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Published: Tue, 08/10/21


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K. Michelle Edge 


Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written, illustrated, and self published 5 books. I’m just a small town girl from backwoods Georgia that moved off the dirt road to make my own way! I graduated from Oregon State University with a B.S. in Natural Resources and have spent a portion of my adult career as a Wildlife Biologist (I’m 32).

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Sailing Snailor: A Rhyming Mermaid Tale

Inspired by my love for poetry and the ocean

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wouldn’t call them unusual… but I love to write poetic children’s books that rhyme

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Dr. Seuss and Lucy Flemming’s Illustrations

What are you working on now?
“Not Enough Hugs: A Little Hippo’s PTSD” – This is a children’s mental health book

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Posting constantly on all social media outlets, Facebook group interactions, Fiverr book promoters and press releases, blogs and podcasts

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t put too much pressure on yourself… know that this is an ever changing game and you’re either in it because you love it, or you’re burnt out because you pushed too hard. I believe there’s room for everyone, so support your fellow authors.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Happiness is not a linear goal, so make it a daily maintenance

What are you reading now?
I actually hate to read (lol)

What’s next for you as a writer?
To keep writing, illustrating, and self publishing until someone notices my work or I get tired of it

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 Shack”
“A Book on how to build things”
“Food in the wild”

Author Websites and Profiles
K. Michelle Edge Website
K. Michelle Edge Amazon Profile

K. Michelle Edge’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account
Pinterest Account


Jane Harvey 


Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Jane Harvey is a pen name, and this is my debut novel. However, my birth name is Dreena Collins, and I have published four short story collections as Dreena (plus omnibus editions). I was born and raised on the island of Jersey, in the British Channel Isles, which is a tiny but beautiful plus with dozens of varied beaches and a pleasant climate. I stayed in Jersey until I left to go to Wales for University and for a while after that, but I came back to Jersey after I retrained as a secondary school teacher.

I live with my partner and teenage son. My husband and I married in 2021 after ten years together. We also have a white Lhasa Apso who is quite a character!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My novel is a short, contemporary fiction novel called the Landlord of Hummingbird House. It’s about April, whose latest relationship has failed, meaning she is forced to rent a flat and start again, aged 32. She feels ashamed and a little lost.

There are a number of diverse and quirky tenants in the building who have become friends and are very loyal to one another, and form a community of sorts. April makes many assumptions about them, that are slowly unravelled, as a mystery comes to light and then is solved.

This novel grew out of a short story I wrote about two people who lived close by but kept missing each other – but it evolved significantly from there. I wanted to write something accessible and ‘feel good’ but also realistic and relatable, so while there are a number of familiar themes in the book that you might see in many chick lit or commercial novels, a lot of stereotypes are also undermined.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t really have any habits per se. In fact, that could be what is unusual about me! I don’t have a set routine and I am constantly thinking of story or marketing ideas, so any chance I get, I am writing or promoting or networking. Sometimes that even means writing stories on my mobile phone..

What authors, or books have influenced you?
This book is influenced by Graeme Simsion (the Rosie Project books) and Gail Honeyman (Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine) in that I wanted to write an accessible book with relatable characters with their own challenges and uniqueness. I also wanted to write something a little comparable with Marian Keyes, who I love, as I wanted a strong female character and easy – but good-quality – read.

What are you working on now?
The Landlord of Hummingbird House isn’t launched until 31stg August so I am still in the midst of pre-order push and final stages of prepping and marketing. The most fiction writing I have done in the last few weeks has been to write a very short story – and I felt better for it!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think authors need to go to where the readers are – which means we can’t expect anyone to be lining up to read our books simply because we have put it out on amazon. Reader sites – such as this one – are an important tool to link readers and writers together. I also spend a lot of time promoting and interacting on social media.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do it now. Don’t wait. There will never be a perfect time.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness,” or as Caitlin Moran puts it: “If you have been complaining about something for three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.”

What are you reading now?
I have just finished Sandi Toksvig’s wonderful, thought-provoking memoir.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I wrote another novel last year – which is a mystery told from the point of view of a middle-aged woman – and I need to go back to it, re-read, edit etc., and see if I can find it a home. I hope so.

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?
Wow! Tough question.

Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Handmaid’s Tale
Bridget Jones’s Diary

Author Websites and Profiles
Jane Harvey Website
Jane Harvey Amazon Profile

Jane Harvey’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account


Peter J. Stavros 


Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an author and playwright in Louisville, Kentucky. My writing has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, newspapers and magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post and The Boston Globe Magazine. I have published one other book, Three in the Morning and You Don’t Smoke Anymore (Etchings Press, 2020), which won the Etchings Press 2020 Book Prize for a Chapbook of Prose. My plays have been produced across the country, some receiving Audience Choice accolades at various festivals.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is a collection of humorous short stories titled (Mostly) True Tales From Birchmont Village. It’s based upon several short stories that I first published in The Saturday Evening Post about a close-knit community of quirky eccentrics navigating through their perceived crises and calamities. I really liked these characters so I was inspired to write more stories to follow them during the course of a year in their lives. I guess I wanted to create my own version of Lake Wobegon, with perhaps a dash of Mayberry thrown in as well.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wouldn’t consider my writing habits unusual – more structured and regimented. I try to write for at least an hour a day, usually first thing in the morning, when the house is still and quiet, just the ticking of the clock on the living room wall and the furnace (or air conditioner) kicking on and off, before the demands and realities and responsibilities of the day come calling. And if I’m really lucky, I’ll wake up with an idea, or a plot, or just a couple lines of dialogue to work with.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I would say that my interests are varied, but at my core I’m a huge Hemingway fan. I like to go to Key West every now and again, and whenever I do I have to make a pilgrimage to the Hemingway Home and Museum, to the house out back and the second floor, to gaze upon his writing studio and take in all the inspirational vibes. As a playwright, I’ve always admired Sam Shepherd and his use of dialogue, how he could convey so much in so few words, something I strive to do not only in my plays but also in my fiction. For sheer poetry of language, I turn to Charles Bukowski. And being from Louisville, I of course admire one of our native sons, Hunter Thompson. When I was in school, I can remember reading his articles in Rolling Stone and being amazed that you were allowed to write like that, to actually insert yourself into the story! One of my tattoos is a caricature of Hunter Thompson.

What are you working on now?
I have several projects that I’m excited about. There’s a novella that loosely recounts my harrowing experience trying out for the varsity basketball team when I was a freshman in high school that I’ve had lingering around for a few years and I’m now finally getting into final form (fingers crossed) to release this fall. I also have a novel out on submission that centers on my fandom for professional wrestling, and another novel that I’m about to begin my third round of rewrites on that involves a recluse whose prior life comes calling for him in an unexpected way (how’s that for a teaser!). Both of these novels are kind of gritty and honest, and influenced from my time living in a small town in Eastern Kentucky.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Hopefully this Awesome Gang website will prove to be one of the best in promoting my book! Aside from that, I just use whatever other resources I can, from social media to my website to seeking out reviews, and not to underestimate good old-fashioned word of mouth. I have to admit, I enjoy the writing much more than the hustling, but it’s all part of the game.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write what you know, write what you want to read and perhaps most importantly, don’t be afraid to put yourself out there. It could be intimidating at first to share your writing with the world. I know it took me a while before I could hit the “send” button (actually, not to date myself, but when I was first starting out as a writer, it was putting that manila envelope in the mailbox!), but I’m glad I did. Also, have a thick skin (which is still a work-in-progress for me) because this is a highly subjective endeavor, and what one person might love another person might hate for absolutely no reason that would make any sense to you.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Several years ago, I attended a reading by another of my favorite authors, Nick Flynn, and during the Q&A session he relayed a conversation he once had with a young actor on the set for the film adaptation of one of his books. This kid asked Nick how to become a writer, and Nick said his response, without being dismissive or flippant, was to “just write.” And despite all of the writing seminars and classes I’ve attended, that simple piece of advice, to “just write,” has stuck with me – and going back to that question above on my writing habits, that’s what I try to do every day, to “just write.”

What are you reading now?
I’ve been so busy on this book that I’m afraid the books on my nightstand have started to pile up, but once I can get a break, I’m excited to read Billy Summers, the new novel by Stephen King (another of my favorite writers – and I guess I have so many!).

What’s next for you as a writer?
Aside from the projects I mentioned above, I want to go back to writing plays, especially now that theaters are starting to reopen. I get such a thrill sitting in an audience and watching people react to something I’ve written, which is completely different from someone just telling me that they’ve read my work. It can be a little stressful, especially if the audience doesn’t react exactly how, or where, I thought they would, but it’s also a total rush.

