Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
An award-winning crime reporter of 25 years. Still working while juggling a fledgling fiction writing career. A mum of 2 and 3 grandchildren.

Tell Me A Story is my first book.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Tell Me A Story came from a private blog I started. I’d just quit my full-time job and felt burnt out. I started writing fiction for the first time in 30 years and the stories flowed.
The title comes from the words I would say to my Grandmother who only passed 7 years ago – tell me a story. She was an imaginative and wonderful storyteller.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t write every day. I spent 27 years writing newspaper articles and columns daily. I write when the mood takes me. I work better with a tight deadline so as usual I’m sailing close to it with my debut novel. Can’t say I make life easy for myself.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love Val McDermid, Dennis Lehane, Patricia Cornwell, John Le Carre, Agatha Christie and many Scottish crime writers such as Douglas Skelton, Ian Rankin, Craig Robertson, Lin Anderson, Liam McIIvanney, Abir Mukherjee and lots more.
My ultimate literary hero is William McIIvanney. He was a genius crime writer.

What are you working on now?
Putting the finishing touches to my debut novel, Death Knock.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Social media I guess but it’s difficult because you feel like you’re constantly on the hard sell trying to get people to see your work. It can be anxiety inducing.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Breathe! Don’t give up, keep following your dreams.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If you worry about what others think or say let me show you an empty room filled with all the people who walk in your shoes, pay your bills and determine your future. Don’t let anyone discourage you.

What are you reading now?
My TBR pile is huge but I’m loving In The Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finish the debut. Put out another anthology and write a play based on one of the stories in my current book.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Laidlaw by William McIIvanney and I’m going to cheat and say as a child The Famous Five by Enid Blyton

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JD Hamilton Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My interest in the neurosciences began early in medical school after observing a craniotomy to remove a deadly tumor, glioblastoma, from a patient with one of my close mentors. Here, I witnessed the mesmerizing nature of the brain, first-hand, in the operating room. Additionally, it was in medical school where I realized the many unknowns in our current scope of knowledge regarding this vital organ. These two reasons secured my decision to enter a career in the neurosciences. Initially, I attended medical school at the Mercer University School of Medicine in Savannah, Georgia. Throughout my medical training, I was involved in several clinical projects in all aspects of the neurosciences. During my time in medical school, I also became interested in medical device development. Thus, I subsequently enrolled in a Masters in Applied Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. Here, I also participate in a variety of clinical investigatory projects aimed at improving outcomes after surgery for brain cancers. I am mainly involved with incorporating machine learning algorithms to enhance clinical decision-making capabilities for providers. I have published only one book: The Future of Technology in Medicine: From Cyborgs to Curing Paralysis.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was born in Washington state the 11th of 12 children. I’m married, have 3 great kids and two darling grandchildren. I have written three books:
Elusive: Journey to Happiness
Aerie: A romantic suspense novel set in the 1990’s
DINA: Nature’s Case for Democracy which is now out on Kindle and will be viable in paperback next week.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
DINA: Nature’s Case For Democracy is a sci-fi-ish story in which Dina, a mysterious, invisible creature chooses Sara Wallace, a middle-aged woman still grappling with the death of her daughter five years on, to explain that humans are on the edge of extinction. Nature has practiced pure democracy successfully for 2 billion years, but humans, newcomers to the game of life, are messing things up and are going to destroy themselves, and a lot of other creatures when they do.

I have been thinking about how to make sense of life; that is, to understand how humans fit into the larger picture of the universe for over thirty years. This book is the culmination of that thinking, Bonus: I came up with a new theory of the human ecosystem.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes. I read my book out loud to myself before I let it out into the world.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Bionomics: Economics as Ecosystem by Michael Rothschild was the book that wouldn’t let me go. He planted the ideas that I built into my new theory.

The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin. What a thinker this man was.

Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould. All of Gould’s books inspired me to find the natural explanation that exists for seemingly inexplicable situations.

