Author Interview: Kate Seger

1) What inspired you to write?

This question is always hard for me because it’s just something I’ve always wanted to do. When I was a little kid, my mother would have to physically remove my notebooks from my hands at the dinner table and hide them when I went to bed. Otherwise, I would spend all night writing when I should have been sleeping. It sounds cheesy to say, “I was just born needing to write,” but it’s the truth. When I don’t write, my mental health suffers for it. For me, it’s a need.

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

Voracious reader! Laini Taylor’s Gods and Monsters series goes down as my #1, hands down, with Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses series not far behind. I also love Holly Black, Kendare Blake, George RR Martin (although I also hate him because I have been waiting to learn what happens in Game of Thrones since I was 15 years old). Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and The Stand, Gone with the Wind… We could be here all day, so I’ll stop there.

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

My most recently published book is Tria Ellinka. It’s a stand-alone of three Greek Mythology retellings (Echo and Narcisuss, Scylla, and Psyche and Eros) told from female perspectives. I’m currently working on the third and final book in my YA Fantasy Ethereal Realms Trilogy. And, yes, I did write Tria Ellinka to procrastinate writing the end to my series!

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

Find your process and stick with it. I was a Creative College major in college, and for many years I struggled with trying to write the “right” way. Elaborate plotting, outlines that would always go off track within the first five thousand words, notebooks full of world-building. I learned over time that while all that prep work is great for some, it really stifles me creatively, and I’m much happier with my work if I just go with the flow and let my characters decide what story I’m going to tell. So, try different processes, and when you find one that works, stick with it. There is no “right” or “wrong” process.

5) What influenced you as a writer?

Other books in my genre. One of the first “adult” books I ever read was The Dark Tower by Stephen King, which I stole from my dad’s bookshelf when I was ten. From there, it went on to the other books I listed above and many, many more. My love of reading fantasy inspired me to write fantasy.

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Daily Author interview: Iveta Ongley

1. What inspired you to write?
I’m a children’s author as well as an early childhood teacher. So, it’s children that have been my biggest inspiration. Although, it’s true that I started to think more seriously about writing only last year when my younger daughter was born. Until then, everything was written on pieces of paper and in notebooks.
2) Are you a reader? What are some of your favorites?
I love fantasy, when I don’t read children’s books. One of my favourite writers is Terry Pratchett. It’s extremely sad that there won’t be any new fresh work written by him.
3) What is your newest work, and what is going to happen in the future?
My newest book was published in June. It’s Book 2 in my magical chapter book series The Adventures of Rosie Hart. It’s called Mermaid Rescue.
I’m in the final stages of editing and finalising the illustrations for Book 3. Release date will be late November.
4) Do you have advice or tips for Indie Authors?
Being an indie author is hard but I love it. It gives me a lot of freedom in my creation process. The advice I would give is to research a lot prior to publishing, get everything organised and make a schedule of what will happen before, during and after publishing. The after is important, don’t skip that.
5) What influenced you as a writer?
I love fun books. Dr Seuss was definitely a huge influence, his rhymes are hilarious. However, there were lots of other authors and people in the profession.

Daiky author interview: Monika Prolux

1. I have
always enjoyed writing, but my book is a true story, detailing my daughters battle with depression, which was brought on after years of bullying.

2. Yes, I love to read and I enjoy a variety of genres, ranging from true stories to fantsies, mysteries, self-help, romance, eyc. etc. One on my favourite authors is Wally Lamb, but recently I have been reading a lot of new authors.

3. Continued. I am currently working on a coaching program to help parents with their troubled teens.

4. My advice is to keep going. Dedicate some time everyday to write. The first draft will not be perfect, but don’t give up. Make sure to get the manuscript edited, and show your presence on social media.

5. I had a drive to get my story out, and was blessed with getting to know some fantastic authors like Kary Oberbrunner, Niccie Kleigl, Lori Gurnett and many others. Their stories of success inspired me to keep going.

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Daily Author Interview: Michael D. Young

1) What inspired you to write? I was inspired from a young age to write because I was such a voracious reader. I loved the feeling of being transported out of my regular life to somewhere wondrous and I wanted to inspire this same kind of positive escapism for other people. I’ve always been imaginative and it brings me joy to apply my imagination in this way.
2) Are you a reader? What are some of your favorites? I love large sci-fi and fantasy series. I’m a big fan of authors such as Terry Brooks, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Brandon Sanderson, and others.
3) What is your newest work, and what is going to happen in the future? My newest works are the completion of my fantasy trilogy that started with “The Hunger”. They are called “The Thirst” and “The Longing”. I have so many ideas I’d like to work on and so for the time being there will just be more and more writing. I hope to expand the universe of this series with stories set in other timeframes of this world’s history.
4) Do you have advice or tips for Indie Authors? Learn as many useful publishing skills as you can yourself. There are so many resources that can help you learn how to format books, how to edit, how to create covers, and many of them are even free or low-cost. The more you can take care of yourself, the more money you will save in production, which means you’ll make more with each book.
5) What influenced you as a writer? I have emulated the style of writers whom I enjoy, but I’ve also been inspired by different movie franchises, including Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, but also from many video games, such as those in the Final Fantasy series.

Author Interview: Kaylah Boyce

1) other peoples loss or heartbreak would drive me to want to comfort them, i would write lots of poems to help other people make sense of their situation, in the same regard , it helped me make sense of my own feelings.

2) I am a reader, some of my favorite authors are Nikita Gill, Rupi Kauer and Kristen Ashley, I love all of their work.

3) my newest work is an anthology of poetry, in terms of future plans I want to expand into different platforms besides Amazon and eventually publish a paperback version of my book.

