Interview with Author Tal Klein

Hello everyone, it’s time to take an author interview and today Author Tal Klein is with us. 

1. When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer? 
   

Ans. => I think pretty much as soon as I was able to write. My parents tell me I preferred writing stories to watching TV. I was a strange kid.

2. How long does it take you to write this book?

Ans. =>I had mulled and researched the topic for about four years before I “put pen to paper,” but once I actually began writing it took almost exactly one year from start to finish.

3. What is your work schedule like when you're writing?

Ans. => It’s very chaotic and opportunistic. I have a full time job and a young family, so every single word is written on stolen time. Late nights, early mornings, airplanes, hotels – Whenever I could sneak a second, it went to writing.

4. What brought you to write this book? 

Ans. =>There were a couple of catalysts for writing this book. First, about five or six years ago, I had one of those non-sequitur water cooler chats with the CEO of the company I was working for at the time. We discussed teleportation and he explained that teleportation was actually an asynchronous replication technology, not a transportation technology. That blew my mind. Then, a few years later, my daughter Iris became a published author when she turned five. She wrote a kids’ book called “I’m A Bunch Of Dinosaurs.” One day she asked me, “Daddy, when are you going to write your book?”

5. How you become a published author? Any inspiration?

Ans. =>I’m not published yet! But hopefully with the support of your readers, The Punch Escrow will see the light of day. Like many first time authors I struggled with the best publishing path for my book. I have friends who are publishers and published authors, and everyone seemed to have their own spin on things. I had recently supported a friend’s successful Inkshares campaign, and the process seemed incredibly positive. I was approached by a publisher, but the terms they were offering were not that great, and they were not willing to compromise on things like creative control and editor selection. I’ve been very happy with Inkshares. It’s a great platform and a very supportive community of authors.

6. Where do you get your information or ideas for your books?

Ans. =>I’m very fortunate in that I have some very smart friends in the fields of physics, biology, politics, law, religion, and philosophy. Since you asked about science, I’ll give you an example: I have a friend who’s a physicist. In the book, humanity solves for air pollution by genetically modifying mosquitoes into steam reformers (devices that convert one toxic fumes to air). So I needed to know how to turn a mosquito into a flying steam reformer. I called my friend and he explained that it’s possible, but would require a wake transducer that would reclaim the kinetic energy generated by the mosquito’s wings. Then it was up to me to take that information and make it readable and enjoyable to someone who wasn’t a professional physicist.

7. When did you write your first book and how old were you?

Ans. =>The Punch Escrow is actually my second manuscript. I nearly published my first at the age of 22. It was a collection of satirical essays titled “Confessions of Ron Jeremy’s Hypothetical Love Child.” I had a book deal with a well known publishing house but they wanted me to convert the book from a collection of essays into a first person narrative and it didn’t work out. Fast forward a decade and change, I read Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One and Andy Weir’s The Martian back to back and thought to myself, this is my voice, these are the type of guys I would hang out with, and their books are best sellers, so maybe the world is ready for my voice. Also, my young author daughter, who I mentioned before, kept prodding me to publish something because in her mind it was “my turn.”

8. What do you like to do when you're not writing?

Ans. =>I love hanging out with my family and composing music. 

9. How many books have you written? Which is your favourite?

Ans. =>Technically I’ve written two books, but I’ve abandoned the first, which would make The Punch Escrow my favorite.

 

10. What's next for you? What are you working on now?

Ans. =>Right now I’m just trying to get The Punch Escrow published. The book is intended to be self-contained. There are like three “big questions” at the end of the book, each of them would be great nuclei for a book, but I’m not counting my chickens before they hatch.

Book Link -> https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-punch-escrow

Book Trailer => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0lRxh-eTcI

An Interview with Author L. Davyd Pollack

Hello everyone, this is an interview time and today Author L. Davyd Pollack is with us... 

1.         Davyd - when did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?

Ans. => It happened twice. First in my mid thirties. The second time was in my mid forties.

2.         How long did it take you to write ‘Positives & Negatives, Tricycles & Pancakes’?

Ans. => That depends on what you mean by write. It took ten years to write the first manuscript. It took two more years of rewriting before I felt confident enough to show it to anyone.

3.         What is your work schedule like when you're writing?

Ans. => I wake up between 4:30 and 5:30am. I don’t use an alarm when I’m writing; the alarm is only when I have to work for a living. When I’m writing, I can’t wait to wake up. Once out of bed, I fix my breakfast, something light; I’m not a big breakfast eater.

With breakfast done it’s just a few steps to my office. I go in and close the door. Four, six, maybe even twelve hours later, I come out. I do this every day.

4.   What inspired you to write this book? 

Ans. => The simple one word answer—God. By the way, I’m not a very religious person. Yes, I believe in God but I don’t want people to think that my fiction is religious based. It’s not. It is however, inspired. How else do you think an air conditioning salesman sits down to write a novel without any prior writing experience whatsoever?

5.  How did you become a published author? Any inspiration?

Ans. => Well, after receiving literally hundreds of rejection letters (for inspiration), I decide to take the leap and self-publish. Otherwise, it would have been ten more years and still, no one would have read Positives & Negatives, Tricycles & Pancakes.

6.         Where do ideas for your books?

Ans. => Are you asking me where do ideas for my books come from? Anywhere and everywhere. Usually, it happens through completely random things. I’ll read something, or hear something, or see something, or any combination of the three, and then I say to myself, yeah . . . but what if?

7.         When did you write your first book and how old were you?

Ans. => Mid forties.

8.         What do you like to do when you're not writing?

Ans. => I ride motorcycles but even the joy that comes from tearing down the open road with the wind in your face and your troubles far behind, takes second place to spending the day writing.

9.         How many books have you written? Which is your favourite?

Ans. => I’ve actually written two more that are completed. One is ready for post production. I also have more than a dozen novels in various stages of completion. If I didn’t have to work for a living, I would be even busier than I am now, and I’d be working harder too, but loving every minute of it.

As for my favorite? I guess you could say that it’s the one I’m working on at any given time. But that wouldn’t be entirely true, just easy. The truth is this. They are all my favorite, but the one’s I look forward to reading most are the ones I haven’t written yet.

10.       What's next for you? What are you working on now?

Ans. => My original plan was to write a good book like Positives & Negatives, Tricycles & Pancakes, publish it, and sell enough copies to finance the next book. Since then, I’ve had to expand my options a little to include things like winning the lottery, or working real hard and saving as much money as I can so that I can get back to writing. You see for me, writing isn’t a job, and I won’t ever let it become one.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lot of work. It’s even more work if you intend to do it well. And for me, doing it well means doing it full time, all the time. This is going to sound like I’m pulling your leg but I write even when I’m not writing. What I mean by that is this. If I’m not at the moment physically writing, then I’m preparing to. I’m a writer 24/7/365. It doesn’t leave a lot of time for things like bosses, meetings, customers, etc. I either work, or I write, but I can’t do both at the same time.

I have to be able to sit down and write what I want, when I want, and how I want, without having to worry about where the money is coming from.

When I can do that, writing is a dream—and so is life.

Visit to the Author Website => www.ldavydpollack.com