Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I live in Thailand. I have lived in the UK and Italy. I worked at “La Sapienza”, University of Rome, for many years. I published poems and short fiction in the past in small magazines. Some poems also won prizes. I have written more than five books and published three, two on KDP.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Collected Selected Words” / Thailand
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Well, insomnia which means you can find me writing at three and four a.m.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Well, I like to think everything I’ve read. Different books inspire you at different periods of your life. If I had to be specific, I’d say the classics I read in my teens and after up to about fifty years of age.
What are you working on now?
I have just finished rewriting “After Dawn” a short novel about young love.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Not very good at promoting but do like the idea of reciprocal reviewing.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
No, nothing inspirational. Just “read, write, read, write, practise, rewrite better, write with joy, remember the classics, remember your English classes at school!”
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Too, too much excellent advice out there but we have to know how to sift it….example : “We don’t receive wisdom. We must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us, or spare us.” That’s meditation from a great guy.
What are you reading now?
My own bloody stuff!!!
What’s next for you as a writer?
Keeping on.
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?
Collected works of Shakespeare
A big collection of great novels – as many as an editor could stuff in
One of the epic poets’ complete works
(then I’d mourn for what I had left behind)
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