Tuesday, November 15, 2016

I'm now on Goodreads author section

The thing I like about this profile page of mine is that they offer a series of questions for the author to respond. I would like to share them with you:
How do you deal with writer’s block?

Experiencing the writer's block is normal. It happened to me quite a few times. I don't fight it. I simply pause for a while, do some research on the main topic of whatever I'm working on, on scenes, characters. I tend to go back to the beginning, looking for better words and sentences, questioning the relevance of parts.
In other words, I stay inside this gigantic bubble every writing project has blown around me and move in a different direction. It became a sort of Zen thing for me and doesn't cause me any stress.



What’s the best thing about being a writer?

You have this immense feeling of power in creating an imaginary world built upon what you see, think, smell, touch, hear everyday and putting it inside various characters who suddenly come alive asking you, almost begging you to do something with them. If you ever had the chance to see Luigi Pirandello's play, 'Six Characters In Search of an Author', you would understand what I'm trying to say.
It's also amazingly humbling to experience how much writing brings you beyond what you may have thought you were and could become.



What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Putting aside the genre I prefer, historical novels, the two most important questions one must keep asking himself as he's writing are:
1. What's the point I'm trying to make in this portion of dialogue or narrative?
2. Is it bringing the story forward?



What are you currently working on?

I got three other book projects on the back burner and once the promotion/marketing on my first novel will be completed. I'll move on to the next one.



How do you get inspired to write?

I've been writing almost all my life, always carrying a pencil and notepad. I would write down what I felt as well as what I believed others were feeling based on their body language. Odors, colors were part of the elements I would write. I would also take pictures of scenes and gave myself these sort of 'Now describe it to me' homeworks.



Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

The core of the story came from a dream I kept having for weeks. I told myself that writing it down would help, and it did. However, I never expected it would turn into a book project even less a Jack the Ripper historical fiction.
I went through three complete rewrites including a change of POV with some seven or eight variations in the last one before I was completely satisfied.

Here's the link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16052102.Bernard_Boley

Sunday, November 6, 2016

This is the content of the press release I began sending about my book:

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bernard Boley announces his first novel, 'My Ripper Hunting Days'
A powerful and mind-blowing historical drama fiction about Jack The Ripper

Merida, Yucatan, October 6, 2016: After many years spent writing his novel in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Bernard Boley's first novel is now available on Amazon under the title 'My Ripper Hunting Days'. It's offered in e-book and 5X8 paperback versions.

The story not only involves an actual prime Ripper suspect, the American named Francis Tumblety, but also other well known persons back then such as Scotland Yard's Inspector Frederick Abberline, Whitechapel H-Division, Sergeant William Thick, Vigilante Committee's president, George Lusk, and a crook named Le Grand. All reveal themselves exactly as historical data has presented them, but it's as if the author knew them personally.

The story revolves around a diary found in Canada where its author, Woodrow Reily, writes down his pursuit of the Ripper. If you have enjoyed Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express', where Hercule Poirot resolves the crime in the last minutes, prepare yourself for an even more thrilling and mind-blowing ending by reading 'My Ripper Hunting Days'.