I Walked With Jesus was released today! Talk about a surprise. The best news is I have the day off today from my regular school job, so I have the time to really get the word out there. If you can help me with that too, I would REALLY appreciate it. You can make a comment below, or you can enter the contesthere, or you can put something out on social media!
I'll be doing things a bit differently today. One of our clients, J.S., Andersen, has just published her first YA fiction book through Idea Creations Press, and we're pretty excited about it. We'll begin with her interview, and end with her book trailer.
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Tell me a about yourself. What got you started in writing?
I started writing in 1st grade. When I was in 9th
grade in my English class we were supposed to write down 5 goals. One was to finish a book. I pressed forward and had it published. I had to
cross off that
goal.
How do you schedule your writing time? When do you write?
I write
when I find time. Most is at night and late in to the morning.
How and where do you write? Do you prefer a lap top or some
other method of getting your words down?
I use what even I can get my hands on when an idea pops into my
brain. I carry a small notebook in my purse, a small recorder I talk into if
I’m driving, and use my lap top when I get home or take it to a writers group.
What's your favorite part about writing? Your least favorite
part about writing?
I love coming up with a story
idea. My least favorite is fighting the writer’s block. I can go weeks without
touching it. Poor MC gets a little angry at me.
How did you come up with your book idea? How long did it take
you to write your book?
In my 20s I finally found out what made the grinding noises at
night down the street from the house I grew-up in. It was a rock grinder. When
it ran at night to me it sounded like a ghost driving a tractor in the field
across the street from my bedroom.
What types of marketing do you do
to promote your writing?
Face Book, Blogs, Voice, Craft Shows,
Book Signings and whatever else I can think of to advertise it.
What are you currently working on?
Do you have a new book out?
I’m working on book #2 Secrets Revealed
that carries on with Missy Mack in the 1st book Hidden Secrets.
Do you have a project on the back burner? Tell me about it.
Another book in its 3rd
draft, If I Only Knew, is planned to be done and out by the end of the year. I
have a couple more plots on stories I’m working on.
What would you tell a beginning
writer who wants to publish but doesn't believe he/she has enough talent?
Don’t give up. If you set your mind
to it, then do it even if it takes you several years to get it done.
Like a good, clean mystery? Then you might want to gear up for my next installment of the Susan Cramer Mystery series!
Book 3 New Release Date: July 2016!
What would you do if you returned home from vacation only to
find out that someone you knew had been murdered? Would you plan your life as
far away from any and all connections? Would you get a new alarm system for
your house? Move to another state? Try to find the killer?
Find out what Susan Does, whom she meets, and what finally opens
her mind to the truth—the whole hard boiled truth.
