Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve traveled the world, and worked at a bewildering number of jobs, but I’ve now settled on working as an author. I’ve written four novels: ELDORADO, THE ARX, THE BLACK HEART OF THE STATION, and VITA AETERNA. All have elements of Science Fiction, and all but THE ARX have dystopian themes.

I have several new novels in the works. My next release, probably in the first half of 2019, will be a sequel to THE BLACK HEART OF THE STATION, tentatively called BLACK HEART: ARRIVAL.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest novel is called Vita Aeterna (Eternal Life). It’s the story of a street-kid who undergoes a medical procedure to moderately extend his lifespan, and suddenly finds himself running from his life from the most powerful man in the world.

Believe it or not, I got the idea from talking to my cat, commenting on how we were both getting older, but at different rates.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I used to spend a lot of time writing on a ferry between Vancouver and Victoria on Vancouver island. Lately I do most of my writing in an office at home, or in coffee shops.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have very eclectic tastes in reading. I like imagination, action, adventure, and humour. I loved Catch 22, I’m a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide. In Science Fiction, I loved Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, and Asimov’s Foundation trilogy.

What are you working on now?
I like to work on several things at once – if I feel ‘stuck’ on one, I’ll switch over to the other for a break. Right now I’m mainly working on a sequel (and a ‘prequel’) to BLACK HEART, and a sequel to VITA AETERNA.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The only method I’ve ever had much success with is offering KDP Free days. I know some authors balk at giving their books away, but I think the biggest challenge for ‘indie’ authors like my self is obscurity. The more people who are exposed to my books, the better.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you love writing, write. Don’t expect to get rich. That may happen (though it’s unlikely), but if you have that as your goal, not only will you probably be disappointed, but your books will probably not be very good. I write about things that interest me, not things that I think will sell.

Also, I think I avoided writing for a long time because of fear of failure. I would advise prospective authors just to write. Don’t worry about whether or not you’re the next James Joyce. Try to write something great, but don’t obsess over it being a world-changing masterpiece.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Follow your bliss, or something to that effect.

What are you reading now?
Right now I’m reading a non-fiction travel book called ‘The Nine Horizons: Travel in Sundry Places’, by Mike Robbins.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m planing to finish the sequels I’m working on, probably by the end of next year. I’ve also got what I expect to be a novella in the works, that I hope to finish by the end of next year, and a few ideas for new projects.

What is your favorite book of all time?
That’s a very difficult question, but if I had to pick one, I guess it would be Catch 22.

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Jay Storey Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve got a double life. Some days I write about spirituality and some days I make my imaginary characters suffer while facing epic battles between good and evil.
I love reading. Specially fantasy and science fiction, my favorites genres. On the other hand, since childhood I’ve had a computer in my hands, those wonderful years of Spectrum, becoming a Software Engineer. Thus, I’ve seen how those devices have changed the world for better or worst. And this has led me to have a great interest on spirituality, starting Religious Science studies and reading all kind of books about theology.
My passion for reading and my spiritual search made me begin to write, both supernatural thriller and science fiction novels as well as more than forty religious articles and a series of books about the Rosary. Everything with a common denominator: a positive view of life and a exploration of the truth.
I’ve written eight books: five nonfiction and three fiction. Apart from writing, I practice Choy Lee Fut kung fu and I like playing chess.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My last book is “Transfer Complete”, the first one of a science fiction cyberpunk serial novel. It was inspired by both being a software engineer (artificial intelligence has always been one of my main interests in the computing world) and, at the same time, seen how we’re becoming more and more dependent on technology. From this element mixture an idea appeared in my mind, the beginning of a history which had to be developed without any limit, that’s why I wrote it as a serial novel, so that I could explore that new world that was arising in a free way.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know if it’s an unusual habit, I think it’s more a necessity. I wrote at night, when my wife and my children have already gone to sleep. The night is mine! 🙂

What authors, or books have influenced you?
For my supernatural thriller books (“Llorando sangre” and “Apocalipsis: el día del Señor”) Michael D. O´Brien has been the biggest influence. I like the way he imbues the text with spirituality.
Brent Weeks and Brandon Sanderson have also been great influences for me. I totally agree with their positive point of view inside life realism.
In relation to science fiction it’s compulsory to mention Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card and William Gibson, specially due to “Neuromancer”. I’ve learned so much from them all.

What are you working on now?
Now I’m working on the second book of “Memories of Twilight”, in a series of urban fantasy books and in the fourth and last volume of my series about the Rosary.
And also, in promoting “Transfer Complete”, of course.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I don’t know which one is the best, but I think the most important for authors is gaining visibility for both their books and themselves.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read a lot, learning from other authors techniques. Write a lot and well. Finish your book. And be very patient.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write every day, even though it may be just a little.

What are you reading now?
I’ve just finished “Small favor”, by Jim Butcher, and now I’m reading “Altered Carbon”, by Richard Morgan.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Going on with “Memories of Twilight” and with the fantasy series I’m thinking about. I’ve had already written a martial art novel waiting for being published. Maybe in 2019.