4) yes! I would say do not DIY it, be willing to pay reputable people to market your book, design covers, because its not easy trying to put your book on the map as a one man team.

5) as a writer, I was influenced by a lot of poets ( William Wordsworth, Shelley keats, shakespear) that i would encounter in high school and more so in college. I became to love the story telling of each poem and the picture the poets painted.

Daily Author interview: Marva Riley

About the Author
Marva Riley has been a registered nurse for over twenty years. She is also the recipient of The Daisy Award For Extraordinary Nurses, honoring nurses internationally. Most of her experience has been in critical care. She is an educator and believes that we are all educators in our own rights, that it is everyone’s responsibility to teach others what we know to be true.

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Daily Author Interview: Lashaundra Hoffman

1. What inspired you to write?

I wanted to writer after reading The Little House On The Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It started my journaling as a kid. When I was sixteen I wrote my first manuscript. It was inspired by Jackie Collins. I wanted to be the Black Jackie Collins. At sixteen I didn’t have a clue. I needed to live a little more.

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

I’ve been reading since I was four. I love love a good book. I have so many favorites to choose. I will say I enjoy a good romance, historical or SCI-FI. Lately I’ve been enjoying middle grade books.

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

My latest book is a devotional I’m featured in. Finding Joy In The Journey. This the second edition of the book. I was also featured in the first edition. It’s my gift to everyone who is dealing with grief. You are not alone. Believe there is joy inside your grief.

https://lashaunda.kartra.com/page/FJ2021

I’m currently working on a women fiction about a woman who marries her best friend and they become instant parents.

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

My advice is what I tell all my book promotion clients. Start your email list. When you are ready to promote your books you will have someone to promote to. It’s good to have a social media platform but that platform chooses who sees your promotion. Your list doesn’t have restrictions. You can see who gets your email and who opens it. Don’t sleep on your email list they are your pot of gold. Contact me for my email training if you don’t know where to start.

5. What influenced you as a writer?

The many amazing authors I’ve met over the years continue to influence me to keep writing because they are living the dream and now I am too. Im grateful to them because they gave me hope when I wanted to give up.

Your dream can’t come true if you quit. Keep soaring because someone needs what you are writing.

http://lashaundahoffman.com

Daily Author Interview: Jane Gundogan

1. I originally began my blog Janey in Mersin to keep in touch with my friends back in Sydney. I never held anything back. Good times and bad, it was all there. The blog really took off and has become one of the top 10 ‘go-to’ blogs for expats living in Turkey. Everyone encouraged me to write a memoir but I really didn’t see any point because I’d been doing it for years anyway. I do love a good rom-com though and I was already living in Turkey so it made sense that whatever I wrote had to be about falling in love and it had to take place in Turkey.
2. A voracious reader. Rom-com’s and contemporary romance predominantly but I do love a thriller or the occasional fantasy.
3. I’ve got two books in the pipeline. One is a continuation of The Ginger Chronicles featuring two new characters. That will also be set in London and Istanbul. I also have a stand-alone currently being edited and that one is set in Mersin, Turkey, which is the city where I currently live.
4. Indie authors really do it hard. I try and support my fellow authors. I will only read independent books. I won’t purchase mainstream, they have their audience, and it’s the indie’s where you can find some absolute gems. If you do read a book by an independent author, please, please, PLEASE do them a favour and leave a review for them, blog about them, share the book on your social media pages. It all helps!
5. I still remember reading Lace by Shirley Conran when I was about 12. I knew I shouldn’t be reading it; I knew it was wrong and I would get into so much trouble if my mother found out but good golly, miss molly!!! I was hooked! I will spoil it for anyone who may want to read the book but dang those the first few chapters were absolute crackers and I knew I wanted to be a writer… and now I am!

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How do you choose between the man that you should be with and the man you want?
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What does a marriage proposal, a bout of projectile vomiting and a psychic reading all have in common? Nothing unless your name is Olive Russo.
Olive has always done the right thing at the right time for the right reasons but when a psychic tells her she needs to choose a new path to her true destiny, she drops everything and runs away to the idyllic Mediterranean resort town of Bodrum, Turkey.
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Daily Author Interview: Brittney Herrera

1. I have always loved reading and writing followed suit. My little cousins inspired my 1st children’s books and they are still inspiring me as I work on the second.
2. I have always loved to read. My absolute favorite is Pride and Prejudice, along with a Merchant of Venice. I have too many other titles in my mind to list them all.
3. I published my 1st book in March and I am working on a second release for December, another children’s book. I am really excited and looking forward to it!
4. I am and indie author and stull learning myself. Have a good support system, and dont give up, it’s hard, not at all easy, but it was worth it to holed my own book. It’s hard to get noticed in the Caribbean, so any foreign purchase is greatly appreciated.
5. Reading definatly influenced me, I loke opening a book and stepping into a new world. I wanted to do that. To create my own world. And with my experiences with my little cousins, I wanted to share that and a little of my Mayan culture in my books. We are Meztiso, so a lot of our literature is informational, or folklore, not really fiction. I wanted to change that a little, while still having that representation.

Daily Author Interview: Deborah James

1. Writing for me is an unresistable passion, a breath of fresh air, a medium through which my voice is heard. That alone is a big motivation.
2. I love to read voraciously too.
3.”His-royal-sweetness” a billionaire romance thriller is my newest work.
4.There’s really no secret to writing. Once the passion is there, the writer will always find a way to convey to the world his/her message. So stay true to your passion.
5.my greatest influence comes from my environment, the works of others I admire and ultimately the passion within.

https://www.amazon.com/His-Royal-Sweetness-Deborah-James-ebook/dp/B09BLH4R9Z/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=His+Royal+Sweetness&qid=1627920947&s=digital-text&sr=1-1