Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky and raised in Sacramento where I lived and worked a variety of jobs until 1991 when I moved to Bakersfield, land of oil wells and country music, and for me a great place to write and teach English as a Second Language for adults. I used to have two full-time jobs, teaching and writing. Now I only write. I’ve published 10 books including In Other Hands: Revised Edition, Paint it Blue, Hitler Here, The Bold Investor, and several others.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My most recent book is In Other Hands: Revised Edition. In search of stimulating stories, I interviewed prostitutes in Madrid, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua and on many boulevards in the United States, and talked to detectives and rode the rough roads of social workers who deal with human trafficking, which is contemporary slavery, and toured the tattered, handmade shelters of the homeless and also interviewed them on the streets and in shelters, and conversed with the poor in the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, and Spain, and sometimes used several lives to create composite stories, and even a few tales, and everywhere the author ventured he witnessed struggles of those whose lives are bound In Other Hands.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I usually write mornings and afternoons and read, revise, and research in the evenings, and also relax by watching news and sports or reading. But sometimes, when I’m rolling, I write until very late.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Raymond Carver, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, and William Trevor are some of my favorite writers of fiction. I enjoy the nonfiction works of Joan Didion and David Halberstam.
What are you working on now?
I have about 90,000 words of satirical stories about Donald Trump and other key political figures and am regularly writing about events and waiting until the right time to end the book. The working title is “Trump Time.”
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Use book promotion websites. They target the enthusiastic readers all writers need.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write at least five days a week.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Read and write a lot.
What are you reading now?
Among many other books loaded in my Kindle, I’m reading “The Wife: A Novel” by Meg Wolitzer. I enjoyed the movie and decided to buy the book. I’m also reading “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ve still got to wait for the critical political events to develop and determine when and how I end “Trump Time” or whatever I finally title the book.
What is your favorite book of all time?
There are quite a few. Three that come to mind are The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, The Stories of John Cheever, and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer.
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