What is your favorite book of all time?
The Bible.

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J. S. Criado Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written four books. Two of them make up the Perfectly Imperfect World book series and two are part of the Kicka$$ your brand series. The PIW series is a memoir series that is about myself, growing up Bipolar and unmedicated.
The Kicka$$ your brand series are technical books about building a website, creating and running an online store and building a kicka$$ brand!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called Create a KickA$$ website. I was reading a book by Gundi Gabrielle and I thought, I can do this… The next thing that I knew, I was the #1 most downloaded in website design as well as social media and 39 out of the top 100 paid social media books. This all happened within about 5 days.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write my books on my phone. My first 2 books are more of a stream of consciousness. They were published as short stories with minimal editing and completely written on my phone.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
As of late, I would say Gundi Gabrielle has been a big inspiration. However, my go to guys will always be Grant Cardone and Gary Vaynerchuk. Who’s book Crushing it by the way, I was so close to on the top sellers list, I could smell his cologne haha.

What are you working on now?
I am finishing up Create a KickA$$ online store right now. It goes live on Amazon on January 1st 2019.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am still figuring this out as I go.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do you have any advice for me? I would love to hear it!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I get told a lot to read the whole book before I put the information into practice. I have ADD and I tend to be like WHOA! And take the information that I just read and run with it.

What are you reading now?
I am reading:
Brands and bulls**t by Bernhard Schroeder, 5 minute book marketing for authors by Penny Sansevieri and Influencer fast track by Gundi Gabrielle

What’s next for you as a writer?
Launch book 2. Give myself time to market and properly advertise and see what happens

What is your favorite book of all time?
ooooh…. I have listened to the audiobook Be obsessed or be average by Grant Cardone countless times while driving. I could never get tired of it. However, Crushing it by Gary V. is a close, CLOSE second.

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Crystal Amar Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written two novels, “In Search of Happiness” and “Friendship, Love & Sacrifice” I am currently writing another novel, “Leila” which is set to release in March 2019

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Love, Lust & Greed” is a story of Majnu who stands on the edge of the bridge at night all alone by himself, on the verge of falling down to kill him and end his life. He recalls every decision he took in his past months that led him to end his life. He contemplates him becoming a male prostitute, a gigolo for lustful reasons and for his greed for money. He contemplates how meeting his client Laila changed his life forever and how falling in love with her led to circumstances. He contemplates his past until he realizes that he sunk deep into the dirty pit of Love, Lust & Greed and how hard it became for him to get out. Majnu losses his family and his love, Laila and he blames himself for it.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Well, I have many…but one of them is I always take a long bath before starting my writing sessions.

What are you working on now?
“Leila” is the project of mine that’s been going on for like one and a half year. Also working on other parts of “Love, Lust & Greed” series.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep Writing…..enjoy life….read

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Ashraf Shaikh Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi,
I’m a mother of four children, first and foremost. I was once a professional ballerina – Principle dancer with what is now Anaheim Ballet. I was married for twenty years – hence the children. I love to dance International Latin ballroom. This is the first non-fiction piece I’ve written. My other works (still collecting dust in a file somewhere) have been fiction fantasy and mystery novels/screenplays.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Get Paid to Travel: Crew’s In With Christy was written to answer the question I get so much as a flight attendant, “Can you help me/my brother/ my daughter get a job with the airlines?”

I never knew how much I would love being a flight attendant and if I can help others into this fabulous career and life-style, I would be honored.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
As a dancer, I dance. Writing is what comes in-between pirouettes or small jumps…..

What authors, or books have influenced you?
So many. I consider George MacDonald and G.K Chesterton to be my fathers in that they put the world into focus for me. Jane Austin is my master and Agatha Christie remains an indulgence.

What are you working on now?
Promoting Get Paid to Travel: Crew’s In With Christy.

Crew’s In With Christy is a travel vlog I host.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
That remains to be seen…

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Finish. Whatever it is. Finish what you’ve begun. There is incredible education to be had in a finished product.

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

What are you reading now?
George MacDonald’s “Unspoken Sermons”

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’d like to finish the mystery novel I began years about transhumanism/fairy creatures as a screenplay.

What is your favorite book of all time?
This is REALLY hard…..can’t do it. It might be McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove.”……
or, “Pride & Prejudice”….
or, “The Outsiders”…..

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
As V.J. Devereaux I’ve been called a prolific and a genre-crosser, I’m the author of five-star rated contemporary and paranormal erotic romance novels, including The Bound series, Cooking Class, Night Owl Reviews Top Picks Demon’s Kiss and Cherry’s Jubilee.
As Valerie Douglas I’m the writer of the bestselling epic fantasy series The Coming Storm, as well as fantasy of all kinds – classic, epic, historical and contemporary – as well as romance and suspense novels.

