Saturday, July 28, 2018

Author Interview with Tee Smith

Author Interview
Name: Tee Smith
What first inspired you to write? I have always written in one form or another.
How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? I have an over active imagination and am a terrible insomniac.
What question do you hate the most about being a writer? What is your story about? How can you some up a whole world in one short answer?
Are you indie or traditionally published? Indie.
Have you ever tried the other style of publishing? No.
What are you working on now? Currently I am working on a standalone novel about a woman who wakes up with no memory. She has been bashed and beaten and her husband tells her, she has been involved in a car-jacking.
What is your most recent/upcoming release? My most recent release is a novella titled A Dusty Road to Peace. It is about an Aussie cowboy, who travels to the town of Peace Montana and finds more than he bargains for.
Links to stalk you online:

Facebook author page; www.facebook.com/teesmithbooks



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Author Interview with Stephanie Ayers


Author Interview

Name: Stephanie Ayers

What first inspired you to write? A 4th grade assignment about a dancing peanut.

How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? Sometimes they just come to me, other times they are inspired by what I see… tv, google, book covers, etc.

What question do you hate the most about being a writer? “why don’t you get a real job?”

Are you indie or traditionally published? I am traditionally published.

Have you ever tried the other style of publishing? No, but I am considering it.

What are you working on now? My fantasy series, Destiny Defined.

What is your most recent/upcoming release? The 13: Tales of Illusory released Oct 2017 and I’m prepping Wings for instafreebie to offer my newsletter subscribers. It should be released in a couple of weeks.

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Author Inerview with Okpanachi Attah Emakoji

Author Interview with Okpanachi Attah Emakoji
Name: Okpanachi Attah Emakoji
Pen Name if different: ema koji and Eva Grinn
What first inspired you to write? The desire to be published.
How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? Just about anything can inspire me. Sights. Scenes. Imaginations.
What question do you hate the most about being a writer? Do your books sell at all?
Are you indie or traditionally published? I am traditionally published. I publish my books myself. I have a publications company.
Have you ever tried the other style of publishing? I tried online on Amazon though someone but I don't have anything to shoe for it. Recently I tried to upload my books on lulu.com but it won't go through.
What are you working on now? Several books concurrently, about four to six.
What is your most recent/upcoming release? The most recent ones are collections of poems: RAINBOWS AND SHADOWS, SOLEMNS SYMBOLS and SIGNS OF THE SEVENTH SEASON. The ones to follow are entirely prose fiction.
Links to stalk you online:
No online links for now, except my Facebook page.

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Friday, July 27, 2018

Author Interview with Lina Greyce

Author Interview
Name: Lina Greyce
What first inspired you to write? I honestly don’t know. Writing has been a part of my life for so long, I don’t remember ever NOT wanting to write. It was probably the awesome stories I read as a kid.
How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? The Great Cosmic Chahuahua bites me on the ankle and injects the ideas into my bloodstream. Seriously, I just have ideas and sometimes they are great!
What question do you hate the most about being a writer? Anything to do with me writing someone else’s story ideas. I have a metric ton of ideas (weighed at a local WW meeting), and I don’t need or particularly want other peoples’ ideas, too.
Are you indie or traditionally published? I am a hybrid author, doing a little of both. I write under pen names, and my Urban Fantasy line is published through a small-press publisher.
Have you ever tried the other style of publishing? Yes… lol
What are you working on now? I have the last two books of the Hot Fae Knights series, and another series in the works. I have several others coming out under Sarah Buhrman.
What is your most recent/upcoming release? My most recent release is His Precious Undoing. Her Beloved Disaster should be out by the end of the year.
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Author Interview with Shay Stone

Author Interview
Name: Shay Stone
What first inspired you to write? My first book was a self-help book. I was in an accident and suffered from chronic pain as a result. Trying to make a positive out of a negative, I wrote the book hoping to help others deal with their pain and know that they weren’t alone.
How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? Usually they wake me up out of a dead sleep in the middle of the night. Sometimes it’s a song I’ve heard. Other times I’ll get a pivotal conversation in my head and think what led them to that point. Voila! There’s a book.
What question do you hate the most about being a writer? Why aren’t you famous yet? (Usually followed up with “Obviously you haven’t found the right marketing technique.”
Are you indie or traditionally published? Both – but my publisher has taken a step back and may be closing the company. She doesn’t publish contemporary romance, which is why I self-published The rise to Fame.
Have you ever tried the other style of publishing? Yes
What are you working on now? I’m finishing up the editing on The Cost of Fame, the second book in my duet that is coming out in September. I am also working on a new novel that I am so excited about, but haven’t quite settled on a title yet.
What is your most recent/upcoming release? The Rise to Fame was released a little over a week ago. The Cost of Fame is due out in September.
Links to stalk you online: Yes, please stalk me!!!!


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Author Interview with Kimberly Grell

Author Interview

Name: Kimberly Grell

What first inspired you to write? I became inspired to write when a teacher of mine in Elementary school told me I have a wonderful way with words. I studied many dictionaries and thesaurus’s to expand my vocabulary. I’ve won several gold medals and money prizes for writing competitions in my state.

How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? Normally, it’s a spur of the moment thing. Daily life and duties spark something and the gears begin to turn.

What question do you hate the most about being a writer? Are you rich? I get asked on a daily basis if I’m loaded because I write books. While it is a great dream to be a rich author, realistically it’s just that, only a dream. Income fluctuates significantly in this type of business.

Are you indie or traditionally published? I’m independently published.

Have you ever tried the other style of publishing? No. With Traditional publishers the author needs to write in the trending genre. Even though I write in a popular genre, more than likely it’ll get overlooked because I rarely include sex.