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?
Let’s see, in looking at my bookshelf, I would definitely grab my dog-eared copy of Fear and Loathing, and Sam Shephard: Seven Plays (we can count that as one book!), and maybe either Ham on Rye or Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Bukowski, and what’s a desert island without The Old Man and the Sea.

Author Websites and Profiles
Peter J. Stavros Website
Peter J. Stavros Amazon Profile
Peter J. Stavros Author Profile on Smashwords

Peter J. Stavros’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Twitter Account


Megan Williams-Zanders 


Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
You could think of me as the walking cliche of the picture with the coffee shop backdrop with the latte next to the computer. I love reading, writing and all things coffee-related. As a mom of two, I am highly caffeinated at all times. I work in education to support vulnerable student populations. I love to travel, blog, and spend time with my family.
I just finished my first children’s book so I hope that makes me an official author. I’ve always wanted to be a published author. I would write short stories for my late Grandmother when I was younger- I like to believe she enjoyed them.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Curious Me: Questions About God. The book is inspired by my 6-year-old daughter who would ask me tricky questions about God. She believed he wore zebra space boots and lived on the moon- ah, the innocence. I figured I wasn’t the only parent or person who has been asked tough questions from youngsters so I made my experience into a book.

This particular book is faith-based but I think many can relate to trying to give and do our best to provide answers and guidance for youth.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I typically like to write out everything on paper before actually typing it on my computer. If I ever decide to write a novel, I’m certain that will change.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

What are you working on now?
I have two children and my 3-year-old saw that he is not in Curious Me so… I’m working on another children’s book featuring him.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
That’s a great question! I am still researching. Promoting has been the toughest part of the self-publishing journey. I am currently leveraging my subscribers from my blog website. They have been a supportive community.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Join Facebook groups. That has been extremely helpful for me. There are so many different groups/communities that are willing to answer your questions, review your work, buy your work, etc.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Give yourself grace as you go through processes in life whether spiritually, mentally, or physically.

What are you reading now?
Where the Crawdad’s Sing by Delia Owens.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Promote Curious me, write more books and build my brand.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (I’m sure it will be very useful for my mental state while stranded).

Author Websites and Profiles
Megan Williams-Zanders Website
Megan Williams-Zanders Amazon Profile


Jo Horne 


Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have had a long career writing genre fiction (romance; westerns; inspirationals) using the pen name Anna Schmidt. I have also written several books on eldercare and worked with two doctors to produce Parkinson’s Disease for Dummies–all as Jo Horne. Recently I decided to pursue my passion for researching and writing more complex historical novels.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
MONICA’S WAR is the story of Monica Beresford Wichfeld–a woman, born in Great Britain who married a Danish aristocrat and led a fascinating life that covered two world wars plus the near loss of her husband’s 300-year-old estate in Denmark and her activities in the Resistance during WWII. I stumbled across Monica’s story by accident, but the more I researched her life, the more connected I felt to her–and the more I thought she deserved to be known.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not sure how unusual they are but I have zero discipline when it comes to maintaining a schedule, so I always work on deadline. When I wrote for traditional publishers that deadline was part of the contract. These days as a self-pubbed author, I have to set deadlines for myself. Another quirk is that I like activity going on around me when I write so I often work in coffeehouses or have music playing if alone.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Kate Quinn and Jodi Picoult both have an incredible gift for presenting research in a way that is organic to the story and does not feel like a lecture or seminar. I have always loved history, so am influenced by people and events from the past that seem to address some situation or circumstance we are facing today.

What are you working on now?
I am working on a memoir about my journey to and through widowhood. My husband died nine years ago, and in some ways we were blessed, because we had five months of knowing the end was coming–so time to talk and remember. I am also working on an underground railroad story set here in Wisconsin.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Really really bad at this piece of things so I try different tactics. (One would never guess I spent nearly two decades in marketing and communication in corporate America!) Impressed with the ease of AWESOME GANG program. Also had some success with Written Word Media.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Forget fame or quitting that day job or building your social media count.
The only reason to write is because you can’t NOT write.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Ever? That covers a lot of territory, and since most anyone I meet or have contact with is free with offering advice, can’t really say.

