Boshra Rasti

Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Boshra Rasti was raised in British Columbia, Canada and works as an expatriate teacher in Qatar. She received a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership at Royal Roads University, which proved a fateful blow to her belief in anything hierarchical. However, it did spark her desire to flee from the real world and start writing about other ones. When she is not working to earn a living, she enjoys the escape that reading and writing lend her. She also enjoys physical running, even if it is of the sadistic variety in Qatar.

What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Surrogate Colony was inspired by a Cyberpunk workshop I attended at my local writing club. I had to write a monologue for a character that lived in a dystopian world. The result: Adriana Buckowski who is the unusual and fierce main character of Surrogate Colony.

Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Other than procrastinating by making elaborate dishes, like cabbage rolls and Blackforest cake (not in the same dish), I don’t.

What authors, or books have influenced you?
Former Soviet Block writers tantalize me. I believe the creative spirit when brushing up against its own annihilation becomes a force that nothing can squelch, not even the most fearful of dictators.

What are you working on now?
I am working on the sequel and prequel of Surrogate Colony.

What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Goodreads is. I hope they aren’t affiliated in any deep way with Amazon…I have a few choice words…

Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just write. Breath it, feel it, rip it up, through a book across a room…but still write.

What is the best advice you have ever heard?
So what? Every time you write a paragraph, ask yourself…so what?!

What are you reading now?
What Feeds the Heart by Daryl Glinn-Tanner

What’s next for you as a writer?
Don’t give up. Keep on honing my craft. Look up; things are bigger than right now.

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 books that are going to make me feel better about being on a desert island. That means stories of doom and gloom.
“One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”
“Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
“Man’s Search for Meaning”

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