Featured Author: Scott Berger
Scott Berger has
been writing since 2006 when he got the writing bug after reading a chapter of
a co-worker’s story. The previous 40-something years were spent gathering
experiences or imagining them. Scott lives in the Greater Toronto
Area with his wife Rita and a 100-pound Rottweiler named Puppy.
Scott was kind enough to stop by my blog and answer a few questions about his writing process. Enjoy!
Why do you write?
I write
because……
Which writers inspire
you?
Sidney
Sheldon and Stephen King
What is your favorite
book and why?
Prisoner
of Tehran by Marina Nemat. A true story so implausible that if I wrote it,
calling it fiction, no one would believe it. So well written I felt like I was
there.
What do you think is the
easiest thing about writing?
Coming
up with new ideas. What is the most difficult? Editing. It's like
counting the brush strokes on the Mona Lisa.
From books that have
already been published by other authors, which book do you wish you had
written?
Good
question! Anything by Stephen King, I guess. His stories are classics, but
I also learn about writing when I read him.
How do you market your
books?
I'm new
at it, so it's blogs, websites, and word of mouth. My wife makes a wonderful
press agent. She actually helped make a sale from a swimming pool in Niagara
Falls!
Any new release? If yes,
what is it about?
I do
have a new release. It's actually my debut novel, Quite The
Catch. It's about a Columbian woman who meets a vacationing doctor
from Alabama when a cartel blows up her family's deep-sea fishing boat. She
survives only because he pulls her from the sea and rushes her to a hospital.
When she realizes she has amnesia, he knows he can't leave her. When another
attempt on her life fails, the two find both the cartel and police on their
trail. They realize the money the cartel claims her brother stole from them may
be the key to their future ... if they have one.
Book blurb
When a Colombian cartel blows up her family’s fishing boat looking for
their stolen money, Gabriela Concepción faces a new world. Her father and
brother are dead, and she would’ve been were it not for a vacationing Alabama
doctor, Royce Haddon. But when she kills two cartel gunmen, their situation
goes from bad to worse.
Now on the run from the police and the cartel, Gabriela and Royce decide
the stolen money, if it exists, is the key to ending their nightmare. But can
they find it before they are found? And what if they do? Then what? Where do
they go from there?
You can
also connect with Scott:
Book Link
Samna, thanks for interviewing me. I had a great time talking writing.
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