Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I began writing years ago, but in recent years I have written monthly technical articles for a National Trade Magazine and have written several books that I sold to 3rd party companies. I grew up in West Virginia and have spent most of my adult life in Florida, where I now reside with my wife and 2 dogs.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is Delusional: Death of a Startup. There was a lot of publicity in the local news regarding this company coming to town that promising thousands of high paying jobs. Then 3 months later there was lots of publicity about that same company not paying their workers for more than 2 months. This prompted my Brother-In-Law to tell me that I should write a book. And it clicked for me. I based my book in part on that story.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I organize my notes on paper, but all of my writing is typed on my Surface tablet. I close myself in the home office we have set up in one of the bedrooms, put the headphones on listening to my favorite playlist, and type away.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Clive Cussler; Stuart Woods, J.K. Rowling, and many others. I love fiction with good characters. I put myself into the stories.

What are you working on now?
Book 2 in the Delusional series!! It's pretty exciting. Book 1 has been so popular that my Brother-In-Law told me I have to turn it into a series. I'm thinking 3 books in the series, but we are going strong on Book 2.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I'm on LinkedIn and Twitter, but over the years I coached a lot of young men in baseball and helped a good number of them go on to play in college. These young men are all over Social Media and I've reached out to them for some help on the promotional side and they are fantastic. They have published and promoted my book on their accounts and I would estimate that with all of the Social Media contacts that we have gone out to more than 100,000 contacts at this time. We also are trying out several of the traditional promotional sites and methods.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don't keep that work inside you. Sit down and put pen to paper (or computer). A good friend of mine said he has been toying with the idea of writing a book for years but never has. After reading my book and talking to me, he is now actively writing on his own book.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Ha Ha…my Brother-In-Law said "You should write a book about that…and I even have the title for you 'Delusional: Death of a Startup'"

What are you reading now?
I'm currently reading Clive Cussler's "Oregon Files" series.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Book 2 in the Delusional series is underway.

What is your favorite book of all time?
The Bible

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a language and speech refinement/communication skills instructor and I work particularly with professional women. Before that I taught French and Script-writing to graduates and post-graduates.
I have written more than forty books, but I never really got the time to publish them, so now I am thinking of working on that. I have published a total number of three novels, the latest two are THE MIST series.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
"THE MIST" is a two-book series and it was mostly an answer to the latest cliches on terrorism, war on terror inspired thrillers, churning the same content over and over again. I finally got tired of it all and decided to write something different, more original and where a lot of hidden information can get out. To me if one has to write about real events and incidents even if wrapped in fiction, as a writer one holds the responsibility of being as truthful as one can with the event one is wrapping one's story around. Because even in fiction we give our readers something new to learn. And if fiction no longer serves as a genre to make readers wonder and question, then what else is left?

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. I just write whenever anything occurs to me, then and there. It is spontaneous. I later get down to the nitty gritty!

What authors, or books have influenced you?
It's hard to say. When I began writing, it wasn't because anyone influenced me. My surroundings, the people around me, the ideas in my head, were all that made me start writing.
That does not mean I do not have my favourites like Agatha Christie and Margret Atwood, Saadat Hassan Manto, and Khalil Gibran…

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on two more books. Hard to talk about them. I have had my hard disk crash on me twice and as a result, have had to begin rewriting them and it is getting rather painful!

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I haven't found one yet. I am very good at working on great PR and marketing ideas for others, but i get paralyzed when it comes to self-marketing.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be true to yourself. The slow and painful process of getting real fans is even more rewarding in today's age where there are so many ways to make it happen so fast and so easily. But, if you much prefer the fast and easy way, by all means: we all have our own way of thinking. But do not let anything or anyone discourage you especially when you have something very important to share.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Trust in no one!

What are you reading now?
I am re-reading old classics, mostly Agatha Christie. I don't know why but I cannot seem to find anything else interesting nowadays, and the only thing that helps me concentrate and stay put is reading all her books all over again, for the hundredth time.

What’s next for you as a writer?
After working on my latest two, I am hoping to get down to rewriting and printing and publishing my old novels.

What is your favorite book of all time?
"Elephants Can Remember" and "Postern of Fate" by our Queen of Crime.

