Friday, November 20, 2020

Author Interview with Cy Young (Deathload)


 

Deathload

By Cy Young

Genre: Thriller

When his Marine son is killed by friendly fire in Desert Storm, ex-CIA agent and truck tycoon Vincent Fazio constructs two trucks and out of revenge, sends them on a destructive rampage across the country blowing up air force bases.  Tracking the behemoths is Phoenix P.D. detective and karate champion Manny Breen.  Breen teams up with Phoenix P.D. chopper pilot Sharon Kramer.  Together they follow the trucks and end up at the White House for a powerful ending.

 

What do you find most challenging about the writing process, and how do you deal with it?

Most challenging: striving for a schedule needed consistent with the amount of writing I’ve taken on.  Writing is the fun part; finding the time when there are family obligations that often take precedence is sometimes like threading a needle.  But the desire to write always prevails and the time needed magically appears.  How do I deal with it? Through patience, planning, and improvisation.

 

When and where do you do your writing?

My favorite time to write is early a.m.; however, this has become increasingly impossible; therefore I grab hours when I can.  I write in my office; I have a desk that surrounds me making it possible to see different projects right at hand.

What have you learned about promoting your books?

The necessity of riding the Learning Curve as quickly as possible. Amazon/Bookbub ads demand a knowledge of bidding, CPR, CPM, joggling images, A and B ads to determine which one works; gathering key words; constant revisiting of ads to determine their effectiveness; seeking out promotional sites and using as many of them as possible. I need a website which I’ll have in a few weeks; and I have to grow my subscriber list. Also I’m writing a trilogy, soon to finish the second book.

What are you most proud of as a writer?

I try to stay away from pride.  I’m grateful that in writing for many, many years in many different mediums, I’ve learned how different genres interconnect; this helps my writing in terms of tying ideas into comprehensive concepts.  My basic goal as a writer: to create order out of chaos.

If you could have dinner with any writer, living or dead, who would it be and what would you talk about?

Paul: his conversion on the Road to Damascus.



About the Author

Cy Young performed as a dancer/singer on Broadway and co-starred at the Globe Theater in London in Divorce Me Darling.  He worked with Howard Keel (On A Clear Day) and Buster Keaton (Once Upon A Mattress) as a featured player with great reviews.  Young has many recordings on the Painted Smiles Records, performed a night club act at New York's famous Number One Fifth Avenue, and has done numerous commercials and voice overs.  Also a writer, Cy has written three published (French) plays, three musicals, and has a song on the Streisand Third album, Draw Me A Circle, which Barbra used to open one of her early TV Specials.  Cy's short story, The Schitzle Connection, has been published by Twit Publishing (Winter/Spring. 2011 edition) and won Best Short Story in an Oklahoma City Writer's Group contest.

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indie.lector

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CyrilCCC.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cy.young.jr/

 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1209374.Cy_Young

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Deathload-Highway-Destruction-Cy-Young-ebook/dp/B07R1RDYHS


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