the promotion landscape for books keeps changing. From retailers with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, to online retailers, there are just so many locations to promote. I’m hoping Awesome Gang will be a way to get my work in front of more readers and reviewers.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write what you love. Keep working to improve your craft. Don’t stop reading. Learn everything about the business you can. Inspiration can come from anywhere and strike at any time, but a good, regular, writing habit will get you through those lean moments and let you take advantage of the Muse when she shows up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When I was still struggling, with over 26 bits and pieces that would become whole books or stories, I asked for advice from a group of writers at a convention. They were taken aback by the epic undertaking I was claiming, and rightly so, I was obviously a madman. The advice I got is something heard a thousand times from a thousand writers, be they fiction, fact or screenplay.
“Finish Something. Anything. Just finish what you started.”
Sounds simple enough. I sat down with all my writing and picked my favorite and decided I would write nothing else until that story was finished. A year later The Dark Gift was complete. It was two more years before I got an editor and attempted to get an agent. A Year after that I self-published and set to Finish Something Else.
Best Advice Ever.

What are you reading now?
I just finished a new book, by a new author. The Dark Apprentice by Val Neil. I highly recommend it for a multitude of reasons.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Since I’m self-published, I have to juggle improving my writing craft, writing itself, and getting better at marketing and promoting. It’s a million moving parts and a full-time job all by itself, but success will be all the sweeter when it arrives.

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’m a pragmatist when it comes to these types of questions. I’d want some sort of survival guide, esp one that’s for the type of island I’m on, and hopefully having the flora and fauna that are safe for me to interact with included inside. A book on the stars, so that I can narrow down my location, longitude & latitude, so I can predict the weather, likelihood of rescue based on travel patterns. A book on chemistry, and a book on fish, so I can make use of that as well. If I need pleasure reading…I’ll just imagine new stories.

Author Websites and Profiles
Trevor Jones Website
Trevor Jones Amazon Profile

Trevor Jones’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account

Michelle Felix 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Michelle Felix was born and raised in South Africa. I moved to The United States in 2013. I am a mental health professional, life coach, and mental health advocate. I live in Hawaii and “Whole Heart” is her first book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Whole Heart
Our life experiences are our own. Our journeys have made us stronger, and our stumbling blocks have made us wiser. Each of us has a story to tell and your story could change the world.
Writing memoirs can be very emotional and self-reflecting on the author’s life. Putting my emotions into words was sometimes a challenge, but opening up my “whole heart” has allowed me to heal, especially knowing I could possibly help one person see hope in a bleak place.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Sleeping on my thoughts and waking up in the early part of the morning (3 am) and writing them on my phone notepad.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Any of Louise Hay books
I can only imagine
Becoming Michelle Obama
Greenlights

What are you working on now?
Taking a break for the year and focusing on raising awareness for mental health through podcasts

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing and Keep Inspiring!!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Live life with gratitude and live life for today.

What are you reading now?
Louise Hay- You can heal your life

What’s next for you as a writer?
Mental health awareness to improve resources in the community.

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?
Purpose Driven Life
A Burning
Louise Hay Books

Author Websites and Profiles
Michelle Felix Website
Michelle Felix Amazon Profile

Michelle Felix’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Twitter Account

L.Lane Bailey 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Lane is a real estate agent, former professional photographer, husband and father of two sons. He’s been a volunteer for Scouts BSA, Junior Achievement and other organizations in his spare time. He’s also an avid 4wheeler and traveler, although he’d love to travel more.
He’s been to forty-four states, several Canadian provinces and around a dozen countries. Reflections of those travels show up in the books, although there are places he hasn’t been that squeeze their way into the stories and places he loves visiting that haven’t… yet.
“I knew that I wanted to write a novel, but I didn’t have the story. I probably sat down half a dozen times and started writing. But the story soon dissipated like smoke from an extinguished camp fire. This time, I sat down and the story kept rolling out. Several books later and I knew that there were more stories to tell.”

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Lane has released 7 books so far, with the eighth due out on June 25th of 2021.
My initial books, Planning Vengeance and Dig Two Graves were built on the budding relationship of Jack Dixon and Amy Prince. The other Dixon-Prince books followed that.
Unknown Caller shows Jack and Amy decades later as parents and established adults. It also introduces a new generation of characters, Colt Dixon and Caroline Green. I wanted to see what my friends were up to more recently than in the other books.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wrote my first two books, Planning Vengeance and Dig Two Graves, consecutively. When I was done with the first draft, I realized it needed to be two books. They were released three days apart. The initial draft was also written in just a couple of weeks.
When I am really into the story, I can write 90k words in just a couple of weeks. The rewrites and editing are what take a long time.
Other stories take time to “mature” and ripen. Grafton, my previous book, took almost a year from when it was started. I wrote two of the four novellas in the book last summer, thinking they could each be full novels, but they didn’t have enough. Then, the last two stories were written in March and just flew out.

I guess the unusual habit is that I both chip away at a story and tear into it, depending on how it is showing itself to me.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I read a lot. At least a few dozen books a year. I probably carry a good bit from those into my writing. I try not to sound too much like any particular author, though, instead telling in my own voice.

What are you working on now?
I have a few projects that I’m chipping away at. One is a romance author that isn’t romantic and an action author that is afraid of everything, getting together and being involved in a romantic thriller of their own.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
That is the hard part. Writing is easy. Editing is tough. Promotion is a fight.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just write the book. Seriously. It might suck. That’s why there are rewrites. But if you don’t write it, you won’t know. Even if you never plan to show it to anyone… just write it.
Then show it to someone. Then someone else.
And then rewrite it a couple more times.