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Nagwa Malik Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I'm a young author who began my writing career at only nineteen years old. I am now twenty one years old and have had three books published. I live in a small town and am attending college, majoring in art education. In my free time, I enjoy singing, dancing, painting, modeling Japanese fashion at local anime conventions, and studying foreign languages. I am currently studying Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and French.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is The Skeleton Lady. I got the inspiration for this story when I was only fourteen years old. My dad passed away when I was thirteen and afterwords, I suffered with depression for my late middle school and early high school years. The Skeleton Lady was inspired by the pain I felt during those years, as it was easier for me to write a story rather than express my emotions to my loved ones.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes, I always write down my stories on paper before typing them up. I know it's a little outdated to use paper, but I always feel more comfortable writing things out first.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Neil Gaiman and Stephenie Meyer have had major influences on my writing. I really enjoy stories that have darker themes and paranormal romances, and these authors have influenced my writing style at an early age.

What are you working on now?
I'm currently working on a Christmas book, though the name of the story is not final yet. The story will follow Audrey, a local dance teacher, who continues to receive mysterious presents on the days leading up to Christmas. It's up to Audrey to solve the mystery of her secret admirer.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I don't have a certain method yet, but I try to submit my books for review requests on different blogs as much as possible.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
I would say don't give up even if you first book isn't popular right away. Write what you want to write and not what you think people will like.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I've heard is listen to your heart. I've found that listening to my heart and how I'm feeling rather than looking at things logically has helped me become a more carefree and less stressed person.

What are you reading now?
I'm reading Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. I read this book before in middle school, so it has a lot of sentimental value to me, and I really enjoy the dark themes of the book and the interesting story line.

What’s next for you as a writer?
The publishing company I work for is mainly a romance company, so I will continue to work on romance stories. I would also like to explore writing and illustrating manga (Japanese-style comics) and bilingual children's books.

What is your favorite book of all time?
My favorite book is the first book in the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer. These books came out while I was suffering from depression and the stories actually helped me cope with what I was going through.

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Tori Wilson Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I'm the author of two books of travel memoirs, three fiction books, and a scientific book on climate change. I've been a journalist, editor, traveler, development worker and climate-change researcher.

Born in England in 1957, I graduated in 1979 and worked in rock-music publishing, financial journalism, as a traffic broadcaster and as a reporter on the fishing industry. In 1987 I went to work as a volunteer in Sudan, an experience I described in his book Even the Dead are Coming (2009). I later also worked as a volunteer in Bhutan and went on to live in Aleppo, Brussels and Rome. These travels led eventually to a collection of long travel pieces, The Nine Horizons (2014), and a novel, The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán (2014). A collection of three novellas, Three Seasons: Three Stories of England in the Eighties, was published at the end of 2014. The novella Dog! followed in 2015.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
It's called Dog!
Its inspiration goes right back to a TV program in the 1970s, in which a Welsh hypnotist, Arnall Bloxham, regressed a number of subjects to past lives that included a Balkan hunter-gatherer and a sailor in Nelson's navy. I thought: If you come back, why would it be as a human? So I chose a dog.

The dog’s owner is a cheerful slob called Bazza (the English often abbreviate names into Baz, Caz, etc.), a university lecturer in a provincial English city. When not teaching logical positivism or medieval ontology, Bazza chills with a spliff and a beer or browses porn sites. He’s also adopted an old dog, but finds it dour and unaffectionate. Still, the two of them live together happily enough, despite the dog’s contempt for humans and its habit of licking itself in front of guests. Then a Himalayan monk comes to stay for a few weeks while teaching courses in the city. He senses at once that there is something strange about the dog. He is right.

But perhaps that’s all I should give away. Except that, as the book’s blurb says: “Dog! is a powerful story of love and loss, sin, redemption and dog mess. You’ll never see your pet the same way again.”

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write in short bursts; I'll do nothing for months, then spend hours every evening.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Graham Greene, J.B. Priestley, Ernest Hemingway – and many more. The book that's most influenced the way I think is Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. The book that's most influenced the way I write is J.B. Priestley's Bright Day.

What are you working on now?
A novel set in the winter of 1947, and a collection of non-fiction essays.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Goodreads, my Amazon author page and my blog; the latter isn;t mostly about my books, but about whatever interests me (including other people's books).

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write what feels right; what you want to write. If you try too hard to aim for a market, your work will lack any real passion – and that'll show.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
From my father, who was a scientist; he made me understand the difference between a statement, supported by facts, and a mere assertion.

