Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have currently written around 24 books, but have only published one of them so far, and am working on many others.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest published book is, Mortal Realm Witch: Learning About Magic and it was inspired by a drawing that I did.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I can only write while I have either a TV show or a movie playing. The TV show or movie also has to be something I have never seen before, as well as something that I am liking but not into enough to give it my full attention.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Over time, book series such as, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and The Worst Witch have influenced me in writing my first series. For other books authors and series such as, Erin Hunters Warriors, Seekers, and Survivors, Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson, and Heroes of Olympus, David Clement Davies The Sight, and Ben M. Baglio aka, Lucy Daniels Animal Ark series.
What are you working on now?
Currently I am working on writing Book Five in the Mortal Realm Witch series, The Second Mortal Realm Witch Series Companion, a few eBook exclusives, a book of Adventure stories, a book of Superhero stories, a comic book/graphic novel, a couple of nonfiction books, and a compilation story with a group of authors called: The Battle of Ebulon.
For other things having to do with my books, I am currently working on turning Book One in the Mortal Realm Witch series, Mortal Realm Witch: Learning About Magic, into an eBook, Book Two in the series, The Magic Continues, is getting reviews. For Book Three, Realms Unite?, I am currently designing it’s cover as well as putting it into book format. Book Four has yet to be edited by my editor so I am waiting on that. The First Series Companion Book, Tales of Familiars, is completed with everything except beta readers and reviews which will happen very soon.
In other book news I am working on creating two new websites for my books. The Mortal Realm Witch series website will soon be exclusive to the series and all other book information and everything not related to the series will be moving to these new sites.
Other than this I am just working on writing my other books, doing artwork for them, naming them, and doing my best to promote them.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I haven’t really discovered a best method yet. So far when I have sold books online, I don’t know what it was the result of. I have found some vendor fairs to be a good place to sell books, or at least I sell some so I call it good, as well as library book sales, which the library in the next city over (not my own), let’s me sell during their sales. Because this is free and I usually sell a few books during that weekend, although it doesn’t hold the record for most books I have sold at one time, it is my most profitable method.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Right now, no. I don’t think I have been in the world of publishing or book marketing long enough to have any good advice yet.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Probably to keep writing and publishing, because as people find your books and like them, if they like them enough they will want to buy the next ones and continue to do so as long as the books are well written and edited.
What are you reading now?
I am actually reading a lot of books right now. This is my currently reading list:
Ripple by: Tui Allen
The Remarkables by: A.D. Elliott
A Supremely Bad Idea by: Luke Dempsey
Following Atticus by: Tom Ryan
The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Book Six, Ghost Hunter by: Michelle Paver
Time Riders: Day of the Predator, and Time Riders: The Doomsday Code by: Alex Scarrow
The Telling Pool by: David Clement Davies
Secrets of the Wolves (Book Two in The Wolf Chronicles) by: Dorothy Hearst
Green Lantern Sector 2814 Volume 1 by: Len Wein and Dave Gibbons
Tsubasa Those With Wings 1 by: Natsuki Takaya
The Last Days of Krypton by: Kevin J. Anderson
Batman: Inferno by: Alex Irvine
Eureka: Road Less Traveled by: Cris Ramsay
What’s next for you as a writer?
Refer back to the previous question of, What are you working on?, for the answer. You can also, until my new sites are up, always find what I am currently working on throughout the Mortal Realm Witch website: http://www.mortalrealmwitch.com.
What is your favorite book of all time?
I just have had and read too many books that I really like to choose one out of them all. One of my favorites that I read when I was younger and still read today (and I don’t really like to reread books so this is saying something) is not one book, rather a series or several series to be more accurate. For me it is the Wishbone series made up of: Wishbone: Tales of a Pup, Wishbone: The Early Years, Wishbone: Classics, The Adventures of Wishbone, The Super Adventures of Wishbone, Wishbone Mysteries, and Wishbone Super Mysteries. If I had to choose just one of these series I would choose the Wishbone Mysteries as my favorite, but that is as far as I can narrow down.
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