Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have been a journalist, soldier, enumerator, roughneck, roustabout, prospector, blaster, doodlebug, security guard, and a convict librarian in a New Mexico prison. Fact is, I’ve done many more jobs just to stay afloat than the ones mentioned. I worked the deeprock mines after graduating high school. I joined the Army to escape Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, a diagnosis I would not learn of until I was sentenced to a halfway house for six months in 2004. I weighed 110 pounds after the ravage was done. I started writing again while a resident in a homeless shelter following the halfway hotel experience, placing it aside to take care of my mother in her dying days. How long did it take to write “Shadowdancer”? About forty-two years. It cost me a great deal more to research the substance of the book than the reasonable cover price to buy it.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Shadowdancer”. This is my debut book. Shadowdancer, and the next four books, are based upon my personal life experience.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I writing in my library, the largest room in my house other than my living room. I spend most of my time at home here as I have no distractions like a television, radio, or bothersome neighbors.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Any and all of the Southern Gothic writers.
What are you working on now?
I am co-authoring a memoir with another published author who has recently undergone chemotherapy for breast cancer. Did I mention that she is autistic? The book is as informative as it is positively reinforcing. It should be published before the end of 2019.
I am also working on book two of my four book semi-autobiography. It should be available to the public by early March, 2020.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Facebook at Pariah Press, and Twitter at Nolon Savas.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read, read, read. Once you have read thousands of books a fledgling writer should try his or her hand at established forms of poetry: villanelles, odes, sonnets, and the like. Become a keen observer of life. Talk with as many diverse people as you can. Above all LIVE LIFE. Other than Emily Dickinson, I firmly believe that living life to its fullest is a prerequisite. Travel is, after all, a proven form of education.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The Golden Rule. Sadly, there’s a cultural disconnect today with treating others as you would like to be treated.
What are you reading now?
“The Peyote Religion Among The Navaho” by David F. Aberle.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Complete my quartet of books of which “Shadowdancer” is the first book, followed by a book about living with the maelstrom that was my psychopathic brother. That book WILL NOT be written in first-person narrative but will be based on a true story as are my quartet.
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?
The Holy Bible, a massive collection of the world’s proverbs, Story of Civilization by Will and Arial Durant (I fudged; it’s an eleven volume set), and a blank book for writing in (ever-so-small to conserve space)
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