What are you reading now?
I'm re-reading Peter Quennell's Shakespeare, and Constance Babington Smith's book about early test pilots, Testing Times.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I have two books part-completed and I need to get them done. I may need a long retreat!

What is your favorite book of all time?
J.B. Priestley, Bright Day (1946).

Author Websites and Profiles
Mike Robbins Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Alexis Corinne and I have written one book. Dead Letters, is my debut psychological crime thriller. However, I have written many short stories that I keep to my self or have posted on the internet! I write many different genres from thriller to romance.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Dead Letters! Dead Letters came to me in a dream. It was a really unsettling dream that woke me up completely freaked out. I wrote the letter and never returned to it. Then, this past October I found it in my Google Drive and things just completely took off. The story unfolded right in front of me!

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I sometimes will listen to the same song for hours at a time while writing. For some reason, it just pushes me through, even when the scene I'm writing isn't the same beat.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
There's so many out there. I read a lot as a child.

Carolyn Keene influenced my love for mysteries, JK Rowling for fantasy, Edgar Allen Poe for the darker side of things, Shakespeare as well.

What are you working on now?
I am considering writing a second thriller that ties to this one, and I am also working on some paranormal romance.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I'm not sure yet. I am working through a lot of different places right now. So I guess I'll have to figure that out!

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. Don't worry about editing at first. Just let it all out. Even if you're bouncing around, dont' worry about it. Read. Read a LOT.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Dont worry about if anyone reads your book. Write for yourself, not for the fame and recognition.

What are you reading now?
Nothing, surprinsingly. Let me see here…. It is going to be a tie between What the Valley Knows by Heather Christie and The Soul Trapper by Ana Calin.

What’s next for you as a writer?
A new book!

What is your favorite book of all time?
The collection of Edgar Allen Poe's work, Hamlet, and Night by Elie Wiesel

Author Websites and Profiles
Alexis Corinne Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I'm an indie author with a series duet that released in 2017. I've also written a novella for an anthology that was released in February. I write all types of romance. My first series is NA. I love to write, read and interact with my group members. When I'm not doing that, my husband and three kids have my full attention.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is A Love Fulfilled. It's the second book in the series duet. The first book was supposed to be a stand alone novel without a continuance; but after it's release, my readers hinted at wanting to know more about the secondary characters. So, I guess you could say that it was mostly inspired by my readers.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don't know if it's unusual; but I have to have a little bit of background noise when I write. It can be very low music or the whisper of the television; but I have to have it.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
There are so many. Toni Morrison is one author that I grew up reading. I love everything by Nicholas Sparks, Elise S Amore, Mary TIng, Corinne Michaels, Erica Stevens, Brittainy C Cherry, JL Weil, M. Leighton.

What are you working on now?
I'm currently working on my second series. This one will be three parts and a little unconventional. I don't want to give too many details yet, because in writer's land things can change pretty quickly. I do plan to have them released within two months of each other, so there's not a very long wait in between.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I do a lot of promotion on Facebook and Amazon. I don't really have a set method. I try different things and cross my fingers that someone picks up what I'm putting out.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
The main thing that I've learned since I became an author is patience.

It takes time to get to where you want to be. It won't happen overnight; but you must never give up. Familiarize yourself with those in your Genre(s). Participate in at least one writer's group for support.

Write what you love and your readers will love it; because it will shine through in your words. Know that everyone is not going to love what you do; but there are many that will. Write from your heart; for you and for the many that will.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I wasn't told this directly; but this is what I took from what was said:
Keep writing and do lots of research.

What are you reading now?
I'm just finishing up "Lovelock Ones" by Tricia Copeland. It's a post-apocalyptic/dystopian science-fiction novel and a really good read.

What’s next for you as a writer?
As I said before, I'm working on my second series and I have five more projects in the works over the next two years. I've been invited to speak at a private book club in June. I would like to attend a book signing within the next year. I just want to keep writing, travel and meet lots of new people.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Beloved by Toni Morrison. I've had many books come and go; but that one has never left my book shelf.

