Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have been an editor, proofreader, freelance writer, ghost writer and author for quite a while now, so publishing is an industry I am very familiar with. I have written a variety of fiction and non-fiction work, much of which has been published under a pen name, or was ghost written for someone else. Writing is a career I enjoy, I find the solitude and the challenges strangely tranquil and absorbing.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Little Gems Flash Fiction: Gripping Short Stories to Read in Your Lunchbreak is a collection of amusing and sometimes ironic little stories that I collated from real life experiences of people I know or anecdotal tales I have heard here and there. Some of the stories pack a lot of emotional impact and most have an amusing twist in the tale. They have been pulled together to entertain in those down time moments when an uplifting little tale is most welcome.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I really don’t, I’m a bit conventional really. I just pound away at my laptop and create written art.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I am writing a cozy mystery series at the moment and I have to say I have been influenced juts a bit by the one and only Janet Evanovitch.
What are you working on now?
My current challenge is a five book cozy murder mystery series which I am enjoying. It involves an earnest young woman who runs a karate club and is helping out her Mom who is very ill, by running her catering firm until her Mom gets better. The heroine has a passion for sleuthing and she is trying to write some crime fiction in between running her karate club business and running her Mom’s business. Of course there is a dark and elusive karate expert dude who runs a VIP security agency and an events booking business that often needs caterers.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am still organizing a website with a blog. At the moment, Amazon is all I’ve got but I’m working on it.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just this, you’ll feel discouraged and overwhelmed at times, we all do. So, just plug on and believe in yourself, achieve one step at a time toward your goal.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
About the same, and it really helped.
What are you reading now?
“Night School” a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ve got to get one step at a time done; set up my website and blog and finish my cozy mystery series.
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?
Probably some crime thrillers. Some whodunits.
Author Websites and Profiles
Anne Aylward Amazon Profile