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James Watson 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I married my high school sweetheart. We have been married 35 years. We have three grown sons. Our oldest son CJ passed this past year. Still adjusting to that. Our middle son, Caleb will be getting married October 9 we are excited. I am blessed to be able to officiate at my sons wedding.
Our youngest son Jake continues to pursue a career in theology. He teaches at a Catholic High School. He is looking to start his masters and would like to go onto a Phd. His goal is to be a college professor teaching theology. Not bad for someone born with a brain hemorrhage and was supposed to die at birth.
I have been pastoring for 25 years. I started with the established church. Then I became a church planter. Out of the church plant we started the first biker church in Massachusetts.
I moved to Florida started a consulting business to pastors. Then was called back to the pastorate. Hopefully, ending my ministry where I began with an established church.
My calling has been to small struggling churches or planting a church. I have been offered larger churches but I continue to turn them down. God has made a good team with my wife Kristin and myself.
Kristin has had great success as a Research Engineer in the medical field with over 10 patents to her name. That made it possible for me to either plant churches or work with small struggling churches. She recently left the medical field is the Senior Vice President Global Technology Development. She builds teams and implements new processes to help make the company more effective and productive.
Called to Battle is my first book. This isn’t the first time I published. Guide Post did publish one of my articles.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My book is Called to Battle. A Supernatural Thriller. It deals with spiritual warfare. It was inspired by my life.
I came to Christ when I was 8 years old and I have never left Jesus. I started a bible study for athletes in High School. I was an accomplished athlete so that was where my influence was. I had the typical warfare in high school. Some kids taunting me for my faith. Access to drugs and so forth.
It was my first pastorate that spiritual warfare became real. I took a church of 25 that was getting ready to close. We grew to 100 in a year. The more we grew the more fights that occurred. There were a group in the church that had influence who couldn’t really describe themselves as Christians. When I asked them to tell me of their faith walk they couldn’t. One man told me he was going to do everything he could to get rid of me. When I asked what my sin issue was they said there is none they just wanted me gone.
The long term members started to complain there were too many young people coming into the church. I was preaching too much from the bible. We were having too many baptisms every month. People were talking about bringing praise music into the church.
That ended in a huge battle.
While this was going on Kristin became pregnant. The attacks were so intense she went into distress. I resigned on Dec. 23rd. We had no savings. Kristin was pregnant and working 2 days a week as a consultant. God did multiple miracles. Kristin was hired full time within two weeks of leaving.
Five months later our son was born. He had a brain hemorrhage and was supposed to die. God intervened there and saved his life
I would plant a church a few months after that. During the plant we met at the local Junior High. We had a signed contract. The acting Superintendent one Sunday locked us our. Our lawyer got involved and with much prayer we were let back in.
Another time we were going to hold a prayer service on the town Park on Good Friday. The Selectman told me if I did they would arrest me. I told them they knew where to find me at noon on Good Friday. At that meeting every newspaper and TV station from MA and RI showed up.
I have stories about God changing the weather to help a block party happen.
My most recent battle our son being killed by a hit and run driver who had a revoked license because of a DUI. His car was unregistered and uninsured.
I was a pastor of a small church. Not a mega church pastor. I hadn’t written any books. I realized I am like a thousand other pastors. If these spiritual battles were happening to me they were happening to everyone. So I decided to write a novel and incorporate some of my stories. In the process encourage people to let them they are not alone and how to have victory.
Kristin and I had to learn how to weather these battle. How to build ourselves up. We realized When God Call You Need to Be Ready for Battle.
This inspired my book. 95% of what happens in the book actually happened to me.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes. I don’t make an outline. I don’t recommend that. I know how the book starts and I know how it ends. I have to start writing the book to figure out how I am going to get from the beginning to the end.
An editor informed me that 80% of fictions writers don’t have an ending when they begin a book so they never finish their book. So I was ahead of the game.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The Bible.
This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti had a big impact on me.
Robert Whitlow who is a lawyer who writes book with courtroom scenes. He is also a Christian.
I read biographies: Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan.