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Angela K Parker Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a Dallas native and the mother of 3 awesome adult children. I have always enjoyed reading romances and decided to take the plunge in 2015. I have written 2 books. One being a revision of the other. However, I am currently completing book 3.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Awakening Promise is my latest book. It was inspired by my love of strong African American women and my desire to make a man show his vulnerability. This book is a culmination of strength, love, and courage.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yes, I actually do. I find myself waking up in the middle of the night from a dream and wanting to add some aspect of it to my books. I tend to make notes in my notepad. Then I stop and dance with Dance Central and start again.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
As I am an avid reader that's a pretty hard question. Let me see Rhyannon Byrd, her alphas in the Bloodrunners have such depth. Brenda Jackson she makes all things sexy period, Hannah Howells Highlanders are so fierce, and Karen Hawkins makes her story not only historical but intriguing. So I would say these are the authors and their books that influenced me.

What are you working on now?
I am currently working on Erupting Fire which is book 3 in the Looneas of Dallas Series.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I find that I use my social media sites almost everyday. I try to post in blog often. I host giveaways on GoodReads and Instagram. I am currently trying mybookplace, and korner konnections now.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
You are only as successful as you choose to be. I mean you wrote a book that in itself is a success.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If they are not with you for the kibbles and bits. Have enough sense not to let them on the gravy train.

What are you reading now?
Never Seduce a Scoundrel by Sabrina Jefferies

What’s next for you as a writer?
Lol…I plan to keep writing and telling awesome adult stories

What is your favorite book of all time?
Mine naturally…lol. Actually it is the Laird Who Loved Me by Karen Hawkins

Author Websites and Profiles
Anita B Evans Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am an old woman of 80. I used to write weekly articles of my cat to my local paper. I am also retired Minister – so I am used to writing – well, sermons. I did publish a book together with Dr Maria de Donato called: Hunting for the Tree of Life: a Spiritual Journey in Garden Tradition. This book contains my Master's Thesis from University of Queensland. that's just about it.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
God is Bigger than Google was really a result of me being in hospital for about 2 months – I almost died. There my Lord Jesus had me as a captive audience and it was actually He who suggested: why don't you write a book about your experiences with me – so here we are – I did it. The name for the book came when I asked Jesus how do prayers get hear – there must be trillions of them coming up daily – you must have quite a network … I said. He looked at me and laughed and said: God is bigger than google. And I laughed too – in my sorry state in that hospital I laughed – people must have thought I am mad.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I think a lot. Sometimes my thoughts come to me when I am not near my computer so I write them little bits of paper I carry around. And sometimes – when I am thinking at night time – I may get up – go to my computer and write down what just came to me. But – I do this also with my sermons.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Paulo Coelho, Umberto Ec0, The Bible, Fleming Rutledge [Crucifixion] … I read anything decent. When I was a child I loved Isaac Asimov and Louisa May Alcott.

What are you working on now?
Absolutely nothing – I am old. When need be I will prepare sermons and preach. Sometimes I take Bible studies but most of my stuff has been written long time ago – I just recycle it.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I don't have any

Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you need to write – just do it. You can always edit yourself – easily.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
this came from Jesus when I was praying and worrying about all sort of things – including my book. He said to me: 'Let yourself go and Let Me'.
I am still learning – but I felt that was a very good advice.

What are you reading now?
Bible, Fleming Rutledge's Crucifixion and David Lafergrantz' The Girl in the Spifer's Web [following Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series].

What’s next for you as a writer?
Wait and see – perhaps something happens and then I start again.

What is your favorite book of all time?
the Bible

Author Websites and Profiles
Anneli Sinkko Amazon Profile

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Officially, I started writing when I was 20. I'd always dreamed of writing a novel but there weren't any serious attempts made at it for a long time. It was just a dream and I was sure it would stay that way.

When I was 20, I set a goal for myself that I would finally get serious about making my dream come true. I made various attempts that will never see the light of day.

But some of my short stories were successful. I managed to sell my first short story for $15. It was to a very small press and the story was terribly cliche but that was my taste of seeing my dream come true. I had a book with my name in it on my shelf.

I haven't looked back since.

It took eight years until I finally published my first novel, "The Spirit Witch," book one in my Bewitchment series. It's been a wild ride so far and I'm still learning so much but I love it.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
"The Spirit Witch" came about for the Open Novella Contest on Wattpad. I chose one of the prompts that had been provided and over the course of three months, I wrote a novella.

Somehow, out of hundreds of entries, I made it to the top 35, which still amazes me to this day.

