Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am am internationally published author with 36 books placed with mainstream houses. My work is printed in numerous countries and languages. I also edit and critique mss for clients worldwide, and have been teaching creative writing for ICL for nineteen years. I write and edit in a wide range of genres; this keeps my career engaging and challenging!
I have Bachelor degrees in English literature and sociology, and a teaching degree. When not working, I love to ride my horse, walk my dog, take photographs, and paint landscapes and horses in acrylics on canvas.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My fantasy book, The Separated, was inspired by a wonderful walking holiday in Italy’s magical Cinque Terre. The mountains, the sea, and the hiking paths along the cliffs and through tiny villages painted pink and yellow, were so inspiring! I felt I could only use this setting in a fantasy to do justice to its awesome beauty. Since the villages were historically pirate strongholds, I had to include a pirate hero in my novel, as well as a couple of unicorns (since I love equines!)
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I have written and edited on planes, trains, ferries, in cars, outside, and in my various offices in different houses I’ve lived in.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
As a young person, I was greatly influenced by many imaginative authors with a strong grasp of using the English language: Tolkien, E.B. White, Joan Aiken, C.S. Lewis, and many other great fantasy writers who inspired my imagination with their vivid imagery.
What are you working on now?
I am ghost-writing and editing for clients around the world.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
My Facebook book page allows me to post many neat photographs of places and items that I have been inspired by and used in my books.
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Troon%20Harrison%27s%20books
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Believe in yourself, be prepared to work long and hard, read everything, and write on a regular basis. Don’t give up — and don’t think you can be a good writer without learning the craft through workshops, courses, conferences, and interacting with editors.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Success is 20% inspiration and 80% perspiration.
What are you reading now?
Books of historical intrigue by Jane Johnson who grew up in Cornwall, as I did.
What’s next for you as a writer?
Who ever knows what door will open next in life?
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?
As It Is In Heaven by Niall Williams, the collected poems of Mary Oliver, Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach.
The first book is a lyrical and magical novel; Mary Oliver’s poems say everything I’ve always felt about the world; Brach’s book about living a life of love and compassion is inspirational.
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