Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Greetings to you, great and terrible fan of fantasy, good literature and just a random visitor to my blog! My name is Sergey Katz, I was born in 1974 in Moscow, and now I live in Israel. I have been working in the hi-tech industry for more than 15 years, successfully generating new ideas. Right now I fully completed 3 books and working on two new ones 😉
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My last book is part of Changing World series and called “The Fast Flow”, the whole idea behind series is to create always changing game world (the book is LitRPG genre) and make everyone gamer’s, NPC’s and even Gods feel pressured by all this changes. I really want to make this world alive and make reader dive deep inside and feel he is part of action.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Writers are not born — unlike the children of millionaires — they become. So it was with me: once I got tired of keeping my “savings” in my dreams: overwhelmed with ideas and voices in my head, I decided to pick up a pen and try to pour everything on paper. As it turned out, it is not only cheaper than making an appointment with a cool psychiatrist, but it is much more fun! The first book was an experimental product, and although the beginning was hard, then it was impossible to stop me. You probably know this when something carries you away so much that you confuse day and night, you have a phone with an iron, you drink hastily sour milk, or you forget to comb your hair. Writing sclerosis is even more difficult than domestic sclerosis, but while the rest are looking for a second sock all over the house, I sit in one and obsessively write a new interesting chapter. No, I’m not cold.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Well, I do like a lot of different writers starting with awesome Roger Zelazny “The Chronicles of Amber”, continuing with unbelievable Andrzej Sapkowski “The Witcher”, one of my first fantasy loves Dragonlance Chronicles and much more.
I also adore Detective writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Rex Stout.
In my Adult years I read a lot of Sci-fi and historic books too.
What are you working on now?
Right now I’m in the middle of first book at new LitRPG series, which will be totally different from everything I wrote till today. The world setting is very … how I will say it unexpected 🙂 Really hope I can pull this idea, and even more hope for readers to like it.
Same time I’m working on story line for 3-d book in Changing World series.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Till now everything was done via Amazon, but now I’m ready to try all new way’s.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Yes! Don’t stop. to become a good writer you have to write and improve yourself. Readers will find you. Some will like your story some not, and this is great! More feedback’s you get better you can become. Always and I mean it always ask for feedback and reviews.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Everything is easy if you do it in chunks.
What are you reading now?
Dan Sugralinov “The Final Trial”
What’s next for you as a writer?
I wan’t one of my books to become a movie or TV series.
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?
Really have no answer for this one. Hope I will never be in this situation. 4 books is nothing :))))
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