In the course of his life Jaro Berce has lived, been educated and worked in many different places of culture – Europe, Africa, USA and China. He was entrepreneur, project manager, member of BoD and performed many more other long and short term tasks. Half of his life he dedicated to martial arts. All this diverse knowledge and passions he merged into a different approach to a leadership. By teaching and coaching he widely spreads his ideas.
Monthly Interviews
Get up close and personal with authors! We group-interview authors from a different genre every month and group the answers for each question from all authors. Are you eager to see the different shades of answers? Follow our blog to stay tuned with the posts!
MARSocial Special Interview: Author #6 Marion Lovato
Writing the “Great American Novel” has always been a dream, but it seemed that life would get in the way! Wrote short stories when I was a child and then started writing poetry when I graduated from college. Spent two years teaching in Colorado and twenty more in Wyoming before leaving the profession. When I moved to Nevada in 2000, I found that I missed being a teacher and went to work for the Clark County School District until 2011.
One of the things that I really enjoyed about teaching was watching the expression on children’s faces when they were thoroughly enjoying a story. Big smiles, and totally involved. By this time, I had two cats in the family. Even though the idea of a novel was still in the back of my mind, I decided to write about the younger cat named Sammy. He was a feral cat for about 5 months before we finally trapped him. It took several years and a LOT of patience to get him to the point that he would trust us. It paid off. He will always have that streak of not trusting completely. However, he is now very lovable and funny. I just have to laugh at him sometimes with the crazy things he does. So, I took some of these crazy things, combined it with my imagination, and you have Sam, the Superkitty. There are three separate stories in the book written in prose form. Two of those stories are also written in poetry form. This book has been read to elementary classes and is kid approved!
MARSocial Special Interview: Author #5 Neil McGowan
Neil is the author of The Surgeon, a gritty horror novel described as ‘fast-paced’, ‘nicely inventive’ and ‘gripping’ and vampire novel Nanobite, as well as the collection of short stories Don’t Drink the Water. He was brought up in Yorkshire, and spent many years working as an aircraft technician throughout the world. He is a prolific author of short fantasy and horror fiction, as well as writing fantasy for children.
MARSocial Special Interview: Author #4 Sam Reese
Sam Reese is an author living in Kingston, TN with his wife, dogs, and cat. He has been told his writing incorporates the terror of H.P. Lovecraft, the imagination of Neil Gaiman, the characterization of Stephen King, and the snarkiness of David Sedaris. Immolation is his first novel, though he is currently working on three more, as well as numerous short stories. He is the kind of guy that has a great love of metal, rock, comics, and sci-fi/fantasy, and horror– but will wow you with his deep sensitive grasp of philosophy and religion.
http://www.amazon.com/Sam-Reese/e/B00KTQIDBS/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
MARSocial Special Interview: Author #3 K. J. Rollinson
K J Rollinson was born in Salford, Lancashire, moved to Wales aged 12 and also lived in Berkshire.Despite leaving school without any qualifications, the author gained A levels and professional awards through the ensuing years.
The author carved out a career and worked for many years for the National Health Service taking various positions with health authorities within England and Wales, but now lives in Spain.
She has published four books on Amazon. The ‘Fallyn’ trilogy, Fallyn and the Dragons, Fallyn
In the Forbidden Land, Fallyn ND the Sea Dragons, as soft books and Kindle, and The Rode to Justice, (1st grade detective, murder stories) available on Kindle, Short stories by the author have appeared in various publications, includingShorts for Autumn awarded by the Writing Magazine the best anthology written in 2012.
Amazon author’s page https://www.amazon.com/author/kjrollinson which gives details of my books which can be purchased on Amazon, both in soft book and kindle.
MARSocial Special Interview: Author #2 Viv Drewa
Viv Drewa celebrates the mature woman in her novels.
She is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan her passion has always been writing.
She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather’s escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the “Polish American Journal” as “”From the Pages of Grandfather’s Life” and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story.
Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron’s ‘The Times Herald”, and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter “Thumb Prints.”
She also teaches sewing to physically and mentally challenged adults. A cause close to her heart. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Fort Gratiot, Michigan. Viv also writes for several blogs.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Aviv+drewa&keywords=viv+drewa&ie=UTF8
MARSocial Special Interview: Author #1 Coleman Weeks
The MARSocial authors have been a wonderful support to all indie authors and IBP has decided to host a special author group interview for them. We have 11 authors joining us in this exciting interview session and we will be revealing the answers for all 11 questions as soon as we receive the answers from everyone.
Here is something about author #1: Coleman Weeks
Coleman Weeks is an ardent Indie Author, featuring several genre including Fiction Inspirational, Mystery and soon to be published Fictional children’s “Garden Games” and two fictional Histories, an American History “Crackertails” and an under construction effort in an International history “Jungle Heat”. Coleman also dabbles in Non-Fiction Inspirational in the published novel and guide “How do We Feed the World’s Starving?”.
If being in love means never having to say your sorry, surely Coleman believes being an Indie Author means having no boundaries.
Coleman participated in the Internationally acclaimed MARSocial Author of the Year Competition where he placed as a Runner-up in February/2014. Coleman Currently blogs at Final Lessons on Bloggr and How do we feed the Worlds Starving.com website, curates and moderates several Facebook Author groups and features several of his titles on Facebook author pages as well.
Coleman is a veteran married man, father, and Grandfather who enjoys life to the fullest.
June Author Interview Answer #7: What is the goal in your writing career?