Happily married, she’s companion to two dogs, four cats and an African clawed frog named Hopper who delights in tormenting the cats from his tank.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Picture Perfect is my most recent novel written under Valerie Douglas. It was inspired first by my creative process. Like Anne, an artist, I run on inspiration and keep running until the book is done. The second was by two tragic accidents – balcony collapses at colleges, largely due to too many students on a structure not designed for that collective weight. That became Anne’s handicap in the book.
I also wanted Michael, the male lead, have internal conflicts and he does. He’s a good man who doesn’t want to take advantage, and he went through a painful divorce.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m a pantser, and I’ll write the story until it’s done, no matter how long it takes. I get swept up in it, enraptured with the people who inhabit it.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’m a voracious reader….but pretty much every writer I’ve read. I learned from both the bad and the good.

What are you working on now?
A sequel to The Coming Storm.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Variety, no one site.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Stop listening to anyone but the voice inside you. Just write.

What’s next for you as a writer?
More books… *laughing*

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Valerie Douglas Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written probably a dozen books, with a million more in the works! However, so far six of them are published. I’ve been writing since college. I used to write a lot of poetry and even have a degree in poetry!! However I love to bring together all my passions: health, environment, self improvement, creativity and holistic world view 🙂 Usually I can only get a few into one book, but I’m trying to figure out to try to get all those into one topic!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My most recent book is Kitchen Magic, and it was written in a fury of inspiration while on a writing retreat in gorgeous Point Reyes Station. I was at Mesa Refuge, which is a space for writers to explore topics of the environment and social justice. My book was not what I planned to write while there, and it’s a lighter touch than what many others have written there, but I feel it does reach the goals of the program by helping people do so on a personal level…plus it’s SUPER FUN! It’s recipes and healthy living 101 while just playing in the kitchen!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m not sure I have any particular habits of note. However, I’m MUCH better at starting projects (writing among others) than I am at finishing them. Sometimes I will have projects half finished for YEARS… including Kitchen Magic. Heck, sometimes it takes me years to finish a book! But I usually do come back around at some point!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love Michael Pollan, who was also a resident at Mesa Refuge. I also love Anne of Green Gables. And I love a ton of teen fiction. And I’ve read a bunch of the Sears family books on health. There are just so many books I love, this is a hard question to answer!

What are you working on now?
I have a project on how taking care of our health will actually make us money, and how we need to care for our physical body and eat nourishing food to be more successful.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I actually do a ton of talking about my book to my family and friends. I am really good at keeping in touch, so I just let them know when it comes out. This works for broad interest books. I also have an email list that will buy my books. Social media I use facebook, and if I keep it playful it seems to do better than just hounding people about the books 🙂

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Find a support person or hire help (people to read, edit, etc). It can be lonely to write, and you need help to get through the hard parts. And then just try to write what you and inspired to write!!!!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Best advice I’ve ever heard is: Good or bad, it’s all a phase.

That was parenting advice, but I find it applies to my entire life.

What are you reading now?
Persephone rising, Becoming, Broken Open, Radical Forgiveness, and some others I can’t remember.

What’s next for you as a writer?
That’s a loaded question! I have so many ideas!!! I want to keep writing journals, and I want to start writing journals that go hand in hand with books.

What is your favorite book of all time?
What? I don’t have one! Who can choose just one? Seriously, that’s not right. The book I’ve maybe read the most number of times is Brighty of the Grand Canyon. It’s about a donkey and always makes me cry.

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Alegra Loewenstein Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Shea Barbacci. I’m just a man who, for a long time, tried to make sense of the world. I gave up on that endeavor, and now I just try to experience life in a worthwhile manner. I still contemplate what has happened, and I try to be prepared for whatever might happen in the future. Being alive, however, here and now, sometimes gets in the way, and I’m satisfied by that.
I’ve just published my first book, “Vagabond Nemophile: A Vicarious Adventure.”
Have you ever had a car you really loved? One that you can get in, go anywhere, and feel like you’re on an exciting adventure even if you’re just going to work or running errands? When you push on the pedals, you can feel how your car reacts, you can hear how well it’s running. You can sense what sort of maintenance you need to perform to keep your car running like the well-oiled machine it can be. When you get home, you look at it and feel proud you get to drive it. You can imagine modifications you’d like to make to it, and with the right tools, materials, and a bit of elbow grease, you can bring your vision to reality.
That is how I feel about the relationship between my books and my self.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest and first completed novel is Vagabond Nemophile: A Vicarious Adventure. It was inspired by wanting to walk away from everything I was doing as a feeling of futility permeated my day to day ambition, allowing hopelessness to creep in and cripple my motivation. I was finally yielding to the realization the rewards I sought along the path I traveled would not truly be what I wished to work towards. So, I abandoned my studio and my studies, and hopped a greyhound bus from Florida to the opposite corner of the continental USA, and set off hiking and writing without a plan. Everything I encountered along the way inspired the book to become what it did. It’s the sort of book I’ve always wanted to pick up and read.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’ve tried writing a lot of different ways. I rented a small warehouse once and built a studio there that was the most conducive environment for creativity that I could possibly imagine. I had motorcycles and a space to work on them in one corner, I had a place to paint in another. On the other side of the room, I had music and recording equipment, and I even set up a small talk-show stage with video cameras, all connected to computers so I could broadcast live on the internet. Before I knew it, I had spent all of my time setting things up, and none of my time creating anything. Whenever I did sit down to write or produce any sort of media, I became distracted by something else, and nothing was ever being accomplished. If I managed to block out all of the distractions and focus on writing, I was majorly disappointed by anything I put down on paper. There’s a short song by The White Stripes, called “Little Room,” and I think that song sums up this predicament quite well.
I tried writing in the dirtiest dive biker bar I could find in Daytona Beach for awhile, but I always ended up too far towards the bottom of the bottle to ever put anything comprehensible on the page.
As I said earlier, I began writing my first novel as I abandoned this place I created and took off to the opposite corner of the United States on a Greyhound Bus, with very little money, and a bit of wilderness survival gear. As I crossed through backcountry forests, over mountains, and through valleys and canyons, I found I was much more comfortable writing outside, exposed to the sun, wind, rain, sweltering heat, freezing cold, carrying my writing supplies everywhere I went.
Since then, I’ve found stepping outside of my comfort zone brings me the greatest comfort in creativity.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Aldous Huxley, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Roald Dahl, Michael Crichton, Stephen R. Donaldson, Arthur C. Clarke, H.P. Lovecraft, Carl Sagan, Lewis Carroll, Clive Barker, Jon Krakauer, Stephen Ambrose, and many, many more.