What are you working on now?
I am putting together a book of practical applications using my new theory.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am still experimenting in this area.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be true to yourself when you write. Find your voice and write what you want to say to the world.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
From Winston Churchill: When you’re going through hell, keep going!

What are you reading now?
Mark Twain: Tales, Sketches Speeches and Essays 1891-1910
The Time in Between by Maria Dueñas.

What’s next for you as a writer?
For a while, marketing and promotion

What is your favorite book of all time?
Hard to choose:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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Anne Riley Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Keath Silva. I am a transgender poet and healing arts practitioner. I transcribed a book for a beloved teacher called Fire Heart The life and Teachings of Traditional Maya Healer of Belize, Miss Beatrice Torres Waight. I also wrote two books of my own poetry; King Crone and The Empty Nest and Lady Death.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called King Crone and The Empty Nest; a Collection of TRANSformational Poetry for Rites of Passage. My gender transition and the end of my at home parenting years inspired this collection of poems.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes. I do not intentionally sit down to write a poem. The poems tap me on the shoulder and it is my job to respond. Wherever I am when I feel a poem coming, I need to get alone with a pen quick before it is lost!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love all the works of Alok Vaid-Menon. I also love all the works of Isabel Allende.

What are you working on now?
I am preparing to write my next collection of poems which means I am open to when they arise. I am ready to be of service to them, to give them voice and a container to be shared with the world.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I get a lot of interest in my work for Instagram.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes! Just write! The book has a life of its own. Do not worry about what people will think, or how it will get published, just focus on bringing forth your unique piece of art and let the rest take care of itself.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Stay in the present moment and trust the journey!

What are you reading now?
Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochran.

What’s next for you as a writer?
My book King Crone is getting a lot of attention and I have been asked to write articles for various publications so that is a new learning curve for me. I am also beginning g to perform my poetry in more live settings and to incorporate them into choral performances.

What is your favorite book of all time?
The Water Dancer by TA-NEHISI COATES

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a momma for four daughters, wife to a grazier (rancher) and avid reader of almost anything. I have written seven books and am currently working my eight.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The latest book I release was book two in the Sands of Ruin series, Blending of the Sands. This series has been with me since 2017, and was inspired by a daydream that I had when I was pregnant with my third daughter.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My writing habits vary depending on deadlines, but I am mostly a big plotter after a disastrous attempt at winging it with my first ever novel.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I read so widely, that my influences really come from all over, but mostly I leave the main influence to my imagination…

What are you working on now?
I am currently drafting a paranormal romance series. It could be described as A Discovery of Witches meets the Vampire Diaries!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My website is https;//www.authorrosemariemuller.com where you can find all my work, along with signed copies and swag.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Always give yourself more time and grace than you would plan for. Always.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Find what works for you and stick to it!

What are you reading now?
I am currently reading Liars and Light by Rebecca Camm!

What’s next for you as a writer?
To publish the remaining books in the Sands of Ruin series and draft the remaining five books in the paranormal romance series.

What is your favorite book of all time?
I goodness, I can not answer that! But if you’re twisting my arm my top three would be The Other World by Abbie Emmons, Kingdom of the Wicked series by Kerri Maniscalco, and Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas…. That’s more than three, but you get the idea!

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Lindsey Lamh has been crafting creative playscapes her whole life. Her love of reading fuels her passion for storytelling. As a child, she read every book in the house and devoured whole stacks of novels from the library, working through classic literature with the excitement of a budding philosopher. Her favorite school assignments were creative writing and essays.

Lindsey attended college in Chicago at Moody Bible Institute, where her educational course was redirected from Christian ministry to the broader, more practical focus of Biblical Studies.

She married her husband, Jeffrey, in 2013 and they now have six children and a perfectly Golden family dog named Radagast. They live in South Carolina and keep busy with homeschooling, Jeffrey’s entrepreneurship, and Lindsey’s society for Christian women.

