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This is a list of our featured author interviews. These authors take a few minutes out of their busy schedule to sit down and answer a few questions. Get to know what they are working on next and what types of books they like to read.

Featured Author C.R. Hurst

Featured Interview With C.R. Hurst

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in southern PA and lived there most of my life until my husband and I retired early and moved to the mountains of North Carolina. We have one pet, a tuxedo cat called Miss Molly that I rescued from an animal shelter years ago.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I can’t remember the age, but I do remember the first book that I loved, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine LEngle. I started writing when I was in college, mostly short fiction and poetry, but I didn’t publish much until after my retirement from teaching. I guess that shows we are never too old to return to an earlier passion!

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I really don’t have a favorite author, but I do love those who write well, who develop a fluid prose style as well as craft an entertaining story. I read many genres, from classic sci-fi to memoirs to historical fiction. Again, the how is more important to me than the what. Any author who has a distinctive style I will read.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest published book is the final installment of my Jane Digby’s Diary series called White Lady. The series is written as a fictional diary about Jane Digby, a 19th century English aristocrat who led a unconventional life and traveled the world in search of freedom and true love. The entire four-part series took me nearly five years to write.

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Featured Author Theo Faurez

Featured Interview With Theo Faurez

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Theo Faurez is the pseudonym of Paul-Dominique Masiclat, o.p., a friar of the Dominican Order (aka Order of Preachers, aka Blackfriars) in France. Currently based in Sweden, he has lived in several countries in Asia, Europe and North America, and still travels extensively.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Books became my passion at a young age, not just reading but writing. I can recall making up new adventures for the characters of my favourite books, for example Babar the Elephant and Tommy Turtle. I began writing short stories at 13 or 14 using characters from television series – what would be called fan fiction. I joined a book club and would read just about anything. The book club helped me to branch out into history, books on nature, dinosaurs of course, and biographies.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
The first Agatha Christie I ever read hooked me for life on the murder mystery genre. My interest in ancient history, especially that of the Roman Empire, also grew at this time, and I taught myself Latin. Then I discovered the authors who married ancient Rome with murder: J. Maddox Roberts, Steven Saylor, Lindsey Davis, R. Magrì, Danila Comastri Montanaro and others. Their work has been a beacon. Other writers who’ve taught me about the crime genre are John LeCarré, P.D. James, Ian Ranklin, Robert Galbraith, Anthony Horowitz.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Rome already had its detectives, I wanted to diversify. I chose the Greek-speaking sphere, namely the city of Antioch, the proud, prosperous, decadent capital of the eastern Roman Empire. The sleuth (ancient Rome had no police force, much less the notion of a detective) is Captain Antonius Sabas, a Syrian Greek with Roman citizenship who patrols the city for fires and, by extension, criminals. In this first novel, he is called to the scene of an attack in broad daylight. Is it banditry or premeditated murder? Faithful to the classic “rules” of the whodunit, the reader is given all the clues. Captain Sabas uses physical clues and rational deduction to find the murderer – no internet or forensics doing the thinking for him! I also wanted to plunge the reader into another time and culture, guided as much as possible by verisimilitude to bring the Roman Empire to life. Thus the characters are somewhat alien in their mindset, share our common humanity, but without the ideologies or neuroses of 21st-century society! All my writing was done in my spare time, some of it in English, some of it in French. What with other jobs and responsibilities, it took me nearly a decade to complete this one. The next one won’t take as long, rest assured!

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Featured Author Teresa Vale

Featured Interview With Teresa Vale

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Mozambique in the sixties and lived there until I was twelve, but the revolution and regime change in Portugal that led to Mozambican independence, as well as the civil unrest that followed, forced me and my family to leave Africa for good. I’ve lived in Lisbon, Portugal, with my family, ever since.
I pursued an executive career in the financial area but have always loved to write. For a few years now I’ve run the blog The Many Stories of a Woman. At this point in my life I have many stories to tell – stories lived and shared… And all these memories of places I love, music that moves me, books that have inspired me. These are a few of the reasons I began writing.
I love going to the beach and spending time with my sons and my friends. And, like most Portuguese, I would be entirely unable to exist without my cup of espresso!

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My love of books reaches far into my earliest memories, with Granny and Mom reading bedtime stories to me. Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” was a huge favorite. As soon as I was able to read and write I began my attempts at storytelling and journaling, even tried to draw comics. In my mid-teens, other concerns took precedence: mostly juggling the demands of a social life and the pressures of school work and all the expectations around it. Later on came a marriage, a career, and children, which all proved extremely time-consuming. Only in my fifties did I resume the habit of writing. I tentatively began a memoir which then became my first novel. At the same time, I started blogging, publishing small, fictionalized vignettes about real life, about struggles and victories shared by women I knew or admired, and of course my own.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I would only mention a few. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Emily Brontë, Barbara Erskine, Juliet Marillier, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Joanne Harris… regarding genres, I would say historical fiction and non-fiction, fantasy and nordic thrillers.

All the authors I admire have influenced and motivated me in some way, but life itself, with all its nuance and complexity has proved the greatest inspiration behind every word that ends up on the page.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I have recently published my first book, “Love Secrets Lies”.
Teresa, the protagonist, is a young woman born in Africa, where she had begun to dream of love, and felt her heart racing for the first time. As a colonial dictatorship falls in the cold, distant land of Portugal, Teresa’s country gains independence. Danger mounts, and Teresa’s family are forced to flee Mozambique, danger champing at their heels.

Her childhood paradise is gone. She plunges into a wintry landscape of wan faces and gray apartment blocks. On the first day of school she wears green sneakers to school and her classmates jeer. Teresa feels out of place, and realizes she must adapt to a new, alien environment.

