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Featured Author Pascha Moore Kelley

Featured Interview With Pascha Moore Kelley

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in a small town in Alabama by a close-knit, southern family. We loved to go camping, attended church every time the doors were open, ate good food, and loved University of Alabama sports. When I went to college, I didn’t consider going anywhere else but Alabama. I majored in Finance and moved to Birmingham to start my career.

For 20 years, I worked for a startup pharmaceutical company that became a multi-million dollar business. Now, I’m a Zig Ziglar speaker and trainer. My book, The Magnetic Advantage, combines Ziglar principles with my experiences in the corporate world.

I live in Birmingham with my husband, Mike. We have a blended family with six kids. My beloved dog, Bryant, is my constant companion.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
It seems like I’ve always loved to read. I imagine that my obsession with books started in middle school. It helps that I grew up during a time when we only had three major TV channels and no internet. 😊

As a math gal, I hadn’t planned to be a writer. However, God had different plans. He kept pushing me until I sat down in September 2017 and started writing. As it turns out, I had a lot to share about business!

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite genre is motivational / inspiration books. I always strive to be my very best and I’m a encourager, so this genre is a natural fit for me. No wonder I turned out to be a motivational speaker! Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer are my two of my favorite authors in this category.

Business is another favorite genre. Truthfully, I love everything business and enjoy learning all that I can! Zig Ziglar, Jim Collins, and John Maxwell are some of my favorites in this area.

I’m a history buff and enjoy learning about my ancestry, so historical fiction is a favorite genre. The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon is my favorite in this category. Nora Roberts is another of my go-to authors.

Sci-fi and paranormal romance are other fiction genres that I enjoy. Molly Harper is my new favorite author in this area. Her books are about supernatural creatures, but they are written with great wit and humor! Plus, they take place in the south, my part of the country

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My book, The Magnetic Advantage, is designed to help business leaders improve their people management skills. My motto is “You don’t build a business – you build people – and people build the business.” (Zig Ziglar) I believe that people management should be a strategic priority for every company.

Businesses have tight budgets these days, especially startups and small businesses. As an entrepreneur, I can relate to budget constraints! With this in mind, I provide low-cost, high-impact strategies to improve profits. The Magnetic Advantage teaches how to:
• Create an engaged workforce
• Reduce employee turnover
• Enhance your leadership skills
• Effectively manage difficult employees
• Create a great business culture
• Improve your return on investment (ROI) in employee programs
• Develop effective employee communications

This book is designed for business leaders aspiring to master their market, companies with high turnover and low employee engagement, the new business owner and leaders looking to attract top talent.

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Featured Author Kirby Michael Wright

Featured Interview With Kirby Michael Wright

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in Honolulu. I attended Punahou School and also UH-Manoa. I spent every summer with my grandmother on her horse ranch on the east end of Moloka’i. She gave me my first horse when I was four. That mare dropped a foal the morning after I “rode her to death,” according my grandmother. My father told his mother to never mention I had Hawaiian blood because of the discrimination he experienced as a boy growing up in Honolulu.

I currently live in San Diego.

I have 3 cats: Marilyn Monroe, DoDo Boyd, and Tiny.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I suppose my first story was written at age nine, when I crafted a letter to my mother from the island of Moloka’i and sent it to her in Boston. It amazed me that I could convey feelings on paper and relay those feelings to her all those miles away.

My fascination with books started in elementary school @ Star of the Sea in Honolulu, where I got a crush on the Tom Swift SciFi Series.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Favorite authors include Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Plath, Hemingway, and Joyce.

My favorite genres to read are poetry, literary fiction, plays, and creative nonfiction.

Instead of Who inspires me, it’s What inspires me. Writing helps me to document my life, allowing me to go back in time and express how I felt in the past. Try it. I think that’s important because it helps you understand who you are today. When the founder of Wal-Mart died, he left hundreds of millions to his family but never left any record of himself behind through a story or even a poem. What do we know about his interior world? Writing also allows you get down the stories of your elders. For example, THE QUEEN OF MOLOKA’I focuses on my paternal grandmother’s life in the islands and begins two generations before I was born. Julia Wright deserves to be remembered because of all the hardships she overcame. Now this isn’t a praise book. Far from it. It’s Julia’s story, warts and all.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is THE QUEEN OF MOLOKA’I. This is the true story of Julia Wright, my paternal grandmother who was born and raised in Hawaii.

