Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am Marilee Grace! I am the founder and lead Life Transformation Coach at RightSwipeGirl. I am also a speaker and author. In January 2024, I will be adding “podcast host” to my list, too! I have written one book, several magazine articles and have a devotional that was included in a collaborative book featuring Kansas City area writers.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Right Swipe! A Quest for Love happened because of my experience on the dating apps. I was newly divorced after a 29 year marriage and I was curious. Women in one of my groups kept talking about the dating apps and for some reason I thought it was a good idea to give them a try. During the process of discovering and uncovering scammers, bots, and catfishers I would regularly tell my friends I could write a book about it all. So I decided to do just that. Fifteen months of data, over 200 online and a couple in person encounters, and the end result “Right Swipe! A Quest for Love.”

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I always wanted to be that writer, the one composing at atypewriter while drinking a glass of red wine. That is the romanticized version of me as a writer. For starters, I haven’t had a typewriter for years. And I found that a glass of red wine meant a lot of next day editing. So now, my usual scenario is water, coffee, or flavored sparking water; my mini fan blowing on my face (because hot flashes are real); and blue light computer glasses on under my prescription glasses AND my monitor dimmed because the blue light glare gets to me after a couple hours of screen time. Not glamorous. Not romantic. But truly authentically me!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I am inspired by Brene Brown, Colleen Hoover, Elizabeth Gilbert and my baseball friend mom, writer J. Sterling. J. Sterling was the one who told me “write your f’ing books!” I was thrilled when I was finally able to email her and say “I wrote my f’ing first book and it is on Amazon!”

What are you working on now?
I’m working on a Self-Love Course I will offer online and in the Kansas City metro area and also a writing course because I have learned so much in this process. My next book will be a Self-Love book with a companion workbook. I’m also working on a children’s book that features a fairy tale my grandmother made up and used to tell be when I was a little girl. It will be dedicated to my grandson!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have a closeknit group of coaching friends who are my loudest cheerleaders and promoters. We encourage each other as we dive into new niches and new adventures. They are the ones who cheer me on and keep me accountable!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
It is big and scary and feels overwhelming. Do it anyway. Just do it scared and do it anyway! Write your f’ing book!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Two things. J. Sterling telling me to just write the f’ing book was pivotal for me. She looked me dead in the eyes and gave me that instruction. And then my writing circle mentor Donna Jenson told me to practice some piece of self-care every day when I was deep in the trenches of writing “Right Swipe! A Quest for Love.” Both these ladies are published authors and know what they are talking about. I listed to them both!

What are you reading now?
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

What’s next for you as a writer?
Next up is a fairytale for young readers based on my favorite story my grandmother told me when I was growing up. She was an amazing storyteller. And for adults, a book on the Essential art of Self-Love and I’m going to have a companion workbook that goes along with it.

What is your favorite book of all time?
That changes all the time. It is usually what I am currently reading if I really like it. I’m going to change the question. What book has had a profound effect on your life? Still a hard question and I have several answers but my top answer… the book that hit deep was “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel van der Kolk.

Author Websites and Profiles
Marilee Grace Website
Marilee Grace Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am married and a mother of 2❤️I have written one book so far where I have decided to get the courage to publish. I have been writing short stories all my life.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Discovering Kai is the name of my latest book. I think my marriage has influenced me to write my first romance novel. The idea of two people falling in love is ver compelling to write.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I would say that I find myself more active to write when the sun goes down. I always get inspired. I’m a night person.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Stephanie Meyer definitely and of course Nicholas Sparks.

What are you working on now?
My romance novel Discovering Kai, but I have my future vampire novel The Heist Vampire Series coming in January.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Usually Instagram or Facebook

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write a book that you love! It doesn’t matter how others perceive it. Make sure you are happy with it and that it meets your expectations.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Do what you love, you will never work a day in your life. That is writing for me:)

What are you reading now?
Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber

What’s next for you as a writer?
My 4 part vampire series called Heist. I can’t wait to write it and do what I’ve always wanted to do make a vampire series.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Maybe Twilight I know a sappy love story. I am a sucker for a good romance.

Author Websites and Profiles
Allana Seda Amazon Profile

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Goodreads Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written 2 books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
How to Find a Job: 30 Day Plan is the name of my latest book. It’s really a more concise practical guide to the first book I wrote, for those who just want a quick list of strategies rather than reading the entire book.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Sitting on my couch.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Max Lucado, Dan Pink, and many, many others!