Lindsey published her debut novel in October of 2023 and is working on a fantasy series.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
A portrait hangs in Linwood Manor, depicting the Bancroft family with their matching grey eyes and brown hair. Seven years ago, they were together in the spacious old house. Alive. Now…

Only Ambrose and Matilda Bancroft remain.

Ambrose Bancroft returns to London society with his younger sister, hoping they’ll leave ghosts of memory behind. They have only each other left. While Ambrose attempts to draw Mattie out, dragging her to balls and threatening to seek suitors for her, his sister recoils from his meddling. Finally, when Ambrose compels her to attend art class before she’s ready, Mattie paints something horrific enough to banish them from society in public disgrace.

At Linwood Manor, Mattie and Ambrose aren’t as alone as they think. Taking advantage of Mattie’s desperate need to find freedom, a vanishing room lures Ambrose’s sister into an illusory paradise. When Ambrose vows to get his sister back, by force if necessary, he finds himself up against an otherworldly power bent on her destruction and Mattie’s bitterness turned to hatred.

When Mattie commits the ultimate betrayal, Ambrose realizes he never stopped protecting her long enough to learn what she really wanted. But before he learns to let her go, Ambrose is broken in body and mind, far beyond his capacity to endure.

When the dust settles, will Mattie be lost to him forever? Will Ambrose be the last of the Bancrofts?

“A Voracious Grief” is gothic horror about grief and friendship. Life-altering grief can wear the oddest clothing. For Lindsey Lamh, it looked like losing a family member, but not to death; chronic pain that’s depressing but not debilitating; suicidal thoughts underneath a calm, cheerful persona. When no one understood her hardship, when all they had to offer were platitudes, Lindsey longed to find empathy. That’s why she writes—because she’s not the only one who’s been there.

“A Voracious Grief” is a novel that asks big questions about how we evolve beyond our traumas. It gives voice to silent suffering, reflecting what it looks like to be overwhelmed by grief. It’s a story about family ties twisted with fear. It’s about embracing pain, and daring to hope.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Lindsey’s favorite genres are historical fiction, Victorian fiction, fantasy, short stories, poetry, and literary fiction that doesn’t fit neatly into a genre.

Within those categories C.S. Lewis is her favorite author–he’s written plenty of fantasy, poetry, and literary fiction to satisfy her love of variety! Other inspirational others include Madeleine L’Engle, Alison Croggon, Laura E. Weymouth, Naomi Novik, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and Helena Sorensen.

“A Voracious Grief” was inspired by reading a short story by Ray Bradbury (The Veldt) and includes epitaphs of Emily Dickenson’s poetry on grief.

What are you working on now?
In 2024 Lindsey is undertaking a new project, a fantasy series exploring the ostracized “Other” and how compassion arises out of curiosity.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Lindsey believes in building the author-reader relationship, and so she focuses her promotional energies on in-person events and marketing opportunities. Her local library and craft market have provided connection points with readers, and she’s always looking for new, creative ways to meet book lovers. She also sells books and merch through her website and a payhip online store.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t settle for pleasing yourself. You are far too easily pleased. Instead, do your best to cultivate your skills and create something that’s the best you can do before you get unbiased, professional help to help you push yourself even further.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Writing a book is like building a cathedral–it’s going to crumble and fail to awe unless you get really good at crafting a single, perfect brick. And then go on to create a thousand more (a single brick being equivalent to a scene).

What are you reading now?
I’m challenging myself to read the best literary fantasy as research for my new writing project. So I’ve chosen twelve books, one for each month of 2024! I’m currently reading “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” by Susanna Clarke.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I think this will be a quiet year for me. I need to learn more about marketing, more about editing, more about drafting. And a lot of that will be learned through practice, I think.

What is your favorite book of all time?
“Perelandra” by C.S. Lewis

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Lindsey Lamh Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Cécile Poyet. I am a French-American explorer and nonconformist at heart. Before traveling the world full-time with my partner and our baby, I spent over fifteen years doing strategic marketing for startups and tech giants alike.

