Interview With Author M.J. Boin De
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
This is my very first time as an author. I am already working on my second book, which will be in a completely different genre and is the first in what will be a series of at least three.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Shit That We Should Never Pass Along, And All That We Cannot Leave Behind, is a dramatic fictional memoir. All of the traumas in the book were ones that I personally experienced as I was growing up. However, the dramatic scenes that I built around the trauma experiences were designed to remind readers that darkness is always in some form or fashion balanced out by the light. This book is one that I think many readers and reviewers have already indicated that they are stunned by the fact that I balanced the book with dark and light in equivalent measures.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I’m not afraid to go into the rawest and most offensive of places. This is something that I think those who enjoy reading dark humor will find is fairly consistent about how I take on my characters’ journeys. I appreciate authenticity even if it means that a character’s nature is one that makes us angry one moment and then die laughing the very next. I’m not afraid to change up and challenge where other more traditional writers might follow the rules of writing. For example, in Shit That We Should Never Pass Along, And All That We Cannot Leave Behind I deliberately misuse the Preface of the story to allow Gina’s character to introduce where it is that she keeps finding herself with her three daughters each month. I did this because no X Generation child would ever make the mistake of not allowing their Boomer Parent to tell the entire world just how “Expert” they are when it comes to their own children. Failure to do so would’ve resulted in a very serious generational error on my end. I also deliberately use sentence structure mishaps to indicate to the reader that they are now looking at a character that’s in trauma.
As I’m writing my next book, I’ve discovered that while other writers tend to use Dialouge between their characters to slow down the action of the book, I have reversed that, and tend to use the action to slow down my characters’ dialouge.
I guess you could say that I’m a writer that enjoys breaking all of the rules of writing.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Maya Angelou, Patrick F. McManus, Ken Kesey, Flannery O’Connor, Ken Follett, Erma Bombeck, William Faulkner, just to name a very few.
What are you working on now?
I’m almost finished writing my next novel. The first in a series of three novels, I’m switching gears and moving into writing in the Historical Romance Genre. Of course, I’ll be putting my own humorous and sometimes awkward, offensive, and sometimes just downright inappropriate spin on everything.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I currently use both Instagram and Facebook to promote my book. I can be reached through either platform and would love to hear from folks who have read my first book.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Be patient with yourself throughout the journey.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I wrote a one-liner in my first book, which was actually something that my Godfather said to me when he could see that I was floundering in my mid-twenties. What he said to me was, “God will always help you. But you have to row the boat!” He swore that my mother wanted to hear this message. While timely in its delivery, I couldn’t help but laugh, because I’m from the landlocked State Of Kansas. Clearly, my mother’s ghost was struggling to find a decent metaphor. But. I still took her point.
What are you reading now?
I’m actually an audible girl these days. And, I’m into the naughty genres. I can’t find enough Historical Romances that Rosalynd Landor reads. I need authors that are lucky enough to get her to read to hurry up and write more for her to read.
What’s next for you as a writer?
My series of three Historical Romance Novels are Up Next for me.
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?
How long will I be stranded? Because if I’m looking at putting in time similar to Castaway, then I’ll seriously need to make sure that I’ve packed some Ken Follett Novels if I’m to avoid making any new friends named Wilson while I’m stranded.
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