Julia Wright was one of six children that grew up in Palolo Valley. Julia was a party girl in Waikiki. She made big mistakes in love, especially after meeting a blond Englishman at the Moana Hotel. He left her hapai (pregnant) after promising he’d send for her once he got settled in San Francisco. Julia never heard from the Englishman again and gave birth to my father the first day of world peace. Then she met a Portuguese sea merchant at the Young Hotel downtown and soon she was hapai again. Julia was forced to raise both sons in her mother’s tiny rental in Kaimuki. Her third love interest was Chipper, a decorated war vet. Chipper asked her to accompany him to the Molokai Ranch, where he’d secured a job as a paniolo (cowboy). Julia said she would. Chipper told her she couldn’t bring her sons along until she proved she could handle the rural lifestyle. She was caught between the fear of becoming an old maid raising two half-brothers or the possibility of marrying her teenage crush.

Four chapters from THE QUEEN OF MOLOKA’I manuscript were published online during the writing process. These acceptances gave me momentum. I have found that, by submitting chapters as stand-alone stories, you soon find out if your chapters are worthwhile. My advice to any wannabe writer is to get his or her work published online in the pages of respected magazines. Once my chapters were online, I hunkered down and re-edited them to make them even stronger. I also think it’s important for people to get down the stories of their elders before they pass. Just remember to get down both sides of the coin—the good and the bad.

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Featured Author Delta James

Featured Interview With Delta James

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. I grew up and spent most of my life in the Pacific Northwest. About four years ago, I had the opportunity to return to North Carolina. It felt like I was completing that circle and doing so appealed to me. So I packed up my girls (bassets) sold most everything I owned and moved to take a new job not knowing anyone here. Friends both here and in the Northwest tell me how brave they think I am. My response is always “It’s North Carolina y’all, not outer Mongolia!”

I have five (or rather four soon to be five) basset hounds. Goody (who is 10), Katy (who is an AKC Grand Champion and is 5), Emma (who is also 5), Roz who is 9 months old 9 (and became an AKC champion at just 7 months of age in two weekends of showing) and Ava will join us on Valentine’s Day and she is 6 months old. My sister once asked me if I was ever afraid I was going to end up being that crazy basset lady down the street. I told her I thought we’d turned that corner a long, long time ago. Now, happily I’m that crazy basset lady who writes erotic romance books!

Most of my books deal with paranormal romance, specifically wolf-shifters, or contemporary Westerns. I have ridden, competed and won at the highest levels of equine competition and think there is nothing more awe-inspiring than the wild horses who still roam our country free.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My mother started teaching me to read when I was 3 or 4 years old. I wanted to learn and so she taught me. My first book was Marguerite Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague. I always think it started a love affair with reading and horses. I’ve been reading ever since.

I wrote my first novel almost 20 years ago. I had a publisher interested and had started to work with an editor, but my whole life fell apart and it never got released. Flash forward to sitting in my house one evening and pondering my life. I thought about the things I’d never done and realized that some of them weren’t achieved because the idea of actually succeeding scared the hell out of me. I decided I was done making decisions based in fear as I realized EVERY bad decision I ever made was based in fear. So I decided “no more.”

That night I began my first novel. That was the fall of 2017. It was accepted Thanksgiving Day of 2017 and was published in January of 2018. I wrote six novels under the pen name Willa Bradley for Blushing Books. I then got caught up by a paranormal book that I wanted to write and I decided to change publishers and pen names. I submitted Brought to Heel to Stormy Night Publications in late May of 2018 and it came out in July. I’ve been writing for them ever since — six paranormal romances in the Wayward Mates series and two contemporary westerns.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I refuse to name romance writers because there are way too many and I worry I would forget to mention one. Non-romance my two favorites are Robert Ludlum and Dan Brown … both of whom write strong female characters.

My favorite genre depends on the day. Sometimes I want something dark and seductive, sometimes another paranormal, sometimes something non-romance. It just kind of depends. I love that books can take us anywhere we want to go.

Who inspires me? As sappy as this is going to sound … my readers. I have the BEST readers in the world and they continually inspire me to write. Some have great suggestions; some think I totally misunderstood a character and need to write her story and others tell me stories they want to hear. To hear them say my book made their day, or taught them something, or made them see something in new light or even made them late for work. It is the best feeling in the world!

I don’t want to let my readers down so I write!

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Just released on February 1st is the sixth in the Wayward Mates series, Claimed and Mastered. This book is the story of a character who shows up in the fourth book for maybe 1/2 a page. No last name, no real description but within a week of Taking his Mate coming out, I had readers PMing me, FBing me and emailing me with “When do we get Ava’s story. I had to ask one of them …”Who’s Ava?” That’s how minor a character she was.

