Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Born on the 2nd of July in 1972. Loner, deviant, ex-homeless, who returned only to get a one-year contract, and go unemployed again. All-Time-Low was my normalcy for 47 years.
Author and storyteller of at least 3 ebooks, and several short story stand-alones. Also maker and editor of the first, experimental audiobook adaptations.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
THE EAGER DETECTIVE, as it became expired-copyright, but i loved the original story and worked through grammar issues and made a first audiobook version at: https://awesound.com/AristoBum
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yeah, bad ones. I am addicted to nicotine, and no love it sermon fooled me, when it comes to the dangers and my need to overcome the addiction, or learn handling it better.
Talking and cursing, aloud, while home alone writing and translating.
Missing my cat, even though she is dead for more than 10 years. Cat, not wife. Mourning is over, but her role in my life remained unfilled.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Many of the struggling ones, those of us, who try to make sufficient money to fund the production of movies and video games. Some of the established ones, who taught us that “writing” is an ordeal, not a one-shot and Hollywood is ours kinda ego-trip!
What are you working on now?
Knowing I can’t escape poverty I wrote short stories & audio-stories, which I wanted to be written, but knew they wouldn’t sell. Latest example is a cost-free one, which turns my sexism into an anti-racism project. Not, for long dead history, but for one of my readers, who had a LONG need of therapy due to being a victim of racist violence and sexual abuse:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/11246871/late-vengeance-for-harley-warren-an-opti
Technically it is my own extension of H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Statement of Randolph Carter”, as my training and study in crime fiction made me reinvestigate it with a less “occult-crazed fandom mindeset”.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am still a failure of that, even with a lot of marketing 101 done properly. Prolific Works is a giveaway site all of us can join, but I left it after 14 days, as SLOW is exactly what I don’t look for.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Meditation exercise: Contemplate thoroughly, if the hints you receive will work for your own life, or if they were just what made somebody else get by, as an exception.
You will need donors, sponsors, and social networking in high doses. The work is NEVER done, just because we write a “THE END” under a story, or novel.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If it keeps you from being yourself, then get rid of it, or avoid it.
What are you reading now?
Jeff Schanz: The Vampyre’s Daughter, see: http://www.jeffschanz.com/author/
What’s next for you as a writer?
Audio scripting and self-training in first animation movie techniques. More important: A better balance of workouts, wandering, and writing. Living life, instead of merely observing and writing, to recite a cliche about us authors.
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?
Hollowed Book I hid my survival set in, hollowed book I hid my suicide-capsules in, and hollowed book I hid my cigarettes in! “Book 4: Vinny rulez! The Final Farewell”, written by A. M. Pietroschek ??? 😉
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