But even here romance can thrive. Girls her age share her fancies and expectations. First, Teresa sings the praises of her imaginary boyfriend, Fernando, the tall basketball player she left behind in Mozambique, who is too busy to write to her.

But fantasies fall away. From party to party Teresa makes new friends and learns the new taboos that surround her while her grandparents scrutinize her life, imposing rules and fears she finds unfair and outdated. She’s not supposed to go anywhere without adult supervision. Heavens forbid Teresa’s grandparents even suspect she dreams of romance!

One after another come the Princes Uncharming, the Knights of Broken Armor: Mendonça the Field Test, Rui the Indecisive, Paulo the Almost-Perfect and Diogo, the Riding Coach, a man with soul ablaze, whose flames Teresa is ill-equipped to extinguish.

Each one of them asks for more than she can give, demanding her freedom, pieces of her being. Time and again Teresa must decide whether to surrender — to grandparents, friends, boyfriends — or say “No”, regardless of the personal cost.

From tropical Mozambique to drab, 1970s Lisbon, from the golden beaches of Durban to five-star holidays in verdant, mountainous Madeira, and even the Moroccan Kasbah, Teresa makes mistakes, stumbles and falls, and picks herself up again.

She tries to forge her own path in a country that struggles to emerge from fear and taboo, evade her grandparents’ unrelenting surveillance, and negotiate the terms of her involvement with the boys that come into her orbit. That’s not always easy, and sometimes her insecurity gets in the way, exacting a heavy toll. “Love Secrets Lies” is not a daydream about teenage crushes; it is the story of a woman in the making.

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Featured Author Richard R Becker

Featured Interview With Richard R Becker

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised by my grandparents in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after my father was killed in a car accident. They were poor and my grandmother suffered with cancer. Just before she died, I was relocated to live with my mother and her new family in Burnsville, Minnesota, and later Las Vegas. I left Las Vegas to attend school, but fate led me back. I don’t have any pets because my daughter is a travel softball player, but I’m pretty sure I will have a dog someday.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
While I was always a storyteller, I wasn’t always a writer. I was more of an artist. I told stories with drawings and struggled as a reader. Things started to change in junior high school when my reading teacher introduced me to Dune by Frank Herbert because I aced my book report by picking the thinnest book in the library. It was in junior high that I also started writing some poetry and wrote a serial for the school newspaper. Aside from that, it wasn’t until college that I learned to write well.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
At first, I started reading John Jakes and Sidney Sheldon because they were on my mother’s bookshelves, but then I discovered J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Brooks, Lloyd Alexander, and Roger Zelazny. By high school, I felt like I cheated myself somehow and started reading all the classics I had missed in between science fiction and horror novels. Nowadays, my reading is eclectic like my writing. I do have an affinity for Hemmingway and Updike, but I’m told my style is more like a mix between David Baldacci and Heather Graham.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
50 States is a debut collection of 50 short stories that take place across the American landscape over the last 60 years — the kind and the cruel, the heroic and the criminal. Each story is set in a different state. This idea originally evolved out of a project to write 50 stories in 50 weeks.

While there is no set genre, all of the stories are character-driven. There is a farmer who is snapped out of his self-imposed reclusive prison, an alcoholic vigilante, a secret witness protection enrollee, a man gifted with the ability to see alternate destinies, and a few runaways. Most, though, are people like those you meet every day, with secret joys or pains that we never notice.

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Featured Author Keith Rossiter

Featured Interview With Keith Rossiter

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up in Africa, the child of second-generation (at least) Africans. We lived a thousand miles from the ocean, and I did not set foot in Europe until I was in my mid-twenties.
After 20 years of working in London, I now live in South Devon. We’re a stones-throw from the sea – and just try to part me from it.
After a long career in journalism, I’m now writing fiction full-time. And loving it.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I learned to love reading as a small boy, sharing books with my paternal grandmother. She came to reading late in life, and had a lot of catching up to do, and she dragged me along on the journey with her. It was pretty damn exciting.
I recall inventing my first proper story at the age of five or six. It was to be called: “Hunted are the hunters”. Needless to say, some big jungle beasts eliminated a group of hunters one-by-one. Be grateful you can’t read it now!

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I’m a great fan of E. Annie Proulx, Matt Haig, Mitch Albom and Martin Amis. And whoever I’m reading at the moment (life’s too short to waste time on a book I’m not enjoying it so, by definition, if I’m still reading by page 50, I’m enjoying it).
Other recent discoveries that stand out in the mind include We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen, and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
The Covid-19 pandemic has opened our eyes to how precarious any society is, but for many communities around the world the disaster is merely déjà vu. The economic crash of 2008 brought chaos that many are still barely recovered from.
My novel “The Chaos Game” explores what could happen to a small community when it is pushed to the edge.
It’s a novel of love and vengeance – and on the Greek island of Crete revenge is a dish best served hot.
The people of Crete are quite fiery, that’s the best way to describe them. They’re already pretty hacked off after a decade of austerity, job cuts and wage freezes, so it doesn’t take much to light the fuse – and two Brits are the catalyst for an explosion.
This book is a thriller, but it is also a rare glimpse into a community so different from our own. Even today, there are Mediterranean people who believe that justice is best served without bothering the police, the lawyers and the courts.

