Tell us about yourself and your books.:
Writing has always been a passion for me. For the thirty-five years that I taught elementary and middle school, reading and writing were the anchors for motivating my students. As a retired teacher, reading and writing also motivate me. Presently, I’m writing a series entitled Chronicles of the Hamlet of Sipsey. It’s so title because of my love and fascination for C.S. Lewis’s series, Chronicles of the Narnia. My series is about an African-American community in a small Alabama town set in the 1960s. The church is the center of community life and the characters are intertwined in poignant and sometimes humorous ways. The first two novels in the series, The Burden of Sweetberry and God’s Sacred Feast are completed and on sale at Amazon.com. Fury of the Scorned is the third novel and will be published in November, 2018.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write very early in the morning and very late at night. I listen to music as I write. If my characters are sad, I listen to Lionel Ritchie, Bobby Blue Bland or Brook Benton. If my characters are happy, I listen to Pharrell Williams, Beyonce, Patti Labelle and Whiteny Houston. If they’re in crazy mood I listen to rap. If they’re pining over love, I listen to Coca Taylor or Luther Vandross. I listen to gospel music on Sundays and take my characters to church.

What authors have influenced you?
C.S. Lewis is favorite as a brilliant writer of Children’s Books. Maya Angelou is a favorite as is Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Terry McMillan. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran has been an enduring influence on my life as well as my writing. I read Gone with the Wind about every three years, and I reference it often because it is very instructive concerning White and Black Southern culture. I use Frank Yerby as a reference, and I also read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and just about anything that Oprah Winfrey recommends.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My advice to new writers is to embrace every experience as a learning tool. There is value in everything and everybody. Work on your writing everyday if it’s only a sentence or paragraph. Write, proofread, rewrite, revise, review over and over again. Remember, when in doubt, leave it out.
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Throughout my life, I have always enjoyed writing fiction, and have had many novels in the works always. I have written many technical manuals, and technical evaluations for my main career. Now that I am at retirement age, I am enjoying completing the novels I started. So far, I have published one completed novel, Angels' Eyes, and have published another novel, "Angels' Heart." My style for writing fiction is much different. You will enjoy how I intertwine several themes and bring them together in the ending.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Angels' Heart is my latest book. It was inspired by someone I met long ago.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes. Read my book, and you will see how uniquely I put a story together. I also make use of a couple apps on my phone. One is Google Keep. I use Keep to use voice entry to make a note of ideas I come up with. The other is Out Of Milk. Out Of Milk is a shopping list app, which also has To-Do lists. I add things as I think of them.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
1984. Also all the books by Samuel Clemens. Have you read "Christian Science" by Samuel Clemens? This book taught me how to use humor in a work of fiction. His book, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" taught me that relationships could be an adventure as well.

What are you working on now?
Currently, I am working on completing "Angels' Heart."

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have not decided on a favorite yet.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing and keep proofreading. Spend at least 2 hours a day writing. Don't worry if it doesn't seem to go as fast as you would wish. Put the quality in it and you will get inspired to write. Sometimes I may spend 2 days on researching to work on just one paragraph, but in the end it is well worth it.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Follow your heart.

What are you reading now?
Angels' Heart again.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will be working on the Angels' series for quite a long time.

What is your favorite book of all time?
The gospel according to John. It is amazing how themes are intertwined, and there is much humor there as well.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I'm a new author who had a quarter-life crisis and dropped everything to go soul-searching and found my answer at my fingertips and between the pages.

I published my first book on October 24, 2018, and I'm working on my second right now.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Hard Focus.
I related to the female protagonist, Maria, as she realized she wasn't enjoying her work and wanted to go in a completely different direction. Other than that, I wanted to portray a romantic, passionate relationship that develops over time, so Benji and Maria told me their story and I wrote it down. 🙂

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Does sitting in front of my laptop for 16 hours a day count?

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I grew up reading Harry Potter, and it was a big inspiration for me to read more and even try my hand at writing (fanfiction!!!). Every book I've come across has influenced me in some way. There's always something new to learn from every author and their distinct writing voices.

