Ask the Author: May J. Panayi
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May J. Panayi
The man who should care most turned out to be a predatory abuser. Life would never be the same again, never be what it was supposed to be, could have been. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1...
May J. Panayi
I'd like to go to my own book Sun Sea and Secrets and meet Ella and all her friends and have a meal with them. They have been in my head for so long now. Sun has been released since 2014 and was a couple of years in the writing before that. The sequel, Return to Aegos has been around a while now too, and the final book in the trilogy- well I'm writing it now. So I'd love to go to that perfect island Aegos that I made up as an amalgamation of all my favourite parts of Greece and Cyprus.
May J. Panayi
I have about 30 books by Indie Authors on my kindle, and those are my holiday reading. I have a shelf of 25 paperbacks in groups by the following authors; Tom Sharpe, Kathy Reichs, Stephen Fry, Karin Slaughter, John Grisham, Patricia Crornwell, Joanne Harris and Peter James- that's the rest of my reading. Then onto the non fiction. Oh and I'm trying to write a couple of books in between too.
May J. Panayi
I have already incorporated most of the mysteries and dark secrets from my own life in my novel Four To Dawn.
May J. Panayi
I exist therefore I write. I don't wait to feel inspired or I wouldn't get much done. I wrote my first published poem aged five. I wrote a magazine for kids in my street in junior school. I wrote fanzines in my teens. I wrote articles, short stories and poems for magazines and competitions, in my twenties and early thirties. Finally I moved onto books. Stopping is just not an option.
May J. Panayi
Keep at it. Put in a minimum of two or three hours a day. Not only solid writing, but research, planning, promotion of existing work, inquiries for work; like magazine articles, short story competitions, all that kind of stuff. Don't just write a few words once a month and think, 'why isn't a publisher picking me up?' Check everything several times for errors. Put your ego away somewhere safe until you're famous.
May J. Panayi
Not having to go into an office. I'm not very sociable, and can happily stay indoors for six weeks without missing company at all. Sometimes I forget how long it's been since I went out. Writing is a great way to be anti social.
May J. Panayi
I write something else, like a blog entry or a letter to a penfriend. This helps wake up my writing juices, ready to get back to creative writing.
May J. Panayi
I'm currently writing a horror novel. It's a big departure from my last novel which was feel good travel, but I'm having a lot of fun writing it. It is fairly slow going compared to other projects because I can't stay in that demented frame of mind for very long at a time!
I long since finished this; Malbed Mews, as well as a second travel novel in the series; Return to Aegos. Also a docu drama novel The Difficult Journey and a travel memoire, Travel the World in Words. I'm currently working on a book of dark short stories which will be entitled Tales from the Library of a Twisted Mind.
I long since finished this; Malbed Mews, as well as a second travel novel in the series; Return to Aegos. Also a docu drama novel The Difficult Journey and a travel memoire, Travel the World in Words. I'm currently working on a book of dark short stories which will be entitled Tales from the Library of a Twisted Mind.
May J. Panayi
No particular source, ideas just pop into my head and then wait about in a queue to be processed. Sometimes they sit on my computer as an empty file with a title, or in my notebook, waiting to be developed further.
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