Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my first book.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is actually my first novel and book #1 in the sci-fi/fantasy series ACN; “A Charming Nightmare.”
The entire series was a story I used to tell my kids at bedtime when they were growing up. When they got too old for fairy tales I took the characters and aged them, the situation, the language, descriptions, and the conflict into something they can open again today as adults.
To this day, years after creation, the entire ACN Series is my 3rd child, I still feel embarrassed for the characters as they learn how to ‘handle’ each other, I still chuckle at the way our heroine Aylin, stumbles through situations much to the annoyance of Catch, our hero. He’s her opposite, where she is Earth (snarky, funny, sarcastic, emotional, and at times irrational) he’s our evolutionary descendant (feared, strong, rational, intelligent, mechanical, and egotistical.) Even after all these years I still adore opening to page one and reading all the way to the end. Even if my boys tease me that I have completely lipsticked all over their sci-fi/fantasy genre.
You follow Aylin, an every day New Yorker, who one special day is kidnapped. Her kidnapper is as violent as he is smart, no one will find her when she’s being held 40,000 years in the future. You, the reader, are the only thing left in Aylin’s life from a time when anything made sense…so yes…yes she is going to talk to you…and she’s going to blame you for starting a war on the future’s doorstep, and use you to play out theories about how to cure a virus that is killing off the human race faster than the enemies we’ve made throughout the galaxy. She’s going to use your shoulder to cry on when Catch barks her orders, when he’s down right mean, when she tired of fighting him. She’ll bend your ear because in 40,000 years mankind has become more machine than man and they don’t understand her need for tears or grief, but most of all she going to hold on tight to you, you’re all that is left of her home.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think they’re unusual. I like to work late at night, when it’s dark and quiet. I’ll put in a pair of ear buds and crank the music to an unacceptable level so I can just mindlessly write.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
There are so many authors that I adore, hence the library loft in our house, the wall of books in our den. If I had to list my top 4 (and by top I mean, I own everything just about that they’ve ever worked on) they would be Christopher Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, Jean Auel, and Douglas Adams.
What are you working on now?
The rest of the ACN series: Sister’s Lament, Another Word for Ledge, and The Brink of Almost. Each of them in different stages of development.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Social Media. As an indie writer I’m constantly in a state of learning when it comes to promoting and marketing, with goals of taking the leap from Twitter to Comic-con guest. I am hands down a face to face person.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be true to yourself. Everyone is going to have a suggestion, don’t compromise your piece just to get a sale.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“why can’t you?”
What are you reading now?
Dr. Who: Shada: The lost adventure by Douglas Adams
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m not sure. Science fiction for sure, I have pages and pages of ideas pounding to come to life.
What is your favorite book of all time?
I am a huge fan or Jean Auel and the Earth’s Children Series, they are my go to books and my copies are so worn that words are faded, but that’s alright, I have them memorized.
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