Author Interview: Thomas A. Burns Jr.

1. What inspired you to write?

I have been reading mysteries and series books since I was a kid, and I
always wanted to write my own mystery series. When I retired from my job
as a scientist, the opportunity was there.
My inspiration for the Natalie McMasters Mysteries came from a guy I met
at work, who put himself through college working for a private detective
agency. His job was to sit in a car and watch people who had put in
workmen’s comp claims, and to take pictures of them if they did
something that showed they were not injured as badly as the said.

2. Are you a reader? What are some of your favorites?

I am a lifelong reader. I started with boys’ mystery series-the Hardy
Boys, Ken Holt and Rick Brant. I also read a lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs
and Louis L’Amour-these gus are fantastic storytellers. Then I graduated
to the classic mystery authors like Conan Doyle, Rex Stout and John
Dickson Carr. Right now, some of my fave authors are Michael Connelly,
Linda Castillo, Kathy Reichs, and Lee Child.

3. What is your newest work, and what is going to happen in the future?

The last book I published was the fifth installment in the Natalie
McMasters Mysteries, Sniper! Here’s the back cover blurb:

A crazed sniper. A loved one wounded, in danger of death. The
unforgiving Fake News media. And a hidden villain more loathsome than
any that Natalie McMasters has encountered before.
Nattie’s in the crosshairs as a series of seemingly random shootings
terrorizes the city. She must fight to keep her polyamorous family from
disintegrating, her emotions from running wild and her personal
integrity uncompromised. This would be a formidable task for anyone,
much less a twentysomething college student who just wants to graduate
and get on with her life. Nattie must rely on old friends and new, but
how can she even, when friends can become enemies in the blink of an
eye? As Nattie nears an emotional meltdown, society collapses along with
her, as the sniper’s depredations take their toll on the city.
Sniper! is a twisted, sexy, absolutely gripping descent into darkness
jam packed with nail-biting suspense. Don’t miss it!

I have just finished the first draft of the sixth book. It’s entitled
Killers! and I expect to publish it by the end of next month.

4. Do you have advice or tips for Indie Authors?

First and foremost, write! If you’re going to publish independently, do
a lot of research on the best selling independently and traditionally
published books in your genre. Look at how each author is branded by
titles, covers and the overarching theme of their books, and strive to
emulate this with your own. Also realize that the best book in the world
will not sell unless it’s heavily promoted, and as an indie author, that
resposibility falls squarely on you.

5 What influenced you as a writer?

All of the great writers I’ve already mentioned above.

You can follow me at https://www.3mdetectiveagency.com/. The Natalie
McMasters Mysteries at
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GRK2XTC?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_tkin&binding=kindle_edition

Author Interview: Kemi Adelakun

1. I saw myself writing with a green pen in my dream, and I wrote across the page the word, “PARAMOUNT.” I believe it was God instructing to write.

2. I love reading. I prefer motivational and inspirational books. For example, John Maxwell. SELL LIKE CRAZYby Sabri Suby.

3. Hold On, Don’t Give Up is my newest book. I writing another book presently. I hope to become an award winning and bestselling author.

4. I am a new author. My advice is that, no matter the challenges you may encounter, don’t give up on your dreams. You will surely overcome.

5.I want to make an impact through my works.

Author Interview: Ade Ajibulu

1. After the death of Winnie Mandela in South Africa, one of the political leaders accused the rulling party for not celebrated the woman as she deserved. Winnie Mandela is the wife of the South African freedom icon Nelson Mandela but who was criticised throughout her life. I was moved by her dedication lifestyle during and after the Apatheid and thus came up with a young character who also loved her community without bothering what will get from them.

2. Unfortunately I am not however I have read between 20 and 30 books but love young adult books

3. The book has not out yet but will be released in July however it has received several 5-stars reviews from various international reviewers among which are Readers Favourite and Literary Titans. My first book was published in 2020 and title “Johnny Famous Journey”

3. Im a presently working on two other books which are based on my experience as an immigrant. The first one is title “My Brother from Another Mother” (ficton) and the second one is title “My Journey across the Xenophobic State” This is a non fiction

4. My advice for fellow writer is to keep writing. Never cast your eggs in one basket and don’t allow anyone to create your world for you. Write what you think is best and remember that you are the first audience to your book.