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Featured Author Jen Willett

Featured Interview With Jen Willett

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My name is Jen Willett, I was born on May 30, 1972, in a small town called Alliston, Ontario, Canada, I still currently live there. I have always loved reading and baking. I have three kids Ryan, Megan and Cole, as well as 2 very young granddaughters. I have always loved everything to do with books and reading them. I love baking as well. When my kids were small, I would have them right next to me standing on chairs, in the kitchen helping me bake.
I have 3 fur babies, 2 Bengals named Lola and Ben, and a grey rescue cat named Lokki, the 3 of them are entertaining, full of energy and rambunctious, I forgot to mention spoiled, lol

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My fascination with books started at a very young age I remember being as young as 4 and reading, I was so much into books that I started to read early. My Grandma was an avid reader as well, she would read to me, helped to teach me to read, she was always buying me and encouraging me to read. We would often sit side by side and read our own books. It was my happy place, time. That’s where I got my love of books from

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favourite authors and genres are mixed. I love to read anything by James Patterson, and Dan Brown, Anne Rice. But some of my favourite books are Eat, Pray, Love and the Wizard Of Oz. But as a kid my favourite authors were Stan and Jan Berenstain of the Berenstain bears and Robert Munsch, The Paper Bag Princess among many others of his stories, I loved that the stories made me giggle and feel good. They were who inspired me to write kid’s books, hopefully, my book(s) will make kids feel the same way their books, made me feel.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My book is called Meatball’s Snow Day, Meatball is a chubby farm mouse who has a big imagination and a big appetite. There is always an adventure to be found on the farm. He can make anything fun, including a snow day. He can make anyone laugh with his quirky personality. Snowmen, pond hockey. So many fun things to do in the snow. Included is a recipe for one of his many favourite snacks. I included a kid-friendly recipe at the end of the book, that kids can easily do with their parents, grandparents

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Featured Author Jori Aguilar Sams

Featured Interview With Jori Aguilar Sams

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
When I write, I have a chance to give back what’s been invested in me. Spiced with a past that has led me to live in states all over the US, I’ve also lived in four different countries across Europe. This has supplied me with a palette full of colors…and plenty of writing material! So come and explore my mind and look at life through my lens.

Create. Inspire. Repeat!

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was a sickly kid. Oh, so sickly! From age 10, writing was an outlet and my therapy. I started with poetry and advanced to short stories and little diddies. By the time I was 14, I wrote a script about a bike racer. Don’t ask me where it is! I’ve moved so many times, I’ve had to leave my past behind…

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My literary interests stretch across a wide spectrum. I like real heady stuff and have a great interest in Theology, so I read and write a lot of Bible studies and scholarly stuff. I’m greatly inspired but two of the greatest thinkers I have come across, Arthur Custance and Oswald Chambers. As far as non-fiction goes, I love Tolstoy. He was a legend. And Dickens for his ability to reach out to the working class.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I’ve set out to write a new series called Making Waves with the first book Making Waves on the Aegean. This story came about when I told some friends over dinner one night about my adventures living on a sailboat in the Greek Isles. I was supposed to be teaching people how to sail, but instead…I was just making waves!

My friends loved the story and told me I needed to write a book about it.

So I did!

I have other books too, with new releases coming out every few months. In 2021, I released four books and I have another one dropping in a couple of months, so if you love books, come explore my mind!

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Featured Author Naomi Brickel

Featured Interview With Naomi Brickel

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m a mom first. I have six kids (including my son in Heaven), an amazing dog named Kelly, and I live in New Rochelle, NY. Professionally, my expertise is in youth and family engagement and I’ve presented to thousands in workshops and at state and national conferences. I’ve worked with young adults to promote their self-determination and empowerment, helped families in the practical and emotional aspects of navigating disability service systems across the lifespan, and worked with professionals to build capacity for more inclusive communities. My favorite things are cooking, wine, mixing fun cocktails, and Puerto Rico.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve loved reading since I got through my very first book, “Hop on Pop,” all by myself. My Dad always gave me books, and we would read together, which made me feel special in our large family. I’ve always enjoyed writing too. I’ve done a bit of poetry over the years, and write a lot for my work, but “Not to Spoil the Ending…” is my first published work. Hopefully not the last!

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love spiritual and self help. In my heart and soul I’ve been most influenced by Brene Brown, Eckhart Tolle, and Fr. Richard Rohr. I think my own book, even if it’s not fiction, is similar to “The Shack” by Wm. Paul Young.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Not to Spoil the Ending… but everything is going to be ok is an inspirational non-fiction narrative that details the harrowing tragedy experienced in the sudden loss of my 15-year-old son and the subsequent anguish and then uplifting reflection which uncovered simple yet profound insights about peace and joy. Building on my own foundation in the wisdom and writings of Brene Brown, Eckhart Tolle, and Richard Rohr, I present Adam’s unique, playful, and poignant framework for happiness – one so uncomplicated it could only have come from a boy – developed through the recollections of kids who knew him and their recorded messages in a funeral visitation book. It is a powerful tribute to kindness, exhibited through stories of Adam’s life and incidents in the aftermath, and a testimony to redemption (see the cameo with former NFL superstar, Ray Rice).

I think that when I first started writing, I was motivated mostly by a desperate mom’s need to preserve any piece of my son’s life I could cling to, trying to get as much as I could into one place – memories kids had shared with me of his life, experiences after that emanated his presence, dreams, etc. I did not start with them, but what percolated out as I wrote were very powerful messages about peace and joy, and making this world more hopeful and heavenly. Most amazing was how simple and yet life changing it all was.

I’m moved by how much of an impact it’s had on those who’ve read it. I’ve gotten letters and emails, and have literally been stopped on the street on numerous occasions by people I knew barely, or not at all, just to tell me how much reading it changed their life. An antidote for today’s anxiety, filled with comforting insights about making our world more happy, hopeful and heavenly, it’s been called a “must-read for anyone who has loved and lost, or who may need beacons of ‘lights’ in these seemingly dark times.”

