Interview With Author Maggie Tideswell
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a bestselling international author of paranormal spooky romance and one vampire. I live in South Africa, and my books are mostly set in and around Cape Town, South Africa. So far, I have 11 books published, another coming out on 16 December 2022. There are many more just waiting to be finalized and published. I must work faster.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My last title published is A Vmpire's Pantry. It is my only vampire, and I wanted to see if I could do it without beating a dead donkey. The vampire genre is saturated, and I wanted my vampire to be totally different to what you find in other books.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I think my only quirk is that I often work on more than one book at the same time. I have to be in love with my hero or the book just won't work.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Everything I have read in the past, and I read very wide. But if I have to name specific authors who influenced me, I'd say Dan Brown, Ken Follet, Philippa Gregory, Barbara Erskine to name but a few.
What are you working on now?
I'm adding the final touches to the second book in my vampire duology called A Vampire's Girl.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I use Twitter quite extensively, I blog sporadically and my mailerlite newsletter goes out every week on a Friday. If you would like to sign up for it, go here: https://app.mailerlite.com/sites/preview/5554913
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Oh yes. My advice is two-fold: write every day and grow a thick skin. Being an author and developing your own unique style takes hard work and dedication. Only by practicing daily can one become any good at it. And lets face it, not everyone is going to like what you write. Readers become quite vociferous about what they don't like about your work. Don't let it pull you down, and never, ever become embroiled in an argument with a reader. What you should aim for is to please some readers some of the time, because you won't ever please everyone.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
To keep it simple and to write what you know.
What are you reading now?
I love Autumn Archer's work and am steadily reading all her published books.
What’s next for you as a writer?
To find my readers and expand my fan base. I also need to bring out my books faster and complete the two series that got pushed aside along the way: the last 2 books in my steamy, ghostly Bridesmaids, Weddings & Honeymoons series, and the next two books in my almost Gothic Frontier Tales trilogy.
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'd bring Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth, Barbara Erskine's Daughters of Fire, and Autumn Archer's Jungle Fortress trilogy
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