5. I love writing but the situation of being a foreigner influenced my writing. What I witnesses daily is what I decided to put on paper until it became part of my life.

Author Interview: Robert Williscroft

1) What inspired you to write?

I was inspired to write Icicle: A Tensor Matrix following a conversation with Keith Lofstrom, the inventor of the Space Launch Loop (a method for getting into orbit and beyond without using rockets) and ServerSky (an orbital-based Internet concept using billions of small thinsats that work together to function as the backbone for a global internet).

Here is a description of the book:
Braxton Thorpe has discovered a threat to the entire Solar System, but he has a problem: he’s dead.

Frozen at death, he awakens to find himself uploaded into an electronic matrix. Exploring beyond the matrix and the larger GlobalNet, he discovers the Oort, a distributed electronic entity older than humanity, with an unnerving secret: aliens wiped out nearly all life on Earth once, and are coming back to do it again.

The mathematical entity that is Thorpe has to find a way to convince humans of the threat, and in time to do something about it. But how, and what?

If you’ve read Niven’s A World Out of Time or Taylor’s We Are Legion, the opening of Icicle will only seem familiar. Buckle up for a wild ride; you ain’t seen nothing.

Here is a link to the book trailer: https://youtu.be/ZLtkc9wlxzA

2) Are you a reader? What are some of your favorites?

I am an eclectic reader. On the fiction side, I enjoy hard SciFi, technothrillers, and spy novels. Nonfiction, I like science, physics, astronomy, cosmology, space science, planetary science, history, and biographies of famous people.

3) What is your newest work, and what is going to happen in the future?

I just completed the third Mac McDowell Mission, Operation Arctic Sting, about Mac and his team acquiring an abandoned Soviet Alfa sub and driving it through the Arctic ice pack to the U.S. East Coast. Shortly, I will complete the third Oort Chronicle, Federation: To the Stars. This is a continuation of Icicle, described in the first response above.

Following this is the fourth Mac McDowell Mission, Operation White Out that takes place in Antarctic waters, and the third Oort Chronicle, Andromeda: A Rising Tide that follows the characters in Icicle and Federation as they push beyond our galaxy into the wider universe.

4) Do you have advice or tips for Indie Authors?

Stick with it! Don’t give up—ever!

5) What influenced you as a writer?

My writing has had many influences. I have lived a life of personal adventure that has influenced everything I write. My inspiration comes from my eclectic of the world around me. Here is a short bio:

Retired submarine officer, deep-sea and saturation diver, scientist, author, and lifelong adventurer. Spent 22 months underwater, a year in the equatorial Pacific, three years in the Arctic ice pack, and a year at the Geographic South Pole. Degrees in Marine Physics and Meteorology, and a doctorate for developing a system to protect SCUBA divers in contaminated water. A prolific author of non-fiction, Cold War thrillers, and hard science fiction. Lives in Centennial, Colorado, with the girl of his dreams and her two cats.

Social media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.williscroft

Parler: https://parler.com/#/user/RGWilliscroft

Gab: https://gab.com/RWilliscroft

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RGWilliscroft

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/argee/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rwilliscroft/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/robertwilliscro/_saved/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RWilliscroft

Book Website: https://RobertWilliscroft.com

Personal Website: https://argee.net

Blog: https://thrawnrickle.com/

Publisher: https://freshinkgroup.com/author/robertwilliscroft/

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-G-Williscroft/e/B001JP52AS

Author Interview: Tarphy W. Horn

1. What inspired you to write? A lot of things. I want to leave something of myself behind when I’m gone. Writing is an escape from the chaos of the world…it’s a place I can control! Mostly, though, nothing feels as good as someone telling you your story made them laugh, or that they’ve reread your work, or that they enjoyed what you’ve written.
2) Are you a reader? Of course! What are some of your favorites? I love Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. Also James Barclay’s Raven trilogies.
3) What is your newest work, and what is going to happen in the future?
I just released “The Facility” ebook on Amazon (Kindle unlimited). I’m also working on a novel that’s a fantasy/murder mystery with a side of wlw romance!
4) Do you have advice or tips for Indie Authors?
I’d say be persistent, always hire an editor, and don’t write with the intention of making money—write what you feel, not what you think will sell. 5) What influenced you as a writer? Stephen King’s way of making the supernatural completely believable. I want to write worlds that you can immerse yourself in, and completely escape daily life. I also want to scare you, and get you to laugh while I’m doing it.

