Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m Christy and I’ve been writing for a long time now. How many books is a hard number to guess. I’ve filled entire five subject notebook with words for the better part of 30 years now. Only 6 of them so far have been published, but there are many just waiting to come out.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Fogoyle: The Beginning is my latest book. It is book #4 in my Fogoyle Series. I wrote this book because the first three books in the series demanded it. They are short stories that just give glimpses at single scenes. This book reveals the bigger picture, and opens things up for more stories to follow.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not that are unusual to me? I do tend to procrastinate a lot. I’ll go days without writing much of anything, and then write until my fingers and eyes bleed trying to catch up.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Dean Koontz and Steven King are staples for me. The Stand and the Odd Tomas series have greatly influenced me personally, and my writing.
What are you working on now?
Right now I’m finishing up a rewrite on a new story called Terrible Friend. It’s a new, paranormal adventure duo. Two books is as far as I’ve gotten in the planning stages so it could end up being a series of at least three, but right now it’s stopping at two.
I’m also working on a non-fiction series of ebooks and a program For Writers. It deals with the fundamentals of customer relationship and reputation building, heavy on the professionalism.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I’m just getting into the real marketing game. I’ve been published for 3 years and I’m just now reaching out beyond Facebook to promote. I’ve run a few ads on AMS and Facebook, but panicked and stopped everything. I don’t like to gamble with money I haven’t made yet, so I’m going with as many free and cheap methods as I can find and submitting to all of them and reading everything I can get my hands on about marketing to learn how to do it right.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Two pieces of advice for new authors.
1) Learn to market from the beginning.
2) Your author reputation is EVERYTHING! Build it to be what you want it to be so no one else can build it for you.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The best advice I’ve ever heard would have to be, “You can’t do that!”
I’m a “hold my beer” kind of girl. The more often I hear you can’t, the more often I have to do it to make sure that I can.
What are you reading now?
Brian Meek’s My Facebook Ads Suck and blogs and articles about marketing, promoting, and running ads to boost book sales.
What’s next for you as a writer?
As a writer? Hard covers and being in actual stores. My current goal is to get a selfie from a young girl holding one of my books at a check out counter at a Barnes & Noble. My books are available and selling there online, but they aren’t in actual stores yet. I have 6 more books scheduled to release in 2019.
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 Odd Thomas Series and blank notebooks.
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