What are you working on now?
I have three books that I have going right now.
1. The sequel to Called to Battle
2. A Christmas Book. I am a Christmas fanatic. I am one of those lunatics who puts thousands of lights on his house.
3. A Non-Fiction Book. It is about me and my sons. All three of my sons went through life altering times. My oldest had cerebral palsy and obsessive compulsive disorder that haunted him. When he was 18 he got into drugs and became a drug dealer. At 24 God turned his life around. He found a wonderful woman and married her. Then was killed at the age of 29 by a hit and run driver.
Our second son was the child who did well and had a million friends. He is the type parents think I don’t have to worry about him. He went to college and became an alcoholic. He had a car accident where he should have died and God saved his life. He still didn’t stop drinking. Eventually God got hold of him turned him around and he is doing great.
My youngest one went through a life choice moment turning away from God. His lasted only a few years before he turned back to God. At 24 he reads the bible and prays 1 to 2 hours everyday.
In this book it is about how I as a dad held onto my faith when I watched my sons go down these roads. I thought I did everything right. We sent them to Christian Schools. We homeschooled them. I was actively involved with their life. Everyday Kristin and I prayed with them. I discipled them. When serious issues came up we went to Christian counselors. We try to do everything right and everything went wrong. Keeping your faith when God doesn’t seem to be listening.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
www.jhenrywatson.com or www.called2battle.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I am a self-publisher who received help. I learned if you are not passionate, disciplined and driven don’t bother. I didn’t realize writing the book was the easy part. I worked with Donna Partow who told me you have a choice. You can write a book or you can write a book people will buy. If you want them to buy it the work is extensive.
A couple of weeks before we launched the book I was getting contacted from Donna a number of times a day. It came to a point I would see her message and cringe. I would think what miserable thing does she want me to do now.
Everything she had me do was important and valuable. If you are working with someone who knows what they are doing trust them.
There is one thing we can’t control. Will our book resonate. We know our books can help people. Believe in your book and pray it resonates.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
This was a phrase I read from “Raising a Modern Day Knight.” I taught it to my boys and to the men I serve.
A Man Rejects Passivity, Accepts Responsibility, Lead Courageously and Expects the Greater Reward – God’s Reward.

What are you reading now?
Unshakable Hope by Max Lucado
Lament for a Son by Nicholas Wolterstorff – It is about a dad who gets that awful phone call that his son is dead. He died in a climbing accident.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will try to continue to write one book a year. It is tough being a pastor and a writer. I don’t know how other pastors do 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 Bible
This Present Darkness Frank Peretti
Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig. It will take solitude and years to fully understand that book.
Called to Battle

Author Websites and Profiles
James Watson Website
James Watson Amazon Profile

James Watson’s Social Media Links
Facebook Profile

PRANAVI A.V.S 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am from India. I am a student of English Literature. I have written only one book, which is my latest release titled “The Kaleidoscope Called Life”. I am a poet, author, blogger and a bibliophile. My hobbies include photography, gardening and reading.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is “The Kaleidoscope Called Life”. It is a poetry collection inspired partly by true events/people. It looks at the various emotions that one faces in life.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes. I cannot write when I am happy. Instead, my best works come to me when I am angry, sad, disappointed or the like. Negative emotions bring out my best creative works.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Many. I am a bibliophile which means I cannot name a favourite.

What are you working on now?
I finished a second book of poetry and currently, I am working on a third poetry book which is a collaboration with my friend.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use Goodreads forums to promote my books. I recently joined a LibraryThing group. And now, AwesomeGang is my go-to place I also advertise on my Instagram, Facebook and blog.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Have an idea? Ink it! Do not hesitate.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
#dontgiveup

What are you reading now?
I just now finished a book titled “Before I Fall” by Lauren Oliver.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Probably switching genres. I am thinking of writing short stories.

If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
That’s not fair! I want access to every book out there!

Author Websites and Profiles
PRANAVI A.V.S Website
PRANAVI A.V.S Amazon Profile

PRANAVI A.V.S’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile
Pinterest Account

Travis Haugen 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a Canadian prairie boy. I spent 40 years of my life as a musician, travelling across Canada and the US playing nightclubs and honky-tonks. It’s a great way to make a living.
I drifted into writing out of that. A song I wrote put me there. The song came from loneliness, the books came from the song. That song was “I Call Your Name” (Music From Soup,soupsyz.com). Back in 2001, we were the house band at The St. Louis Hotel in Calgary. One night after hours, I sat on my bed, picked up my acoustic, and out came the song. I played it through a few times, decided I liked it, jotted down the lyrics and turned out the lights. Later, I bolted upright from my sleep in a sweat, jumped up to my computer and began typing. I kept typing until I collapsed. When I woke, I read what I had (47 pages), and got right back to writing. I was in the fire. I never looked back. That book became the first in the One Song series. There are now four. “I Call Your Name” started the process.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Our latest book is called “Soup: The Future Is Past and Present.” The inspiration was everywhere. My niece, Candy Haugen had a lot to do with finishing “Soup” back in late 2018. She is working with me now on our new book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know. Probably. I don’t know enough authors to compare notes. I do most of my ‘writing’ while doing something else, such as riding my bike, or hiking. Or yardwork. It seems to be a subliminal process, churning around in the background waiting to come out. And when it does, big chunks are there, so I sit down at a keyboard of choice and make it real. Trying to force something doesn’t work for me.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Pretty much every book I’ve read has influenced me in one way or another. Stephen King, Neville Shute, James Michener, Herman Wouk etc., etc. I read pretty much the entire collection of Louis L’ amour in my younger days on the road. I quite enjoyed those.

