Interview With Author Courtney Sharpe
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am 40 years old with two children, a son and a daughter aged 11 and 10 years old, currently I am working as an IT technician. I am born and raised in Birmingham, UK. My background is Afro Caribbean
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book I have written is called how to survive in Babylon that has been recently released on September 8th. What inspired me to write this book is just life itself, experiences I have been through and overall just seeing the state of modern day society where I think there is so much problems that need practical solutions to help people manoeuvre in a society that is very one dimensional.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I can’t say I have any unusual writing habits, my style of writing is very straight forward and to the point of whatever message I am trying to convey.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Quite a few books influenced me.
From Niggas to Gods
Art of war
Muntu: African Culture and the Western World
Thomas Sankara Speaks
What are you working on now?
I have started to work on my second book that will be a part 2 to the first book I written, more information about that will be revealed in the near future.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am still learning where to promote my book as I am very new to the book market, at the moment I am using KDP to promote by book but I have recently learnt to go on book promotion sites as they can help to get exposure for your book to wider audience, like for example awesomegang.com is a good website as it provides a list of other book promoting websites.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
As I am new author myself and still learning my best advice to new self published authors is to be patient with the process of sales as it’s not going to be an overnight success, use book marketing websites as a cost effective way of marketing your book on a budget, make sure to setup an authors website so people can find information about you as an author.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
That’s a very hard question to answer as the good advice that has been given to me varies in terms of how I view it at that time.
What are you reading now?
I have started to a book called Financial Joy
What’s next for you as a writer?
Right now I am in the process of getting my authors website created which is nearly finished and will be up and running some time in the week, once I get some time I will try and put some work into writing my second book as I have already started to working on it.
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?
One book I would take is the one I am currently reading which is Financial Joy, Politics UK.
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