What are you reading now?
At the moment:
just finished Kate Quinn’s THE ROSE CODE and THE GLASS HOTEL by Emily St. John Mandel; am now reading ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Putting the memoir together is incredibly emotional so that’s going to take up a lot of my time. Fortunately I have a wonderful critique group (all talented writers in their own right) helping me work through it. Hoping it will be available Spring, 2022.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles
SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY by James Agee

Author Websites and Profiles
Jo Horne Website
Jo Horne Amazon Profile

Jo Horne’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Twitter Account


Ethan Ruedlinger 


Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve began writing at the age of 11, when I wrote my first poem. Everyone who read it was astounded at my creativity and writing abilities. My first book began as a school thesis in 2014, when I was writing a paper for my science class. I wrote about the theory of evolution and my arguments for creationism, and why it’s my personal belief. It was eventually revised and edited into my book; Creation: Undeniable Evidence (Revised Edition.) I’ve written multiple shorter books under 70 pages, covering topic ranging from astronomy and science to mental health. Ive recently move on to writing a series of memoirs that, when read in chronological order, constitute an autobiography.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The latest book I’ve published was “The Vietnam War.” I’d written this two part series concerning both World War II and the Vietnam War with my co author, Michael Farrell Jr. Our inspiration was the bravery and heroism of the men in our families who’d served in each of the wars.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Perhaps my autobiography’s format could be considered a unique concept. I’m currently writing my autobiography as a series of memoirs, and when read in chronological order, will constitute my life’s story.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Edgar Allen Poe is my inspiration for many of my darker works. My inspiration for my books covering science topics is simply my love for science.

What are you working on now?
My latest work, “Shambles,” is part one of my autobiography entitled: The Story of Ethan Ruedlinger. I decided to write my autobiography when I realized just how interesting my life truly is, and how much I’ve gone through at such a young age. From the military, to homelessness, to marriage and divorce, and beyond!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My best method is word of mouth marketing. However, for paid promotion, BookBub delivers the greatest results for me!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do NOT give up, despite your failures! Failures are essential to your developing writing style. They teach you what works, and what doesn’t!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Always proofread your own works prior to publishing. Never fully rely on an editor.

What are you reading now?
I’m currently reading “The Mueller Report.”

What’s next for you as a writer?
My autobiography is my greatest undertaking, and my biggest challenge. My goal is to not only engage my readers, but to tell my story.

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?
If I were stranded on a desert island, I would take The Bible, The Raven, Jack-Knife Cookery, and Swiss Family Robinson.

Author Websites and Profiles
Ethan Ruedlinger Amazon Profile

Ethan Ruedlinger’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Pinterest Account


Andrea Kurth 


Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my first book, hopefully the beginning of a series. I am a special education teacher from Michigan who realized her students weren’t often represented in books and wanted to change that. Inspired by her students, she set out to create a fun series where the story is the focus, not the disability, and is filled with adventure for younger children but exciting enough for the older struggling reader. When Andrea isn’t teaching or writing, she enjoys traveling with her wonderful husband and sons. Visit her at www.kurthbooks.com for free lesson plans.

Owen Kurth is my son. He is a creative seventh grader. He could play the guitar, piano, and violin if he learned how to play the guitar, piano, and violin. So instead he enjoys playing video games with friends and spending time with family. He aspires to be a movie writer and director one day.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Zac’s Mighty Wheels and the Giant Problem was inspired by my former student Zachary Davis. He, unfortunately, passed away just 6 months before the book was published from Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy. He was a hilarious kid who happened to be in a wheelchair and was a superhero in his own right.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really excepting trying to find time with my sons whenever I’m not working!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
J.K. Rowling. I love all the Harry Potter books. But these books were more inspired by Captain Underpants! Who knew that reading every single Captain Underpants book to my boys was going to help me in this adventure!

What are you working on now?
Book 2. It will follow Zac and and his friends in the case of the missing grandmas.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m not sure yet! I’m trying it all.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
You can do it. There are so many Facebook groups and youtube videos out there to help you along the way that it is totally possible to learn if you have the desire.

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

What are you reading now?
Stephen Kings, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

What’s next for you as a writer?
Completing Book 2 in the Zac’s Mighty Wheels series with my older son. My younger son helped me with book 1, now its my older sons turn.