We are now coming to the last question of the June Author Interview series. If you have not read the previous posts, do it so now to learn more about them. So, it’s time to check out the answers for the 7th question from the Murder Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Horror genre participating in the group interview. “What’s the goal(s) in your writing career? How do you define success in writing a mystery/horror/suspense/thriller book?”
Just in case if you are wondering who we are interviewing this month, you can check out this link and get all your author friends from The Memoirs/Biography genre to participate in the next group interview.
1) Author #1: J. J. DiBenedetto
Just writing seven novels that are (I hope) pretty good is a success in itself. But I would love to be able to turn this into a full-time career that I can support myself with. It’s not quite there yet, but hopefully that will come in time.
2) Author #2: Fran Veal
Isn’t every author’s goal to become a best-selling author – to write that book that simply everyone has to read? Okay, all obvious answers aside, I define success in writing any book when I can evoke emotion in the reader. I have one friend who purchased my first book, FINDING MY ESCAPE, in paperback. She told me when she finished reading it, she threw the book against the wall – then she turned around and bought 4 more copies for friends. THAT, I consider a huge success!
3) Author #3: Jim Strait
Success is defined by the individual and, for me, it’s completing an honest story. By honest I mean a work that doesn’t borrow a format or expand upon a genre that has been written into the ground. Hence, the endless torrent of Zombie stories. I’m really hoping they find a way to kill off the zombies so that people will stop writing about them…werewolves and vampires too! My goal is to ultimately write a story that moves more people than I can count. Love me, hate me, just don’t be unmoved.
4) Author #4: Kelli Sue Landon
My goal is basically to become a best seller. I’d love to have my name known, like Stephen King or Mary Higgins Clark. That’s a big dream of mine! Successful is having a great imagination and putting it into a book! My mother (who’s very hard to please) was impressed with my imagination when she read Stranded in Time, which made my year!
What are your goals as an author? I look forward to reading your comments below.
Stay tuned for the next author interview series! Thank you! 🙂
June Author Interview Answer #6: Where do you get your inspiration from?
We are now coming to the 6th question of the June Author Interview series. We had posted the answer for the first five questions recently. If you have not read the posts, do it so now to learn more about them. So, it’s time to check out the answers for the 6th question from the Murder Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Horror genre participating in the group interview. “Where do you get your inspiration to write your stories?”
Just in case if you are wondering who we are interviewing this month, you can check out this link and get all your author friends from The Memoirs/Biography genre to participate in the next group interview.
1) Author #1: J. J. DiBenedetto
The first book, “Dream Student,” came straight from my imagination. The subsequent books all followed from me thinking about: how can I change things up, and give the characters a different challenge to face? I haven’t taken much from movies or real-life incidents (although I’m sure there is unconscious influence there)
2) Author #2: Fran Veal
I guess I’d have to say my inspiration comes from a little of all of those, plus dreams, nightmares, and my own crazy, twisted imagination.
3) Author #3: Jim Strait
I draw on my personal background and real life characters that I know personally, or learn about through a variety of sources. Of course, modern life provides limitless directions and topics to write about…it’s not too difficult to take any of today’s headlines and morph that story into a tale of daring do.
4) Author #4: Kelli Sue Landon
Real life incidents mostly (gossip or certain things mentioned in the news). I base some characters on real people, but I change their names. I also love getting ideas from taking on new projects. I started tracing my family tree last year, which led me to my latest novel, Stranded in Time.
What are your inspirations to write as an author? I look forward to reading your comments below.
Next, we will be revealing the answers for question #7 which is “What’s the goal(s) in your writing career?”
Stay tuned for the next post! Thank you! 🙂
June Author Interview Answer #5: “What makes you feel good writing a thriller/mystery novel? ”
We are now coming to the second question of the June Author Interview series. We had posted the answer for the first question recently. If you have not read the post, do it so now to learn more about them. So, it’s time to check out the answers for the 5th question from the Murder Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Horror genre participating in the group interview. “What makes you feel good writing a thriller/mystery novel? “
Just in case if you are wondering who we are interviewing this month, you can check out this link and get all your author friends from The Memoirs/Biography genre to participate in the next group interview.
1) Author #1: J. J. DiBenedetto
Getting the plot to come together in a way that’s satisfying and that makes sense. I’m much more of a “pantser” than a plotter, so it’s always a pleasant surprise when I get to the end and things actually work out the way they need to!
2) Author #2: Fran Veal
I think that would be knowing I’m going to keep someone up at night reading it, hopefully freaking them out, and finally, giving them an opportunity to experience something that, hopefully, they would never have to face in real life.
3) Author #3: Jim Strait
I like coming up with unlikely and extreme circumstances. Also, my military background allows me to write about men and women who have learned the importance of laboring for something larger than them and I like building characters that the readers can admire. I also like developing unique technologies that solve difficult problems. I guess on the whole I pretty content with the outcome of my works. I’m an author in progress…each work is a bit better than the previous and that is one realistic way of measuring success and happiness. Probably, if we could magically know all of the worlds history we’d learn that none of us are actually writing anything totally new…but so far as it relates to my novels stories, I seem to be creating unique tales and that feels pretty satisfying.
4) Author #4: Kelli Sue Landon
It gets my blood pumping. When conflict arises, so does my excitement!
What do you think is so exciting about mystery novels? I look forward to reading your comments below.
Next, we will be revealing the answers for question #6 which is “Where do you get your inspiration to write your stories?”
Stay tuned for the next post! Thank you! 🙂
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