Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m an upmarket author from Montreal. I write what I would read. In other words, I’m looking for depth, close to what you would find in literary, but without leaving aside the vibrance you would find in a commercial novel. I was first published in a flash fiction collection book. I’m also an abstract painter, a musician and a product designer.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
The name of my last book is Thresholds: Entangled. What inspired me to write it was the existential crisis I went through. Some refer to that as the mid-life crisis. I refer to that as the lamentation of the soul trying to reach out to the distracted consciousness. I got out of depression and neurotic anxiety by myself and I wanted to offer the world a magnifying glass into my learnings, hopefully to inspire those who suffer psychologically, which is a scourge.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Every morning, I do some exercises in the form of reflexions, sketches and maxims. Otherwise, I mostly spend my Saturday morning writing novels.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Dostoevsky truly inspired me with Notes From the Underground. I wanted to bring more introspection into my characters like the protagonist in his story. Carl Jung truly fascinates me as well. His understanding of the soul and the unconscious is key to my work. He wrote The Red Book, which is a piece that resonates a lot with my first novel. The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton is a book that will obsess me forever. It is a huge influence in my first novel as well. Terrence Malick, the film director, also has a warm place in my heart. I just love how he injects philosophy in his movies. The Tree of Life is my favourite piece among all his work.
What are you working on now?
Right now I am doing the best I can to make Thresholds: Entangled change as many reader’s heart as possible
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
To be honest, I suck at marketing. I Tweet poorly, same goes for Instagram. It’s just not my cup of tea. But I believe Awesome Gang could be what I am looking for: reach out to reader’s heart.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just do it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Just do it.
What are you reading now?
The Red Book by Carl G. Jung, Ancient Greek Philosophers and Berzerk.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I want to finish a short story which goes deeply into my personal life. It’s an auto-fiction currently called Mother Teresa, That Whore.
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?
The Universal One by Walter Russell, the Red Book by Carl G. Jung, A Theory of Natural Philosophy by Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich and The Enneads.
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