What are you working on now?
Well, I make a lot of photoshop art, so I’m currently working on figuring out the best way to print those pieces onto posters so I may sell them to anyone who might like weird bewildering images on their wall. That isn’t really as relevant to our discussion as these other three things I’m working on, though:
1) A book that shall house a number of the strange and twisted dreams I spend the first few moments of my morning recovering from.
2) The sequel to my first Novel. The working title I have for it is “Vagabond 2: Nemophile in the City,” Although it will be a sequel of sorts, I’m trying to craft it into a book that will rightly be able to stand on its own two feet, without leaving readers feeling lost if they haven’t read the first.
3) I’m trying to figure out how to promote my first novel, which I’ve just recently published. I suppose this leads us into the next question.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I just published my first novel, so I’m trying to figure out how to promote it now. I don’t have a ton of money to dump into marketing ad campaigns all over the internet, so I’m investigating any free promotional tactics I can conjure. Their results are yet to be determined. I don’t shut up about my writing, so anyone that comes into contact with me learns about it. I can lead a horse to water, but I can’t make them think. Or read. Or buy my novel. So, I’m hoping my novel finds readers who thoroughly enjoy my writing style and those readers will tell their like-minded friends about it. I’m scouring the internet for appropriate websites, groups, and any forum that will let me promote my work, but that’s proving to be an endevour much like treading water in a rip current by the shoreline. When I have the funds to do so, I’ll begin launching calculated ad campaigns on a few different distribution platforms. I’m curious to see what results that may yield. If anyone else has any great suggestive ideas, I encourage you to visit my website and leave a comment.
I think the best method for promoting my work won’t be any specific website or ad campaign, though. I think the best method will be to put my heart and soul into crafting my words, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. I believe if I dedicate all the time and energy I can into expressing my thoughts and feelings with integrity, and into sharing what impacts me in a way that might equally impact readers, then hopefully I gain the interest of open minds and creative, imaginative fans through the years, and my work will promote itself through notoriaty and word of mouth.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Although I’ve been at it for quite a while, I still feel like I am a new author at the stage, myself. However, yes, I do have advice for new authors:
Keep writing. Keep reading. Keep revising and polishing your work. Don’t be your own worst enemy. When you feel stagnant, find a way to shake things up. Tuck, roll, and react.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Take any advice with a grain of salt.”

What are you reading now?
“The Naked Ape,” by Desmond Morris

What’s next for you as a writer?
Wouldn’t we all like to know what’s next for us, as anythings? As writers? As artists? As humans? I believe there will come a day when I might be able to answer this question with some level of certainty, but the only thing I can be certain of right now, is I can’t be certain of anything.
What’s next, you ask? Could it be poverty? Could it be a dead-end job? Could it be success? What is success, anyway? I bet the same people who can tell me what they think success is are the same people who could tell me what’s next for them as a something or other.
While I look forward to having the sort of stability in my life where I can tell you what I foresee in the future without the recognition of my forecast causing a heavy stone to swell in the pit of my stomach, I also enjoy gazing out into the abyss of the unknown future.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Author Websites and Profiles
Shea Barbacci Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve only written one book so far, but I’ve had this story percolating in my head for years. I’ve written a blog story of the same city starting last year. It didn’t really go anywhere, but it allowed me to get a feel for writing the world I built in my head for twenty years.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I name the planet something different and the title to my book was (no kidding) “Amisha’s life and the fight for life love and Liberty and the safety of her people.” I think I was thirteen. It was like fan fiction of a fantasy life that I thought was better than mine at the time. It was a form of escapism for me as I didn’t do well in school or at home.

I matured, life got better for me, and I set that story aside. I would occasionally have a waking dream (that period where you aren’t fully awake, but are sort of aware of the room), and I would write the details down. During this time, I married, had kids, and life went on. The waking dreams became less until they pretty much went away altogether.

