Can you
give us a brief overview of your latest book? Is it part of a series?
What Lies Behind is about an automaton who is slowly coming
into awareness, something that she didn’t even know was possible. As she gains
awareness she’s also gaining free will and realizing the abusive life she’s
living isn’t one that she wants to live. She longs to feel what it’s like to be
human, and that’s the real driving force behind the novel. Cass wants to escape
her programming and live like a person. At first I hadn’t planned for this to
be part of a series, but as the book came to a close I realized this was just
the first story of a much larger series that will span many years with many
different characters and show us the promise and the horrors of a future with
androids.
Did you
try the traditional route to publishing, i.e. querying agents/publishers?
I did try the traditional publisher route, but not
initially. The thing with traditional publishers that always irritates me is
the waiting! I have these stories and I just want to share them with people,
and the wait for a traditional publisher is long because they have so many
other authors that have books they
want to share with the world! Right now I have a zombie series signed with a
traditional publisher and I can’t wait for that to hit the shelves.
If you
used a graphic designer/publisher’s designer, how involved were you during the
creative process for your cover?
This cover was actually a premade cover that I saw and just
had to have. I had the plans for this novel kicking around in my head and wasn’t
sure I was going to write it until I saw the cover, and then I knew I had to do
it.
What is
your writing process? Do you listen to music or do you like silence?
Normally I listen to music, but it has to be instrumental or
new age because a lot of the beat and lyrics of most songs distract me. I do
find that different genres of music help me write different scenes. I even have
a heavy metal playlist for when I write fights scenes in some of my other
novels.
Do you
outline your story or just go where your muse takes you?
Most often I have to have a clear roadmap of what I need to
write and what points need to be covered in order to get me from point A to
point B. That doesn’t mean those pesky characters don’t change their mind
mid-scene though.
Did you
hire an editor to review your manuscript before publishing?
I’m actually very lucky that my best friend is an editor so
she goes over all of my work a couple times before I publish.
What kinds
of marketing [twitter, facebook, blog, forums] are you involved with for
promoting your book(s)?
That seems to change a lot. I’m really having fun
interacting with people on facebook and twitter. My blog could use a little
work, and I’m trying to see how best to use it. Honestly I don’t see a huge
kickback in interaction on my blog.
Do you
find it difficult to juggle your time between marketing your current book and
writing your next book?
Not really marketing and writing. I have a bigger problem
juggling my personal life and my work. It seems like I’m a very busy person
that longs to be a hermit.
Besides
writing, do you have any other passions?
I love cooking. I also love eating. It’s probably a good
thing I can cook, huh?
What’s
next for you?
I never really know. I have plans to write a vampire hunter
serial and finish up the nine book series I’ve been working on now for a few
months. I can’t wait to see where the characters take me!
A gripping, dark science fiction romance by International
Bestseller, Travis Simmons.
Cass is a robot with a past. A past she can’t remember.
When
her current owner, Natalia starts taking out her frustration on Cass her
memories come back little by little.
What
she wants more than anything is to be like humans; an android. To be loved and
to feel and to be treated as an equal. Not an automaton like she is.
Brandon
is Natalia’s boyfriend, and couldn’t be any different from Natalia if he tried.
He treats Cass like an equal, like a human, and more importantly like a woman.
Cass
just wants a normal human life like Brandon promises, but as more and more of
her memories come flooding back, she learns that she might play a bigger part
in the android equal rights movement than she wants. Her future is uncertain.
Becoming an android, becoming more human, will mean going against her
programming. Can she do that? Will her struggle to become an android ultimately
be her undoing?
"In this standalone dark romance, International
Bestselling author, Travis Simmons makes his debut into science fiction. Travis
has reached the top of charts in new adult fiction with his love of dystopian
fantasy."
Amazon author profile link: http://amzn.to/1FZO0oz
Author Bio:
Travis Simmons was
kicked out of magic school for his refusal to study and his penchant for
mundane activities like cooking. While selling his sword he stumbled upon dogs
that he wrongly thought were magical and imagined he could commune with them. After
a vicious zombie attack in which witches helped him push back the undead horde,
Travis found himself apprenticed to a necromancer.
Afraid that winter was
coming, Travis tucked into his magical studies, but always chased his dreams of
writing tales science fiction tales and fantasy stories where he could explore
his wild imagination about life on other planets. Adamant that Travis learn the
esoteric ways of the occult, his master made his life a horror of practice and
studies. But no matter how he tried, he could never conquer Travis' questing
mind.
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