I polished that manuscript up and had it published three months later.

As to what inspired it, I've always loved witches but I can't find much fiction on them other than Salem witch trials. I want witches from around the world and all walks of life. I want strong heroines who push their limitations and rely on a tightly-knit network of other women for support and encouragement.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don't think I do. I'm a night owl when it comes to writing. Or I write outside in the summer. But most of the time, I just sit there and stare at my computer screen, trying to figure out where on earth I was going with this one scene….

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Maggie Stiefvater. I adore her Raven Boys series.

Lanie Taylor. I have never been so in awe of a book as I was when I finished, "Strange, the Dreamer."

Rainbow Rowell. She is so relatable and so casual with her writing that I aspire to be that conversational with my own style.

Erin Morgenstern. I read "The Night Circus" years and years ago but it made such a huge impression on me, transporting me to a circus of dreamers, that I've never forgotten it.

What are you working on now?
I'm currently working on the rest of my Bewitchment series. There's a prequel novella that will tell how Charlotte de Winter and Alexander Prescott met, how they fell in love, and how they came to entrust each other with their deepest, darkest secrets. For Charlotte, she's a witch. For Alexander, he is cursed to turn into a monster who takes souls to stay alive.

I'm also working on book two of the series. Charlotte is in search of her sister witches. Book two will focus on another witch, Kali Singh, who is entirely different from Charlotte. She hates her magic and she doesn't want anything to do with it so she ran away to join the circus.

It's worlds apart from "The Spirit Witch" in setting and tone but I'm loving it so far.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Marketing and promotion are my Achilles' heel. I struggle with them constantly. But I'd say that Facebook and Twitter have been the best sites so far. When I post giveaways to either site, books go like hotcakes.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
It's okay to not like your writing sometimes. But don't feel like you have to produce perfection all the time. You're learning. You'll make mistakes. You'll always make mistakes, even after you know what you're doing.
While you're being self-critical of your writing because you want to be better, find something that you do enjoy about your writing. Hold onto that. Above everything else, that joy is what will shine through your writing, for you and the reader.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
1. Butt in chair and write.
2. Don't pay any attention to what other people say or think.

I still struggle with both.

What are you reading now?
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

What’s next for you as a writer?
After the Bewitchment series is finished, I'll still stick with the fantasy genre. I love it too much. Whether my next story will have pirates, vampires or fairies, that's too soon to tell.

What is your favorite book of all time?
"Strange, the Dreamer," by Laini Taylor

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Aubrey Campbell Website
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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
From Banker to Author, who would have imagined that a harrowing diagnosis of cancer could change your career and open a whole new world!!
Author Brenda Mohammed did not choose writing as her career.
It happened by chance.
She was a successful banker and after she retired from banking, moved on to Insurance where she also excelled.
She qualified for the prestigious Million Dollar Round Table six times in a row and had the privilege to attend MDRT Conferences abroad.
Those opportunities broadened her knowledge in new areas which prepared her for writing.
Her writing journey began after her bout with cancer.
She wrote 'I am Cancer Free' and self-published it in June 2013 eight years after her near-death experience with cancer.
She wrote that book to tell people suffering from that disease that cancer does not have to be a death sentence.
That book [her first] was the winner of Mc Grath House Indie Book Awards in the category Non-Fiction in September 2016.
Brenda traveled extensively on vacations and conferences for many years during her banking and Insurance careers, and even after retirement.
She wrote six memoirs about her cancer experience, life as a banker, retirement, travel, her father's memoirs, and a spiritual one, before trying her hand at fiction.
She tried fiction because of something that her brother said to her in one of his letters prior to his death.
He wrote in reference to her book, ‘My Life as a Banker: A Life Worth Living,'
“Your book makes very pleasant reading, and your literary expression is superb and easy to follow. You have an excellent talent, and I think you should follow up on a leisurely basis with perhaps publishing a book of short stories. With fiction, you will have greater opportunity to use your imagination and your undoubted descriptive ability.”
Brenda took her brother’s advice and in the year 2014 wrote, ‘Heart-Warming Tales,’ and ‘Stories People Love.’ Both books are short story collections
However, she felt that she needed to write more exciting stories.

