Jon Bradbury
A very warm welcome to the blog today to author Jon Bradbury
Jon Bradbury is the author of ten interracial black woman-white man erotic romance e-books including Worst Kept Secret and The Professor, and is busy madly writing more. His other interests include reading, watching Leverage and So You Think You Can Dance on TV, music, the internet and video games. He writes full-time now thanks to the never-ending Great Recession, lives in Reno, Nevada and is permanently single, or so it seems.
FBR: Hi Jon. Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today. I hope you don't mind a little grilling.....er I mean getting to know you chat?
JB: Of course I would love to - please be gentle with me!
FBR: OK I'll try haha *winks*
FBR: How long have you been writing for and what was the first step you took?
JB: I suppose you could say I've been writing since high school. If it weren't for my English Composition teacher I might never have discovered my talent for writing.
FBR: Can you tell us how your books got into distribution? Did you go down the self-publishing e-book route?
JB: Actually I am published through a publisher, Extasy Books, but when my first e-book Colorblind was published back in 2005, I had never even heard of e-books or knew the e-book scene existed. Now of course I know a lot about it but even though I am not self-published I still feel like an indie writer.
FBR: So how did the relationship with Extasy Books happen?
JB: Back in 2005 I was surfing through Yahoo Groups, and found a group for an e-book publisher known as Extasy Books. From there I visited their website, and submitted a manuscript for a book entitled Colorblind. The rest, as they say, is history. People might be jealous that I don't have a trail of rejection slips to show, but becoming a published writer was a huge dream come true for me.
FBR: How fabulous that you got signed straight away. Would you ever consider self-publishing for any of your future books?
JB: Self-publishing is a huge undertaking. All those tasks that a publisher would do, while you write, you would have to do. So for anyone considering going the self-publish route, I would advise them to ask themselves honestly if they think they have a good head for business, because they will need it.
FBR: How have you found your journey of being a writer? Can you divulge a little of the experience you found with this?
JB: I have found being electronically published a liberating experience. You can be published, too, without ever having written so much a word, without ever having been published before, even without not having an agent.
FBR: Your books are centred on interracial romance affairs – was this a conscious effort for you to delve into this or a natural progression?
JB: I suppose you could say I was practicing what I preach. I'm an open-minded kind of guy, and I could see myself with a woman of a different race. But I could also see potential problems, and I also write about those.
FBR: Where do you get the inspiration from for your books – especially the characters and the situation they find themselves in?
JB: One of my books, The Favor, I had read online somewhere about a job fair for unemployed teachers. For Sugar Daddy, I had seen on a calendar that the Fall Equinox really did fall on a Friday. I get inspiration from the strangest things. I've even had ideas come to me in the middle of the night while I'm answering nature's call.
FBR: Can you explain to possible ‘new to you’ readers what they can expect from the books you have written so far?
JB: Readers can expect strong female characters who have flaws to one degree or another. The male characters are not pushovers, however. I also write strong plotlines. I like to indulge in details, probably too much. Also, since I write erotic romance, my books also contain sex scenes. As my career as a writer has progressed, my books have become ever more explicit.
FBR: So Jon, what is the next book about and when is it due for release?
JB: Well, the next book is way out of my genre, I have written a short story about time travel for a time travel anthology. It should be coming out within the next few weeks. As for novellas, I am typing my little fingers to the bone as we speak. One story borrows a little from the series “Scandal,” in that its about a US Senator who hires a beautiful secretary. And another story is about a man who owns a private airline that caters to the wealthy, and gets in over his head with a married woman. I am also doing some research for a historical novel about a fictional American pilot who enlists in the Royal Air Force during the period of World War II before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
FBR: Finally – who is your favourite author/authors? What books do you find that wonderful escape in?
JB: Eric Jerome Dickey is a favorite. So is Timothy Zahn, author of the Heir to the Empire Trilogy. And I am a big fan of all the Harry Potter novels.
FBR: Ooh I shall have to check them out - and you can never go wrong with a bit of Harry Potter - look how well he turned out!
FBR: Great to chat with you Jon, thank you and I hope to read more of your books in the coming months.
To connect with Jon please clickety click the links below:
You can find my review of Sugar Daddy by Jon Bradbury
*********************************************************************************
No comments:
Post a Comment