Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
As of right now three, two published. Fire and Ice, Mine and Broken will be released next month. I am 38 years old I joined the U.S. Army young and began writing as a way to entertain my mind. I retired medically due to cancer. My stories always have romance in some form or another (Even when it is a lunatic Vampire who thinks sleeping in his victim’s blood is enjoyable.). I like my characters to have a thread of reality to them. Maybe their actions are fantastic and can stretch the imagination, their personalities, their reasons for their anger or other emotions all have to feel real to me.
I was born in Washington D.C. but was raised all through the states of Maryland and Virgnia. I have lived in Germany and Egypt. I have traveled through Europe and I look forward to more for both research and pleasure. I currently live in Germany where I am close to my three children who always with out fail are close to my heart.
I have worked as a soldier, a paramedic, and nurse. I have worked in a warehouse as a everything from stock boy, to floor manager, and I try to bring that feel of harsh reality and life lived into everything I write.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Fire and Ice Novel and Mine Novella. Fire and Ice was inspired by the idea that you can fall in love, and life can tear it apart, with whatever. It’s a paranormal romance so naturally the thing that tore the main Characters apart was magical in nature, but the point is more things can happen that you feel like the person you were in love with has changed. It scares you so you run, but time passes, life moves on, and you meet the person again after how ever many years, and sometimes the past isn’t always the past.
Mine is about sometimes the love that you need is right in front of you, and you don’t see it because you have slapped friend tag on the person, or they have slapped it on you. Sometimes it takes an extra ordinary event to show you that they are more than a friend.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
That depends what you call unusual? Myself and my partner Toni, have been friends for a long time, and she likes to yell at me for one. I have dyslexia, so when we write we will be bouncing things off one another, and I am notoriously bad at punctuation and grammar stuff. So I will send her a line of text that looks something like this. Hellomnameisgoerge messing with her and after 15 years she still with out fail will edit it and send it back to me, even when I send something as a joke.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Nalini Singh and her Psy changling series, Patricia Briggs and the Mercy Thompsom and Alpha and Omega series are the first ones that come to my mind.
What are you working on now?
We are working on a Duett of books, together we are calling the Book of shadows, another Dark Dreams Novella called Loaded, and the next book in the series called Spirit Kissed.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I am actually still trying to figure that out, so if you could tell me that would be great.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
I am still a new author, but for the ones still trying to get a book finished and out there. The best advice I can give is write for you. Don’t worry about what others will think of your book, because there will be those who love it, and those who hate it. But in the end if it doesn’t entertain you to go back and look at what you wrote, then it won’t entertain anyone else either.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t quit, no matter what happens, keep writing, keep learning and enjoy what you do.
What is your favorite book of all time?
The laughing Ghost, I don’t know the author. It is an old paranormal romance from I think the 1950’s. But it has an interesting story, my grandmother passed away from cancer and she was really into the old dime store romance novels. She collected them in these old grocery bags, and when she died, there was this book laughing ghost, she never finished it, she was reading it when she passed away. Well I picked up and I started to read it, and I get to the end, where the last chapter is missing. But it’s because the last chapter was missing that made it my favorite book of all time, because I looked at it as the name said it all, and my Grandmother the laughing ghost got to play one last prank on her prankster grandson.
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