Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
When my first novel was published in 1981, I had no idea where I was headed. Since then, I’ve published thirty-six novels, thirty-three of them with traditional publishers, but in 2008, I decided I wanted more freedom than the traditional publishers would allow and began a new phase in my life as an Independent Author.
I live and write in a small village about thirty miles upstate of NYC, and share my house with my wife, Bonnie and our dog Alfie, an apricot poodle. Our three children have ventured out into the world on their own (or so they think). Our son Zach works on the CBS show 48 Hours. Our daughter Devon, her husband Russell and my grandson Sawyer live in New Jersey where Devon teaches Special Education. Alana, our youngest daughter, is a Pastry Chef in San Francisco.
I write Science Fiction & Fantasy, Thrillers, Suspense and Mysteries.
In 2008, I published Angels In Mourning, my ‘homage’ to the old time private detective books of the 50’s and the 60’s. I used to love to sneak them from my parents’ night-tables and read them as a young boy. Angels, is a modern day take on the old style hardboiled detective. In April of that year, Angels In Mourning won the Amazon.com Book of the Month Reader’s Choice Award.
My Medieval Fantasy, Queen Of Knights, reached #2 on the amazon.com bestseller lists for historical fantasy and medieval fantasy, and my sci-fi of parallel worlds, The Others, received wide acclaim.
I am currently working on the third volume of the Tales of Nevaeh. Volume II will be out in the late spring.
My novels have been translated into 11 languages and published in 15 countries.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Born To Magic, Tales Of Nevaeh, Volume I. Released Date 2/15/15
Born To Magic, came form the terrible situation the world faces today from the various terrorist organizations. When I started this novel (began to put down ideas) two years ago, the terrorists were just terrorists, today, they are banding together. This is what I had seen back then, and Born To Magic grew out of the question, what would happen to our future if the terrorists began a world war using nuclear weapons.
Born To Magic, takes place 3000 years after the terrorists did just that.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No, it might make a good story, but I simply get up, have some breakfast and go to work. I do have a process, which is to write in the mornings, than after lunch, edit what I’ve written. The next morning I go over the work I did the day before, and continue on. I am a contributor for the book, The LIfeboat: Surviving The Writer’s Life, in which six authors describe their processes, their life and what is necessary to do to survive as a writer.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
My reading has always been a polyglot mixture and to list it all is more than will fit here. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andre Norton, Sidney Sheldon, Yerby, Asimov, King, Costain, Bradberry, Ludlum, Spillane, Heinlein, Van Vogt, Bester, etc…
What are you working on now?
Volume III of Tales Of Nevaeh. Volume II, The Dark Masters is in the editorial process.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I don;t have a handle on the very “best”, but am working on that.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write, don;t be distracted by others. Don;t give your work to family members until its finished and you have a few ‘outside’ opinions. Family members will either LOVE IT, or won;t say anything other than “interesting”. Find a writer group where you can show your work and read others. Both help tremendously.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
There were two instances: The first was in a writing course at The New School in NYC. The professor sent back a chapter I was working on and said, ‘Don’t bother, you can’t write’. This naturally pissed me off and I sold my first book to a publisher 7 months later.
The second was from Andre Norton, who told me to just stick with it.
What are you reading now?
I’m about to start reading a new book by a writer friend of mine, Lisa Verge-Higgins title, ‘Senseless Acts Of Beauty’
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’ve been talking to my co-writer about a sequel to “The Cured”. Terese Daly Ramin and I wrote The Cured, in 2013 and two of the characters have good ‘legs’ and we are working out an outline for another book.
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?
Heinlein’s, Stranger In A Strange Land, An Asimov book or possibly trilogy, Ludlum’s The Chancellor Manuscript, and at least one great PI mystery.
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