The interesting thing about this story is I saw Ava as manipulative and scheming — no way she could be the heroine of one of my novels. One of my readers told me that I didn’t understand her. I pointed out to her that I created her. She said she didn’t care, I didn’t understand her. Then she proceeded to share the backstory she had conceived in her mind. I sat there listening and thought “Hmm, I can make that work”) and I did.

She vowed she would never be mated. He claimed her anyway.

Ava Rhys has always chafed at submitting to the authority of her pack’s alpha, but when he tries to sell her body in return for money and influence, she decides she would be better off on her own. Ava’s plans to live as a lone wolf in the backwoods of Maine are thrown into turmoil, however, when the local game warden makes it his business to take her in hand, and the battle-hardened former Army Ranger soon proves to be just as fiercely dominant as any alpha shifter.

Declan Collins knows a woman in need of a man’s firm hand when he sees one, and it isn’t long before Ava is kneeling naked at his feet with her well-spanked bare bottom on display. Once he has taught her a better use for her sassy mouth, she quickly finds herself screaming her helpless, shameful submission into the bedsheets as he claims her so roughly and so thoroughly that she is left in no doubt that she belongs to him and there is nothing whatsoever she can do about it.

Now, keep in mind, Ava is a shifter — Declan is human. I thought it would be interesting to explore what might happen if its a human male (and not female) that is turned. Turns out this book I never saw as possible is one of my favorites.

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Featured Author Ian Schrauth

Featured Interview With Ian Schrauth

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My name is Ian Schrauth, and I was born and raised in St. Louis, MO. I live with my mother in Saint Louis, and I have a little Chihuahua named Charlie. I currently own my now publishing company, Starboat, LLC, and I’m also a freelance Software Developer.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have been a story teller my entire life. I wrote fan fictions when I was younger, and when I reached high school, my debut novel, “Powers in a teenage witch”, hit the streets of Amazon. Soon after that, I wrote what is now “Vacillating brown and Black: Vol. 1”.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Oh gosh. My favorite authors are H.M. Ward, Bella Forrest, Hellen Hardt, Meredith Wild, Hannah Hoffmeister, Jamie McGuire, Mandi Lynn, James Patterson, and Colleen Hoover. Oh, and I cannot forget Suzanne Collins, the woman that inspired me to start this crazy journey. When I read her “Hunger games trilogy” in middle school, it flicked a switch in my brain to start writing. The idea I had when I was younger was written, and trashed. I wrote the book again, and discarded the book again. I then rewrote the idea out, and I ended up implementing it into “Bravery in a teenage witch”. The third book in the Tumspuv Genimis series.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
If you’re talking about the ones I’m working on, I have a few to discuss. The first one I’m working on is the final book in the Tumspuv Genimis series, along with The final bool of Tammy’s Point of View in the Vacilaltion Saga, and a few others, including a rewrite of “Dangerously in Love” to feature a whole new setting, a rewrite of the Witchcraft Series, and a few other projects on the stove. The book that’ll be released in March 2019 is a book about what I’ve learned from being an Amway Independent Business Owner. Its a kindle-exclusive, and it tells you the good, the bad, and the lies that I’ve learned form joining them.

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Featured Author Nicole D’Settemi

Featured Interview With Nicole D’Settemi

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My name is Nicole D’Settemi, and I am from Niagara Falls, New York. I spent time living in South Florida, New York City and other areas before settling here, in the Hudson Valley.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started writing at a very young age of maybe, six or seven. I started reading around the same age, and was a fierce reader during Summer Breaks and things like that, because my Grandmother instilled the importance of reading in us from a very young age.
The older I grew, I tipped toward writing more, and was writing poetry from childhood on. I used to write little plays and short stories to entertain my sister, and even pen-palled to over 30 international pals. I published a “newsletter” about my favorite athlete and hero, from childhood, at around 12, which was when I also had a poem i’d written published first. Through the years I continued to write privately–poetry, journals, diaries, etc. By 20, I was volunteering at a local paper, doing “reporting,” at a very simplistic level, but it was then I knew I had to pursue this thing I loved doing, writing, in all capacities.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Anais Nin, Janet Fitch, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Plath, Poe, Dickinson, Emma Cline, Robin Wasserman, Andersen Prunty, Chuck Palahniuk, Sexton, Langston Hughes, and so many more.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I am penning the prequel to Addictarium, a part-real memoir revolving around my amp recovery from addiction among other issues. Narcotary highlights the first stage of the treatment center, which was dubbed the boot-camp phase. The story details Natalie’s journey for 9 months, seeking recovery from addiction, mental illness, emotional instability and over-coming fresh traumas which occurred while she was IN the center.

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