What are you working on now?
I'm working on the second book of my series, Troublesome Affections. All the books occur in the same universe but read as standalones. This one will take place in Chicago, with one who refuses to be tied down and the other who longs to fly away. It's still in the works!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I'm still trying to figure that out too!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write, write, write. Discipline is the most important thing. Sometimes writing doesn't result in a product. It's the workout.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Even at my 20th book, I sometimes feel like I don't know what I'm doing. But the difference between my first and 20th book is 19 books of experience.

What are you reading now?
I'm juggling a few ARC books. I'll be starting Good Omens by Neil Gaiman soon.

What’s next for you as a writer?
More writing and figuring out how this whole thing works. I'm looking to exercise my discipline and develop my writing voice.

What is your favorite book of all time?
The Messenger by Markus Zusak.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Certainly. I’m an author/land surveyor based in Sicily, Italy. I take great pleasure in observing, studying everything that draws my attention. And when something does, I have this almost obsessive need to understand how that something works, down to the most minute detail.
I’m a lover of fine arts, meaning anything whose whole value is greater than the sum of its single parts. Hence, fine art can be found nearly everywhere, be it a good dinner, a painting, a movie, music, even football.
I also adore impossible challenges, if nothing else for their paradoxical nature. Nothing is impossible. As for the writing, I first became interested in storytelling. In fact, my first endeavour of this kind was to be a comic book. It never really went on to be something more than just an idea, but I will work on it in the not too distant future. It’s a promise I made to myself, partly because it is a story worthy of being told.
As for the writing part, well, it all started as a game. I wasn’t even sure I could write a full-length novel when I put hands on That Which Must Happen. Yet, here we are.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
That Which Must Happen is a novel about fate. Not the same fate we’re all acquainted with, rather, a series of interconnected events all influenced by each other and by our choices. In other words, an active fate.
It’s also Benjamin’s story. Benjamin is a child able to foresee, forestall, and alter these events happening all around him. In other words he’s able to control fate. But does he do that of his own accord? Surely there must be a set of rules for this. What that set of rules is, I’m not going to say.
However, at some point during the novel, his personal attachments are going to get in the way, as the one person he truly cares about is faced with a less than ideal fate. Considering that every event is connected to another and so on, he cannot simply save her. That would make the entire novel rather dull, wouldn’t it?
He was a very interesting character to develop, as I had to think outside the box.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I was always fascinated by Luigi Pirandello's works. He has this way of turning psychological analysis into simple writing and concepts. The crisis of the relative self, his thoughts about humor, the contrast between life and form. These are all subjects worth studying in depth, as they're all enlightening. The fact that we're all wearing a mask, a concept upon which he wrote Uno, Nessuno e Centomila, is an actual psychological concept developed by Jung, (the concept is interpreted slightly differently by the two).
Although he’s not an author, Christopher Nolan's works are a great inspiration as well. Yes, he's a brilliant storyteller. His manipulation of time and subjectivity/objectivity is so thought-provoking and enjoyable. His films are study-worthy material.

What are you working on now?
A novel involving Romania, a priest on pilgrimage to Turkey, and nothing of the supernatural. (As Romania is home to Dracula, I feel it is my duty to be really clear about this). All set around the end of the XIX century.
It’s going to be slightly smaller than That Which Must Happen, probably better than it. It’ll almost be an exercise for my third novel. I’ve got some very exciting ideas for it.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Always, always edit your work yourself before sending it out to an editor. Let your novel alone for a few months after you finish writing it, then take it up and get editing all those surplus words you’ve written. Don’t be afraid to cut it away. If you’re not sure whether you need it or not, you probably don’t.
Also, always look for natural ways to evolve your story, never force it in ways that are less than so.