About three years ago, we had some bad luck. Things happened and I was looking to escape again. I wasn’t quite ready to go all out on writing a book yet, so I wrote a blog story of a woman who forgot who she was. It was probabaly the worse writing I’ve ever done, I haven’t written a full story in a long time, but I’ve used the opportunity to learn how to write properly again.

Last year, I finally decided to rename the planet. I don’t quite remember the name, I think it was Xeron or something to that extent (google it, it’s not that creative of a name). I decided to try one of those planet name generator, but I thought the names were ridicoulously hard to pronounce. Eventually, after playing with random sounds I gave up. The next morning, I heard the name in a waking dream. The first one I had in a long time.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know if it’s unusual. I came up with a lot of these scenes while I’m waking up or in a dream. Then if I remember, I write them down. I put the scenes into OneNote and arrange them in a way that makes sense to me. When it looked like I Had enough for a novel, I started to expand the scenes.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Believe it or not, when it comes to books, I happen to like dystopian novels. The gritty ones are okay, but the ones that really piqued my interest are the ones with a clean, orderly society.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is what got me started on dystopian novels. It was the first in my assigned reading list I had when I started homeschooling. Just before I started writing as an adult, I listen to Utopia. I think those two actually influenced my book the most.

When it comes to sci-fi, I actually prefer movies and TV series. I was allowed one half our show a day when I was in kindergarten and elementary school. I picked Voltron which not only became my favorite series, but it also influenced my love for space and space travel. Knight rider fueled my love for gadgets, computers, and programming. Starwars influenced the idea telepathy and telekentics. V (the TV series in the 80s) and Babylon Five showed me the possibilty of aliens and our interaction with them.

As for Authors that influenced me, J.K. Rowling is who got me to finally start writing in the first place. I don’t expect to get on the same level as her, but it’s very encouraging when you see someone literately write herself out of poverty.

What are you working on now?
I’m already working on the second book in the series. I also have been writing down scenes in short story or novella series. Maybe I’ll go back and fix that first story I mentioned earlier.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Don’t know yet since I haven’t sold that many books (I’m still new at this), but so far, I have a small fan base on Minds.com.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
It’s never too late to start. Seriously, start writing a blog or something. It may not be popular, but you can use it to learn from it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The same advice I would give to new authors. That and failure is just a learning opportunity. It’s okay to fail.

What are you reading now?
Tech Mage, Magitech Chronicles by Cris Fox. Actually, I’m listening to it since if I’m not doing mother stuff (cleaning, dealing with the kids, etc) I’m writing. Listening to the book while I’m cleaning makes the chores less of a chore.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have two more books to write in the series. Then the short story series I mentioned earlier will be next.

What is your favorite book of all time?
So far, “The year of the Flood” by Margaret Atwood (which is completely unrelated to anything I’ve mentioned). There’s something fascinatingly creepy about a dystopian society actually becoming a possibility.

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Nancie Neal Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi,
I’m Milada and I found a perfect formula for a successful life for everyone. After having gone through a personal transformation, I believe that every person in the world lives to love and be loved. But if he does not feel happy, then he made a mistake. The error must be found and corrected.
A struggle against cancer at a young age opened up a new world for me.
My new life story began by searching for answers to the following questions:
– what is happiness?
– how to be successful?
– where to find motivation?
And many other questions.
For more than 15 years, I have been analyzing important questions in life.
Improving your life requires more than inspirational words.
Step by step, I answer different life questions and give instructions for actions in every new book.
I have written my first book “One Rule for Life: How to Be Successful and Find Your Passion in Life”

I adore nature and people and lead an active lifestyle.

If you are in search of answers to Big Questions, I will be happy to help you.
Sincerely,
Milada

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My first book is “One Rule for Life: How to Be Successful and Find Your Passion in Life”
This book is the thoughts of my soul. I want to share with each of my deep reflections on life, happiness, and many other interesting things.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paulo Coelho

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have no best method now because it’s my first book.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Live everyday like it’s your last

What are you reading now?
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by James A. Robinson

What is your favorite book of all time?
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Editor/Writer at Khartoum Publishing Co.
Former Proofreader for Project Gutenberg at Distributed Proofreaders
Former Laptop Repairman at Sharp Electronics Azerbaijan
Former Lecturer at City Colleges of Chicago
Former apprentice electrician at World’s Finest Chocolate
Former Meterman, meter mechanic at Commonwealth Edison
Former Computer Lab Coordinator at Chicago Youth Centers
Studied CCNA, Visual Basic.Net, programming at Richard J. Daley College
Studied Engineering Mathematics at DeVry University
Studied Calculus at DeVry University
Studied Database Management/Networking at Purdue University Global

I have written two published novels.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Not In This Lifetime: A 007 Adventure.

Watching spy movies as a child inspired this book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
James Patterson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dean Koontz, and Sidney Sheldon to name a few.