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Featured Author Pantea Kalhor

Featured Interview With Pantea Kalhor

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Iran and have been living in Canada since 2007.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started writing since I was 8 years old but my first book was published in 2017.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Daniel Steele, Victor Hugo, Ernest Hemingway, Antoni Robins. I love reading Novel, Science fiction, Mystery fiction and inspiring stories in nonfiction usually I read what I need to learn. I love Health genre since I am a fertility coach. I also whatever helps my business growth.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My New Book called PTSD Compass: Navigate Trauma to Triumph and Renew Your Life
is a #1 International Best-Selling Book on PTSD, Post Trauma Stress Disorder Recovery.
A Collection of Expert Interviews and Stories on Grief, Mind-Body Connection Healing, Childhood Trauma, First Responders PTSD Recovery, Domestic Violence and Abusive Relationship
You will learn:
How to Cope with Your new Situation After Losing Your Loved One?
How to Crush Childhood Trauma?
What is Mind-Body Connection Healing?
How to Survive From Domestic Violence and Abusive Relationship
How to Renew Your Life after Being Hit By Trauma?

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Featured Author Anna Pulley

Featured Interview With Anna Pulley

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in the spiny desert arms of Tucson, Arizona, spent four years in Chicago, and then headed back west to the San Francisco Bay Area, because as much as a piece of my heart will always be in the midwest, I cannot winter.

I’ve been a hot dog slinger, a shoe salesman, a PE teacher, and a waitress at a retirement home (among other things) before I figured out the best way to degrade myself was as a writer.

(I kid. I love writing. If I couldn’t write, I would perish.)

I’m also queer, multiracial (white/Native American/Latinx), and deaf/hard of hearing. You would never know these things just looking at me, as I pass mightily and my hair covers my hearing aids. I’m trying to be better and more vocal about the parts of myself that aren’t so readily viewable, but it remains a challenge.

I’m the author of The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!), (Flatiron, 2016), which Tegan and Sara said was “an adorable and hilarious way to start the day,” Cheryl Strayed called a “must-read,” and Bound actress Jennifer Tilly said was “thoroughly charming.”

In 2021, I released an erotic short story collection, called Transgressions under the pen name Anastasia Fleur. The name is an homage to my mom’s side, the Flores clan.

Love Where You Work is my first (published) novel. I’ve written two others. One is a romance/mystery/paranormal tale about a young Native girl whose deafness enables her to hear spirits in other realms that help her solve a mystery. I still think it’s a good story but genre-wise, it’s a mess, so it may not ever see the light of day.

The other novel is an erotic romance and is with an agent currently.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Very early! My first “published” book was in my elementary school library — bless the librarians who asked me to contribute an illustrated story in second grade. From what I remember it was about a cowboy who gets shot by a raccoon. Unfortunately, no copies survived.

Writing has always been my etched in my fabric, no matter how unsure or waffly I’ve been in other areas in my life, writing has been the one constant. Part of my unshakeable, irrevocable self.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love pretty much any book that tells a good story. And I try to keep an open mind. Right now I’m reading a romance novel, a self-help book, a mystery, a book on editing, and a compilation of Native American myths.

The exception is horror because it gives me nightmares! Even scary books for children.

My “desert island” books, which inspire me constantly, are:

Sarah Manguso’s Ongoingness
Lorrie Moore’s Birds of America
Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds
And Maggie Nelson’s Bluets

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I wrote Love Where You Work to impress a girl.

I’d like to tell you that I have loftier ambitions––and I do! I want people (especially queer people) to feel seen and less alone. I want to make people laugh and feel warm and excited and turned on and loved. I want to write books where queer people have happy, exciting, interesting stories instead of tragic ones.

But mostly I wrote this book to impress my partner. It was conceived originally as a sexy birthday present, a short story called “HRotica.” (It bookends Transgressions.) We had been dating for two months at the time, and she works in HR, hence the title and subject.

Vika loved the story, and we brainstormed a plot together to make part 2, which we cheekily called “HRotica: The Age of Cumpliance.” After that, I was genuinely curious how the story of Julia and Clare would end, so I kept writing.

I was also dealing with grief related to the death of my father, and I made that a struggle for Clare as well. (Like Clare, my dad’s ashes are in my closet. Unlike Clare, who struggles with letting go and moving on, I haven’t been able to scatter the ashes because of pandemic thwarting.)

At its heart, the book is about the search for connection — and how we tend to complicate those things and get in our own way sometimes.

It took me 2 months to write initially, and about 6 months to revise.

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Featured Author Nick Haskins

Featured Interview With Nick Haskins

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My name is Nick Haskins. I am a writer from Toledo, Ohio where I currently reside. I don’t have any pets right now, but I want two small dogs with a nice pet space.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I realized my fascination with books when I was thirty years old. I started writing when I was around seventeen, but I didn’t fall in love with books, and the process, until years later.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite author to read is James Patterson and any writer that can tell me a good story. I’m more of a story-driven reader no matter the genre, but the genres I read the most are African American Fiction and Crime Thrillers. Carl Weber inspires me in my writing because I’ve always wanted to make readers feel the way he makes me feel while I’m reading one of his books.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is titled She’s Obsessed–African American/urban fiction. She’s Obsessed is about a young married couple in Chicago whose perfect union is quickly turned upside down. When Leah finds her new husband Jayceon’s X-rated secret, she becomes obsessed with hurting him and the stripper he recorded himself having sex with.

