1. What inspired you to write?
I was born in the hilly town of Shillong, India where every household had a story to tell. I studied in a missionary school, where our Assistant Headmaster Fr. P.D. Johnny always supported me to read books and those books truly help me to blossom my writing passion. Besides that my mom and dad also love to write. My mom is an expert in a certain type of storytelling called “anu kahini” literal translation is short stories. These are not just regular short stories but a story having only 6 to 7 lines and at max 10 lines and it would depict every single human emotion in it. They cannot be termed as poems as there is a wee bit of difference between both of them. Being around such wonderful people always inspired me to continue my passion of writing and finally making adjustments between work and passion, the story finally saw the light of the day.
2) Are you a reader? What are some of your favorites?
I love to read. I like mostly thriller novels, however, if I get a good story, I would make an exception too.
My personal favorite and I would always rank “Audrey Rose” in the top. Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta. Probably the only book where I cried.
Some of my favorites are the Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone, well actually every single book Alister McLain has ever written,
Then there was Good-ByeGood Bye California, The Chancellors manuscript, 90 minutes at Entebbe, the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Every single story written by Ruskin Bond, and finally “The Animal Farm” by George Orwell
3) What is your newest work, and what is going to happen in the future?
My newest work is entitled “Geeta: A life with no Existence” It’s based on the life of a child who was forced into feminization against her will and how her good deeds helped unite a group of people from different backgrounds unite together to rescue her from the clutches of her tormentors.
This book is a part of a 3 book trilogy entitled “The King of My Teenage Heart”. The next 2 books are entitled “Amell: Born to Live in the Shadow” and finally Alena: Curse of The Tainted Soul”
4) Do you have advice or tips for Indie Authors?
I am a first-time author myself, and as per my knowledge, Indie Authors actually live and dream and earn their pocket money through books. I think I am still a newbie to actually provide them advice and tips.
I can say only one thing though ‘An author is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.’
5) What influenced you as a writer?
I am an emotional guy myself and when my teacher Fr. P.D. Johnny, Mr. B Masih, and Mrs. M. Biswas kept giving me books to read or kept asking me to write, I began to co-relate things to real-life incidents, and occasionally I would take my Digital Camera and start taking random interviews of different kinds of people. I use their life lessons and try to bring out a whole new world in my book.
Samantha Evans--Author 