Welcome and Introductions!

[Bruce]

Welcome to my group. I am an author of several books including Sands of Time, Towering Pines Volume One: Room 509, the upcoming The Star of Christmas, Philadelphia Story: A Lance Carter Detective Novel and other works.

Please stop by, introduce yourself and feel free to ask any questions you'd like!

Welcome!

[Anna]

Hello Bruce. You must have been thinking along the same thread as I was last night. I did exactly the same thing. Looks like your group is a little better organized than mine, but I'll learn.

[Ottilie]

Hey Bruce :::waves:::

[Bruce]

Anna, well I have Ottilie to thank for that. I have to admit that sometimes I got so bogged down in editing and publishing that I lose my excitement for actually writing and promoting. Listening to Ottilie's radio spot last night got me a little excited again and when I saw you she and you had done on here I thought -- hey we should ALL be doing this.

[Ottilie]

Hehe yay for inspiration! Hahaha I'm glad me being hyper came to some use!! I agree promiting is a pain, but last night was AWSOME! Hehe we should it's fun :) it's good peer pressure!

[Bruce]

Were you watching the comments on their web page during the show? Very amusing stuff...

[Ottilie]

I was planning on it but I was having enough trouble keeping concentrating on the questions everyone keeps asking me that I kind of wish I could have read the comments.

[Linda]

Hi Bruce. You've written vampire, paranormal murder mystery, horror and historical mystery. Have I missed anything??? Any other genres you intend to slip into? Where do you find your inspiration?

[Bruce]

Linda,
Thanks for stopping by!

Genre-wise I don't have a "comfort zone". I write what comes to me more-so than a genre. The first draft of Sands of Time did not have any vampires in it. The Kayhmann's were initially names the Bestucci's and were very human. But on the second draft the vampire genre was exploding and I was reading it all along with everyone else and that influenced me to add that little twist to the story.

Upcoming stories? Roast at 350 is my entry into the Bump in the Night 2011 Horror Anthology which is very Twilight Zonish (out October 2011), The Star of Christmas is a traditional Christmas story in the kids arena (fully illustrated out November 2011) and my big project that is due out January 2012, Philadelphia Story, is a straight up detective novel.

In the future I intend to stay in the detective genre, Lance Carter (the detective) will be in a series of novels and Towering Pines will be at least 3 novels. I have already written the second Sands of Time novel (To Hell and Back) but there is no release date as of yet on it because of other projects.

[Ottilie]

Haha Bruce your works in progress make me feel better that there are several!

[Bruce]

Ottilie -- there are always several :) Never one or none. But like I mentioned to you before it has become a little overwhelming with the publishing stuff on top of it... that's one reason To Hell and Back is put off semi-indefinitely... it will get out... I just have too much other stuff to do.

[Ottilie]

I always call it putting it on the back burner on low.