Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am wrapping up my 3rd book, I truly enjoy writing despite it being like having multiple bi-polar personalities. I enjoy hearing back from so many people that have been helped from my books, from young teens to adult soldiers and to other cancer patients.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
I started with “Glass Screams” a book about a young teen girl whom had to learn to overcome having been molested as well as face down her attacker in court while struggling to thrive through physical rehab post car accident. I followed up with “3rd Hand Ranch” which deals with teen bullying and follows a group of girls and their own individual challenges. I am finalizing my third novel called “As the Rains Break” which follows a family and one mans challenges to get his family through the Dust bowl coupled with the Great Depression.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I often don a hoodie, hide under my headphones as retire to my office in my basement, I fend off most forms of distraction possible. My office is a disaster, with several hundred book plots and related notes, the desk ,the walls and even the bed are strewn with things, from packets of paper for each book to a roll of butcher paper to map out whole towns, if I didn’t have such a mass of intel in my mind and know exaclty where everything was, I might get lost myself.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
The successful ones, honestly I dealt with dyslexia growing up so reading was painful, yet I can write for sixteen to twenty hours before realizing the time has gone by. I truly enjoy writing and it’s flattering that I’m seeing so many interested readers.
What are you working on now?
I am wrapping up “As The Rains Break” and am aiming for a release date towards the end of January, once I submit all of my work and finish with my graphic designer than I immediately head into another novel. I am aiming to hve my 8th novel out my xmas 2014, as a single parent I take my summers off from writing and I don’t write in the afternoons.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have been navigating many of the promo sites and abilities on my own, I have a small team that helps with so much of the smaller details but alot of the promo stuff boils down to being my responsibility for now still. I have a graphic designer to help with covers, a part time editior I added to my staff and a media person, the rest is still on me.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Editing is the bane of my existence, writing isn’t about making money, it’s about getting out whatever it is that you need to get out.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write drunk, Edit sober -Hemmingway
What are you reading now?
I am to busy writing to read, but someday maybe
What’s next for you as a writer?
more and more books, I love starting a new novel, the potential, the characters ,making everything work and fit. I also love wrapping up a book even though I feel sad to let it go and hope that others find the enjoyment within the pages that I did while writing.
I have hundreds of story lines, plots and makings of novels, I can only hope to continue to enjoy writing my 300th novel as much as I’ve enjoyed my first, second and now third.
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?
wouldn’t even know where to begin
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