An idea for a science fiction series came to her and in February 2016, she published Zeeka and the Zombies: Revenge of Zeeka Book 1.
Within a few months, she released Zeeka’s Child Book 2, and Zeeka Returns Book 3.
She compiled the first three books into a trilogy called Revenge of Zeeka: Horror Trilogy.
The book received a five-star rating and five-star seal from Readers Favorite.

The following year she added two more books to the series – Zeeka’s Ghost Book 4 and Resurrection Book 5.
She compiled the five books into one book called Zeeka Chronicles: Revenge of Zeeka.
A fan nominated the book for the Metamorph Publishing Summer Indies Book Awards.
It won Best Science Fiction third place in September 2017 and also received a five- star rating and five-star seal from Readers Favorite.
Her latest book, How to Write for Success was published on 1st December 2017 and received a five-star rating and five-star seal from Readers Favorite on 31st December 2017.

To date, Brenda has self-published eighteen books and donates books to library and schools.
She is a fan of photography and art.
She enjoys being an author.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my latest book is HOW TO WRITE FOR SUCCESS. I wrote this book because I have a passion to help other persons fulfill their lifelong dream of writing their own book.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Many authors and many books have influenced me. However, THE POWER OF POSITiVE THINKING by Norman Vincent Peale has influenced my life to a great extent.

What are you working on now?
I am a multi-genre writer and right now I am working on a Christian book – THE GIFT OF LOVE.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use social media to promote my books.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes. My advice to all authors is in my latest book, HOW TO WRITE FOR SUCCESS. Why pay hundreds of dollars for courses when you can get the information you need all in one book?

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“The winner, after careful preparation, is confident he will win the war before he wages battle. The losers, without preparation, engage the enemy first, hoping they will win the fight.” – Sun Tzu

What are you reading now?
Right now I am reading 'A Long and Winding Road," by Linda Brendle.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I want one of my books to be made into a movie. If I can accomplish that it will be the peak of my writing career.

What is your favorite book of all time?
THE POWER OF POSITiVE THINKING by Norman Vincent Peale

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I was born and raised in Ohio, and still live there. I like spending time with my wife and kids, listening to music, watching interesting movies (especially if they're based on a true story), reading, and of course writing. "Surrender" is my first book I have had published (traditionally) and I am currently working on a prequel (title TBD) that I hope will be released next year. I don't know yet if I'm going to go the traditional route or self-pub with the second one.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I'm currently working on a prequel to my fairy tale (Christian Fiction) book, "Surrender." I do not have a working title yet, but I have some ideas. I will certainly narrow the title down by the time I'm finished with it–some time next year hopefully. I had so much fun with "Surrender" that I've decided the main character from that book (PoBo the big hairy Sasquatch) will make a cameo in this one. Also, right now I'm thinking the prequel will have more humans as characters rather than animals, yet still with a supernatural theme.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really. I write when inspiration comes, and I make sure to write quickly while the creative juices are flowing so I don't lose my thought . . . even if I have to scribble it on a napkin or whatever else is nearby.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
First off, the Bible – the greatest book of them all; Stephen King (many of his books), J.K. Rowling (the whole Harry Potter universe she created for us); C.S. Lewis – Chronicles of Narnia; Mitch Albom – Tuesdays with Morrie; and the list goes on and on.

What are you working on now?
A prequel (title TBD) to my first book. My first book "Surrender" (which is kind of C.S. Lewis-esque in that I used animals to convey Christian ideals) is going to be similar to the prequel in some respects.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My group page on Facebook – Surrender Group.

Do you have any advice for new authors?
To write is human, but to edit is divine.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Regarding fiction: To write about what you know, and then make up the rest.

What are you reading now?
A novel by Peter Schmotzer called Unplanned Connections. He's a local author I recently met at a book signing held in a library that I used to frequent often as a kid. Here to find out, we both went got our degrees at Kent State University. I'm about a quarter of the way through his book right now and so far I really like it. It's about the ups and downs in life, and how faith can really turn people around if they are willing to, well, surrender . . . which, in essence, is what my book is really about. I'm a firm believer in miracles, and this story so far has many.

What’s next for you as a writer?
I hope and pray that my first book gets even more awareness. Since I'm a newly published author, I know it takes a while to get your name out. Hopefully the prequel will propel things forward even faster. I'll have to wait and see what God has in store for me. He's always been there for me, and so I'm not afraid. There are a lot of storms in life, but sometimes the sun shines through and a rainbow appears.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Besides the Bible, I would have to say Stephen King's "The Stand."

