Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am Andre Michael Pietroschek, a rock-bottom hobby author. By now I have published 2 ebooks, plus a paperback on customer demand, and work on getting them translated. Sadly my publisher has terms, on format, which I no longer appreciate, so my next ebook would be via another publisher, or self-publishing.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Title is: Old roleplay stories & fiction – Unpaid prose of a mediocre gamer. It is a shortstory collection of all I had published cost-free throughout the recent years. One day I sat back at home, after ending my urban homelessness & eager to live a more regular life again, and decided it can’t hurt to attempt a low-price lucky shot here. Of course it failed miserably.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Smoking, as if lung cancer does not exist, coffee, and the opposite rushes of healthy food, workouts, or taking a walk through the real world.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Plenty, even though I stick with my old saying that life itself is the best author ever, as it writes the really important tales for each of us.
What are you working on now?
Regular job applications, as I never waited for my hobby to pay-out. Getting my ebooks translated, and the struggle of investing the unpaid efforts to either try one novel, or focus the occult worksheets I wrote to become a low-sales, but high on my list publication.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I scored zero sales, becoming urban homeless spoiled the publication of four further ebooks, and by all I know: If I ever find a way, which scores paying customers, then I will certainly keep it a secret.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes, become programmers, or get a real job. Life is too precious to swallow the frustration, time lost, and competition of a dying industry (writing).
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Stay true to yourself, for nobody else ever will!
What are you reading now?
I am back in the final part of Miyamoto Musashi’s Book of Five Rings, the book of the void.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Customers, god, please, make it some billion paying customers! Amen.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Poisoned ones, so I die quickly.
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