Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a proud indie author. My first book, An Unsubstantiated Chamber, Book One of the Rail Legacy, is out now. Very classic steampunk/murder mystery. I also write a dieselpunk tale (Down Jersey Drive-shaft) on Wattpad.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
An Unsubstantiated Chamber, which came out in March of 2016. Twenty years or more ago, I ran a tabletop rpg of a Victorian era superhero/steam mashup before it was termed steampunk. The ideas for characters, history and stories has been bubbling ever since. I love history, and want to tell a progressive tale of people over time, who lives, dies, gets famous, forgotten, etc.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I write in an unorganized, scrap paper fashion. Very little detailed filing goes on here! I let the characters speak out loud, which can change what I think my outline tells me should happen. Turns out better that way.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
H.G Wells! Did I yell? Oh, and Isaac Asimov, Stan Lee, Gardner Fox, Arthur C. Clarke, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Dashiell Hammett and more. It’s from hammett where I try to make detailed observations of clothing.
What are you working on now?
Book Two of the Rail Legacy, more of Drive-shaft, and for down the road, an atompunk novel of apocalyptic America, some cyberpunk short stories, and more Rail Legacy short stories to submit to magazines and anthologies. Gotta keep busy!
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Facebook helps, and my semi-regular blog. But the best help has been word of mouth thus far.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write better, strive to do better, and write to love it, not to love money. Money comes very slow if at all, so you have to be an artist, loving to wake up just to put down more words.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Write more, and write better! -Jack Tyler
What are you reading now?
FERTS by Grace Hudson, Copperhead by Juliette Douglass, Orphan Moon by T.K Lukas, Beyond the Rails II:Soldier for the Crown by Jack Tyler.
What’s next for you as a writer?
To attempt to order my books and sell them in person. I rarely get out, and so haven’t tried it yet. We’ll see how it goes…
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?
The Bible, the complete H.G Wells and one on survival lol!
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