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I grew up in central Florida near Tampa, hunting in the Florida woods and fishing and sailing along the Florida West Coast. I loved boats and boating on lakes, rivers and the Gulf of Mexico. I studied Marine Biology and Natural Sciences and spent nearly thirty-seven years in professional environmental protection doing everything from management hazardous waste management and chemical emergency response to both civil and criminal law enforcement. I wrote thousands of documents, including an environmental law enforcement textbook, a field handbook for law enforcement officers and the text of an educational comic book and more than fifty online training courses. After retiring, I supported my two daughters while they home-schooled and traveled playing USTA Junior Tennis and, later, varsity college tennis. When they started college, I did what I’d always wanted to do; write fiction.

I have written three novels in the Detective Mike Eiser Series; Schism, Angelica and Fire on the Mountain. A fourth novel, The Road to Armageddon is a Christian fiction novel about the tribulation period leading up to the War of Armageddon. I’ve also written a collection of crime/action novellas about a retired adventurer and the trouble he gets into, The Adventures of Harry Morgan, and various short stories and short fiction on my website. My short story, “Double or Nothing” was recently published in The Will to Survive: An Anthology for Hurricane Relief.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is Fire on the Mountain, the third novel in The Detective Mike Eiser Series. Like the other stories in the series, it is an action packed murder mystery. Unlike the others it is focused on a family with a multi-generational history of skirting the law until, with a little help from Detective Mike Eiser, the dynasty collapses in on itself because of sibling competition, greed and abuse. The story focuses on Susan Haven…the flame that ignites the Haven powder keg!

When big city crime bleeds over into smaller nearby town it affects the lives of the residents. The Detective Mike Eiser Series deals with investigations focused on big city crimes played out in the fictional small Georgia town of Poplar Bluffs…a town that receives city crime influences from Atlanta and Augusta. The result is suspenseful, entertaining and action-packed. This book was a based on the question "What if an old time family of mountain bootleggers progressed through multiple generations into distributing pot and methamphetamine? What could be the likely impact in the present generation on the family members and the community?

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write fast paced dialog that attempts to place the reader directly into the center of the action giving them a sense of participation.
I try to cut to the chase without being obvious about it. I minimize narration and use dialogue to convey images just as someone actually involved in the action would convey images. As a reader, I’m bored to tears by long drawn out mental or emotional ruminations that occur inside a character’s head. I try to avoid inner dialogues and if I use them at all, they are very short. My goal is entertainment for the reader with a minimum of mental investment. I try to make them quick paced and hard hitting.

Finally, my characters are real people; no superheroes, no heroines who suddenly inherit magical powers, no super-rich or characters with extraordinary resources in my stories. My characters drink beer and eat pretzels, and don’t always do the right thing just like the rest of us.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ve probably read around three-thousand books in my life. It’s really hard to pick out specific influences.

What are you working on now?
I’m changing my pace a little right now. I’ve always wanted to write science fiction. I developed a sci-fi story idea that I’m currently writing. I haven’t decided yet what form it will ultimately take; trilogy or a new series so we’ll all have to wait and see.

I’m also working on the next book in the Detective Mike Eiser Series, The Illusionist, and considering two other books in the series at the same time.

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

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Writing (actually, promoting and selling) is the hardest work you’ll ever do.
Don’t quit your day job.
Write. Nothing beats “ass in the chair” time. The more you write, the better you write.
Have a plan. Even a bad plan is better than no plan at all. If you don’t plan for success, how are you going to become successful?
Find a good editor. A good editor is worth their weight in gold. You will learn a LOT from a good editor.
Read. Nobody ever became a good writer without being a good reader first. I suggest reading and writing reviews for others as a great window into the world of self-publishing.
Be patient. Nothing happens quickly or easily; it’s a struggle, requires persistence and ultimately writing may be the hardest work you’ve ever done.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Persistence and planning are the keys to success.

What are you reading now?
I have focused on reading and reviewing dozens of books for other authors for the past several years, but recently I’ve slowed that pace as I’ve done more writing and dealt with issues other than writing.

What’s next for you as a writer?
Writing more books in the Detective Mike Eiser Series, seeing where my recent sci-fi endeavors lead, and writing another Christian fiction adventure to join The Road to Armageddon.