What are you working on now?
Promoting this book, and the next book in this series, which will be a much longer book.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I haven’t found a clear winner yet, pursuing websites and articles focused on job hunting and spreading the word at job fairs.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing, keep learning, keep promoting.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Never give up.

What are you reading now?
Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days by Chris Guillebeau

What’s next for you as a writer?
Writing the next book in the series

What is your favorite book of all time?
The Bible

Author Websites and Profiles
Anita Job Amazon Profile

Anita Job’s Social Media Links
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Facebook Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Since 2020, I have written nine books and this is the second to be published.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Wish. It was inspired by the idea of being literally voiceless and reclaiming your voice.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I still like to write the first draft of each piece by hand. The creative part of my writing seems to work better when writing with a pen than when I’m typing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I have so many favorite books and authors. Recent favorites include Emily Henry, Ali Hazelwood, Sally Thorne, Francesca Zappia, and V.E. Schwab.

For longer, Susanna Kearsley, Diana Gabaldon, and Guy Gavriel Kay.

What are you working on now?
I have just completed the draft for the third and final book in my Train Hoppers series (the first two will be available from Black Rose Writing and Amazon in 2024).
I’m about to start a second time travel novel.

What are you reading now?
I am reading Michele Amitrani’s War of Pandora as an ARC and Lucy Score’s Things We Left Behind.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Author Websites and Profiles
Lena Gibson Website
Lena Gibson Amazon Profile

Lena Gibson’s Social Media Links
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Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve written a few dozen books and I will release them one at a time sporadically. I write literary fiction and poetry.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest collection of self-reflection poetry, Loving Strays, is inspired by the many romantic relationships I’ve had. I explore issues with commitment, trauma, and emotional connection. Much of my work focuses on catching behavioral patterns and pinpointing areas for self-improvement.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write in the shower with a waterproof notepad. I also wake in the middle of the night to write something because my creativity apparently doesn’t care that I’m trying to sleep.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I read across many styles and themes, from Bukowski to Neruda to Gluck to Giovanni. I enjoy romance and philosophy. I read and study many forms. And almost anything can inspire me in some way.

What are you working on now?
I’m currently finishing another collection of poetry and prose about how our romantic relationships can weigh so heavy on us. This collection will be published this coming spring.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m fairly active on Instagram.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be studious. Read everything. Experiment as much as you can within your craft. Be as honest as possible and dig as deep into yourself as you can.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Go find out.
Whatever questions, hopes, desires, urges,
whatever is weighing on your mind…
just go find out.

What are you reading now?
I’ve been reading a lot of the beat-nicks lately; Ferlinghetti, Carlos Williams, O’Hara, and the like.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m almost finished releasing my collection of “self-reflections on romance” books. I will then switch my time to my other books that focus on themes of philosophy, childhood, and the writing craft.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Impossible to answer.

Author Websites and Profiles
Franco Cardiello Website
Franco Cardiello Amazon Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Like you, I love reading romance and erotica. I also love writing it! I have two hot short stories out so far, but more are on the way!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest story is, Gimme More. What inspired it? Um, horniness?

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No unusual habits. I just let my imagination run wild.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Oh gosh! Many authors and books have left an impression on me! I love Lauren Blakely, Sarah MacLean, Elle Kennedy, and Vi Keeland, just to name a few,

What are you working on now?
I’m working a short erotic story called, Never Enough. It’s about a couple who have been together for a while and who can’t get enough of each other. This story follows their sexcapades while they’re vacationing in Hawaii!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Amazon.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Have fun!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Have fun!

What are you reading now?
I just finished The Rogue not Taken by Sarah MacLean.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Getting all the hot stories in my head down on the screen and out to the readers!

What is your favorite book of all time?
Nora Roberts Dance of the Gods trilogy! I love Cian and Moira!

Author Websites and Profiles
R. Woods Amazon Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Oh, let’s not dive into my secret stash of unpublished short stories and draft novels! You might never escape that labyrinth . . . I’m a software engineer specializing in space missions, and served as the Ground Software Lead for NASA’s DART mission through its successful asteroid impact. I love my job! Also I love writing, escape rooms, puzzles, and “borrowing” the latest book purchases from my husband and kids and starting to read from the middle, mainly to drive them crazy. I write what I like to read, often tales of adventure, misfits and magical mayhem. I live in Maryland with my husband, two college kids and an emotional support cat that needs his emotional support humans

