Interview With Author Nya Murray
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a cybersecurity architect. I’ve been writing technical reports forever. In 2015 I published my first book, Earth to Climate Change. It is traces the effects of climate change on our past, present and future adaptations to social, political and climate factors since the last glaciation. Deeply simple solutions to climate change are available. We already have a blueprint for the clean technology future. Responding to the threats of extreme weather events, the risks of disaster, and the associated large-scale migration of populations is as close as our family tree.
My new book is a political thriller set in beautiful Kakadu Park. The protagonists come from all over the world to attend a paleo astronomy field trip. Traditional Owners and Parks Australia are at loggerheads, while a multinational miner is stalling over the clean up of the uranium mine inside the park. What will the NT police uncover about the body found at Gunlom Falls, and what has this to do with the US, UK, Australia military alliance? Read it to find out!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Kakadu Mystery was inspired by wanting to prevent a nuclear undersea accident in a world that cannot take any more eco shocks, with the ice sheets melting at a rate of 10,000 tonnes per second.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I sat in a basement in Copenhagen to tell the story, probably inspired by the tradition that produced Hans Christian Andersen and The Little Mermaid. You have to be inspired by a respect for storytelling.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
All western literature, read at a pace that would give you indigestion in teenage years. I do love good spy thrillers and murder mysteries. Favourite 20th century authors P G Wodehouse and Agatha Christie.
What are you working on now?
Part two of the Blazingly Beautiful and Brilliant Souls trilogy, Standstill Moon in Scotland. The protagonists from book one are in Scotland, exploring stone circles and the 18 year event of the standstill moon. They uncover a secret undersea mining operation in the Arctic, courtesy of Sami people who tell the secrets of a Russian Chinese base over the border to friends and relations in Norway.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Kindlepreneur of course.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Tell your story, no matter what. If you have a story to tell, someone wants to read it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
The eternal validity of the soul.
What are you reading now?
Astronomy from the Beginning, Chistopher Seddon.
A New History of the Picts, Andrew McHardy
What’s next for you as a writer?
Finish Standstill Moon in Scotland.
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 Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
Leave it to Jeeves, P G Wodehouse
Deep Simplicity, John Gribbin
Women of Scotland, Helen Susan Swift
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