Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Currently, I have nine books on Amazon.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is called “The Valley Beneath the World,” and is the first in a new planned series branching off of my “Stolen Future” books, the first of which is “The Invisible City.” The new book takes one of the supporting characters from The Stolen Future, Arlen Timash, an uplifted gorilla, and gives him his own adventure in a lost civilization willing to kill to keep its secrets.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think so. I don’t write every day, but I aim for 4-5 days a week, more if the muse is hectoring me. The pandemic has actually been good for that.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’m sure every author I’ve ever read has influenced me, and I studied literature and creative writing in college, so that’s a lot of authors, not to mention I’ve always been a reader. Sometimes I will binge-read a particular author if I’m trying for a specific style.
What are you working on now?
I am writing a pastoral space opera about a former assassin who’s been sent on an odd treasure hunt by someone who knows more about him than anyone should. It’s odd because he can’t specify exactly what he wants found, but he’s willing to pay a lot to get it. And a lot of people seem to want it to stay lost…
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My best results have come from paid Amazon advertising and from joining Facebooks groups devoted to the kinds of books I write.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t let anyone else see your first draft. Let it be messy. Let it be awful. Just get it done. And never pay to be published.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write about something that matters to you.
What are you reading now?
I’m between books at the moment; I’m too busy writing my own. But the last one I read was science fiction, so I’ll probably pick up a mystery next.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ve been developing an idea for a fantasy set against the battlefields of World War 1. The Great War was a demarkation point between the power of the Old World and the ascendancy of the New. There’s a lot to be mined there.
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 Boy Scout Handbook, for sure. As for the others, I don’t know, because I’d want them to be books I haven’t read yet.
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