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My debut novel is The Rookie Spellslinger. I’m not a big fan of “chosen one” plots – I prefer a main character that chooses a path and has to work to earn it. My book has themes of ADHD, teen struggles with anxiety and social acceptance, humor, and strong sister bonds. All of those were inspired by my sisters and my own wonderfully wry children.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
After a day of designing software and leading a team, I’m ready to write – curled up on sofa, caffeine in mug, Feline Editor walking all over my laptop keyboard. Nothing unusual there. My fellow writers will relate. At least, those whose living rooms are overrun with cat toys.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
As a kid, I rotated my obsessive reading between genres – alternating binges of fantasy with science fiction and mystery. Sleep optional. Early influences, in fantasy: “The Hobbit,” Pawn of Prophecy,” “Dragonsong,” later the “Harry Potter” series and “The Lightning Thief.” In science fiction: “I, Robot,” “The Left Hand of Darkness,” “The Martian Chronicles”; more recently, “Artemis.” In mystery: the collected Sherlock Holmes stories, and pretty much anything ever written by Agatha Christie or Rex Stout; more recently, “The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.”

What are you working on now?
My current work in progress is a different world and genre entirely – a near-future satire where fact and fiction mix like the dregs of a cocktail. It might take a liar to save the world. However, I’m also working on the outline of the sequel to Rookie Spellslinger.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still figuring this one out. Somebody tell me!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Join a critique group! And yes, participate even with those of your peers that are presenting genres you don’t want to write or who have writing styles completely different from your own. You find out what works in your own writing (and what doesn’t) not by re-reading it 50 times, but from how others responded to your chapters. Even more, you learn from the example of others’ writing and ideas, and you take back what you liked or found useful to add as techniques to your own toolkit.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Use Save the Cat! Or more generally, choose one of the many author aids and plot organization tools – whichever speaks to you. Those tools won’t substitute for spending enough time writing, but they will help you turn a great character or scene into a complete story arc.

What are you reading now?
I often buy books by authors not familiar to me, or fairly recent releases to keep up with the current market. I’ll also buy books for unique hook or intriguing concept. Recent reads that I very much enjoyed include O’Malley’s “The Rook”, “Six of Crows”, “Truly Devious”, “A Deadly Education”, and “Four Dead Queens.” Currently, I’m reading “The Bullet That Missed” by Osman.

What’s next for you as a writer?
My focus now is on ramping up my writing schedule, and in parallel learning the project management side of self-publishing. That is a unique learning curve, independent of the act of story writing.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Hmmm, of the old favorites that I re-read time and again, which has the most dog-eared pages? I’ll have to go with The Hobbit.

Author Websites and Profiles
Patricia Harrington-Duff Amazon Profile

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Facebook Profile
Twitter Account

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Pamela Joyce Hayes is a Harlem native, born and raised in Lincoln Projects. Pamela is the
oldest out of three children born to Viola Hayes and the late John Hayes. Pamela was a devoted wife
for fourteen years, and an amazing mom to two beautiful sons Darrell and Xavier.
Pamela has been writing since she was nine years old. She has a love for creating stories on paper and

always dreamed of becoming an author. She decided to put her story on paper when her now ex-
husband was arrested in February 2003. This turned her family upside down. Pamela and her family

were devastated. Her family did not know what to do and the prison system does not come with
instructions. She lost everything. Her and her family was hit with the harsh reality of life when one of
your family members goes to prison.
On Saturday, May 23rd 2009 it changed Pamela’s life. She became a published author. Pamela has
been writing all of her life. But when your world of emotions, pain, sadness, become public it is an
indescribable feeling. You are letting the world into your world. That is what being an author is to me.
Creating your world as you see, feel and experience it and allowing people in to experience how you see
the world. You are allowing the world to know you on an intimate level.
Her first book Family Tyme! Don’t Get Caught Up! Her second book is Family Tyme! Pay Back is a
BITCH! And her third book is FYER! The Diary of a BI Sexual Woman! One of her big
accomplishments besides writing her books is her first book is an audiobook. This project is a movie
without the picture. She was one of the first urban authors to do a audio book in this format.
Pamela latest series that will be taking the book world by storm is “Side Chick”, coming this winter.
Pamela is happy to be building her own world as while is break out in new ventures. August 2019 she
entered into a new area of the writing world. Pamela introduced the world to ”Brown Girl” which is her
first of many children’s books to come. Stay tuned for several new stories, characters, and adventures. Pamela just finish recording her second audiobook which is “Falsely Accused” and she just finished filming her 1st short film
Pamela is happy to be making her mark in the world.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I am not Define by my Address. It is a love story about two people who meet in a crazy way and fall in love.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I listen to music and eat snacks when I am in my writing zone.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Vickie Stringer Shonda Rimes

What are you working on now?
Turning my books into amazing audio books, plays, and short films.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
You are your best promoter

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Do Not Stop Writing!!!!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Believe in your dreams and work hard for them to come true.

