This week my Author to Author Blog is airing early. So I hope you enjoy what you find out about an in house author by the name of Aya Walksfar. She has creativity and an imagination that creates great books. . . .
1. What would you say is the most
favorite part of being an author?
Learning
how my work has affected my readers. I love hearing how Good Intentions helped
real people cope with devastating family secrets, or how a real detective
enjoyed the peek into a serial killer’s mind in Sketch of a Murder.
2. Do you stick to one kind of book?
Mystery, suspense, thriller, romance?
Not really.
My books are character driven, so I write what my characters demand. Good
Intentions, my award winning first novel, is a literary work about a young girl
coping with devastating family secrets while maintaining secrets of her own.
Sketch of a
Murder explores a serial killer’s mind and the minds of the police task force
mandated to catch the killer. My upcoming novel, Street Harvest, Book 2 of the
Special Crimes Team series, addresses behind the headlines, the real gut level
story of children who disappear. There are over 2,000 children who disappear
every day in the United States, alone.
Murder
mysteries are mostly what I am writing currently, but I have a vampire novel in
the process of being written; in third draft phase right now and several starts
on literary novels.
3. If you had to tell new writers
something important about becoming an author what would it be?
Never give
up your dream.
4. Out of all your books do you favor
one over another? If so why?
I love all
my characters, even the evil ones, but if I had to choose I suppose it would be
Sergeant Nita Slowater. So, out of the current published books, I would have to
say Sketch of a Murder is my favorite because of the main character and how she
interacts with life, struggles with the past and her determination to bull
through the present.
5. Do you have any stories you want to
work on in the future?
Many. I am
currently working on Run or Die! This is a murder mystery—scheduled to debut
this summer-- where a young woman is struggling to deal with her grief and
travels from her home in Seattle Washington to a small town in Northern
California. When she arrives she is faced with a group of young men who hate
everything she is and are determined to run her out of town, or to kill her.
Old Woman
Gone, Book 3 of the Special Crimes Team
series, is scheduled to be released in fall of this year. It will alter your
perceptions of old women and of witches and what that means in today’s world.
In 2015, I
hope to release the first book of a vampire series which tells the REAL story
behind vampires and why they exist.
6. How do you come up with your
stories?
The
characters start chattering at me until I sit down and begin putting them on
the computer. Or on paper.
7. Do you base your characters from
people you know or are they completely fictional?
Do you
recall the poem by John Donne ‘No Man is
An Island’? Well, my characters are like that: they come from the intricate web
of life.
8. Besides writing what would you say
is your most favorite thing to do?
Spending
time with my wife.
9. What do you want to accomplish in
writing books?
I want to
entertain people so they can relax away from the stress of daily life while
still giving them value for their time, maybe some tidbits of knowledge or a
different perspective on life. I want to give back what hundreds of authors
have given to me: new ideas, new perspectives, hope, laughter, tears, someone
to root for—a heroine or hero. And, a sigh at the end of the book as if you’ve
just say good-bye to a friend. I want my characters to become friends with my
readers.
10.
How would you define Yourself as a person and
as a writer?
Eclectic. I
see myself as part of an intricate and vast web of life. I try to convey that
vastness of life to my readers.
*** Links
where people can find you ***
Buy Aya’s
books at http://www.amazon.com/author/ayawalksfar
Connect
with Aya and read the latest updates on her work at http://www.facebook.com/AyaWalksfarAuthor
Visit with
Aya and share book reviews, read current postings and see what Biker Granny has
to say at http://www.facebook.com/ayawalksfar
Check out
information about Aya and buy her books at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AWalksfar
So I hope you have enjoyed learning more about Aya Walksfar. It's always a pleasure to feature Authors on my blogs. It doesn't just help their audience to get to know them better but me as well. So I want to thank Aya for being apart of my Author to Author blog and I wish you all the luck!
Till next time, happy reading,
AJ
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