Also, a manuscript I am editing Welcome To The C.I.A. by Jerome Andrew Christian (not yet publishing), which is one of the funniest novel [manuscripts] I have ever read. That takes real talent.

What are you working on now?
“The Rifle”, and “Major Mumba, I Presume?”

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Unfortunately, I do not have one.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you start out to write a novel, do not get frustrated (or lazy) and settle for writing a novelette, novella, or short story. Be able to refer to yourself as a true novelist, because there is no such thing as a novelette-ist, novella-ist, or a short story-ist.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Keep adverbs out of fiction writing …please.

What are you reading now?
The Fifth Horseman by James Patterson.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Promotion, then more writing.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Il Principe by Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli.

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Jodie Christian Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m Kaymen with a K. I’m a pretty good girl for most things … at least I was until he walked through my doors. With the right somebody, I could finally lose all control.

I’ve written a series of short stories that are slowly being released on Amazon. The first collection—Seducing the Neighbor—will be 13 stories centered around that oh-so-sexy neighbor and all the naughty things I’d like to do to them. The next collection—Co-Worker’s Ethics—will be the 2019 project and focus on the boss, the assistant, and all the various stages of improper relationships.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Dinner Plans is the first in the Seducing the Neighbor collection. Inspired by the 6ft hunk that came in and rocked my world. 😉 Everyone deserves to fantasize about the real and the impossible, and that’s what these shorts are all about.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Sweet Treats by Annelise Reynolds gave me the courage to let the cougar out to roam.

What are you working on now?
The 4th short story in the Seducing the Neighbor’s collection—”Ignoring Misgivings.” If I told you about it, then it would be full of spoilers.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Website—http://bit.ly/KaymenCyder
Amazon—http://author.to/kaymencyderauthor
Facebook—https://www.facebook.com/kaymencyder/

Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you aren’t comfortable sharing your work with the world as you, don your cape and assume a pen name. It’s the most freeing thing EVER.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If you aren’t writing then it isn’t getting done.

What are you reading now?
Dawn of the Shaman by Cait Ashwood

What’s next for you as a writer?
That world is full of possibilities. I have a few other works under my not-so-secret identity that I have to finish before turning my attention to Co-Worker’s Ethics.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks.

Author Websites and Profiles
Kaymen Cyder Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hello. I am an author from Minnesota. I have published two books: “Something’s Not Right with Lucy,” and its sequel, “Unraveled Ties,” both in 2018.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My new release is “Unraveled Ties.” When readers read “Something’s Not Right with Lucy,” they kept requesting a sequel. They enjoyed the characters (even the ones readers love to hate) and wanted to know more about the Campbell family and the residents of Endover. “Unraveled Ties” takes place twenty years after the first book, which is set in 1975 in the Midwest.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My unusual writing habit is doing laundry while writing. The white noise of the appliances help me concentrate and switching loads from washer to dryer build in natural breaks.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I enjoy reading psychological horror/thrillers and I like Stephen King books and Lisa Jackson thrillers.
The author who has influenced me personally is Brian Paone. He not only is a great author, but is my editor. He has taught me so much about the craft of writing.

What are you working on now?
I am currently writing my third novel, “Finding Laura.” Laura is a missing three-year-old whose mother, Miranda, is desperate to find her despite the family blaming her for her daughter’s disappearance.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I like to promote books on my website: dawnmtaylor.com

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Most authors advise to read a lot. My advice is to read books that explain the craft of writing: character development, story arcs, sentence structure, how to write a good ending. There are a lot of good books and links to study writing techniques.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The first draft is the story you tell yourself.

What are you reading now?
I am re-reading “Needful Things,” by Stephen King. I read it years ago, but found an used copy at a local book store. It combines my love of horror and antique shops.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have published flash fiction, short stories, and novels. I would like to publish some novella length stories.

What is your favorite book of all time?
I read a lot. I don’t really have a favorite. But when I was a child, my teacher read to the class a chapter of “Charlotte’s Web” every day and I remember the anticipation of the next chapter. I hope to provide this excitement to my readers.

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Dawn Taylor Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a wife, mom of three amazing young adults and a grandmom (NONA) of a grandson. I have written several books but only have published five. A four-book short story collection series (Beyond The Storm Clouds) and Brooklyn Love (A Novel).

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I am working on a fairy tale twisted crime novel, (the working title is Enchanted Tales: Inside the Poison Apple), my daughter asked me to write it. I began it for NaNoWriMO and i have over 20,000 words into it so far. I am also writing an Erotica story which is out of my comfort zone. (Working title is Playing with Fire). I also write short stories to keep the fire of writing fueled in my veins.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have to listen to music and i have two playlists for each style of writing I am doing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Stephen King is my favorite Author, I have been reading his work since I was twelve years old.
I began to read Anne Rice when I was pregnant with my oldest son, in 1996, love her work.
I also love to read true crime, young adult fantasy such as PC CAST, I also love Charlene Harris books and shows.

What are you working on now?
I am working on several different projects, I have to write that way or I get bored.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use Facebook, Twitter and I also use business cards to give away. I have also given a copy of Brooklyn Love to my local library to help promote it.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Work hard at your skill, you can do anything you put your mind to. Keep your eyes on your goals and don’t let anyone tell you, “You can’t because You are here for a reason, we, the world needs your story.”