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Featured Author TC Marti

Featured Interview With TC Marti

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I write in several forms of fantasy, each of which contain elemental magic. My favorite genres to write include paranormal and military fantasy, and each book I write, regardless of subgenre, belongs to the shared Elementals Universe. Currently, I live in Northern West Virginia smackdab between Ohio and Pennsylvania and have spent my entire life in the area. No pets at the moment, though I come across plenty of neighborhood cats when I go running at night.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Oh, since my first memories! I remember becoming a reader early on, even before I started school; though I’m sure my “reading” back then consisted more of me memorizing books my parents read than actual reading! I started writing in grade school, but I took a break from it from my high school days to my early twenties before the rekindling began in 2014.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Paranormal fantasy is by far my favorite genre and my favorite authors reflect that. E.E. Holmes’ World of the Gateway helped inspire a few of my titles – especially my paranormal fantasy, Tarja Titan. I’m also a huge fan of Carissa Andrews and her Windhaven Witches Series, and Tarah Benner (Witches of Mountain Shadow). Theme-wise, Kate L. Mary and Tracy Lawson, both of whom write dystopian titles, are also favorites.

J.K. Rowling really kicked things off when I came across her Harry Potter Series in grade school. And yes, I took some of her concepts and placed them into both Book I of my Elementals of Nordica Series, and Tarja Titan – the first full-length novel in the Terrian Chronicles whose timeline parallels that of my perma-free novella, Liza Fury: The Discovery.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I’m currently in the middle of publishing six titles (seven when you count my perma-free novella, Liza Fury – The Discovery), all of which I’m releasing in the first half of 2022 that I’ve dubbed The Renegades Epic – Phase I.

The latest book I launched is called Wind Wielder, Book I in this six-book shared universe frenzy. It’s a military fantasy rich in elemental magic, sword and sorcery, dystopia, and a dash of science fiction that tells of a global empire framing my protagonist for a crime he did not commit. It’s safe to say that empire knows far more about my protagonist than he knows about himself.

As you can see, you’re going to come across multiple genres in my work, though it also remains true to the fantasy genre than any other. Books II and III, entitled Wind Master and Wind Keeper, are my upcoming sequels to Wind Wielder, and they further expand the series more into both science fiction and into the metaphysical realm.

And since I’m rapidly-publishing the first three books in Elementals of Nordica, with three more titles to follow that also take place in the same universe (yes, characters from each series will cross over into the others), if you love to binge read and see familiar faces pop up in other tales, chances are you will love Wind Wielder, its sequels, and the entire Renegades Epic within the Elementals Universe.

How long did this take me to concoct? Let’s just say the second I discovered the Marvel Cinematic Universe existed, seeds planted themselves in my mind to create my own shared universe. Except mine dives deeper into fantasy.

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Featured Author Abbey K. Bowen

Featured Interview With Abbey K. Bowen

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My name is Abbey K. Bowen, I was born and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, but I currently reside in Milwaukee! I do have pets–three rescue kitties. I’m a very proud cat lady! 🙂

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was lucky to have awesome parents who were dedicated to reading books to me, and my passion started when I was very young.

Since I could physically write, I wrote little stories. As an adult, however, I didn’t return to storytelling until the mandated quarantine. From then on, I was obsessed. I even quit my job as a corporate attorney to pursue a new career as an author.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite fiction authors include Diana Gabaldon (obsessed with Outlander), Hanya Yanagihara (loved A Little Life but couldn’t read it again . . . I cried like a baby), and Neil Gaiman (absolutely adore Good Omens).

Speaking of Outlander, I was deeply inspired by Gabaldon’s books when writing my own. If you’re familiar with her work, you might notice some “nods” to it in my book.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My book was developed after I had a particularly intriguing dream (if you’re interested, you can read all about it on my blog). My dreams are usually vivid and detailed, but this one, in particular, seemed special. After I woke up, I typed out everything I could remember about it, and I went from there.

I started writing it during my breaks while working from home, so it took me about a year or so to really get going. But when it became my main focus, it took about five months to get to a place where I was comfortable to publish it.

“Reflections of Blue” is about a young woman named Seraphine (“Sera”), a teenager from a poor family, who is sent away for the summer to live on her uncle’s strawberry farm. She’s been shipped off like this before, but this time is different. She is pleasantly surprised when she walks into the previously dark-lit farmhouse to find Janusz (or “Jonesy,” as she later calls him), an immigrant from Poland who allegedly came to work on the farm. His bright personality instantly illuminates the house, but his frail body leads Sera to question his presence there. Not wanting to anger her short-tempered uncle, however, she does not initially make any inquiries on the matter. Instead, she attempts to exist as Uncle Ford prefers—neither seen nor heard as much as possible. But when it becomes clear that Jonesy actually cares to spend time with her, the two of them become fast friends as they bond over “breakfast picnics” and watching the sunrise.

Throughout the next few months, Sera sees Jonesy’s body deteriorating and her uncle’s demeanor changing for the worse. She also continues receiving hints—mostly in the form of stern, hushed conversations—about Jonesy’s mysterious illness, the nature of his relationship with Uncle Ford, and the secret place he was before arriving at the farm.

Eventually, when she realizes it is no longer in Jonesy’s best interest to stay with her uncle, she enlists the help of her parents to get him removed from the farmhouse. As expected, Uncle Ford is less than happy when he learns of Jonesy’s disappearance, and he takes out his frustrations by drinking heavily and physically abusing Sera.

After enduring numerous beatings and assaults, Sera confides in a family friend, Kailas, who was sent by her mom and dad to ensure her well-being after Jonesy successfully escapes. Unfortunately, similar to her parents, Kailas is strapped for cash and cannot provide Sera with safety under her roof. But she gifts a set of instructions that will allow Sera to escape into what she initially believes is a deep meditative state. However, Sera soon realizes she has actually been given access to an alternate reality she never dreamed existed . . .