What are you reading now?
At the moment I’ve barely enough time to breathe! But I can tell you about the last book I read, The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings by Kevin Crossley-Holland. A very interesting read, it goes into some detail into Norse mythology. In fact, I’m planning to take it one step further and read the Elder Edda.
Oh, recently I also sank my teeth in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.
Next? What does this Button do? by Bruce Dickinson.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Like everything else in life, I tend to take it on a “one step at a time” basis. Six years ago I thought I couldn’t possibly write a full-length novel. A few years ago I thought I wouldn’t get past page 1 of That Which Must Happen. Now it’s published. Next week (hopefully, if I manage to take a breather for 5 minutes) I will start working on my next novel. After that who knows? Any number of things can happen. Hopefully most of them good.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Difficult to say, there are various.
Eco’s The Name of the Rose would be one of them. Simply for the staggering amount of details and historical accuracy, it’s astonishing. “Book always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.”
Pirandello’s The Late Mattia Pascal, of course. Satire concerned with the nature of the self, how could I not love it?
But most of all? The Odyssey.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Boston-based historical fiction author. I published my debut novel The Greenest Branch, a Novel of Germany's First Female Physician in June 2018. The second book in the series will be released in January 2019.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Greenest Branch (and book two The Column of Burning Spices) was inspired by the life of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century physician who was one of the first women in Europe to practice medicine professionally. She had to overcome a great deal of mistrust and outright hostility, especially from the Church, in order to be able to do so. The novel traces her struggle to fulfill her dream against external obstacles and internal dilemmas.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I tend to write every day and not wait around for inspiration. In my experience, many writers think they need to be "in the mood", but I believe that persistence and discipline count for more than the muse. I write in short but intense spurts (2 hours per session is my sweet spot) rather than slowly over several hours.
I also like to drink a cup of tea at the start of a writing session, it's a bit of a ritual.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
In terms of historical fiction, I'm a big fan of the sweeping epics of Ken Follett, the research that Hilary Mantel puts into her novels, and the suspense created by C.J. Sansom and S.J. Parris in their historical mystery series.
In contemporary fiction, I enjoy reading Zadie Smith, Steven Galloway, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What are you working on now?
I'm working on a historical thriller Silent Water, set at the royal court in Cracow, Poland, in the early 16th century.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am active on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads. On Facebook, I am a member of several history and historical fiction groups as well as a group called Authors and Writers Promotions. I also have a website where I blog and host guest posts regularly which helps to drive traffic. At the end of most of my posts, I include a "call to action" with the link to my book(s).

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be persistent and disciplined, and don't get discouraged by rejections from agents. If you cannot secure an agent, be open to self-publishing on platforms like Amazon, which has allowed many quality books to see the light of day that otherwise would not have. But be prepared to invest in your book – hire a professional editor and cover designer. Readers are discerning, and it will help you maximize your income, and also build your brand. If you release a book with poor cover design and typos/errors, it will sink.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
"Write every day, don't wait for the muse"

What are you reading now?
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

What’s next for you as a writer?
I will query the historical thriller and start researching a sequel (I already have a few ideas!)

What is your favorite book of all time?
That's a tough one. It would have to be Our Ancestors trilogy by Italo Calvino, but The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello is not far behind.

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P.K. Adams Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Cathleen Townsend loves a good tale, especially if it involves fantasy. She resides in gold country in California’s beautiful Sierra Nevada foothills, which is fortunate because it encourages her to leave her keyboard and take her dogs for walks. She loves to chat with readers on her blog: cathleentownsend.com.

Cathleen has been published by Raven International Publishing, Thinkerbeat, Everyday Fiction, Fantasia Divinity, Story Emporium, Just a Minor Malfunction, and Longshot Island. A free digital copy of her first short story collection, Dragon Hoard and Other Tales of Faerie, is available to all comers on her website/blog.

Also available free is Stolen Legacy, for everyone who signs up for her newletter list. This tale explores how far someone will go to save their only friend.

For sale are two more titles: The Golden Key, a fairy tale set in the trenches of WWI, and Twelve Tales of Christmas, a holiday themed collection of fantasy and contemporary short stories.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The Golden Key is about a man who saves a golden bird during WWI, and it guides him to the trenches to search for news of his son.
I read a tale in Grimm's collection, also called The Golden Key, but it's one of those curious ones that's not a complete tale at all, more of a story outline. At the end, the story told the reader to imagine the ending, so I did. That covered the fairy tale part. : )

I set it in the trenches of WWI because 2018 is the hundred-year anniversary of the Armistice that ended the war, and I felt a need to connect to that with a story.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Tolkien has been my favorite for many years, but I also owe a great debt of gratitude to Patricia McKillip, Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, Joy Chant, and Connie Willis.