My spiritual awakening in 2016 within a community of meditators in San Francisco marked a profound turning point, gifting me with mystical experiences that continue to shape my journey.

In my first book, Reclaiming Life: From Burnout to Boundless, I share my personal journey going from a stressed out and exhausted tech employee to a mindful parent exploring the world with my partner and our son. Together, so far, we’ve gone to over ten countries across four continents. And the adventure continues!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest (and first) book is called Reclaiming Life: From Burnout to Boundless. It was inspired by the intensification of the conflict in the Middle East. I wanted to bring my small piece to the edifice of self-awareness, spiritual development, compassion, and inner peace. As a mother, more than ever, I want to do my share to create a more peaceful world.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
While I have a fairly regular writing routine and feel most productive in the morning, when actively working on a book, I can get ideas at random times of the day and the night. I have found myself taking notes in the middle of the night or asking a local guide for a pen and paper on an island in Thailand because I did not have my phone and did not want to forget my thoughts. Daily meditation also helps me channel and organize concepts.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Here are some of my favorite books:

– Steve Jobs’ biography by Isaac Walterson.
– Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles by Marianne Williamson.
– The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer.
– Be Here Now by Ram Dass.
– The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle.
– Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins.

What are you working on now?
Besides raising my child and promoting my first book, I am also starting to put ideas in place for my next book, which will be about the spirituality of money.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I don’t think there’s a silver bullet. That’s why I use a mix of organic promotion on my social networks, post in relevant groups on Facebook and LinkedIn, and share my work with book websites like Pretty-Hot. I also make sure my Amazon page is on point.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Think about your “why” and get started.

Taking a few courses on Udemy about writing books helped me lay out the framework. My editor was incredibly helpful – we met via Fiverr. I also talked to one self-published author who gave me very useful tips.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Be yourself” and “don’t settle”. That’s what my American mom would tell me when I’d go on dates, but her wisdom goes beyond dating.

What are you reading now?
I just finished reading WILL, Will Smith’s biography written by Mark Manson. It’s an amazing book! I am now reading People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn. My next book will be The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. It was recommended to me by my editor and I can use something light-hearted.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I am putting ideas in place for my next book: it will be about the spirituality of money.

What is your favorite book of all time?
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein. This paves the way for a new way of living, bringing harmony, collaboration and peace to our world.

Author Websites and Profiles
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
After college graduation, Alan spent over twenty years as a law enforcement officer. During his career, he served as a Special Deputy US Marshal taking him to several European countries and the Middle East. Alan spent two years living in Germany while working with the US Army.
Finishing law school, he served as prosecutor then a criminal defense attorney for twelve years before joining the Texas prison and parole agency as an assistant general counsel. Upon retirement, Alan ventured into writing crime fiction, having ten crime novels published.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest novel is When Things Fall Apart. My inspiration for this book came from my years as a law enforcement officer being partnered with a minority officer. Having the book set in Fort Worth arose from my ten years practicing criminal defense there.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t know if sixths qualifies as unusual but I like to listen to music while writing and sipping scotch.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The first author who inspired me was Michael McGarrity with his police procedurals and Michael Connelly with his Harry Bosch series. Next came Lee Gimenez with the Rachel West series. Elle Gray followed with her Blake Wilder series.

What are you working on now?
I am working on the third book in the Claire Deveraux series which will be set in both Paris, France, and Fort Worth, Texas.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The best method I’ve found to-date for promoting my books are several different promotional websites.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My main bit of advice is to read books in your favorite genre. Don ‘t just read it. Study it. See how that author structured his sentences to slow the pace down and speed it up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Read, read, and keep reading.

What are you reading now?
An Elle Gray novel from the Blake Wilder series titled The Chosen Girls.

What’s next for you as a writer?
After I finish writing and revising the third book in the Claire Deveraux series, I will start the next book in the Kit Hanover series.

What is your favorite book of all time?
My favorite book of all time is A Time to Kill by John Grisham.

