Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Well, I have a MS in Physics, spent a couple decades of my life caring for one parent or another (father had Parkinson’s Disease), and have pretty much lived the short end of the stick. However, long ago I had a dream and over time have worked to make it come true. All through the horror of my Dad’s illness, I developed it then began to write. My writing became as a bright light in a life of darkness and now I want to share it with everyone.
As far as how many… you’d best sit down for this one, because while I currently only have a handful of them released, I’ve got enough here to keep any 3 publishers busy for about a full decade.
Maldene: 13 novel series (each book averages around 375,000, with a couple a lot higher)
Inspector Flaatphut: 1 short story, one novella, and 4 novels.
Cyberdawn: 5 books
Land Of the Hive (Written for a partner): 8 books
In all, I think it’s somewhere over 8 million words worth of inspired entertainment.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Maldene II: Mysteries of Olde is scheduled for release this May 15 (on pre-order now through Amazon). It is the second full novel in the Maldene series, the first sequel to Maldene (in the form of Volumes 1 and 2), and begins to take the story to places unsuspected.
What inspired it? Well, that’s a story in itself, one that’s over 15 years in the making.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have my stereo playing while I write (lots of epic music), and write about 8-10 hours a day then edit at night. What’s unusual about that?
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Just about ALL of them. I read a lot growing up and was always making notes in the back of my head.
What are you working on now?
Ghostwriting for my clients until I can get my own works better known.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Still working on that.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write your passion, NOT the market.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Well, the worst advice I’ve ever heard, surprisingly from a well-known author, was to write whatever the market is asking for. Except that can change by the time you finish the book. So I guess the best advice is that which I have discovered for myself:
1) Write what you love.
2)They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the goal of a good writer is to make one word worth a thousand pictures.
What are you reading now?
Something I’d editing for a client. Can’t say anything more (NDA).
What’s next for you as a writer?
Once I get my own books going well enough to get back to my own stuff, I have some notes on another world to start up a new epic around. This time it has 16 moons and some rather interesting aspects to it. I began with the premise of two things: 1) no Humans, 2) water (H2O) would be dangerous here. The rest just… evolved.
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?
Well, I’d cheat a little, in that I would take books with “The Compiled Works of…” in their titles. You know, like “The Complete and Unabridged Compiled Works of Homer,” as the first book. Oh, and naturally “The Complete and Unabridged Compiled Works of Mark Anthony Tierno.” 🙂
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