What are you working on now?
I'm polishing up the final draft of my Greek demigod story, Bellerophon.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Improve your craft always and stick with it. : )

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
It is the job that is never started that takes the longest to finish. J.R.R. Tolkien

What are you reading now?
Seanan McGuire's October Daye series.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Next year (2019) I hope to release my two-book set, Snow White and the Civil War. This tells the story from the point of view of both the daughter of a merchant prince and her unlikely suitor. Set in the backdrop of California Gold Country during the Civil War.

What is your favorite book of all time?
The Lord of the Rings.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an independent filmmaker and playwright (now novelist!) from Winnipeg; a small prairie Candian city smack dab in the middle of North America. I live with my wife of 23 years, 3 kids and a cat named Sue. "Horrormania '79" is the only book I've ever written.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My book is titled "Horrormania '79: Memoirs of a Ten Year old Horror Fan." Inspiration was drawn from my youth growing up as a "Monster Kid" (a recently coined term for those of us who grew up in the 60's/70's who were big fans of horror movies such as Universal Monsters movies, Hammer films, scifi movies and lovers of Halloween. The magazines "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and to a certain degree "Fangoria" were our bibles). But the idea to write the book came years ago while I was watching "A Christmas Story." I came to the realization that I had a humorous story to tell, only with a Halloween slant.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Nothing unusual that I know of. I write every day from 5:45 am until I have to go to work which is around 7:45 am (Monday to Friday). I write in the mornings on the weekend and I always write while listening to movie scores and drinking coffee. Wait a minute…OK, this might be a little unusual…I always play "Hilarious House of Frightenstein" on the TV in my office in the background (on mute). But doesn't everybody?

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Hmmmm…I don’t really have a favorite author. I suppose, because I am such a massive fan of the “Twilight Zone,” I’d have to say Ray Bradbury or Richard Matheson and of course I admire Rod Serling tremendously. His work definitely inspires me; the messages in all of his stories, how fast he worked and just how vast his imagination was. He was very intelligent.

What are you working on now?
I've begun work on a book about the Video store movie rental age. I worked at two video stores in the 80's and 90's and feel it is my duty to document the era while it is still relatively not so far removed!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I haven't really found one yet. I'm still in a bit of an "infancy" stage with the promoting of my work so I'm still conducting research and feeding off of other author's reviews and feedback.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Research, research, and more research. Know what you're writing! And this old credo (which is easier said than done): Discipline!

What are you reading now?
I just started "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Continuing my research and gathering as much information as I can on the Video Store era for my next book.

What is your favorite book of all time?
"Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas" by Dale Pollock

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Liza and I'm a regular old gal from the great state of Texas. I am a new indie author and my first novella was released on Amazon on September 14, 2018.

This will be the first book in The Headmaster's Harem series, with two additional books in the works.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my debut novella is Bound by the Headmaster. I was inspired by a creative writing challenge.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Unfortunately, I'm the cliche writer – booze and a pack of smokes. I know…it's a vile habit, but it helps the words flow.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I'm a big fan of romance. Veterans such as Nora Roberts, Beverly Jenkins, and Danielle Steele have greatly influenced me.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on the third book in the Headmaster's Harem series, Claimed by the Headmaster.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Facebook is the greatest tool in my marketing arsenal. Why? Well, because that's where my readers lurk.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just keep writing. I know it sounds simple, but that's really all it takes.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write drunk. Edit sober.

What are you reading now?
Baracoon by Zora Neale Hurston.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Taking over the Amazon charts.

What is your favorite book of all time?
A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an avid fan of all types of literature and media, and I recently published my first solo novel. I previously published "The Trouble With Thieves" with my spouse and sometimes-writing partner Maurice Alvarez.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
"The Healer's Girl" was inspired by my love for the fantasy and science fiction genres in general, as well as my desire to create a strong female protagonist who is in charge of her own destiny, despite the expectations of those around her.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I tend to speak to my characters directly and let their voices come to me at all hours, so my desk is littered with scraps of paper with ideas and dialog, waiting to be transcribed.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I grew up reading Asimov, Bradbury and Tolkien, but I've also read my share of historical romances, biographies and science journals.

What are you working on now?
I am currently writing the companion book-end stories to "The Healer's Girl" since the account is first-person and therefore limited in scope and context. There was a great deal that comes before, and after.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am currently new to the publishing business, so I am still finding what works best for me, but I enjoy reaching out directly to friends and readers to learn what they enjoyed about the story, and what more they would like to see.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don't be discouraged, and make the effort to read, and re-read your work. Only you can tell your story the way you intend it!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
You are your own best advocate.

