Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Angela started writing stories when she was 8 years old. Her first story was about Indiana Jones and she wrote it on pages she tore out of her school books. She has come a long way since those early days. She invents her own heroes now, but she tries to keep the sense of passion and wonder that infused her early forays into the craft.
When she’s not herding her three children through the garden of their Johannesburg home, Angela surrounds herself with words in all their glorious forms. She is the submissions editor for an online magazine, the lead technical writer for a fast-growing software company, a dedicated author and a voracious reader.
She tends to write darker stories, and enjoys experimenting with genre. Horror and fantasy will always be her first loves (yes, she can have two), but she also enjoys science fiction and thrillers.
Her short stories can be found in numerous anthologies and self-published on Amazon.com.
Angela’s novel about the zombie apocalypse with a dash of psychological terror and a sprinkling of guilt, A Taste of You (Amazon), was published in December 2012.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My newest release is Dead Ends and Sharp Bends, and it is an anthology of my short fiction. I won the Inkitt End Game horror competition in August, and I felt like it was a great opportunity to put some of my short fiction together for new readers to discover my style (it’s dark).
Apart from that I’m busy putting the final touches on a novel set in Johannesburg, which deals with witchcraft and ritual murder in South Africa.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have a chaotic household, so the best time for me to write is when the kids and my husband are not around. I like to get up early and write if I can, or stay up late after everyone has gone to sleep. Apart from that I’m pretty usual.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I think that everything I consume influences me in some way. Whether it’s Terry Pratchett or Joe Abercrombie, Steven King or Dean Koontz, it all goes into the hot volcano of creativity in my cranium.
What are you working on now?
Right now I’m working on the first draft of a thriller-with-ghosts set in a small town in South Africa. It’s about a woman who moves into a new home with her family and discovers something terrible that happened there at the same time as the murderous previous owner shows up to protect his secret.
I’m in love with the idea, and I hope it gets onto the page well!
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I do very little promotion. I think it’s more important to just be me and try to connect with people, if they’re interested in my books they’ll pick them up.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Finish what you start. That’s really the most important thing, if you don’t learn how to write a book from start to finish, you’ll never make it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Finish your shit! Completo el poopo!” by Chuck Wendig.
What are you reading now?
I’ve just started reading Stella Gemmel’s The City. I’m in the mood for some Fantasy after a long stretch of thrillers and suspense novels.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ve recently signed a contract for a novel which I will start on as soon as the current WIP is in the drawer. The contract is with the Ed Greenwood Group, and I’m really excited about the opportunity Ed has given me.
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?
Ugh, can’t I be stranded on a desert island that has a library?
Okay, okay! Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, and S. by by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams.
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