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Featured Author C.H. Reece

Featured Interview With C.H. Reece

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Yep, the Mormon state. And, no, I’m not a sister wife… lol. I am a cat person and have had many over the years, but I think after this one, I’m going to be petless for a while. Traveling is so much easier without having to worry about your fur baby.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I didn’t really read much as a kid. My first book that really got me into reading was “The Vampire Lestat” by Anne Rice. I was in high school at the time. After that, I read all her books, bought them on audiobook and even put some to my mp3 player to listen to at work.

I never thought myself a writer, even after I wrote my own in my 30s.

I dreamt it!

I had an amazingly vivid dream that woke me up in the wee hours of the morning, actually compelled to scribble it all down. That was over 15 years ago. When I finished writing it down, I thought I got it out of my system. I put it away and several years later, there was a flood in my home. The notebook was misplaced during the packing and replacing of items.

Just before Covid-19, I started reading a lot of romance, fantasy, erotica books, and it dawned on me that I had written a book, or at least the mad scribbles of one. When I went looking for the notebook, I couldn’t find it anywhere. But, the majority of the dream was etched into my mind, and I found myself scribbling into another notebook. I added a few things to fluff it up a bit. I spent another year writing in more detail, tweaking here and there. Always finding something I needed to change or elaborate on. It kind of has a life of its own and consumes the majority of my time. But, I think it will be worth it in the end.

I got my start on Inkitt, not quite 4 months ago. Since then, my first book, Witch’s Link has had over 22.000 reads with the lowest chapter being an 88% binge rate. I currently have 2 completed books and one ongoing.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I think every book you read, every movie you see, and every day life influences how you write. But if I have to choose a few, I would say:
Anne Rice – When I was a teenager.
Dean Koontz – as a young adult.
But, as an adult my biggest influeners are LB Harpdog, LaurG Novels, Milly Taiden, Alta Hensley, Stasia Black, LORDGRTH, There are too many.
I prefer to read Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, and Erotica.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I am currently working on the 3rd book in my series. “ Witch’s Link—The Matriarch and the Alpha”.

If you haven’t read the first 2 books, you should. This book is a short continuation leading into past events that will give you more insight to why certain things happened the way they did in book 1 and 2. A sort of prequel.

While this book can be read alone, because it has a prologue/recap of the first two books, you would be missing out on all the juicy details if you don’t go read the others first.

However, let’s tell you a little about this book:

This book is the beginning of it all. The decisions made in a blink of an eye causing a ripple effect in the lives of so many. It’s about how the paths of the main characters in book 1 and 2 intersected.

The new Apprentice to the Matriarch of the East Coast Coven of Witches, Samantha Davenport, and her soulmate and Alpha of the Blue Moon Pack , Damen Winthrop, are celebrating their union. During the celebration, Alpha James Taylor reminisces about how it all began…

James POV
I should have never been on that road. I should have never attacked without knowing all the facts. I took an innocent life and in the process destroyed mine and my mates’ life.

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Featured Author Bridgette L. Collins

Featured Interview With Bridgette L. Collins

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Happy New Year! My is Bridgette L. Collins. I was born and raised in Houston, Texas. I lived in the Dallas, Texas area for nearly 20 years, and now I’m back living in the Houston area. My hobbies include reading, visiting historical museums when I’m traveling, experimenting with cooking healthy meals, working out at the gym, and training for and participating in marathon race events. As I’m moving around interacting with people I meet on my varied journeys, I used the experiences to enhance my writings.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My fascination for reading books happened in my young adulthood. I fell in love with all books by John Grisham. Early on in my human resources career I pursued resources that would help me enhance my business and leadership skills, so I then fell in love with books by Stephen R. Covey and John C. Maxwell. As a human resources professional, I was always tasked with writing. Developing or revising human resources manuals, policies, and procedures. Writing extensive investigative reports. Writing staff and organizational performance documents. But it would be later in my life that I would develop a love for writing books. After becoming a personal trainer and running coach, I developed a love for writing novel-like self-help books filled with stories about overcoming the challenges to live healthier: mind, body, and soul.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Because I’ve always been focused on being a better version of myself, my favorite authors include Stephen R. Covey and John C. Maxwell. Their writings have inspired my writings as I provide a different perspective on what being a better version of one’s self can look like.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My new book, “Yes! I Am Fed Up. Now What? 4 Self-Driven to MOVE Your Well-being and Work Forward”, lays the groundwork for the reader to analyze the root cause, the underlying factors, of their fed-up state. The goal is to provoke consciousness and inspire the reader to ask the question, ‘Now What?’ And then move forward with creating an action plan to respond to their ‘Now What?’

Quick Question. Have you ever been FED UP with someone or something in your personal or professional life? Maybe you didn’t say FED UP… maybe you said I’m frustrated with or tired of. The fact is that if you’re not conscious of or deliberate in your move from that state of being, you’ll find yourself stuck right there on FED UP, frustrated with or tired of, which will impact your ability to BE the best version of yourself.

In my new book, I share 4 steps that provokes consciousness and will help drive your “Now What?”. Those 4 steps – Self-Analysis, Self-Transformation, Self-Evolution, and Self-Narration – provide insight into plans and actions you can take to analyze the aspects of your life that you’re not happy with or unfulfilled in – plans and actions that can help you discover ways to transform your state of being so you can evolve and create the narrative you want to represent your life.

While reading the book, I want you to keep four words in your thoughts: master, omit, visualize, and execute (MOVE). When I say MOVE, my book serves as a guide for how you can master, omit, visualize, and execute the things you need to master, omit, visualize, and execute so you can be the best version of yourself.