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I was here for a reason, I am capable and a beautiful soul. I just need to keep my eyes on my goals and keep going forward.

What are you reading now?
Well, I am not reading anything at the moment because its almost Christmas so I will be getting new books for gifts. My husband always gets me the newest Stephen King and Anne Rice books for Christmas and he tries to find older ones that I don’t have.

What’s next for you as a writer?
TO continue to write, and finish my WIP and then edit and edit. Then have beta readers look it over then edit it some more. Then publishing.

What is your favorite book of all time?
OH too many, Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Mummy Anne Rice
Carrie, It or The Shining by Stephen King
The Mortal Instruments
The House of Night Series

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Colleen Tice Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my first written and published book. I grew up in Syracuse, NY in a Catholic family. My lifelong dream was to be a movie writer. K-12 school was not my thing. I was bullied, humiliated, and left alone for much of my school career. While I had friends here and there, I never quite fit-in with any one crowd. Through that process, I began to lose my faith and became extremely depressed and anxiety-riddled. I went to college and got degree in Electronic Media Communications and Creative Writing. From there, I went to School out in Southern California where I studied Communications and Theology, where I lived and stayed for four years. After my most severe battle of anxiety and depression in 2017, I left school and returned home to recover. It was through my greatest struggle ever that I realized my love for writing Christianity and my desire to help & inspire people. Twenty-Five years old and still going!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Story of 1000 Testimonies By Jason Ryan. My main inspiration was wanting to help change the world, forever, for the better. I realize that the time we have on this earth is extremely short in relation to the existence of the world and the universe (& eternity, for that matter). I want to leave a lasting imprint and a lasting legacy of my name that can help others find Jesus as their Lord & Savior, while also have people live love-centered lives. When I say love-centered lives, that’s not just love for those closest to you, but extending that kindness and patience to all those around you, strangers and enemies alike. Love as a feeling is wasted if its not love-in-action as well.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Every time I write I try and do something completely different. In this particular book, I wrote both Fiction and Non Fiction stories. All the Non Fiction stories were accredited to the people who’s real lives they were, either below the title or in the Testimonial section at the end of the story. I can’t think of too many books that combined Fiction and Non Fiction writings into one. Another thing I did was use more than one form of storytelling. I had many stories written in standardized formatting. I also have a poem (Calling All Angels), a song (Jesus!) and a few different rhyming schemes used throughout the book at various random times (I would tell you, but I can’t give it all away).

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The Bible is as big an influence as any book I have read. It is one of the only books ever written where the author reveals himself to you for you to live the best love-centered lives possible. The New Testament is what inspired by structured format. Just like the 27 books that consist of the New Testament, Story of 1000 Testimonies consists of 27 different stories as well. The great thing about the Bible is how it has influenced me greatly in living a love-centered life without shame. Since God is the world’s greatest role model, why not try and follow in such perfect footsteps?

What are you working on now?
I am working on three different books right now. One of them is on proving God’s existence beyond the shadow of a doubt. That’s going to take a lot of time, but the end result should be something spectacular if it’s done right by him. I’m also working on my auto Biography where I tell the tale of how I went from Roman Catholic to Hardcore Atheist to loving Born-again Christian Again. While Christianity is a big part of my life, I will not be spending every book writing on my Christian Faith. There’s plenty more to write about and a lifetime ahead.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Its my first time at writing and promoting a book so I can’t say I have a definitive answer yet (rest assured, when I find that answer, I will definitely share it with the world!). However, I would advise other first time author’s with a low budget to try all the free and cheap-promotional tools first. Try Facebook, an e-mail list started all your own, Twitter, and any other free platform you can think of. There’s plenty of channels to use your voice on the internet. Use them all and let your voice be heard.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write from your soul. The word’s that you write will be left behind long after you have died. Let people read who you are, what you have to teach. Let people read what you have to share and inspire and let them feel the journey as if they were writing it themselves. We can’t control whether or not our work will be loved, bought, or shared. But we can all control what we write and how we share the beautiful stories that reside in our minds and in our hearts.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“What you can control, you must control”. this was advice given to me by my English teacher in College, Professor Jim Place. An Incredibly intense, smart, funny man with a heart of Gold.

What are you reading now?
I’m reading as many Christian centered books as possible for the next books that I’ll be writing ahead. Not one book in particular, but I’m always reading and following the word’s of the Bible. We’ll see what the results hold in store.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Continuing to Inspire the world through my writing, one book at a time. This book was written to speak to the Christian heart. My book will be written to the Christian Mind. (If you’re not religious, I strongly encourage you to give them a read. At the very least, you’ll further understanding the inner makings of the hearts and mind of your Christian Counterparts. At the most, you’ll be accepted by him and embraced my many of us, with me first in line!) After that, I’ll let God take control and lead me to the next adventures and journeys of my life.

What is your favorite book of all time?
The New Testament of the Bible. Can’t express my faith enough. God is Good!

