Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
7 I have written 7 books all about my travels, the first A Maverick Traveller, A Maverick New Zealand Way as I live here, A Maverick Pilgrim Way I have a British Passport and are of Spanish and French ancestory, A Maverick USA Way as I love that country, A Maverick Cuban Way as I loved those people, A Maverick Himalayan Way – just loved the hiking,
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
A Maverick Inuit Way and the Vikings I ended up in Greenland and Iceland. I just ended up there and had always wanted to go to Greenland, when I was in Iceland I was so pumped what a beautiful place.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Yeah adapt to the environment with a pen and paper where there is no power, on a tablet when I lose my computer cable, then my laptop, on trains, planes, buses, in hosted dorms in hotel rooms you name it I write on the top of mountains in Nepal.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Bill Bryson and random books and authors, a book about the last gathering of nomadic people in the Himalayas, and a true biography by a former British soldier.
John Pilger I really like his depiction of the worlds problems and Robert Fisk, also has an alternative viewpoint.
Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries.
Naiomi Kleins views of the environmental issues we are facing at the moment.
What are you working on now?
My next books
A Maverick Australian Way
A Maverick Middle Eastern Way
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Medium
My website www.a-maverick.com on instagram and my facebook page
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just believe in yourself and do not give a toss
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Its the journey not the destination .
What are you reading now?
Beaufort, by Ron Leshem. It’s about an old castle that later became an Israeli outpost during the troubles in Lebanon. I visited this castle which is close to a museum run by Hezbollah; interesting reading about the Israeli soldiers and how they fought here.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Keep on keeping on, enter my books in book festival, hope to make some money and to continue travelling
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?
Some more books by Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. The Subtle Art of not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson,
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