Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I started writing satire four years ago for the local Gridiron Show, but my first book was just published on October 7.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Fail to the Chief imagines the current presidential election as a reality show. I wrote it after watching a cable news channel and noticing the many similarities between the election and reality programs I’d watched. Here’s a brief description:
After years of emceeing insipid singing competitions, TV personality Bryan Seafoam can’t wait to host “American President,” the world’s first reality show to elect a president of the United States. Finally, an opportunity to be a real journalist, digging up dirt and playing hardball with the top ten candidates.
But it doesn’t take long for the contestants to start slinging mud at Bryan – literally, when billionaire candidate Ronald Chump is challenged to dig his proposed moat along the Mexican-American border himself. Forced to work in a fast food restaurant, an anti-minimum-wage-hike candidate learns his coworkers are struggling to survive with multiple jobs and claims to have solved the unemployment problem in his state-leaving Bryan to duck ketchup bombs from customers. To make matters worse, Bryan’s producer pressures him to be nicer to the candidates, and his former crush, now an experienced political correspondent, shows up-and shows him up at every turn.
When a cheating scandal rocks the show, Bryan begins to suspect it’s just the tip of a very underhanded iceberg. Will trying to expose a plot to wreck the most hysterical, er, historic election in history cost Bryan his career-and his personal life
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I get most of my ideas while running on the treadmill, but I don’t know that I have any unusual habits.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love so many different authors and read widely, in many genres. I read everything from Stephen King to Andy Borowitz. I learned a lot about humor from reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
What are you working on now?
I currently write satire for Humor Outcasts, and was recently published on The Satirist. I’m also working on my second novel, The Trust Pill, a satire of the pharmaceutical industry.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I try to use as many different methods as possible for the best reach. Of course I have a blog, Sharable Sarcasm, which can be found at: https://sharablesarcasm.wordpress.com/. I’m also on Twitter and Facebook, and through the end of October I have a Kindle giveaway on my Facebook page that’s really helping to increase followers. I also write a lot of guest blog posts, plus as I mentioned earlier I write regularly for Humor Outcasts, which gives more people an opportunity to learn about my work.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Find a good critique group. Mine has helped me immensely, and even inspired me to turn a short story into my first book. If you can’t find one locally, look for one online.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When I was a kid, my music teacher told me, “The only people who never make mistakes are people who say nothing, do nothing, and are nothing.”
What are you reading now?
“Year Zero” by Rob Reid. It’s hilarious.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I will continue blogging, writing for Humor Outcasts, and working on my second book, The Trust Pill, which I hope to finish and publish some day.
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?
Probably something I currently had not yet read by an author I really enjoyed, so it would depend on what I’d read. I always prefer reading books I’ve never read before.
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