Promotional Interview with Nick Oliva

1. Tell us about yourself where you are from, how you got started writing, what you do when you are not writing (or anything you want our readers to know)
I worked in casino hotels as an Entertainment Director, Technical Director, Audio Engineer, and other positions most of my life. I have a degree in musical composition and can play multiple instruments.

2. What inspired you to write your first book?
I was reading voraciously after a very painful and unneeded brutal sinus operation and read the first three John Grisham books. Being schizophrenic I challenged myself to write a better book than his.

3. How many books have you written?
Just one novel but many original television screenplays.

4. How do you decide on their topic?
The topics usually come to me as a life-lesson that I want to share. I wish I could write foolish pulp, but my lot is to be a writer of literary fiction. I've tried to be frivolous and scandalous-it's just not what is inside me.

5. What works best to keep you focused and on track?
I keep very busy doing many different things so when I put aside time I must use it wisely or it's lost forever.

6. Do you write to make money or for the love of writing?
As much as I would love to make money, the passion of writing organized ideas that add up past the sum of their parts and have the ability to make others think, drives me.

7. What are some traditional methods of marketing you have used to gain visibility for you and your book(s)?
Booksignings are fun, but will not make you any money. Newspaper articles are good, but in this day and age with 175,000 books vying for the same attention I don't think there is a "traditional method" anymore.

8. Do you sell through a website?
I have Amazon and the publisher listed on the website but do not sell directly.

9. Do you plan on writing additional books? Yes as soon as I can get the audio book done on "Only Moments."

Interview Presented By
Nikki Leigh - Author of Book Promo 101
www.nikkileigh.com/book_promo_101.htm