Get to know the author, Scott J. Toney!
Five facts that people won’t know about you. Can you juggle? Ride a bike with no hands? Drink beer upside down? Something unusual… GO!
1. I sing all the time, in the grocery store, the restaurant, at work, at home, while gardening, heck I think I even hum while writing sometimes. I once took opera lessons and was told I should have gone into opera or some singing avenue professionally.
2. My favorite character in any novel is Don Quixote. I would rather be insane and good than sane and nasty.
3. My family holds more value to me than anything else.
4. I would rather my writing help and move people than sell in mass quantities.
5. I have a dark side. It's called Lasagna.
Five facts about your newest book that people won’t know. Some background history on one of your characters maybe? Maybe it was going to be called something completely different to start out with? Is it the same genre it started out as?...
1. I decided to write Hearts of Avon because my wife has a great like of Nicholas Sparks' Romantic Suspense novels.
2. The hurricanes in this book, Irene and Sandy, were both real hurricanes that hit the us east coast and Sandy actually hit as I was writing the book and made for a great addition.
3. Many bits of this book were taken from my real life experiences with my wife.
4. I did not begin writing Hearts of Avon with the intent of it having faith playing a major role, but because faith plays such a strong role in my life it easily weaved its way in.
5. I’ve had such a strong response from Hearts of Avon that a sequel is now in the works and will be released sometime in 2014.
Five facts about your next book… Name, genre, expected date of release…
1. NAME: Bishop: Book I of the NovaForge Trilogy
2. GENRE: Epic / PULP / Sci-Fi {Yes, I am a proud genre hopper!}
3. PITCH: On Solaris, a planet eons old, stones from the crust of a meteor give inhuman powers to their symbiotic pairs. Good battles evil to survive.
4. First chapter beginning: Darkness consumed Ineal as the voices tore at his thoughts. The sole survivor of the planet Eon, he wanted to shut off his brain, to destroy his consciousness and be
nothing. But the voices would not let him.
The stones, he thought, encased in this meteor hurtling through space. The stones destroyed us. I am the last. They take me for their own. He did not know when the glowing stones first came to his planet. Men and women claimed the gems for their own, pressing them to their bodies and allowing the stones to become necessary symbiotes of the flesh. The symbiosis with the stones gave his people powers and abilities beyond their dreams. But the price, the price of the flesh was great, and an ultimate death of sacrifice and pain was given in return. Ineal was the last, and the only being of Eon who had not taken up the stones.
But you took me, he thought as they spoke with their unintelligible voices, whispering in a constant
echo through his mind. When my planet died you came to me. You took my body to keep yourselves alive...
5. To be released early 2014, but a stand alone excerpt will be published in the Breakwater Harbor Books’ Anthology later this year.
Three tips that you think might be useful for other authors… anything you want. It
could be, to write a certain amount every day, only write after midnight and never get Gizmo wet (Sorry, that’s Gremlins not writers! My bad.) Maybe it’s some information that was given to you that has helped your process…
1. If you write an hour each day you will quickly realized how fast a novel can actually be written.
2. If you have faith and confidence in your writing then your work will thrive. If you doubt your abilities then that will show up on your pages.
3. Make sure to make time for family first and writing second, but always both. Without family,
writing is worth nothing. but writing, as we all know, is an integral part of every author and cannot be separated from them.
To view Scott J. Toney's Amazon Author Page follow the link below.
Amazon.com / Scott J. Toney
Five facts that people won’t know about you. Can you juggle? Ride a bike with no hands? Drink beer upside down? Something unusual… GO!
1. I sing all the time, in the grocery store, the restaurant, at work, at home, while gardening, heck I think I even hum while writing sometimes. I once took opera lessons and was told I should have gone into opera or some singing avenue professionally.
2. My favorite character in any novel is Don Quixote. I would rather be insane and good than sane and nasty.
3. My family holds more value to me than anything else.
4. I would rather my writing help and move people than sell in mass quantities.
5. I have a dark side. It's called Lasagna.
Five facts about your newest book that people won’t know. Some background history on one of your characters maybe? Maybe it was going to be called something completely different to start out with? Is it the same genre it started out as?...
1. I decided to write Hearts of Avon because my wife has a great like of Nicholas Sparks' Romantic Suspense novels.
2. The hurricanes in this book, Irene and Sandy, were both real hurricanes that hit the us east coast and Sandy actually hit as I was writing the book and made for a great addition.
3. Many bits of this book were taken from my real life experiences with my wife.
4. I did not begin writing Hearts of Avon with the intent of it having faith playing a major role, but because faith plays such a strong role in my life it easily weaved its way in.
5. I’ve had such a strong response from Hearts of Avon that a sequel is now in the works and will be released sometime in 2014.
Five facts about your next book… Name, genre, expected date of release…
1. NAME: Bishop: Book I of the NovaForge Trilogy
2. GENRE: Epic / PULP / Sci-Fi {Yes, I am a proud genre hopper!}
3. PITCH: On Solaris, a planet eons old, stones from the crust of a meteor give inhuman powers to their symbiotic pairs. Good battles evil to survive.
4. First chapter beginning: Darkness consumed Ineal as the voices tore at his thoughts. The sole survivor of the planet Eon, he wanted to shut off his brain, to destroy his consciousness and be
nothing. But the voices would not let him.
The stones, he thought, encased in this meteor hurtling through space. The stones destroyed us. I am the last. They take me for their own. He did not know when the glowing stones first came to his planet. Men and women claimed the gems for their own, pressing them to their bodies and allowing the stones to become necessary symbiotes of the flesh. The symbiosis with the stones gave his people powers and abilities beyond their dreams. But the price, the price of the flesh was great, and an ultimate death of sacrifice and pain was given in return. Ineal was the last, and the only being of Eon who had not taken up the stones.
But you took me, he thought as they spoke with their unintelligible voices, whispering in a constant
echo through his mind. When my planet died you came to me. You took my body to keep yourselves alive...
5. To be released early 2014, but a stand alone excerpt will be published in the Breakwater Harbor Books’ Anthology later this year.
Three tips that you think might be useful for other authors… anything you want. It
could be, to write a certain amount every day, only write after midnight and never get Gizmo wet (Sorry, that’s Gremlins not writers! My bad.) Maybe it’s some information that was given to you that has helped your process…
1. If you write an hour each day you will quickly realized how fast a novel can actually be written.
2. If you have faith and confidence in your writing then your work will thrive. If you doubt your abilities then that will show up on your pages.
3. Make sure to make time for family first and writing second, but always both. Without family,
writing is worth nothing. but writing, as we all know, is an integral part of every author and cannot be separated from them.
To view Scott J. Toney's Amazon Author Page follow the link below.
Amazon.com / Scott J. Toney
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