Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve published one novel and a collection of shorts, and I narrated an audiobook of shorts, both of which are available on my website. Currently, I’m working on a portal fantasy set in a bronze-age world. I have a family saga completed with magical realist elements, which needs a good edit as well,
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
A Perfect Blindness is an homage to Chicago of the late eighties and early nineties when I lived there for eight years. It’s my attempt to capture a place and time while exploring the idea that we’re all just misunderstood characters in the stories everyone tells themselves.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I get up early, a couple of hours before anyone else in the house is awake, make coffee, turn on the jams, and go for as long as I can before outside life takes back over.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Lawrence Durrell’s *Alexandria Quartet*, Vladimir Nobokov’s *Lolita*, Salman Rushdie’s *The Moor’s Last Sigh*, and Philip Pullman’s *His Dark Materials* series. With a dose of D.H. Lawrence. And *the Labrinth of Forgotten Books” by Carlos Zafon.
What are you working on now?
I’m pressing forward on the first draft of *Walking the Darkmaker’s Way* a fantasy set in an animist bronze-age world.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m finding that reaching out to leaders of tribes, groups of people who like, let’s say, 80s club music, and getting their endorsement or permission to reach out to their group has lead to spikes in sales.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. Regularly. And understand that you’re writing for someone else. An audience. Knowing who they are is a great help.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Writers write. (Gore Vidal). What kind of writer you are is a different thing all together.
What are you reading now?
The Wrong Sword by Ted Rabinowitz and listening to The Zodiac Series, Book 3 by Paul Sating
What’s next for you as a writer?
Finishing up my Fantasy duology *Walking the Darkmaker’s Way* and *The Book of Visions*. See where that goes. And eventually getting back to Solitude of the Knight, a family saga.
What is your favorite book of all time?
A toss up between the *Alexandria Quartet* and *the Cemetary of Lost Books.* The former for decades, the latter a recent contender.
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