What is your favorite book of all time?
That’s a tough question. The answer is the same as the question about influential authors; there are simply too many to pick an overall favorite.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I'm a Danish author, writing in both English and Danish. It's a somewhat unusual thing for a Dane to write in English, but I've always enjoyed the English language more than my native one.
As of 2018, I've published seven books, with number eight scheduled to come put this summer. I've published in several different genres, from horror and thriller to straight fiction and sci-fi.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called "The Tucson Time Traveler" and is a collection of sci-fi short stories, very much in the style of the TV show "Black Mirror". I wanted to explore various versions of time travel, so there are stories about physical time travel – getting into an actual time machine – but also about mental time travel, dimensional and even emotional time travel. I'm also exploring what new technology does to people's lives.
I was inspired to the book because Tucson, Arizona – which is my favorite city in the world – is a bit of a time traveler itself. Everywhere there are signs that come from the 1950's, old buildings and structures that look like time has stopped in that city. That made me think that if time travel was real, it would focus here.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I think I'm a pretty boring writer. I don't have any rituals or habits per se, other than listening to 1950's music while I write.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
I've always listed Stephen King as my main inspiration, especially in the art of writing short stories. But of course, other writers do that with great skill. For this one, I was inspired by the books of Frederic Brown, who was an amazing "flash fiction" writer.

What are you working on now?
The next book will be the second volume in the "Tempus Investigations" series – season two, if you will. I've just finished the book and it's waiting to get published.
I'm extremely proud of this new season – it's not only the longest, but also the darkest book I've ever written. When we left the Tempus team in season one, everything was good – but it's going to take a turn for the worse very quickly. Jim and his friends will have their hands full.
This time, I've tried to listen to some of the things my readers have told me they would enjoy – such as more romance, more character development and more danger – and I hope they will enjoy the story.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I usually use Facebook, and try to persuade bloggers to review the book. Whether or not it's the best way, I can't tell…

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Keep writing. Keep reading. No matter if you think you're only producing crap, keep going. Every story makes you a little better.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I said this the last time as well, but it's still the best advice:
"Write less like the people you admire, and more like yourself."

What are you reading now?
I'm halfway through an old book by Mark Frost (Yes, the Twin Peaks guy!) called "The chain of seven." It's a story about Conan Doyle fighting evil cultists!

What’s next for you as a writer?
Honestly, at this point I'm not sure. I might continue with season three of Tempus Investigations, but I usually do another book in between them. Right now, i've been fiddling with kind of a love story – but I'm not sure if it will be good enough for publication.

What is your favorite book of all time?
Last time I did this interview, I said Sherlock Holmes and "The Hyperion Cantos," but since then I re-read Stephen King's "It" and I think that took the first place now.

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Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
My name is Colin Guest a freelance writer who lives in Istanbul. I have written six books. These include a memoir re my working as an expat in fifteen countries, a couple of fiction books and an erotic filled novel. Apart from my books I have had articles published in various online magazines, with one published in a UK expat magazine. In conjunction with Voyage media, I wrote a pilot episode for what they think could be suitable for a television series. I also write poetry with several doing well in contests. One being made into a film. A newspaper in my hometown in England, UK, published an article re my writing. I took part in a live American radio show and did a one-hour podcast re my writing. I have also taken part in a number of online interviews, with my latest, a radio interview with Lisa Burton, a gorgeous robotic interviewer.
I am keen on environmental and wildlife issues and worked as a volunteer at wildlife rescue/rehabilitation centers in South Africa and Thailand. For those interested in wildlife, I highly recommend you try it. My pen name of Tigerman, comes from my love of tigers, with my adopting one for the past twelve years.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is a short fiction story entitled Impending Disaster.
The idea of writing just came to mind one day. I guess in part from reading about the cutbacks to the Parks Department in America

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write sitting on the sofa in our television room, as I find it more comfortable than in my study.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Lee Child and several thers

What are you working on now?
An action book re a terrorist plot and another romantic story.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use Facebook mainly

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Once you start writing never give up.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
No matter how good you think your work is, always have it professionally edited before thinking of publishing it.

What are you reading now?
A Touch of Blilliance

What’s next for you as a writer?
I hope to get one of my books made into a film on television

What is your favorite book of all time?
I don't really have one.

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