Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m a full-time author of gay romance and romantic suspense since 2015, so I’m afraid to count up how many books I’ve written. Some reader favorites include The Runaway Model Trilogy, The Assured Elites Trilogy (known as the Gay Celebrity Dating Chronicles on Radish), the Last Chance Academy series, and many more.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Freshman Blues: A Gay New Adult Romance, is book #4 in the Last Chances Academy series. The series centers on an all-male college for bad boys where gay romance flourishes. I’ve always been interested in the glittering world of art crime. This book came from wondering about what it would be like to brought up as a professional burglar of high-end art objects. Could you turn your life around and find love as an adult?
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I wouldn’t consider it unusual, but I like to visit the locations I use in my books.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Shaun David Hutchinson (We Are the Ants) and Adam Silvera (They Both Die At the End). I don’t write that dark, though. Nobody dies at the end of my books. For some reason, I like to read much darker than I write.
What are you working on now?
I keep that close to my vest. I’ve learned you can “talk away” your ability to write a story.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I like to use the Bookbub newsletter. But I’m more a word-of-mouth author.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
There are millions of books already published. Don’t hurry your own work. Indie authors get pressured a lot to put out work in a hurry that isn’t ready, and all it does is set them back. Sometimes for years.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
If it sounds too good to be true, it’s too good to be true. But you’ve already heard it. Hearing it is easy. Acting on it, on the other hand…
What are you reading now?
I just finished The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. Poor Patroclus, he really deserved better. Achilles was a spoiled brat!
What’s next for you as a writer?
Oh, I’m working on a new trilogy but we’ll keep that under wraps until it’s closer to done.
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?
A book on survival at the Stone Age level, a book on how to build a raft, a blank book to record my own adventures.
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