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
. I was born in Durham City in 1962. After moving to the Scottish Borders in 1998, I rekindled my love of art, becoming an artist, tutor and illustrator, before going on to study with the Open University as a mature student. Here, I gained a first class honours degree in the Humanities, with Literature and Art History, before going on to do a diploma in creative writing . I have written one novel so far, with two others in progress, and I’m doing a collaborative life writing project with a writer friend. My passions, which drive my writing, are an interest in human nature and psychology as well as a love of nature, and I spend my time writing, blogging, painting, gardening and volunteering in social care.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My debut novel is entitled On Turtle Beach. I often used to wonder how my sister and I would get on if we went on holiday together, just the two of us, and I asked other women how they felt about this situation too. Most seemed to flinch at the idea, coming from the premise that they and their sister were too different, were like chalk and cheese and would probably bicker or come to blows. I thought it would be great to explore this. Holidaying in Dalyan, Turkey, gave me my setting for the story, and the themes came in from there. I thoroughly enjoyed writing the novel and actually miss the two sister protagonists very much!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I always make sure my writing desk is free of dust before I sit down to write to kind of respect each session of writing and the progress I’m making.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Over time, I can easily say that Stephen King has been a huge inspiration, for his character development and structural shaping and suspense, even though I write womens fiction rather than horror or fantasy. His attention to detail is outstanding and he knows human nature so well – reading him frees me up in my own writing, which is quite an accolade to him I think.

I also love Margaret Atwood for her female characters and unique writing voice, as well as Ian McEwan for his psychological intensity. Zoe Heller’s ‘Notes on a Scandal’ is a true favourite of mine for the tone of the first person narrator and I dip into Emile Zola for social commentary and the sheer indulgence of his description. It was studying the nineteenth century novel with the OU which really stirred the first faint embers of wanting to be a writer.

What are you working on now?
Two more novels. One is set in the retail world of the 90s about a dark embittered woman with a past that returns to haunt her, while she struggles to keep her antagonist at work at bay. The other is a general fiction story about midlife crisis, with alternating points of view throughout, which I relish doing. I also am working on a collaborative life writing project with a writer friend where we share our lives and observations with one another as well as a memoir for creative people.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Oh this is so hard, because I’m still learning. I do love doing my blog, where I post once a week, while advertising my book at the same time. I have a facebook author page and a twitter author page…as for anything else, I’m still experimenting and gathering advice from writers facebook groups.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes…please don’t let all the information out there daunt you…there really is so much to sift through, but just start with the basics and above anything else, don’t let promotion and worrying about sales get in the way of your enjoying writing. Enjoying writing has to be the bottom line.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
For me it has to be a quote from Gandhi to apply to any creative person, whether it be a writer, artist or craftsman, bearing in mind how much competition there is out there and the self doubts that can be generated:

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

What are you reading now?
I’ve just finished a book by psychologist, Dorothy Rowe, entitled:
‘My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: making and breaking sibling bonds’
which has been wonderfully reassuring that I picked a valid and useful theme for my first novel about two sisters struggling to reconcile. It’s also been so useful for research concerning family conflicts and dynamics for my writing!

What’s next for you as a writer?
To finish novel number two, entitled ‘After Black’. I’m almost at the finishing line and I’m very happy with it. Here is a little taste of it for you:
”Recently widowed Janet returns to her beloved job at the store only to find her future happiness threatened by a feisty young woman she loathes. The mutual antagonism of the two women leads to challenges Janet could never have imagined.”

What is your favorite book of all time?
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte for it’s gothic drama, feminist themes, adventure and wonderful writing!

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Lynne Fisher Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi, I’m Shani, pronounced Sha-nay. I have three adult children and three grandsons 3 and under who live with me, so I’m super busy most days. I am a full-time writer with 25 romance titles to my credit, and I long for the days of kicking back with a good book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Chad: A Rockstar’s Redemption is my latest. It was inspired by challenging myself to write a sweet romance without a lot of drama. After my last drama-filled novel, Taken by the Billionaire, I just wanted to write about love.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write in complete silence. I don’t want to hear anything but my characters talking.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My old publisher, Author David Weaver, gave me insight into the publishing business and encouragement to make writing my career.

What are you working on now?
I’m going over Take Me Slow for the Seductive Temptation boxset. It’s a steamy anthology with 12 of the best writers in the multicultural romance genre and I think readers will love the experience of so many good reads in one book. Next, I’ll be working on an urban Christmas novella.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’ve had the best success with Facebook and newsletters.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
#1. Write the best book you can write, and then rewrite it better. #2. Find a good mentor who is already where you want your writing career to go, and then level up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You already have everything you need.

What are you reading now?
My next manuscript, Take Me Slow, that will be in the Seductive Temptation boxset in January 2019.

What’s next for you as a writer?
To see some of my work turned into a mini-series. I think the Breathless series would be a hot Youtube series.

What is your favorite book of all time?
All That and a Bag of Chips by Darrien Lee; the entire series is awesome.

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Shani Dowdell Shani Dowdell Website
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