Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a mixed genre independent author. I started with Erotica shorts after becoming frustrated a fantasy novel I am working on wasn’t getting anywhere (world building, characters etc have taken me about eleven years). I really wanted to feel as though I was getting somewhere, so I dipped my toes into making erotica shorts.
Currently, I have fourteen shorts which are out for purchase but have a fifteenth novel I have been working on for the past couple of months. It is a different genre then the erotica and is rather dark. I had one person read it and nearly threw up.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Latest book I have completed is Tribal Dawn: Blood-and-Shadow. It will be out to buy at some point in October after other things have cleared up. Not going to lie, I am crapping myself about its release.
For inspiration, well it actually started with one of my Erotica series, Tribal Alpha. They are written from the perspective of a young woman who becomes infatuated with a warrior. As I continued to write it though, the characters had backgrounds of their own and questions kept coming to mind about why they are like that, but I knew for the purpose of Erotica, I couldn’t include the full story of it. I kept it as a diary of this girl and decided to start the bigger novel as a separate project.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
All my characters must have a couple of songs they can related to otherwise they are not real enough for me to create. I have no idea why, but it seems to work.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’m not actually a big reader of fiction myself, not because I don’t want to, more because I don’t have the time. When I do get the chance though, I tend to read historical stories on different cultures or mythological tales.
What are you working on now?
Currently working on the second Tribal Dawn.
After that, I will be working on releasing twelve more short Erotica’s before December, in particular series which I started but I got distracted from. They will be the last I release of the genre for some time so I can focus my energies on Tribal Dawn and then the longer, fantasy project after.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I don’t really have a method and am still learning much of the process myself. I think blogging weekly has helped a lot and staying active on social media.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Make a plot line plan, even just a single sentence to summarise each chapter. That has become invaluable to me with times of writers block.
Don’t keep on checking how many you have sold each day, leave it at the very least a week between because it does become disheartening.
Do stay active on social media and make sure to blog at least once a week, even if it only gets one view and you are only writing that your cat threw up on you that week.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
To schedule writing, no matter what. Even with writers block, keep on writing.
What are you reading now?
The Touch of Ghosts by John Rickards. Although I am an incredibly slow fiction reader and not that far into it. So far though, I am enjoying it!
What’s next for you as a writer?
Keep on writing! Finish up the erotica’s by December, have all the Tribal Dawns completed and released by summer next year and then onto the project which I have been working on for over a decade!
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 SAS Survival Handbook, Zulu Rising by Ian Knight, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (the one I never got to finish as a teen!), A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin (in the middle of reading that too).
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