Steve asked Brian Paone:

Brian being Married with 4 children and a police officer, how do you find time for writing and singing? Do you have to research your novels, or are they purely fiction? Your 2 novels over the next 3-4 years do you have a working title or just go with the flow?

Brian Paone My police schedule is four days a week, so I write on the other 3 days and treat it like a secondary job. I try to put in anywhere between 8 - 10 hours on my days off. With that said, my last day at work is February 15. Starting next month, I will be hanging up the badge and gun to be a full-time author. I'm hoping to devote 40-50 hours a week to nothing but writing, editing, and marketing. My wife is the biggest variable with me being able to write while having 4 kids. She treats my writing career just as seriously as I do, so she makes sure the kids "stay out of my hair" when I'm in my office working.
My novels are fiction, but doesn't mean I don't have to research them. An upcoming novel I have planned is about a fictional veteran returning from the Falklands conflict. But because it's about a real war, that involved real people and real afflictions, my wife and I are flying to London to do on-location research and interview a handful of veterans, so I can make my character as authentic as humanly possible.
My next novel about my wife's deployment to Djibouti already has a title: "The Nightly News". My other works in progress do have working titles, but I only publicly reveal the final, official title of any piece I'm publishing.

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