What are you reading now?
"Hamilton" by Ron Chernow

What’s next for you as a writer?
Finishing the next book, while I still have my momentum and inspiration!

What is your favorite book of all time?
I have my books from childhood, but I also have books that I adore that I've read to my children at bedtime. "The Velveteen Rabbit" and "The Giving Tree" are both simple stories that still make me cry when I read them, every time.

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Ande Li Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My first book was a project with a former colleague, where we wanted to collect all the things that we had learned in our ten years of corporate experience, along with expert advice from people in our network, in a guide to help new hires.

My second book, just launched, is also a collection of wisdom and personal experiences: it’s 50 stories of people who have left behind the corporate 9 to 5 to create a different kind of career and life for themselves. I’ve framed these stories within my own experience of quitting my job and I’m hoping this will prove reassuring, inspirational and of tangible help to people who are considering their very own career transition.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is Leaving the Corporate 9 to 5: Stories from people who've done it (and how you can too!).

In 2013, I took a leap of faith, leaving my corporate job without a clear plan as to what I was going to do next. One of the first ideas I had after leaving was to talk to others who had done the same. To be perfectly honest, this stemmed from a selfish desire on my side to be inspired, to find the courage to do what I wanted to do, and to learn from other people’s mistakes! In sharing the interviews on my newly established blog, however, I was able to broaden my reach to inspire and help other people like me in the process.

The first interview went up on the blog in January 2014 and, in the years since, I’ve spoken to 50 different people. With a range of experiences and fantastic advice hidden away in these old blog posts, I thought it would be valuable to collect all the interviews in a book. I called this interview series ‘Fearless Fridays’ on my blog, and I do love a good alliteration, so Fifty Fearless Fridays just sounded like it was meant to be!

I’ve also learned a lot from my own experience of the various twists and turns since I first made the decision to quit. Since then, I’ve dedicated myself to understanding who I am, what motivates me and what a fulfilling career looks like for me as an individual. I’ve become passionate about helping others do the same, and I now coach people through their own transition out of the corporate 9 to 5. I’ve framed the 50 stories in this collection within my own personal experience and what I’ve observed in coaching clients, adding some guidance as to what you can do to start creating your own career transition story. My hope is that this book will offer both reassurance and inspiration on the one hand, and concrete tips and action steps on the other, as you create your very own career transition story.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wouldn't say they are particularly unusual!

I’ve been publishing weekly on my blog for years (in fact, I started out with a new post every two days when I was travelling and then continued twice weekly) and that’s an integral part of my routine at this stage. I also now write for external publications so that has become a regular outlet, while I use my marketing and business experience to produce training scripts for a number of companies as well.

As a result, I write something pretty much every day. Although I never really face that dreaded “writer’s block”, there are definitely days when I feel inspired and can push out a great blog post in just a couple of hours, and other days when I just don’t have the energy or focus. The good thing is that there are plenty of other things that I can be doing on those days, that require a different kind of brain work!

Since I work for myself, I can also write from anywhere – from home, from a cafe, on a train or plane…

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I couldn't really pinpoint any specific author or book that has influenced me in the kind of writing that I do at the moment. However, I have read a lot of books about writing and my favourites include On Writing by Stephen King, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.

What are you working on now?
I'm promoting my new book!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
The book is a part of my business strategy and I have an email list and social media following that I can promote to, and these people are the ideal target audience for the book. Going forward, I will make sure that the book is integrated into my regular email sequences and I will continue to promote it ongoing.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
My advice is to define what success means to you. Do you have to be a New York Times bestseller in order to feel like a writer? Do you have to sell a million copies? Do you want your book to be a step in your marketing funnel for your business? A platform that will give you credibility and help you enter a career of public speaking? Or just a passion project that you simply have to get out of your system? Knowing why you want to write will first of all keep you motivated through the lows but secondly also help you decide on the best topic and the right way to go about the whole process.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write! So many of us talk about wanting to “be a writer”, and yet we don’t do what being a writer essentially requires: writing! Writing every day, putting our work out there, and keeping going, whatever the response (or lack thereof). Don’t worry about getting it wrong – you’re not going to nail the very first post that you write, and you’re unlikely to be a bestseller with your very first book. Write, publish, then write again. That’s the only way that you’ll be a writer – and get better at your craft.

