Ask the Author: Richard H. Mcbee Jr.
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Richard H. Mcbee Jr.
The old man looked at me through bright teary eyes as he spoke, saying, "I once wrote ten novels and a PhD thesis on defeating the processes of aging." He sat back in his chair and watched me quietly for a while before sitting forward suddenly, grasping my hand and saying in calm sincerity, "I once wrote ten novels and a PhD thesis on defeating the processes of aging."
Richard H. Mcbee Jr.
I'm reading "The Nazi Officer's Wife", "Human Smoke" "The Surgeon", "The Drop", and "The Alamo" for starters and then will branch out into some reading that will enhance my writing of my next two novels on South America and my novel on Myanmar.
Richard H. Mcbee Jr.
I never get bored. everything I read, see or hear on my travels around the world or even in my back yard can be a topic for my writing. It lights up my brain and makes me think of new ideas and solutions to everyday and complex problems.
Richard H. Mcbee Jr.
1. Don't give up! Writing is soemthing you get better at the more you do it, the same as with reading. So, write, write, write!
2. Make sure you have some kind of a job that you can use to make the money you need to live on while you are getting your writing career going. Frankly, I'd be starving to death on my writing income, but that's not the reason I do it. I write because it's a part of me that I really enjoy!
3. Research your options on publishing well especially if you don't have a publisher or agent jump on your works at something like the Willamette Writer's Conference. There are a lot of people who want you to finance your whole book and who will be glad to sell you many copies of your own books which you will have a real hard time selling yourself and making money in book signings. I have found that Amazon has been my best entry point for book publishing. Earning money? Well, I guess I just have to keep writing until I hit the jackpot!
2. Make sure you have some kind of a job that you can use to make the money you need to live on while you are getting your writing career going. Frankly, I'd be starving to death on my writing income, but that's not the reason I do it. I write because it's a part of me that I really enjoy!
3. Research your options on publishing well especially if you don't have a publisher or agent jump on your works at something like the Willamette Writer's Conference. There are a lot of people who want you to finance your whole book and who will be glad to sell you many copies of your own books which you will have a real hard time selling yourself and making money in book signings. I have found that Amazon has been my best entry point for book publishing. Earning money? Well, I guess I just have to keep writing until I hit the jackpot!
Richard H. Mcbee Jr.
I have just finished writing up the 'Preview' of my new book, The Ghosts of Ukuthula, which should be coming out on Amazon in the next three weeks. So I'll be finalizing all the little publishing to does and then try to get some preview readers to look at the book sections I've put on the web so that they can rate what they see and perhaps help with the final sales once the actual books come out on the market.
As soon as this book is finished, I need to get back to my next book, "Sendero Rojo: The Path of Blood" a South American drug running action adventure novel. At the same time I'll also be trying to blog more regularly and also update the actions needed to sell more of my non-fiction books.
As soon as this book is finished, I need to get back to my next book, "Sendero Rojo: The Path of Blood" a South American drug running action adventure novel. At the same time I'll also be trying to blog more regularly and also update the actions needed to sell more of my non-fiction books.
Richard H. Mcbee Jr.
I set times on my calendar to write each week. In most cases, I am able to honor my time allotted for that work, but when I get interrupted or other plans interfere, I try to reschedule my writing time, or do it when I might have been watching a TV program. I'm always enthusiastic about writing when I get to it, it's just making sure the other 'have too's' don't take up all my free time. It's so easy for procrastination to creep in so a schedule is very important.
Richard H. Mcbee Jr.
I was working in Southern Africa during the major thrust of the African liberation movement in the 60's and 70's and was involved with the Africa National Conference of the United Methodist Church which supported the philosophy of Liberation Theology at that time in Rhodesia, Mozambique and South Africa. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe during that time, but it was a number of years later that South Africa finally threw out the Apartheid system and put black Africans in charge. Thus, my latest book, "The Ghosts of Ukuthula" is an amalgam of my own observations, research into what actually happened in South Africa and speculation about how chaos was prevented in the peaceful transition to Black Majority rule.
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