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Alan Behr Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a medical doctor in the field of sports medicine. I am absolutely passionate about my work, but to relax I travel, read, garden, read, hike, run (with an audio book if its >1hr), do photography, read while my photos process. I also teach post grad doctors in sports medicine and emergency field side care. I live in Cape Town, South Africa with my husband. Surf n Turf is my first work of fiction, a big change from academic writing in journals. From precise accuracy to imagination and poetic license!

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Surf n Turf. Luan (pronounced Loo-Ahn) is a surfer and Sarah meets him for the first time while she is learning to surf. He is also a sheep farmer in the karoo, hence the Turf. Sarah cycles from Cape Town (the coast) to the karoo. There is an endurance mountain bike race in South Africa called Karoo to Coast. Part of the plot inspiration. The cover photo was taken on location in the Hantam Karoo and is of a quiver tree (Kokerboom in Afrikaans). Sarah’s grandparents farm is the Goue Koker meaning golden quiver, the bark looks golden at sunrise and sunset. The San people used the leaves as quivers for their arrows, hence the name. To see more of my pics search for “Jo D” on SmugMug, there’s a special folder just with pics relevant to Surf n Turf.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I plot best when I’m in nature, running or hiking.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love books with side kicks or family members who bring comic relief such as Bree Wolfe’s Grandma Edie or Julia Quinn’s Lady Danbury.

What are you working on now?
A medical romance, where I have given the leading lady my own job. Fire & Ice, How to Tame a Doc. It’s a character driven sweet second chances romance.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Goodreads
Pretty-hot.com
Awesomegang
BookGoodies

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Learn the craft of writing.
Join Authors Publish for their free weekly newsletter and monthly webinars. They are great.
Reedsy also has many free resources.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Your first sentence is the most important sentence in the book and you need to hook your readers and make them feel for your protagonist in the first page.

What are you reading now?
Audiobook in the car: 1001 Arabian nights, author unknown
Audio book on phone for chores: Work and Win by Oliver Optic
E-book for long queues: Trapped by the Duke by Anabelle Anders. In my husbands car: The leper of St Giles by Ellis Peters. Did I mention I read a lot? 🙂 Probably by the time this comes I will have finished a few more books. I keep a spreadsheet to avoid buying the same books twice.

What’s next for you as a writer?
A time travel romance. Imagine if a 17th century nobleman meets a 21st century paleontologist in the 5th century and neither entirely understand how they got there. Add conniving grandparents, a naughty lemur, a stowaway and some dino’s. What fun to write and research!

What is your favorite book of all time?
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. No idea how many times I’ve read it. It’s also my favourite movie, but the book is better as you can imagine any face to the characters.

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Jo-Anne Duffett Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi!

I’m Rachelle. I’ve written over thirty books. I love to write sweet romance (think Hallmark) but I read every romance subgenre.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is Finders Keepers, Cowboy. It’s my first western romance and I’m so excited for readers to check it out. I love writing small towns and added in my art history background in an unique way. (if you like Antiques Roadshow, check out my books!)

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
When I first started writing, I had very small children. So I used to work late at night after they were in bed and needed gummy bears to fuel me. Now, I’m able to work during the day so I run on coffee. But when I get stuck, I have to get moving.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My favorite books are Pride & Prejudice, Anne of Green Gables, and Jurassic Park. And I think that sums up my writing. I love sweet romances and when everything goes wrong.

What are you working on now?
I’m editing the rest of the western series. All three books in the Match Made in Montana series will release this year!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I think word of mouth counts for more than paid promotion. Reaching readers and reviewers to spread the word is always the top of my marketing plan.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Define what success will be for you. In this field, milestones can be a moving target.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t compare yourself to others! Everyone’s journey (and goals) differ. Something that might not be a big deal to you could be another person’s dream and vice versa.

What are you reading now?
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.

What’s next for you as a writer?
To keep writing 🙂

What is your favorite book of all time?
Pride and Prejudice edges out Jurassic Park (by a hair)

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Rachelle Paige Campbell Website
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