Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
If you’ve checked my Author description, I mentioned I was a biology student. I’ve always been busy with my school work so I’m pretty much stuck reading textbooks like my life depends on it. On free days, I enjoy lazing about in my room or in a cafe with a romance book at hand. There’s just always something to enjoy under that genre, you know? Reading through the turmoil these fictional couples encounter and the happy ending while drinking my caffe latte is a guilty pleasure. After reading like this for a few years, I started writing stories I’ve kept hidden in my desktop. I finally decided to publish these stories starting with the Drifting Series and my upcoming Doctors in Love Series. Each series has multiple books under them which are all slowly being edited and prepared for release. Currently, I have Drifting Book 1 out and Cursed To Love: Doctors in Live Series Book 1 open for pre-order.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Drifting Book 1 is a paranormal romance novel that’s a combination of my love for romance stories and my curiosity. Honestly, I’ve always been curious about the different sleep-induced phenomena. Astral projection, lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis. There’s a bunch of those happening to people and I always wondered “What if there’s more?”. The idea that connects sleeping, brain waves, and memories eventually formed into “drifting”. I created a universe in writing that had this rare phenomenon and the main character, Dr. Nadia Markoff, that would embody my curiosities. Of course, it would only be right to give her a hot partner as well.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
How unusual is unusual? I just write for personal enjoyment so it’s not like I learned or researched how to write. My writing process is probably really normal subjectively. I start with conceptualizing the overall plot. Then I slowly make an outline of major events I’d want to put in and then insert details in chronological order. So, you could say that I start from vague and then slowly fill up plot holes.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Well, in general, romance novels and authors have all influenced me since I just can’t put books under that genre down. Because of that, no matter what I write, it’ll have romance in it. I guess if I had to name a specific author, it’d be Nalini Singh. I always find her romance novels interesting since they exist in unique parallel universes.
What are you working on now?
I’m actually pretty busy now. Like I said before, I have Cursed To Love going live soon too so I’m basically trying to arrange its publishing and marketing needs as well as trying to maintain Drifting’s promotion. On top of that, I’ve got Drifting Book 2 waiting to go into editing so you can watch out for the release of that soon too.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
You never go wrong with social media. People never let go of their phones these days so I naturally gravitate towards Facebook or Twitter where it’s easy to connect with people and join communities. There’s nothing more reliable than people to help spread the word.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Well, I guess I could say that it’s best to just put what you’ve got out there and work hard to try and get your book across because books exist to be read, right?
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Nonverbatim, it’s definitely got to be “It doesn’t have to be perfect, you’ve got to start somewhere. Let the world read what you have.” My friend told me that before I decided to start releasing my book and here I am.
What are you reading now?
Drifting is a story that slightly plays with time so I’ve been looking into a few time travel type romance novels and came across Trapped in Time: A Historical Time Travel Romance by Denise Daye. I haven’t finished it yet but it’s pretty interesting to see the present conflict with the past.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Right now, I’m just trying to get my book out there. I’ll continue promoting what’s already published and I’ll also work on getting the rest of what’s stuck in my PC edited, formatted, and released. It’s going to be very busy for me but I’m really excited to hear from people who like what I write.
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?
This is a pretty difficult question. But I guess I’ll bring what I haven’t read yet if I get stuck in the middle of nowhere. Definitely finishing up Trapped in Time: A Historical Time Travel Romance by Denise Daye and the rest of the series so that counts as three books. The last would be what’s next on my personal Reading List, Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright.
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