Author interview: Mousum

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.

Author interview: J.L. Newman

1. My love of reading. I often wished I could change the stories that I read. Then, one day, I realized that I could create the entire story myself.
2) I have probably read somewhere between 150-200 books. My favorites are Bleak Expectations by Mark Evans and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
3) The last book I published was a SciFi parody called a Story About Steve but I have a Fantasy parody that I will be releasing soon called A Legend About Lala. I’m also working on getting all my books made into audiobooks on Audible. 4) Write about something you enjoy writing about. If you want your readers to enjoy your book then you should also enjoy writing it. Take your time with the editing and no matter the outcome, keep on doing what you love. 5) My silly sense of humor and my love for comedy. I attempted some more serious books several times, writing in a style that seemed more sensible, but I never got very far. Then I wrote a page of utter nonsense with no plan at all and it was like reading my innermost thoughts on the page. Since then, I decided just to write how I felt most comfortable and be as ludicrous as I liked. I took some influence from authors like Roald Dahl & Lewis Caroll but my writing is influenced primarily by my wacky personality. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BZF7KGW?ref_=dbs_p_mng_rwt_ser_shvlr&storeType=ebooks

Author interview: Heba Hendawi

Thanks for the initiative!

A life changing experience inspired me to write my memoir and share it with the world.
I’ve always been a bookworm. When I see any. bookin any language, I just grab it and have a look. I read in my mother tongue and in English and French.
I wrote my memoir on Arabic and in English. My newest work s short stories about women but only in Arabic for the moment. In the future, I am planning to rewrite the stories in English so that my friends have a chance to read them.
Believe in yourself and work hard reading and writing then you’ll eventually reach your goal.
As a writer I was influenced by all the book covers in my library and all the classics I read as a child.

Author Interview: Mary Dalgleish

1. What inspired you to write?I USED IT AS A WAY TO COLLATE ALL OF MY TEACHING NOTES SO THAT THEY COULD BE USED AS STUDENT RESOURCES BY A WIDE AUDIENCE.
2) Are you a reader? YES What are some of your favorites? HEALTH RELATED NON-FICTION + HISTORICAL FICTION.
3) What is your newest work, and what is going to happen in the future? A BOOK AND ACCOMPANYING WORKBOOK CALLED “KNOW YOUR BODY The Essential Guide to Human Anatomy and Physiology” https://anatomyandphysiology.co.uk
I PLAN TO DESIGN AN ONLINE COURSE AND AN AUDIO BOOK TO BE USED ALONGSIDE THE BOOK.
4) Do you have advice or tips for Indie Authors? WRITE EVERY DAY – PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT! JOIN AUTHOR SUPPORT GROUPS; UNLESS YOU ARE AN EXPERT, USE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR THINGS LIKE COVER DESIGN, FORMATTING, EDITING, PROOFREADING 5) What influenced you as a writer? SEEING OTHERS MAKE A SUCCESS OF WRITING; READING; ADVICE FROM EXPERTS.

Author interview: Anat Eliraz

1. I always wrote. Poems, short stories, unfinished stories… But always for the drawer. I have ideas come to me and I have to put them down on paper. It can be after a hike, something I saw or read, or just with no specific trigger.
2. Yes, I read a lot. I like many geners from classic literature, thrillers, fantasy etc…
I love ‘Life in the grave’, by a greek author, about world war 1.
‘Book of Pages’ which is somewhat philosophical.
In the thriller part- I like books by Jack Higgins, like ‘The Eagle has Landed’ and ‘Night of the Fox’.
In fantasy I like Charles De Lint as an author. Love his book ‘Someplace to be flying’.
I also read in my native tongue.
3. I just published my first novel on April 25th. “Jewels of Smoky Quartz”
It is a fantasy book (cover and blurb added). Currently I am working on book 2 and another fantasy novel which takes place on earth.
4. Advice- If you are not planning of becoming a full time author just yet, then take your time and do things right. There are sadly many scammers out there. Check any offers you receive. What you should put your money into is good editing. Know that most of your work starts after you finish writing, but make it into a journey, not a nuisance.
5. I played AD&D as a teenager and read alot of fantasy books.
My personal life- work and hobbies also found their way into my writing. I hope I did them justice!