Q1. Hello, can you please introduce yourself? Readers would love to know more about you.
A1. Hi Craig A. Cooper author of “Road Rager’s Anonymous” and “Life Adrift” I grew up in a small village about 45 minutes North-east of Calgary Canada 🇨🇦 it was great we (siblings and friends) would go on tons of adventures. We built forts, homemade motor bikes, go karts and everything else you can imagine. My childhood was pretty cools.
Q2. What were the key challenges you faced while writing your book “Life Adrift”?
A2. I was stuck with the middle content. For example why was Zack Kold held captive. I couldn’t figure it out for the life of me. Years went by as it sat on the shelf till one day in the shower it just hit me. Then I was off to the races.
Q3. What books or authors have most influenced your own writing?
A3. C.S. Lewis and Randy Wayne White
Q4. What’s your favourite spot to visit in your own country? And what makes it so special to you?
A4. I love going to Spanish Banks. A beach in Vancouver and minutes from home. We stay all day and then watch the sunset.
Q5. What inspired you to write the book ‘Life Adrift’?
A5. I wanted to go on an Adventure with a friend and like the book my friend chickened out. So it was kind of based on reality until all hell breaks loose.
Q6. How long did it take you to write your book ‘Life Adrift’?
A6. Well that’s complicated. 20 plus years. I would start then stop like something I wrote then throw it away. Got stuck on the middle. I really got intrted in 2023 One morning I opened my laptop and opened the file read what I wrote scrapped some of it. Then really went for it beginning to end in 6 months.
Q7. On what platforms can readers buy your books?
A7. Right now its available on my website through a link. Cooper-author.ca or through Amazon.
Q8. Tell us about the process of coming up with the book cover and the title ‘Life Adrift’?
A8. It’s the second version of the cover. The first version is of the setting sun taken from Spanish Banks with a cargo ship at anchor. There’s only 10 of those proffs. The current cover I came up with this because I felt it portrayed more of the island feel that Zack finds himself in.
Q9. When writing a book how do you keep things fresh, for both your readers and also yourself?
A9. Ooh that’s tough, if I feel like something is dragging out. I stop re read it. Throw something out or create a spontaneous situation.
Q10. What is the most valuable piece of advice you’ve been given about writing?
A10. To not give up. That if you enjoy doing it then learn write, read, re-read write re-read but don’t give up. Also learn to hear no a lot. I must have gotten a hundred rejection emails while looking for an agent. Simply don’t give up.
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