What are you reading now?
I am creating.

What’s next for you as a writer?
`To become an amazing screen play writer and producer

What is your favorite book of all time?
Daddy was a number runner

Author Websites and Profiles
Pamela Joyce Hayes Liggins Website

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Facebook Profile

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Wife, Mother and Grandmother. As a homeschooling mother, I have always valued quality children’s books that present a healthy family life. Now I am writing such books myself.
Books that are family friendly, bright and attractive, truthful, encouraging and uplifting, interesting and engaging, cheerful, conservative, and not harmful to children’s innocent minds. Books that are able to be read and enjoyed by children and their parents, and grandparents.
My husband John and I have been married for over 30 years, and have four grown children, a son and three daughters, two sons in law, and four grandchildren.

I have written and published my first children’s book, “The BIG CHANGE: Emily moves to Outback Australia”
I hope it will be a springboard for me as I publish many more books in the future. This book, however, will probably be the only one that I illustrate myself. =D

You can contact me at evelynhairbooks@gmail.com

From the family of EvelynHairBooks –

To Our Dear Parents, Grandparents and Carers.
We truly hope that you will spend time reading this book with your children and grandchildren,
interacting with them and building relationships that will last a lifetime.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
This first book is a true story about my family. I wrote it over 20 years ago when we lived in Central Australia working at the most remote roadhouse in Australia! As I had some time on my hands I illustrated the book myself. It is not until now that I have the opportunity to self publish it.
The book’s title is “ The BIG CHANGE – Emily moves to Outback Australia”. I have changed the names in the book, but basically it’s from the perspective of our youngest 5 year old daughter and how she perceived the BIG CHANGE of moving from a city suburb to remote Central Australia.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I am overly expressive in my writing, as I tend to write like I speak. This often needs to be edited out, as it may be overwhelming for the reader and listener.
I am a homeschooling mother, children’s club teacher and grandmother. I like to capture the attention of my children listeners and learners, and so I speak very expressively and I am very animated!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My mother greatly influenced me. She was my Sunday School Teacher and mother to my 7 siblings. She is an avid reader, writer and poet.
The Bible is my inspiration for life, learning and writing. It puts life in the right perspective.

My dear children have influenced my choice of book style. What captures their attention, captures mine.

As a mother and homeschooling mum, I have always been frustrated with the lack of quality of children’s books in libraries, schools, and generally on the market. I have spent many hours on my knees in second hand shops hoping to find that elusive book that met my requirements for a good book for my children and grandchildren. But, alas, they are rare and when you find one you don’t let it go!
That’s the reason I knew that I had to start to write such books to help increase the general amount of good books for kids in the world and in my home for my own children and grandchildren.

My requirements for a good book for kids is :
Able to be read and enjoyed by children and their parents.
Interesting and engaging – a favorite book.
The content conforms to God’s design, creation and reality. It does not lie.
Pleases God and meets His standards of morality.
Encouraging and uplifting.
Bright and attractive.
Durable (a hard one to control)

What are you working on now?
I am learning a lot about self publishing and I am really cutting my teeth on this first book. I hope it will be a springboard for me as I publish many more books in the future. This book, however, will probably be the only one that I illustrate myself. =D

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Not sure. I am only new. =D

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
This is my own quote but it is a truth related in the Bible,
” If you want to do anything well in this life, you need to study the character of God! “.

What are you reading now?
I read a lot of children’s books to my grandchildren, however I find it hard to find books that meet my standards.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will be starting a series of children’s books about a family, in a farm setting.

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

Author Websites and Profiles
Evelyn Hair Website
Evelyn Hair Amazon Profile

Evelyn Hair’s Social Media Links
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I started writing my first novel late, in my late 30s: The Silent Partner. I won a few book awards for it and gave away as many copies as were sold. Critical Habitat is novel number two and I’m currently working to help it find its audience. Or help its audience find Critical Habitat. Really is a crazy process.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Critical Habitat. It started with my fascination with honey bees and what would happen if the world lost them. I love action-adventure stories, and I suppose both good ones and bad ones inspired me to write this one. Books and movies. Franchises, too. It was supposed to be one book but the story became bigger and honestly, out of hand. So as of now Critical Habitat is a three-book series and I’m elated Book 1 is finally, after six years, being published.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Sometimes I’ll dig into a scene after a workout where–whether during a run or a weightlifting set, I discovered a new sequence or solution to a story problem. While still sweating in gym clothes. Is that unusual, I don’t know. Gotta do what ya gotta do.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole. Brilliant top to bottom. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, due to its dark poetry. Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne, which is underrated and beautiful.