What are you reading now?
I have a gazillion non-fiction books related to careers and business on my Kindle… I'd love to take the time to read more fiction as well, so I will try to do that now that the rush to publish my book is over!

What’s next for you as a writer?
I'm planning my next book (and a new podcast) on the topic of Reimaging Success: questioning the traditional definitions of success that we have inherited from our parents, teacher and society as a whole, going beyond the narrow domain of work and money and incorporating all our personal and professional goals in a holistic way.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Impossible to answer! But if I can cheat I might say all of Jane Austin's books…

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Anna Lundberg Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have written twenty-two clean, heartwarming romance novels. And there are currently six more in various stages of publication, with more to come, of course.
I live with my husband near Hershey, PA and adore chocolate, laughing, collecting bags, books, and shoes. Oh, and writing clean stories that resonate with others.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Baking with Nerds is book 13 of The Morrison Family Series. This book came out of nowhere, and took me by surprise, but that's the best part of being a writer! I now have at least four additional books from just this one – books 14 & 15 are already written! That's how fast these books have come. (I adore being a writer!)

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No. Like many other romance writers, I do consume far too much coffee and chocolate while in the thick of things. (:

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Jayne Ann Krentz, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jenny Crusie, and Betty Neels all come to mind first. I'm sure there are many, many more!

What are you working on now?
You're going to be sorry you asked that! 😀
SORRY CHARLEE, book 1 of a new heartwarming series, is soon ready to be sent to publishers. I also have a new paranormal series entitled Gargoyles Unlimited, book 1 is called BLOWN AWAY, and that will also be making the publisher rounds. Then I have the Seeking Series, which is a short fantasy series, and the 2nd book, SEEKING: MAIDEN QUEEN, is due out early next year. Finally, I have book 14, NERDS IN HARMONY of The Morrison Family Series coming sometime next year as well. (Again, book 15 is already written and there are at least two more in that series, possibly more, coming.)

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I'm still trying to figure all this out. Please advise in the comments if you've found some great ones, other than My Book Place, of course. (:

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Finish the book!

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Finish the book!

What are you reading now?
Just finished a great clean book by Iris Chacon called Finding Miranda. I've since bought another book by this fabulous author.

What’s next for you as a writer?
As a nerd, it has come to my attention that I need to put more focus on getting the word out about my current 22 published books. I also think most authors would like to learn how to edit faster and better.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Ha! How do you answer this?! There are so many…
Anything by Jayne Ann Krentz and her other names – Jayne Castle and Amanda Quick.
Nerd in Shining Armor by Vicki Lewis Thompson.
There are so many more! (I love to read.) (:

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D.R. Grady Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a science fiction, superhero, and fantasy author who is diagnosed with high functioning autism. I am a connoisseur of the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero genres. In addition, I am an autism ambassador, hoping to demonstrate the potential benefits one can gain from being autistic.

As a writer, I utilize my autism to visualize the story taking place inside of my head like a movie. Also, I have a very strong memory, allowing me to store information about my characters and stories in my brain as though it were a computer hard-drive.

I am also a passionate pit bull lover and own a pair of sweet and loving pit bulls named Wally and Fitch.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called "The War of the Gilded Beasts". I based its title on the real life War of the Roses, which depicted a war for the throne of England. I thought the title of my book should be as poetic.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I seem to write at my best when I am in my writing studio with my beloved pit bulls. In addition, I enjoy listening to medieval documentaries while writing.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
The authors who have influenced me are Christopher Paolini, George R. R. Martin, and J. R. R. Tolkien. The books that have influenced me are various Star Wars books such as the Darth Bane Trilogy as well as Game of Thrones and the Inheritance Cycle. On a side note, I am also influenced by Arthurian legend.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on one fantasy book and one superhero/science fiction book at the same time. To gain inspiration for these projects, I have been binge watching historical documentaries and paying close attention to the news. The documentaries give me inspiration for a fantasy world while the news gives me inspiration for a dystopian science fiction world.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I boost the link for my Amazon books through Facebook once a month.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Copyright all of your material, always edit your work even if you think it is good, and you will have better luck with Kindle than you would with paperback books.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Avoid vanity press publishers.

