Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am married to Sally, and we live in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, having moved here about 7 years ago from England. Since moving, I have written two books, become a restaurant reviewer for our island newspaper, and do book reviews for a well known UK publishing house. I have also driven an old Mercedes 300SL convertible from England to my new home, using the experience to include in my first book, Dog Days in The Fortunate Islands.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is entitled Prunes for Breakfast and narrates the WW2 story of my father from his enlistment in 1940 to his release from a German Prisoner of War camp in 1945, via capture in Normandy. The book tells his story partly through the usage of his letters home to his wife and is therefore a realistic and real time chronicle of live during that period.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I don’t think so! I just sit at the dining room table and pound it out on the computer once I have fleshed it out in my mind.
What are you working on now?
I have recently finished my second book and therefore I am heavily involved in promotion and marketing.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I like to think that it is my own! you can see it at www.johnsearancke.com
However, my two biggest sales outlets have been Amazon and through my publisher, Troubador in the UK.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
If you think that you have a book in you, then go for it! BUT, make sure that you use a professional editor and proof reader or copy editor. There is nothing worse than picking up a book to read and finding it full of punctuation errors, grammatical mistakes or even worse.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Believe in yourself. If you don’t, nobody else will.
What are you reading now?
The latest Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child. I am also a huge fan of Bernard Cornwell and have read all of his historical novels bar one, which is awaiting me back in England for Christmas.
What’s next for you as a writer?
My third book, if my wife does not divorce me first!
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?
I think that I would go for some old classics – which are very long – such as War & Peace. I do like Stendhal’s Scarlet & Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.
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