What are you working on now?
My niece, Candy Haugen and I, are working on book five of the series, “What Happened Really?”, and the accompanying music.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
www.travishaugen.com is my author website, which takes you to “Soup”: The Future Is Past And Present. Search soupsyz in YouTube to get the Soupsyz channel, www.facebook.com/travishaugenauthor/ will get you to our Facebook page.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep an open mind on opinions offered; but go with your gut.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Wake up with a plan and execute it while remaining flexible to changing environments.

What are you reading now?
“In the Shadow of the Gods”: The Memoirs of a Led Zeppelin Tribute Singer, by Jean Violet and Aaron Joy, and “What Was Said to Me” – The Life of Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman, by Ruby Peter.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Keep writing songs and stories, and getting back to book presentations, which involves live music , and readings from the 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?
Three books I haven’t read by Authors I admire, and “The Book of Joy” by The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. That should get me through anything.

Author Websites and Profiles
Travis Haugen Website
Travis Haugen Amazon Profile

Travis Haugen’s Social Media Links
Goodreads Profile
Facebook Profile

Mahmoud Suleiman Abdi Dualeh 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Mahmoud Suleiman Abdi Dualeh. I come from Somalia, which is in East Africa. I have written six stories and have three collections, featuring a number of those tales, out. My story titles are as follows: Family Day; Karen, the Misbehaved Girl; Mersa’s Surge of Energy; The Archaeologists Secret; Souhail and the Realm of Super Beings; Muhsen Ilyes: Deciphering Terrorism and Three, Four and Six Short Stories on Fate/Very Different Short Stories.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is actually a short story collection with all my published stories. The eBook version is called Six Short Stories on Fate and the paperback one is titled Six Very Different Short Stories. I was inspired by the social issue of family separation (in Family Day), fantasy blockbusters like Harry Potter (in Mersa’s Surge of Energy) and other classics and pressing topics.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I tend to write in a blur, but, having written many essays in university, I learned to edit well and maintain a good standard of quality.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I idolize J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jane Austen, Arthur Miller and many more incredible authors and people. I like The Giver, The Catcher in the Rye, Angela’s Ashes, the Harry Potter series, the Robert Langdon series (featuring the Da Vinci Code) and more great books.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on a business fiction book called Savanna Drama. It is based in the Congo, an African country, and features the struggles of doing business in impoverished, lawless societies.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I like Awesome Gang because they do book promotions and host author interviews. I also appreciate KDP’s promo tools and I’m trying to connect more with potential readers by putting myself out there on YouTube channels, the radio and podcasts. I’ve actually been on the radio once, which was a load of fun. I want to do that again soon.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
What I have learned from publishing six stories and collection is that value-for-money offers are great. If you want to write a novel, then that’s great (as long as you set it at a reasonable price). For those of you like me that have written short stories, try to compile as many stories as you can into a novella/novel-length book. That way, you can also benefit from better sales.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I have heard is to connect with readers through the media. That is why I am so adamant to do that. Try to get on YouTube by talking with people on their channels, be heard on the radio and get on podcasts.

What are you reading now?
I’m actually reading a nonfiction book called Principles, by Ray Dalio.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I hope what’s next for me as a writer are bigger and better things. I do not know what the future holds but I’m working to be more successful. The main goal is to get as many people as possible to read my books and, hopefully, improve as an author.

Author Websites and Profiles
Mahmoud Suleiman Abdi Dualeh Amazon Profile

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Twitter Account
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Manjithe Senanayake 

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m Manjithe Senanayake, a 14 years old Sri Lankan writer and a poet. The Kite : Face Challenges strongly is my only published book. The Trio And The Ghost Boy, 15 Years On Earth are some books that I’m hoping to publish in future.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is The Kite : Face Challenges Strongly. I had an opportunity to fly kites for first time this year. That certain thing inspired me to write this book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes. I write only by black pen when I’m writing books. Usually I write my story 4 times. First time I write a plot. Then a bit developed plot, then I write it more developed another time. After that I keep it away for about 2 weeks. After that 2 weeks, I read the book myself as a reader. I correct mistakes and prepare it for publication. For me, it is a bit unusual writing habit.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I read books in all the genres. So when I write, they are very helpful for me.
David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J.K.Rowling are some authors who influenced me

What are you working on now?
These days I’m writing a middle grade book series about friendship.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think the best method is using Instagram and promotional websites.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I’m a new author too. Try to write your own book. It can be something imaginary or a real life event. It doesn’t matter. All you have to do is keep trying. Also don’t read books in only one genre. Read books that are in different genres. It will give you tips for writing and help you to find your passion.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
”If I have the belief that I an do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

– Mahatma Gandhi –

What are you reading now?
These days I’m reading a memoir by Sonali Deraniyagala ‘ The Wave’

What’s next for you as a writer?
My next book will be published in December or January

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’ll take,
1. Mythil’s secret by Prashani Rambukwella
2. Bringing Tony Home by Tissa Abeysekara
3. The Witches by Roald Dahl
4. Gangsta Granny by David Walliams

Author Websites and Profiles
Manjithe Senanayake Amazon Profile

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Goodreads Profile
Twitter Account