What are you working on now?
Critical Habitat Books 2 & 3. Am about to do 2’s sixth draft. I’m doing the work and there’s much more to do. It’s cheaper than therapy.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Am still figuring that out! Evaluating options itself is a chore and takes away precious writing time. But I’d start with where the readers are.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be authentic to yourself and resilient. Don’t follow trends, create your own path but know the rules. Then you can bend them, break them, whatever you wanna do.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Just sit in the chair and write. It’s very easy for aspiring writers and semi-aspiring writers to talk about what they’re gonna do, and many never dig in. This was great advice.

What are you reading now?
Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka. I heartily recommend if you are into the genre.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Polishing the Critical Habitat Book 2 manuscript and getting back to writing Book 3. There are a lot of details to keep straight, too many notes to keep straight. I’ve got to ensure the stakes are raised and there is something new in subsequent volumes. The reveals and escalation of the story’s scale are both challenging and fun.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Absolutely, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The only book I’ve read more than three times, that inspired me to write, provided me the audacity to write. Critical Habitat would not exist without it.

Author Websites and Profiles
Terrence King Website
Terrence King Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a former Software Engineer who grew up in Richmond Massachusetts, I am now retired and live with my wife and mother-in-law in Western Massachusetts. I have four grown children, one son and three daughters, three of whom still reside in Massachusetts. I have a B.S. in Mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and have done graduate work in both Applied Math and Computer Science. I’ve been an avid reader (mostly Science Fiction and Fantasy) since grade school. My first novel was a long time in the making (nearly 20 years) and has been split into two books (Enimnori: Arrival being the first) with the second (Enimnori: Discovery) now available as well. Book 3 (Enimnori:Challenge) was released August 15, 2023 with book 4 (Enimnori:Crisis) well under way.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest published book (Enimnori:Challenge) is the 3rd in the Enimnori series. The ongoing story of an engineer frorm California who gets accidentally transported to a medieval(ish) world where magic is real. This books addresses not only Scott’s life in his new home, but his concerns about the family he leftbehiind (And, yes, we do get to take a peek at their lives since Scott disappeared). He is also drawn into trouble around his other new friends living in the underground complex 3 months travel away.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really, I’m a casual, seat-of-the-pants writer. I try to plan ahead a little, but the characters frequently take me in other directions.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Too many to mention. I’ve been reading since grade school. Some of them would be: Robert Heinlein, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Raymond Feist, David Eddings, Mercedes Lackey, Lawrence Watt-Evans and Jim Butcher just to name a few.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on book 4 in the same series (Enimnori:Crisis)

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My results have been poor so far. The only results I really see are from Linkedin contacts.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Try to do at least something every day. Don’t let yourself get out of the habit!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write about what YOU like!

What are you reading now?
I am currently rereading a fantasy/SF series by Vincent Trigili (Tales of Lost Power). Sadly there will be no more as he passed away several years ago. I just finished rereading The Lost Fleet Series (and it’s spinoffs) by Jack Campbell (yes, I do reread books…A LOT).

What’s next for you as a writer?
Hopefully continuing my series.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Oh, gosh. I really don’t have one. I have read so much, and I like most of them.

Author Websites and Profiles
Jeff Webber Website
Jeff Webber Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Due to childhood deafness, the writer inside created stories to match the pictures in the books being read to me. Once my hearing was corrected at the age of 7, I fell in love with storytelling.

I’m a Psych major with criminology minor. I was a forensic interviewer and an investigator for abused children before becoming a stay-at-home mother of identical twin boys.

When I’m not writing, I’m hiking the woods, wandering the beach, saving the world in video games, or creating magic with cross-stitching.

My six-book dark fantasy series, Elementas, is my prized possession. I can’t wait to share my story with the world. Elementas: Yamay and Elementas: War of the Gods are out now!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book, Elementas: War of the Gods, is the second book in my six-book series. The theme is mortals defying the gods with an inspiration of “no such things as happily ever after.” It is dark, but I write dark fantasy, so I would have it no other way.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I need dead silence. The real world is too loud for me to focus on the one I created.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I can’t say any author or book has influenced me. I love fantasy as a whole, but let their fantasy world be their own.

What are you working on now?
I’m currently working on book three of my series. It is already written, so now I’m furiously editing it.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’ve had better luck networking on Facebook than any other social media platform.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
PROMOTE BEFORE PUBLISHING. Want to write a book? Promote it! Wrote a chapter? Promote it! My biggest mistake was not promoting beforehand.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“This is not a zero-sum game. Someone else’s success does not diminish your own.”

