Interview With Author Lewis Ritter
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a retired teacher from Bergen County NJ. I started writing in the late 1980’s. I have written several screenplays that have done well in screenwriting competitions. I worked with Crossroads Entertainment in L.A on several projects including a sci-fi series and book adaptations, I’ve just published my first novel.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Turbulence: Dispatches from the Student Protest Movement Rutgers 1970. I was a student at the time and witnessed many events of the era. I used it to create a television script for a series in 2013. It has evolved and is now published in the first of a series of historical fiction novels.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I try and write every day.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
R.L. Tecklenberg, Harlan Coben, Erica Spindler for mystery fiction. Erica Spindler wrote a book called Justice for Sarah that I could not put down. I was a member of the Mystery Writers of America .
What are you working on now?
Book 2 & 3 of the Turbulence series of novels
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Going to local libraries and bookstores to set up book events.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t give up. Its a process and a craft that must be developed over time.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Treat it as a hobby at first and do a little bit every day and within a short period of time, it will be written.
What are you reading now?
An old mystery thriller by Bill O’Reilly about murders in the Cable News business. Its old, but gripping and very visual.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Book 2 & 3 of the Turbulence series
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?
Sci-Fi by Robert Silverberg, Mysteries by Agatha Christie and C,J Box