What are you working on now? I’m currently working on a Halloween novella, Turned. It is a vampire romance, something I normally don’t write but wanted to test my abilities in the romance category.

What is your most recent/upcoming release? The Spy I Loved. Again, this is a new category I wanted to test myself in. It’s centered around a spy and CIA.

Links to stalk you online:
FACEBOOK: https://m.facebook.com/KimberlyGrellAuthor/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/kimmieloveslife

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/briansdisneygal/
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Author Interview with Trinity Hanrahan

Author Interview
Name: Trinity Hanrahan
Pen Name if different: N/A
What first inspired you to write? I’ve been telling stories since I was a kid overseas. We didn’t have regular TV, all we had were books. When we ran out of books (since they had to be shipped to us via mail), I started creating my own stories.
How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? I can be inspired by music (the main one), a piece of art, a quote that really strokes me, a show or movie… My first novel, Pivotal Moments, was actually inspired by the show Locked Up!
What question do you hate the most about being a writer? “I bet you make a lot of money, right?” or “Hey, can you get me a copy of your book?” I also love the “Wow, talk about an easy way to make money.”
Are you indie or traditionally published? I’m both. My In Times series is through my publisher, Limitless Publishing. However, my subsequent pieces are and will be indie published.
Have you ever tried the other style of publishing? Well, yeah. I mean, I do both. LOL
What are you working on now? I’m actually working on several projects.
  1. Enduring Moments: book three in my In Time series (NA contemp romance)
  2. Caden: book one in my The Unknowns series (NA paranormal romance)
  3. Witching Hour Anthologies: short horror stories in the anthologies I run
  4. Outlaw Justice Charity Set: an MC short story to benefit the raising of funds in honor a friend’s nephew to donate to his high school sports program
What is your most recent/upcoming release? My most recent release was One Forgives as One Loves, a psychological thriller in the collection Vices and Virtues. The next will be the MC piece in the fundraising set. After that, it will be The Control of Surrender in the new Witching Hour Anthologies set (Witching Hour: Sinister Legends), followed by Caden.
Links to stalk you online:
- Facebook Page: https://bit.ly/2IOMOIy
- Instagram: https://bit.ly/2KFdtJL
- Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2KEx5kx
- Newsletter Signup: http://eepurl.com/cjAhoA



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Author Interview with Ikenna Okeh

Author Interview with Ikenna Okeh

Name: Ikenna Chinedu Okeh


 Pen Name if different: I don't write with pen names. Never had a reasons for them, at least for now.

 What first inspired you to write? I haven't given this question any thoughts before now. I can't actually say that this or that first inspired me to write. But there's an event I can relate to. In retrospect, it inspired me to write. I was about eleven at the time, and in boarding school. A friend who was a class higher up aspired to become a writer. He wrote plays, and would often ask my opinion on them. One day, to drive home some opinion, I wrote a play too. When I showed him the play I had written, he was so impressed that he began to sell me the idea of becoming a writer too. At the time, I brushed aside the idea. Though he tried as much he could, he saw my unwavering resolve in being a doctor and nothing like one of those haggard-looking poets and novelists I see on book covers and newspaper pages.
If there's anything that first inspired me to write, it was that friend from my childhood. His name is Onyeka Nwelue, and he has lived up to his early dream of becoming a published author of five books.

 How do you come up with the ideas for your stories? My ideas come from everyday life. Listening to people talk, watching people walk by the road, listening to news, seeing some newspaper headline, all these can set my mind spinning. There's so much story ideas beckoning to be explored. I just can't deliver up to the pace at which my mind wills.
I wrote my third novel, Bones and Closets, in 2015. At the time, Nigeria was gearing up for the presidential elections. Promises were made, and assurances traded without thoughts. It was a moment of intrigues and playing to the gallery. I thought it best to set a crime story around the time so as to inform, while entertaining my readers. With the rest of my novels and narrative poems, there are real life events which inspired the idea of writing them.

 What question do you hate the most about being a writer? Funny. But I will tell you.
"Are you really sure you're the one who wrote this?" Believe me, that's the worst question I have had tossed at me as a writer. In my part of the world, novelists and poets are seen as species belonging to some obscure world. They exist only on book covers and newspaper pages and not in the same neighborhood nor village. Hence, if the man who shares the same neighborhood with you happens upon your poem, he is sure to look at you as some impostor. And the genuineness of his disbelief could be very unnerving.

 Are you indie or traditionally published?
I'm indie published.

 Have you ever tried the other style of publishing?
No. I haven't tried traditional publishing. On this side, it's like taking a seat by the side of the road, waiting to see a unicorn gallop past.

What are you working on now?
At the moment, I’m concentrating my effort on the UbuntuFM Hip-Hop Radio Channel of which I am a co-founder. The UbuntuFM Hip-Hop Channel is an offshoot of the UbuntuFM project. It is an online-based platform dedicated to the promotion of Hip-Hop music to a global audience. Only recently, we launched our online radio app on the iTunes and Google Play Stores. In a very short while we have promoted quite a good number of artists and stake-holders in the entertainment business. It is been a fun ride, and I am enjoying it.

 What is your most recent/upcoming release?

My most recent release is A Fistful Of Sands. It is a novel set in modern Nigeria, about a dreadlocked teenager whose prank went out of hand and brought a most unlikely set of people together. Through the eyes of the characters, the reader experiences elements of the society as plain and hilarious as it could get. It was released on Smashwords in August, and then September on Okadabooks. I must confess that this is actually my first book, but I had to hold it back until I was convinced it was polished enough for the public taste.
Links to stalk you online:
Email: Okehikenna@yahoo.com
Twitter: @IkennaOkeh
Facebook: https://mobile.facebook.com/okeh.ikenna

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