Interview With Author Patrick Vansciver
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve written six books, three about ADHD, as well as coloring books that both my grandchildren and adult children enjoy. Currently, I’m working on an exciting children’s book. Additionally, I have an art book about drawing portraits due to my experience in painting and selling artwork for many years.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is about my love of art. I want people to understand the great masters I have by learning to draw anything they could think of, especially the human figure in portraiture. I’m in the process of finishing that book and will be offering it on this site.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have ADHD and hyper-focus problems. I’ll be getting a book and continuously losing sleep day upon Day until it’s finished exhausted.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I’ve read all the classics that I could find, especially the works of CS Lewis. I’m currently reading The Scarlet Letter; it’s heartbreaking.
What are you working on now?
After finishing the art book, I would like to finish my children’s book, I was writing it simultaneously.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I promote my books on many different websites, Awesome Gang and of course Amazon
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Right about the things you love.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
In high school, I had a difficult art teacher who was a great artist in her own right. She told me to “draw what I really see and not what I think I see. People do not stick figures.” she taught us to develop our style and refused to show us how to draw anything. She would place something in front of us and say draw.
What are you reading now?
The Scarlet Letter in a book about the Palestinian conflict.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I really want to finish my children’s book, but I struggle with it, trying to bring it to a 5th-grade level.
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 and the works of CS Lewis, but I haven’t read.
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