Ask the Author: Bill Mathis
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Bill Mathis
Thank you! I’m on several Facebook groups for readers & writers which provide more than enough suggestions. I don’t have a formula for choosing—usually it’s on my Libby holds or on KU that I’ve downloaded or bought. I only read Kindle now due to age & eyes 😀.
Bill Mathis
Don, good to hear from you. Due to some health issues, I'm not writing or doing reviews. Sorry. Plus I honestly don't know how this Goodreads beta readers work. You are the first person to ask me about it :-). Peace and good will.
Bill Mathis
No, they kept my branch of the Mathis’ hidden in Michigan. 😀 I escaped, spent much of my adult life in Chicago Metro areas till I retired & now hide in Beloit Wisconsin. Thanks for asking! Hope you enjoy my books!!
Bill Mathis
I’m very interested in doing something in that area. My companion novel, The Rooming House Gallery, will publish in June. I will try to set something up in your area - Orland Park, Palos areas, SW suburbs. Stay tuned!! And if you have ideas for locations or can help, please contact me. Thank you!
Bill Mathis
Maureen, I love to do signings & meet with book clubs. Why don’t you email me where you live & we can see if something can be arranged. billmathiswriter@gmail.com. Thank you!
Bill Mathis
My next novel, The Rooming House Gallery - Connecting the Dots, will be published in early June, 2020. Stay tuned for preorder and ordering information. This book is a companion to The Rooming House Diaries and shares what happens to the old house after Josh and Andres inherit it, plus details their lives past and growth as a couple in forming a new family.
Bill Mathis
Not sure. I am diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and have lived with it for 20 years. I have slow downs in my ability to write, but tell myself that's from my CFS. I am an up and down writer, primarily because of my varying energy levels. Though, personal things can hold me up. I started a memoir about coming out as gay in my 60's (not THE 1960's!) and put it on ice after the killings at the Pulse Club in Orlando. I'd been told by religious people close to me some time before the massacre occurred that God says I deserved death. Some how that froze me. However, I do plan to finish it and have been pulling it out and looking at it again.
Bill Mathis
Hey, I'm old and retired. I need something to keep me busy! Besides, where else can you sit around or walk around carrying on conversations with imaginary people or watching them do crazy things????
I fall in love with my characters. I think, and readers tell me, that my characters are so believable--the kind you want to sit down with and have coffee with (well, most of them). I've published, 3 books, numbers 4 & 5 are well underway. I enjoy interacting with the readers and learn so much from them. Feel free to contact me!
I fall in love with my characters. I think, and readers tell me, that my characters are so believable--the kind you want to sit down with and have coffee with (well, most of them). I've published, 3 books, numbers 4 & 5 are well underway. I enjoy interacting with the readers and learn so much from them. Feel free to contact me!
Bill Mathis
Read. Read. Read a lot. Write. Write. Write a lot. Get involved in writing groups. Get a coach or take classes if you can afford it. Absolutely, Learn to accept criticism! Have your work read and edited by competent persons; not your mother or best friends--though they are nice for encouragement, but usually not critical feedback. There's a lot of support and opportunities to learn in books and the internet, but don't spend all your time figuring out the correct or best way. Just write!
Bill Mathis
I'm waiting for my third novel, The Rooming House Gallery to publish in June 2020. It's companion to The Rooming House Diaries. My next book, Revenge Is Necessary, should be through the coaching and beta reading stage by late spring when I will submit it for publication. It's a psychological family mystery about discovering the husband & father has also lived a secret, sociopathic life. A beta reader said it is sucking him in like a whirlpool. The book is set in the corn and soybean fields of Minnesota.
Bill Mathis
Face Your Fears came about when two separate short story ideas jelled with my increasing awareness of disabled LGBTQ persons. The story of Nate started when I worked at a camp for disabled children right after college. A boy, 13, with cerebral palsy was a camper who accidentally kicked his urinal at a baseball game. He was a real character and totally dependent on people for is entire care. That was a story I wanted to tell, but didn't know what else. In the meantime the story of a farmer's kid from a big family who looked different from the rest came to my mind. Then I discovered (and highly recommend) books, poems and anthologies by Raymond Luczak who writes of disability and being gay. Things clicked and the story came together quickly. I worked with a writing coach, Kathie Giorgio of All Writers, who told me I wrote like a drunk author and to get rid of all the back stories in the first draft and focus on Nate and Jude and not their ancestors :-). It took 1 & 1/2 years to write. The publisher took 10 months.
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