What are you reading now?
“Before They Are Hanged” by Joe Abercrombie.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m diving deep into book three of my series. There will be six total, so no more dillydallying.

What is your favorite book of all time?
“Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
As a wife, mother, grandmother, International #1 Best Selling Author, Les Brown Power Voice Speaker, Success Coach, and Insurance professional. Pamela Hope is committed to helping individuals build their faith and face their fears in the face of any adversity. Whether it be deception, rejection, or unforgiveness, Pamela is committed in her work to helping individuals overcome their setbacks, build their faith, and move forward into a life of peace.
During her early teenage years, Pamela underwent a highly traumatic experience that left her with feelings of rejection, deception, abandonment, and fear. To find healing and forgiveness, she had to walk the path alone, with only God by her side. By drawing closer to God, she gained the clarity and strength to overcome her challenges and persevere.
Her first book, Who Wouldn’t Serve A God Like This? A compilation of stories of how God transformed real lives through the Traumas, Triggers, and Triumphs, serves to let you know that if we can make it through; you too can make it through any adversity.

Her second and latest book, “I Can, I Must I Will”: Empowering Children to Unleash the Courage Within; Conquer Fears and Embrace Their Destiny, serves as an empowering children’s book that fuels dreams and ignites faith.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“I Can, I Must, I Will” is an inspiring children’s book based on the scripture Philippians 4:13: “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.”

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes, I listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit for ideas and storylines.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I would have to say hands down, The Holy Bible has had the greatest influence on me. Then I would have to say Jim Rohn and Jeff Olsen.

What are you working on now?
Just focusing on the marketing campaign for this book. I’ve never done it before. Learning, learning, learning, and implementing.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
There are a few. But right now, I would have to say bestsellerpublishing.org

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Hire a coach to help you through the process. Never forget “it’s a process.” After you publish your book that’s not the end. You must promote your book so that you can have an impact and begin to profit.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Progress beats perfection.

What are you reading now?
The Bible

What’s next for you as a writer?
I believe, writing the series for the two books that I have.

What is your favorite book of all time?
I would have to say the Holy Bible.

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Second Lieutenant Matthew Weiss an Intelligence Officer in the United States Marine Corps. Previously, he worked in mergers and acquisitions at a cutting-edge defense technology company. He holds a BS and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Most importantly, he is a member of Generation Z who cares deeply about solving this issue of service. This is my first book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“We Don’t Want You, Uncle Sam: Examining the Military Recruiting Crisis with Generation Z”

“We Don’t Want You, Uncle Sam” This is what Generation Z is saying with respect to military service.

The all-volunteer force that has served our country well for more than 50 years is at a critical inflection point. Today, recruiters are struggling to bring enough Zoomers into the armed services. Mismatched fundamental ideals, divergent beliefs about the workplace, and other sociocultural influences have contributed to the United States military scrambling to get a grasp on how to appeal to Gen Z.

Through the use of personal life stories and macro analysis, this book explains why military recruiting in the United States is at an all-time low in order to suggest ways that American society and its leaders can fix this issue. We must rebuild the value proposition of military service by demonstrating the benefits of the world’s greatest physical social network.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I often lock myself in my room for the whole weekend while writing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Principles by Ray Dalio, One Bullet Away by Nate Fick

What are you working on now?
Op-eds to bring this topic to the national stage

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
National television articles and interviews because that is what level of attention this issue gets

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes, just keep writing

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Principles over Tactics

What are you reading now?
Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman

What’s next for you as a writer?
Op-eds about these topics

What is your favorite book of all time?
Principles by Ray Dalio

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Matthew Weiss Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve written a ton of books, not all of them publishable! I was an avid writer in elementary school and middle school, and I wrote “novels” in 3-ring binders of college-rule paper. I transitioned to short stories and flash fiction in college while I was working as an RA to make ends meet. Now, I can’t stop.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I wrote Breaking the Rules as a love letter of-sorts to my boyfriend. Many of our experiences in college are reflected in the scenes between Hayden and John. I’ve changed some details to make things a little more interesting, of course 😉

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I like to wake up at seven AM to start writing before I get a chance to think about my plans for the day. I like to begin on a clear head with a cup of coffee. I also listen to DJ sets with minimal lyrical components to help focus.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by K. M. Szpara is my all-time favorite piece of short fiction. I really enjoy when trans men are included in fiction whole-heartedly, messy bits and all. I enjoy trans YA, but I prefer more adult themes in works I read and write.