There are exercises throughout the book. Targeted worksheets at the end of the book to help you go under construction to determine what your MOVEs can look like. Yes, under construction because most often you have to unearth some things to repair, replace, and reconfigure so you can effectively drive yourself and MOVE forward with purpose and intention.

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Featured Author Boshra Rasti

Featured Interview With Boshra Rasti

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Boshra Rasti was raised in British Columbia, Canada and works as an expatriate teacher in Qatar. She received a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership at Royal Roads University, which proved a fateful blow to her belief in anything hierarchical. However, it did spark her desire to flee from the real world and start writing about other ones. When she is not working to earn a living, she enjoys the escape that reading and writing lend her. She also enjoys physical running, even if it is of the sadistic variety in Qatar.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was a late reader, meaning I didn’t learn to read well until I was in grade 3 or 4. The first book that made me want to devour books was the Chronicles of Narnia series. I absolutely adored the world building and the sense that I could find refuge in a book.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read a lot of different authors. I love dystopia and sci-fi. I just think the world building in it is so spectacular. I love Octavia Butler and the former Soviet Block writers.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Surrogate Colony is a post-pandemic, dystopian novel about a world where algorithms control essential aspects of freewill. Harmony is the all-knowing database that determines your family, your partner, how many hours of free time one has, what position in society one is given. It is a radical world, but one that isn’t unimaginable far-out. We’ve had many of our personal liberties and freedoms stifled in the last couple of years, allowing for unreal precedents to be set by governments around the world. Some arguably necessary; others not so much.

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Featured Author D. David Croot

Featured Interview With D. David Croot

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
D. David Croot has been writing on and off (pretty much continually) for nineteen hundred years. He is no preternatural creature, no no no real special abilities, but he’s put in his four-trillion hours and it’s all for you my sweaty precious mongols.
-Follow the Feeling (most approachable for all)
-Twenty-first mankind blues (my favourite)
-The lovers (bonkers but new to literature)
-The general pointlessness of being (Coming of age written unlike anybody else)

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I never read a word until I was twenty-one.
Actually…Flat Stanley when I was five. Stolen from the schools library. I have it, it still exists.
And then from twenty-one onwards, that time in your life where something worthwhile must be achieved…I wrote.
and failed
and failed
and failed
until I managed to conjure up Follow the Feeling. Then…then it grew from there. That was about four years of scribing 5-7 days a week. Whenever I could (ten failed novels in-between!) and others followed.
and then I failed
and failed and failed to get readers…

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
All the dead ones:
Knut Hamsun — Pan, mysteries,
Alberto Moravia- Boredom and contempt
Charles Bukowski — anything really.
Louis Ferdinand Celine — Journey to the end of the night
Herman Hesse, Yukio Mishima, Dostoevsky (hate spelling this legends name), Steve Tesich (Karoo is sublime), Strindberg and Baudelaire’s spirit lives on through me in a weird way.
and probably a fuck tonne more!

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I am in the process of finishing a novel about time.
The fairytale, the myth, the man (working title).
There are life’s ebbs and flows, part poetry, part prosody. Recurring motifs recycling themselves into new and intricate ways. It near enough sent me insane. Think Kobo Abe’s Kafka-esque dreams…

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Featured Author Kate Phyre

Featured Interview With Kate Phyre

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m a writer, actor and pet-mom of very demanding kitties, living with a very patient partner. When I’m not writing I’m obsessed with creating mixed medium sculpture from reclaimed industrial materials, gazing at the PNW stars and fascinated by all things mysterious. Also feeding the kitties is my main purpose in life… according to the cats, of course.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I taught myself to read at the age of three. One day while watching my mother read to me the strange black lines on the page suddenly snapped into focus and became words I could understand. It happened all at once and utterly shocked my mother when she discovered me reading to my stuffed animals later that day. She tested me with a book I’d never seen before and turns out I actually did teach myself to read. I was writing stories and poetry by the age of 7 and reading at a college level by age 13.
Books became my escape and refuge when life took a much darker turn and I discovered more of the world than one should at that age but I’ll save the gory details for my memoir.
I like writing fiction because I can be utterly truthful.
I like writing science fiction because I’m fascinated with our potential as a species to create amazing almost impossible things and the license to wrestle with the larger sociological implications of our actions.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My early influences were the classics, English Lit masters like Dickens, Shakespeare and Tolkien. Later the American science fiction authors duked it out with Mark Twain, Longfellow and EE Cummings for space on my overflowing bookshelf. Eclectic is still how my tastes run. Although I love science fiction and write in that genre I read widely in non-fiction, philosophy, political, hard science, biology, astronomy and physics journals – you know, just for fun…

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Faery Tales of the Future is the Brothers Grim on steroids meets ‘Neuromancer’. A collection of all new original short future stories with hope, heart and humor.
• peek inside to meet outlaws with a heart of gold, Heroes on an epic quest, Dragons with unusual taste, whimsical Gods, snarky aliens & more.
• perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Arthur C. Clark, Robert Aspirin, Frank Herbert.

In ArcLight -The fate of an Empire hangs in the balance as Whisky Jack argues with a hallucination or perhaps it’s something far more dangerous.

In The Shogun’s Blade – An ancient AI inhabiting the mind of a teenager experiments with seduction and power.

In Light in the Water – a bitter detective pries into the suspicious death of a top pilot. What he discovers will change everything. If he survives…!

In The Sunday People – clandestine aliens fight to survive a crash landing on Earth. Will they survive with the help of two adventurous teens on the verge of first love or will their mission upend civilization in unexpected ways?

In GodTouched – on a safari like no other three intrepid explorers discover much more than they bargained for! Will they escape unscathed or pay the ultimate price?