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?
Stephen Kings, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, so I can finish it!
The Bible
And some how to survive book!

Author Websites and Profiles
Andrea Kurth Website
Andrea Kurth Amazon Profile

Andrea Kurth’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile


Jack Stroke 


Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a writer from Melbourne, Australia and I like writing about foolish criminals doing foolish things. I have written a dozen or so books including The Other Hotel series, true tales from Melbourne fifth-worst hotel, the 18 Hours series, about the luckless thief Lucky and the Amber Storm series, which are a little more serious, about an assassin struggling to balance her personal and professional life.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
18 Hours to Die. This idea was kicking around in my head for a long time (10 years), but it was originally inspired by a dream. I was being pursued by a particularly green car (Kermit the frog green). I woke up and the idea poured out of me.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to write outside. Amazing in summer, but it gets pretty cold in winter. Outside is more inspiring than inside in front of a computer. I have two cats who keep me company.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Elmore Leonard is a big influence. Carl Hiaasen. And Jo Nesbo. As well as lots of Australian authors like Gary Disher, Jane Harper and Chris Hammer.

What are you working on now?
I have just finished the latest 18 Hours book, 18 Hours if You’re Lucky, coming out October 1 and the latest Amber Storm book, Storm Damage, coming soon.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am not really sure. If anyone figures it out, please let me know.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write every day. Some days you just sit there and very little happens, but if you aren’t sitting there, you won’t be when something happens.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Everyone seems to want a formula to help them write more quickly. The only writing formula I ever heard that made sense was ass + chair + time = manuscript.

What are you reading now?
Striptease by Carl Hiaasen.

What’s next for you as a writer?
More books. My next The Other Hotel book will be a choose your own adventure style, so that’ll be fun.

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 several Elmore Leonards. I seem to be able to ready him again and again. Maybe Out of Sight and Get Shorty.

Author Websites and Profiles
Jack Stroke Website
Jack Stroke Amazon Profile

Jack Stroke’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile


Bill Parker 


Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am the bestselling author of the Five Moons science fiction series (7 books) which was followed by Tales of the Green Jinn series (5 books). I love science fiction. I have also written the Tesseract Codex series (5 books) and the Kryonean Chronicles (2 books so far and one in the works).
In 2014 I sold my book to Double Dragon Publications. They published all of my books until June of 2020 when they went out of business. When they pulled all of my books off of Amazon all of my wonderful reviews and ratings disappeared along with the books.
So here I am, a published author forced to start all over from scratch, but start over I did.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Fusion was one of my latest books. It was inspired by a place that I remembered well from when I was just a young boy, Elm Cove. Like many other things of my youth, it is no longer there. If you want to know what happened, you will have to read Fusion to find out.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I am a pantser. I write the story right out of my head, no notes or outlines. The whole story is in in there. All I have to do is to put down in writing. I have written whole novels is six weeks. Of course, then comes the editing which does take about as long.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I would say that I am inspired by Robert Heinlein and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. How is that for two ends of the spectrum? I love Sherlock Holmes as much as Glory Road or Starship Troopers.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on the third novel of the Kryonean Chronicles. I would like to just get on with it, but my life is full of distractions.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
A promotion starts with a Kindle Countdown Deal. From there, I have to announce the deal every single place that will have me. I love Awesome Gang. You guys are at the top of my list. I am beginning to get a nice following on Facebook. That is a big help, too. I send all of my Facebook followers to your Awesome Gang pages when you are promoting my books.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB. It is seriously hard to make any real money as an author.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I listened to Derek Murphy when he talked about Guerilla Marketing. His advice took me from obscurity to a #2 spot in my category for Five Moons: Resurrection. I took his courses. It lit a fire under me.

What are you reading now?
The competition’s works. I read the free beginning chapters of books that I consider my competition to get a feel for their writing and style. To see what I like and don’t like.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I am always working on my next novel. I dig through science and technology articles. Somewhere out there is the inspiration for another novel. Oh yeah, I dig through articles on the origin of mankind. Now there is always a new finding to spark the imagination. You just have to look for it

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?
Bring books? Hell no. I would write my next novel in the sand.

Author Websites and Profiles
Bill Parker Website
Bill Parker Amazon Profile

Bill Parker’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile
Twitter Account