What are you reading now?
I am reading The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I plan to write at least one new book a year. I will continue to explore my ever-growing fantasy world and begin a new superhero series. Overall, I am planning to keep writing until my imagination is spent.

What is your favorite book of all time?
My favorite book of all time would be Eragon, the first book of the Inheritance Cycle.

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Grady P. Brown Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an author from the Minneapolis area who also works as a bus driver and retail clerk at a liquor store to afford my writing obsession. At the moment, I have written upwards of ten novels but only have managed to publish two of them. Of those novels, seven of them are part of a fantasy-adventure book series set in a mystical world known as Gaia.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest novel that was published or my latest novel written? Well, the first answer is The Buccaneer of Nemaris: Of Forests and Friends – this is a novel that explores a person's desire to please their elders and also discover that sometimes it takes more than the power of friendship to solve the world's problems. My inspiration comes from many sources, but certainly a love of role-playing video games and personal history have helped to drive that story's plot. My latest novel is a new series that takes place in the San Juan Islands of Washington State where a mermaid suddenly appears on a young woman's fishing dock the day after another young woman goes missing in the town of Friday Harbor.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Maybe?
What's usual for one writer might be ordinary for another. I tend to put on music to help me write, along with a cup of tea or the occasional beer – maybe once I become famous I can switch to single malt scotch, but always in moderation! But to be clear, alcohol is not necessary, and certainly optional for writing. I also tend to work late into the night if I really get inspired.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
My biggest inspirations include the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and his world of Middle Earth, along with the realms of J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter. Other works from those of Dan Brown and Susan Collins have also fueled my writing, along with The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, the Marvel Cinematic Universe and others.

What are you working on now?
In between other projects this year I've been refining book three, which is known as The Buccaneer of Nemaris: Of Scimitars and Sands. The novel features a young orphan named Ketze who is destined to become the next sultan of a fallen empire in the desert, as well as a genie who challenges him not to use any wishes to accomplish his goals.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
This one?
in all fairness, my best resource is my personal website at www.buccaneerofnemaris.com – unfortunately, it does not get a lot of traffic and I have yet to be discovered by many readers. Most of my customers have met me in person, as that is currently where I have sold the most books.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
If my own story is proof positive of this fact, I can say with true honesty that you have to be persistent, even infatigable – the only writers who wake up one day and find themselves famous are those who either are celebrities, are already self-wealthy, or incredibly lucky (and hopefully modest enough to say so.) The best advice I received was to keep writing and have a love for the art – having that passion will ultimately bring money to continue that passion. It's been ten years since my first novel was published, and I still have work to do. Don't give up and keep trying.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
As I stated above, the best advice I received came from a man named Milt. He told me that if I love writing, money will follow. I'll admit it's taken a long time, but I love my craft. Even if it hasn't made me rich yet, I try to write every day and keep my mind active for the next idea.

What are you reading now?
I recently picked up a creative nonfiction novel that explores the reality of our technology-dependent world we live in called Born Digital. My three nieces and nephew will never grow up in a world that has lived without the internet, without constant surveillance on security cameras, and also a world that doesn't depend solely on social media. It is interesting how my own childhood in the 1980s has become so much different than theirs in such a short time.

What’s next for you as a writer?
The next project, the next story, editing, whatever it is. I also write a fan fiction series – mainly for fun – that includes a wizard, a mermaid, and a girl who can transform into a car. Perhaps that's the start of a bad joke? At any rate, I have worked on that series for almost twenty years and it is a continual project that can be found on my DeviantArt blog, if you're into stuff that might not be considered public domain or commonplace.

What is your favorite book of all time?
The first book that really fueled my writing and engrossed me into a fantasy world would have to be The Search For Delicious by Natalie Babette. It started with a simple question – what defines delicious? – and sends a young boy into the world to get everyone's opinion. The way that such an innocent question can send the world into an uproar is clever and thought-provoking, and even a little magical with the inclusion of Ardis the mermaid who somehow manages to convince the world that a soothing drink that parches the roughest throat can be truly delicious. Lovely little story.

Author Websites and Profiles
J.D. Delzer Website
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