Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Former police intelligence officer, former strategy professor at Rutgers University in NJ, current owner of the largest training institute for corporate competitive intelligence. Published 6 books in business, one children book.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
There Will Be Hell To Pay. Inspiration from multiple events: personal experience with deaths of sister and of closest friend, disgust with politicians (Hilary Clinton’s famous “what difference does it make” when testifying about responsibility for the deaths in Benghazi), libertarian philosophy (held since undergraduate studies in Philosophy), work with Fortune 500 companies. Above all: Ayn Rand’s novels espousing serious moral message about personal responsibility via fiction.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
If you consider writing at 5:00am as unusual, then yes.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and Anthem, Mark Cain’s Circles of Hell series, Christopher Moore, and definitely Neil Gaiman. The protagonist in my book is Jack Merriman. See the resemblance?
What are you working on now?
The next book in the series of Celestial Inc.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Hiring Chicklit Cafe.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes: never ever leave your day job. And email me with a request for my (extremely insightful, helpful, fun and devestating) analysis of the “extraordinary industry of literary agents.”
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I have bad hearing in one of my ears due to being a rock drummer in my teen years. So I can’t hear advice.
What are you reading now?
Sci fi.
What’s next for you as a writer?
The next book in the series, Celestial Inc.
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?
How to survive on a desert island vols 1-4.
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