I’m also an enormous fan of Maggie Stiefvater’s series The Raven Cycle. As a kid, I loved Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Mysterious Benedict Society.

What are you working on now?
I’m working on my next novel, hoping for a trilogy. Another enemies to lovers story with a superhero and an EMT.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
So far, I think writing quality work and letting reviews speak for themselves helps to promote my book. I recommend having an ARC team and thanking them for their dedication.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write all the time, every day if you can. Write in sprints. Limit noise distractions. Read constantly, and have others read your work.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Bill Hader said critiques can illuminate when something is missing from your writing, but that person’s suggestion of how to fix it is usually wrong.

What are you reading now?
I am reading the poetry and creative non-fiction my beta reader partners are working on!

What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m writing almost every day, in my free hours in between shifts at my two full-time jobs. I’m focusing on craft, the art of story telling, and character study. I’m transitioning towards dual-POV, something I haven’t done since my early days writing fan fiction!

What is your favorite book of all time?
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater.

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Nick Alamance Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am originally from Bedford in England but I grew up in Middlesbrough. When I was four years old, in the mid-1950s, my parents took me to Jamaica to live which must have planted in me the seed to travel, as I have been travelling ever since. I have lived in ten different countries and worked in five-star hotels and restaurants around the world as a chef. I have also worked on cruise ships, Antarctic supply ships, a gold mine in Papua New Guinea and the Falkland Islands after the war with Argentina.
I have written eleven books in total, six of them are travel books aimed at retirees and baby boomers and I have also written my biography, “You will never amount to anything”.
I have now retired to Thailand where I live on the beautiful island of Koh Samui and travel extensively throughout South East Asia researching my travel books.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is A Three-Week Road Trip Through Southern Thailand and is the first book in the Just Another Day in Paradise series. Unlike my “Retirees” books, this series is not just for retirees or people who may be considering living here. This book is a little different as it is aimed at anyone who would like to take an exhilarating road trip through Thailand and is the first book of three which covers Southern Thailand the next two books will cover Northwestern Thailand and Eastern Thailand
Thailand is a fantastic country to visit, but with most people flying into Bangkok before moving on to the more touristy hotspots such as Pattaya, Phuket, Chiang Mai, and Koh Samui, they miss out on seeing the real Thailand, the Thailand that is virtually undiscovered by tourists. This book takes you on a three-week road trip to the hot spots of Southern Thailand: Hua Hin, Koh Samui, Krabi, Phi-Phi Island, and Phuket, and on the way, explores some of the more unique places that most tourists rarely get to see. The book is filled with the information that you will need to give you the confidence to take the trip of a lifetime from Bangkok to Phuket, with some out-of-the-way regions in between.
• How to plan your trip of a lifetime
• Suggested itinerary
• The best seasons to travel.
• How to get there
• Where to stay
• Where to go and what to do in the daytime.
• Where to go and what to do in the nighttime.
• Interesting facts on many places in Thailand
• Places for eating, drinking.
• Best nightlife and bars and lady bars

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Being of a certain age I didn’t grow up with computers but I have certainly adapted to them since I started writing books. I do most of my writing thanks to the wonders of Wi-Fi sitting on a beach or around a swimming pool in Thailand or some other Southeast Asian country. Quite often when the sun is going down my inspiration is helped along with a cocktail or two.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The first books I remember reading were the Just William series of books by Richmal Crompton. As I matured I read everything Charles Dickens wrote and all of The Hobbit series of books by J. R. R. Tolkien, I also loved Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. My daughter was born in 1974, and as she grew older I would read Watership Down by Richard Adams to her at bedtime. Looking back now it was probably a little scary for a little girl, but she loved the book as much as I did. Being at sea for much of my life, books were an important source of entertainment in the few leisure hours that you get working on a ship. I would read everything that I could get my hands on, from Agatha Christie to Ernest Hemingway, from Nevil Shute to Leslie Thomas. My favourite authors of today are James Lee Burke, Elmore Leonard, Dennis Lehane, Kate Atkinson, and Khaled Hosseini. I also like to read travel-related books especially anything by Michael Palin and Bill Bryson. I don’t think any author actually influenced me, I just loved losing myself in a good book.