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

What are you reading now?
Actually rereading one of my old books to get into the head of one of the characters for a new story.

What’s next for you as a writer?
A new series… after I get done with a few of the projects I am waist-deep in right now.

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, Complete Works of Shakespeare and a blank journal (with a pencil)

Author Websites and Profiles
L.Lane Bailey Website
L.Lane Bailey Amazon Profile

L.Lane Bailey’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Oscar Burton 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have been an international public health specialist for over 20 years, working in some of the more troubled places in the world. Some I mentioned, some I’d prefer not to. This was my first book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Any Porth in a Storm: The Long-Distance Walk That Goes South. The title really gives the overall picture. Following redundancy in 2019 I embarked on a long-distance walk which covered around 1000 kilometers and unfortunately coincided with a series of the worst storms for many years. And of course, we know what followed 2019. That’s the canvas. Bleak perhaps, but the situation required humor. The paint which makes up the picture is more personal. It’s in part a literary and artistic quest; the path is littered with reclusive authors like le Carre, du Maurier, Agatha Christie, Michael Ondaatje, and Turner who walked much of the path and painted there. Mostly, it’s a tale of loss, friendship, improbably coincidence, and heroic failure (not necessarily in that order).

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I compile my ideas on post-it notes in a guide book. The hard writing and research I did in an old Library near Highgate Cemetery (burial place of Karl Marx, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Michael Faraday).

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Douglas Adams, John le Carre, Eric Newby (as a travel writer), Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Daphne du Maurier.

What are you working on now?
Recovery.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Social media like Facebook, and sites like this though this is my first attempt through book promotion sites.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
That’s my question.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Rewrite. The old adage ‘kill your darlings’ still holds true. Let somebody else read it and if their comments make you angry it’s probably because you knew, deep down, they were right.

What are you reading now?
Ian Rankin. But I just finished the graphic novel ‘Good-bye Chunky Rice’ by Craig Thompson, and I was overwhelmed by it.

What’s next for you as a writer?
A story I’ve been working on mentally for over 10 years, about disease (not the one we’re in). More of a political thriller based on events in the 1940s.

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?
Something cheerful and with depth. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby. Silverview by John le Carre (a gamble, but the only one of his I haven’t read). My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier (because it’s troubled and ambiguous).

Author Websites and Profiles
Oscar Burton Website
Oscar Burton Amazon Profile

Oscar Burton’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile

Scott Ferguson, Sr. 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Scott A. Ferguson, Sr. I’m 62 years old and I’m retired from the Secret Service Uniformed Division. I’ve been married to the same woman for 38 years and we have two grown children. So far I’ve written thirteen books, eleven of which are under contract with City Limits Publishing, LLC. The other two are almost ready for submission.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I presently have four books that are published and listed on Awesome Gang. “The Life and Times of Maggie O’Toole” was inspired by my mother. She was born to a single mother in 1930, who tried to keep her but finally, after about eighteen months, had to give her up. I used that premise to write a story similar to hers but based in the 1800s.

“Escape!” is based on an idea of combining the Old Testament Book of Numbers, where Moses told the Israelites to kill everyone in the cities they conquered except girls too young to have been with a man. I wondered what would happen if you combined that commandment with the Nazis of World War 2. This story is the result.

“Becky Dixon: What I Did on my Summer Vacation” was the first book I had ever written. It is a time travel book that isn’t directly based on any one thing. However, some of the characters are based on other fictional characters from other stories. I’ll let you figure out who they are when you read it.

“Bloodstone,Arizona” is a story about a lost soul who is talked into robbing a bank in the 1800s. Needless to say, he gets caught and sent to prison. While in there, he learns about religion and, when he’s released, becomes a preacher… a preacher with a gun. When he is assigned to the church in Bloodstone, Arizona, he meets and falls in love with the previous preacher’s widow. But his past comes to haunt him. It’s not based on anything but a desire to write a western with a twist.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
When I’m writing, I like to listen to oldies from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Also, when I’m thinking, I like to play Solitaire and Mahjong. Also, when I start a book, I have a beginning and an end in mind but I usually let the story tell itself. I find it’s more interesting that way.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and, Eoin Colfer. I love the Harry Potter series, The Lord of the Rings, Narnia , as well as the Artemis Fowl series. But, I also love The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis and The Wish List by Eoin Colfer.

What are you working on now?
I just finished book # 13. It’s a sequel to “Kindness of a Stranger,” which is due out on July 1st. It’s the story of the police detective from that story. I call it “Detective Marcus Cooper.” In this story he investigates the murder of a family, which leads to a high school sex ring and the top levels of the city government.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Probably the various websites they are listed on as well as my Facebook page. City Limits Publishing has their own website (https://citylimitspublishing.com/) and their own Facebook page that have helped out a lot too.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing! Keep Editing! Keep trying to find a publisher. Remember, you don’t always need an agent, sometimes you can find a publisher all on your own. Just make sure, if you receive an offer, to have an attorney, or someone familiar with contracts, look it over before you sign.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Believe in yourself and keep trying.

What are you reading now?
I’m reading Mike Lindell’s book, “What Are the Odds.” No matter what you may think of the man’s politics, he’s come through a lot to get where he is now. And, he gives all the credit to God.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m thinking about a sequel to “Becky Dixon.” But, if that doesn’t work out, I’m sure something else will come to mind. But, no matter what, I intend to keep on writing!

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Bible; 1001 Arabian Nights, Don Quixote, and The Life and Times of Maggie O’Toole

Author Websites and Profiles
Scott Ferguson, Sr. Website

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