Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
By day, I’m a program assistant in professional licensing. By night, I write scifi and mystery/suspense novels. I’ve published seven novels and several shorter works.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is titled Progenitor, Book One of The Earthside Trilogy. Sadly, it was inspired by my father-in-law’s struggle and passing from dementia. I’d lost two great aunts to it when I was younger, but his struggle seemed more brutal than theirs – perhaps because I was older and better understood what was happening, or perhaps because he really had other health issues that made the struggle worse. I actually started writing the book in secret five days after he passed away in August 2014, but writing a novel doesn’t stay secret for long. I suppose writing this trilogy was my way of coping with the brutal struggle I had just witnessed.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Since I work full time, I write what I can, when I can. I really don’t have a set schedule or “writing spot,” because it’s more practical for me to take the opportunity to work on my writing whenever I can. I’ve learned to be quite flexible. I even take my laptop to work with me and work on it during my lunchbreaks – my coworkers don’t even think this is weird anymore!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
George R.R. Martin has been very influential on me, no doubt because I’m a huge Game of Thrones fan. I’ve also been inspired by Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars), and Ben Bova’s work. On the mystery/suspense end, I greatly admire P.D. James.
What are you working on now?
I’m working on Metamorphosis (Book Two) and Emergence (Book Three) of The Earthside Trilogy.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Goodreads is tremendously helpful, because it connects you to readers. Twitter has also been helpful in promoting my work. I spend more time now trying to find book reviewers, because it seems like good reviews can be very helpful. I won a review from Entrada Publishing, and I’ve submitted to Serious Reading. We’ll see how that goes.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t give up. You will be rejected, sometimes cruelly, but you can’t win if you stop. The more you write, the better you get, the more you learn, and the better things get.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
In writing, fortune favors the persistent. Every successful writer has been rejected countless times. What separates them from everybody else is that they refused to quit.
What are you reading now?
I’ve put my reading on a temporary hiatus while I work on revisions to the remaining books in The Earthside Trilogy. I recently was impressed by a book titled Mercury Ice: The Seventh Coordinate, by Michael Morrow.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Just keep on writing whatever I’m inspired to write. I never know what inspiration will hit, so I try to stay open. Obviously, I plan to complete The Earthside Trilogy. After that, I would love to write more scifi or mystery/suspense.
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?
Besides The Bible, that would be a hard choice! A Song of Ice and Fire is five books, with a sixth coming out soon. It’s a good thing I have a Kindle, but I guess that wouldn’t work on a desert island!
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