Come by my website for more about what inspired me to write this collection, my upcoming new releases, promos and giveaways. Sign up for updates if you want to keep in touch. I’ll never spam cause spam is *lame*!

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Featured Author Rachel Griffin

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Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Name: Rachel Griffin
Hometown: Cleveland, OH
Founder | Owner | CEO of Pen & Camera

My journey officially began at age thirteen. I had suddenly began writing poetry in my notebooks in my bedroom. I was feeling, thinking and going through so much before, and after, that I wasn’t conscious of what I was doing. That led to me being solid on my future career. Photography had not been considered an addition until my final year of high school. Realizing how fun it is and how much I could incorporate that into what I write, the more confident I became in my decision.

Though Pen & Camera went through many growing pains since 2015, so did I. Which is why I began writing, let alone start my business. It’s also why I photograph and video so much now. I have a voice and I’m choosing to use it for positivity. I haven’t had many positive voices in my ear. I wish to be that positive voice for someone else. Even if it’s just one person, we can all heal, grow and be better for ourselves and each other.

Growing up in Cleveland, there’s so many opportunities. Only if you aren’t being held back by outside forces. I can imagine how much I could’ve done, but everything happens for a reason. Though I wished for a different life, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. If it weren’t for my own traumas and healing from them, I probably wouldn’t have been inspired to write as much as I have. And once I have many acres of land, it’ll be a paradise for all animals. Especially the dogs. I’ll never treat them how my elders have.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I began writing when I was about thirteen years old. My fascination for books began then as well. I hadn’t fully realized my fascination for books or writing until I was a senior in high school. That’s when a lot of the things I was wasn’t too sure about began to solidify

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I don’t have a favorite genre or author to read. I pick up whichever seems the most interesting or informative to me. My favorite poet, Maya Angelou, inspired me to continue with poetry. MY grandmother inspired me to continue with whichever inspires happiness within me and doesn’t harm anyone else.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Deja Soul is a purple Phoenix who’s role is to be the leader of her planet Magma Wilds. Unfortunately, she began losing her memories after her first reincarnation. Not knowing what to do or where to begin, she meets with all of her sisters. City by city, she would travel to each one in the hopes of getting her questions answered. She doesn’t have to travel alone, because they refuse to leave her when they’re needed the most. Most importantly, she needs herself at the best she can be. Will her siblings techniques work? Will Deja ever remember and be the phoenix she wants to be? the leader everyone knows she can be?

This book took the better part of 2020 to write and complete. I wanted this one to be just as special as my first, Khyrus: Deity of Virtue & Strength. In Deja Soul, I wished for women to see how much we can accomplish by coming together. Show each other that we don’t always have to go through something alone. I also wish for this to be an example to young girls so they’ll grow up with that mentality. Entertaining with a message. Planting seeds to nuture future generations.

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Featured Author Brian Price

Featured Interview With Brian Price

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up in Southern New Jersey. Smallish town. Boring childhood. Minus the constant fear I felt at home. I keep moving away from Jersey as an adult with the pandemic being the latest reason I’m back. I’m hoping a return to California is in my future, but that Sunshine Tax on the West Coast seems to be higher than inflation at this point.

I’ve been in PR and marketing for about a decade. I’ve worked with some incredible and smart people, but I felt trapped in the office. I always knew where I was going to be and a general idea of what I’d be doing. The mundaneness drove me mad. When the pandemic happened, it burned any faith I had left in the traditional 9 to 5 life.

That’s when I said, “f*ck it” and decided to chase my wildest dream… writing a book.
As for pets, I have a rescue pup from Alabama, who I named Bucky Barnes. He’s a brindle corgi-terrier mix and my reluctant, but noble companion. He also has a thing for blondes. In California, he’d pull his leash toward any blonde woman. It was the funniest thing. He also likes to chase trucks and skateboarders. I guess we all have our things.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
In elementary school, we had this reading program that encouraged children to read fifteen minutes a day, and if you hit a certain number of minutes before the end of the school year, you’d win a pizza and a trophy. I’d be finished with the reading requirements before spring.
If I wasn’t reading, I was writing. I started writing before I could even write sentences. I have books from my childhood with pictures and squiggly lines underneath them. I assume those were the words. I don’t know. I always wanted to be a storyteller. If I wasn’t reading, I was writing. I’d give my family stories and books for holidays and birthdays. Sometimes I’d just write to write. There are not many things I enjoy more than writing. But there definitely are some.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Charles Bukowski, Neil Strauss, John Fante, Chuck Palahniuk, Hunter S. Thompson, and Ernest Hemingway. Besides Neil Strauss, I didn’t read any of those writers listed until the pandemic. Reading those writers flipped a switch in my mind and really made me want to write Last Chance California. And enrolling in a Writing Masterclass with Neil Strauss. Those two things sent me down a path.

As far as books that influenced me, Ask the Dust, Ham on Rye, Invisible Monsters, Choke, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I’m a big fan of contemporary fiction or realism. I also like to dabble in history or self-help books.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My debut novel is called Last Chance California. It’s a dark humor and contemporary literary fiction novel. It showcases our world, on the verge of the COVID-19 pandemic, through the eyes of a sarcastic and stubborn millennial as he attempts to break his family’s cycle of abuse. That’s just a romantic way of saying a depressed and lost man goes full-blown alcoholic after moving to California to escape his violent childhood.

The story follows a disillusioned Wyatt Lewis, who moves to California after realizing he’s more like his abusive father than he realizes. There’s romance, sex, drugs, exotic locations, depression, and substance abuse rampant through the novel. Last Chance California highlights some of the glaring deficiencies in our society while also reminding readers of the complexity of families, the imperfections of humans, and the burdens we carry every day.

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