Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’m on number 13, but this is the first published, Book Zero. The next one is Wisper, slated to publish on April 1, 2021. For now, the plan is one every three months in the EF series of Books. All thirteen are on second draft. Wisper is on final draft. Wonder, Krinyanna, Billy Moonshadow, and Elf Child, are at 4th draft. I use a 5 draft process. The books go to Beta reads after the fourth draft. People should hit me up if they want to beta read. Booksofef@gmail.com
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Book Zero is what Martin Druid called his survival guide given to the little plant people he created by using CRISPER on a Bonsai tree. The book was inspired by fusing Anunnaki studies with Hopi Indian myths, and then straining the plot through a Philip K. Dick lens of approach.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I hope not, but I am writing all the time. Not all of it gets into the books. Orwellian pros, ala Sanderson classes on line, but since youth I wrote short stories. These would become structure to run D&D campaigns. Later I wrote business plans – some of the best fiction writing possible. The EF concept came up about 15 years ago out of those what if humans vanished shows, postulating what happens to the planet.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Everything I read, and everything I am going to read. To a measure, we are all writing fan fiction. Perhaps the only totally original thing I’ve come up with is the plant people being used as growth medium for brewers yeast by the Mewlmammy Brewing Company. That’s in the third book, Wonder. The quick answer is Tolkien, McCaffrey, Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, Zelazny, Le’Guin, Martin, Sanderson, Dick, Jordan, and Fitzgerald.
What are you working on now?
Wisper tells a tale of humanity’s mutations becoming magical; it follows the Wisper family’s rise to empire and fall to obscurity, culminating in the arrival of Maro Sunday, the fifteen-year-old girl from a Sisters of Mercy breeding program who takes down their dynasty.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
This is the first book. I’m trying many. In a few months I may learn something.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Like all learning, you have to do it and fail. It takes 10,000 hours to master anything. Enjoy the journey, be honest to yourself, and celebrate even the smallest gains. My web site might say it best.
“Writing is easy, getting read is hard.”
– any Author
“Books are easy, getting published is hard.”
– any Agent
“Publishing is easy, getting a book sold is hard.”
– any Publisher
“Selling a book is easy, getting customers is hard.”
– any Book Seller
“Buying a book is easy, reading is hard.”
– any Reader
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Gratitude is the best emotion
What are you reading now?
Cara Niedenbach’s new novel.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Two and a half years of making this series an excellent escape with witty and poignant humor, smattered with adventure and character arcs which leave readers satisfied. That’s the goal.
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?
Gödel Escher Bach, A confederacy of Dunces, The left Hand of Darkness, Book Zero.
Author Websites and Profiles
Peter Bach Website
Peter Bach Amazon Profile