What are you working on now?
I am writing the second book in my Just Another Day in Paradise series. This book will cover Northeastern Thailand on a three-week 900-kilometre road trip from Bangkok to Chiang Rai taking in many interesting and off-the-beaten-track places, places that many tourists miss out on when they come to Thailand as most people only go to the more popular areas of Thailand such as Koh Samui, Pattaya, Phuket and Krabi

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have recently published a website as it seems a necessity in this day and age. Apart from that, being a retiree and of that certain age, I am not very knowledgeable about computers and social media, so I rely on word of mouth and hopefully, my publisher getting my name out there. I know I must be missing out on many selling opportunities but I find the whole social media thing rather boring and time-consuming. I also promote my books via my YouTube channel…Thailand My Land: https://tinyurl.com/3t32zprj

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just keep doing what you’re doing; even if you don’t get published you’re still improving your mind, enjoying what you’re doing and fulfilling an ambition. My brother John, who was a much better writer than I will ever be, tried most of his life to get his books published and never succeeded. I wrote my second book in 2017 (the first book I wrote was never meant for publication) and I was offered a publishing contract for it within a few months of releasing it on Amazon. What I discovered since becoming an author is that getting a book published is quite often down to luck, being in the right place at the right time and of course writing a great book.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Travel whenever you can, the greatest experiences are seeing other cultures and getting a real perspective on life and the lives that other people lead”. Which is the way I have always tried to live my life.
When I was in Cambodia recently researching my book, I spoke with a lady who was just forty-two years old the same age as my daughter. Her father was arrested, imprisoned and later killed by Pol Pot’s henchmen for the crime of being a teacher. When she was one year old, with her mother, older brother, and sister, they were forced to march 330 kilometres from their home in Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville to work on a communal farm. Her mother died along the way of sickness and malnutrition and she was separated from her brother and sister, and she would never see them again. She was taken in and raised in impoverished conditions by another family who had befriended her mother on the long march south. Being born in Cambodia during those murderous days she had not had the opportunities in her life that my children or grandchildren have had. She had no education, no real family, and had been working as a prostitute since she was fourteen years old to survive. It certainly put everything in perspective for me. You don’t see the real world by watching it on the television.

What are you reading now?
I love reading great books but unfortunately living here in Thailand with the many things to see and do here and being an author as well as having to make content for my YouTube channel there are not enough hours in the day for me to sit down and read a good book. I thought that when I retired, I would have lots of time to read but it didn’t work out that way. I don’t mind because it keeps me active and I get to meet many interesting people and make new friends

What’s next for you as a writer?
When I have fished my travel books in the Just Another Day in Paradise series I intend to write my third book in my Police Lieutenant Chai Son Sinuan series of books
Police Lieutenant Chai Son Sinuan of the Royal Thailand Police based on the tropical island of Koh Samui is an incorruptible policeman in a police force that is deep-rooted in corruption. Its a work in progress and it will be called, Lawyers, Guns and Money.

What is your favorite book of all time?
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

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Gerald Hogg Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a mom and a long time book lover. I live in the mid-west in a small town with big dreams to move west (I can’t do the cold winters!).
I’m a photographer, which has always been my other ultimate dream as I was growing up. I also design beautiful custom nail polish strips for an amazing group of customers I couldn’t be more grateful for.
I love to read, draw and listen to music in my downtime, not that there’s a lot of that in adulthood.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Crossed is my latest book, and also my debut book, the first in a series of its name.
This book came to me while I was editing wedding photos and listening to The Neighbourhood. Stargazing came on and this story started forming in my head. I had to put away my photos and write it down. From there it just built itself over the next year.

What are you working on now?
Currently I’m working on the follow up book to Crossed, still part of Bryant and Clary’s story.
I’m also working on another story outside of the Crossed series, but still sort of tied in. In book two, Clary reads part of a book to Bryant. As I was doing a proofread I thought, “What if this was its own thing?” Like what if readers were able to get into Clary’s bookshelf and see what she’s reading? So I’m starting that.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m still figuring that out. I post on Instagram and Facebook about what’s happening. I’ll get there.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t worry about options! There are so many options out there for everything, just take your time to weed through things and find what fits best for you. Self-publishing is scary, but it doesn’t have to be.

What are you reading now?
I’m currently reading House of Lycan by Lyra Forger as well as the Crescent City series by Sarah J Maas.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Once I finish book two in Crossed and the first sub-series book, I’ll be working on book 3 in Crossed, which will tell Anna and Tawney’s story. I’m also working on a fantasy series about witches. We’ll see where things go after that.

What is your favorite book of all time?
That’s so hard!
I would probably say A Sweet Far Thing, Queen of the Damned, or White Oleander. But there are so many amazing newer series, like ACOTAR and TOG that have just really resonated with me that I love for so many reasons.

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Samara Reed Website
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