Book Goodies

Find great books, bargains and freebies!

  • Home
  • Authors: Tell Readers About Your Book
  • Advertising
    • Buy Home Page Features
    • Advertise Your Bargain Book
    • List Your Free eBook
    • Feature Your PermaFree Book
    • BookGoodies Multi-site Landing Pages And Book Buyer’s Guides
    • Author Advertising PrePay and Save!
  • Deals Newsletter
  • Featured Books
    • Buyer’s Guides
  • Book and Kindle Sleeves
  • Free Printable Bookmarks
  • Sites in the BookGoodies Network
  • Inspirational Thoughts and Affirmations
  • Free Books
  • PermaFree Books
  • Featured Free and Bargain Books
  • Bargain Books Under $3
  • Buyer’s Guides
  • Interviews With Authors
    • Podcasts with Authors
  • Authors Start Here
    • Authors: Tell Readers About Your Book
    • BookGoodies MEGA Submit Book Buyers Guide
    • Submit Your Interview
    • Feature Your Free Books
    • Feature Your Bargain Books
  • Giveaways from BookGoodies
You are here: Home / Interviews With Authors / Interview with Author – Tracie McBride

Interview with Author – Tracie McBride

By Book Goodies Leave a Comment

BeFunky_Chromatic_1.jpg
About Tracie McBride:
Tracie McBride is a New Zealander who lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 80 print and electronic publications, including Bleed, FISH and the Stoker Award-nominated anthologies Horror for Good and Horror Library Volume 5. Her debut collection Ghosts Can Bleed contains much of the work that earned her a Sir Julius Vogel Award. She helps to wrangle slush for Dark Moon Digest and was the vice president of Dark Continents Publishing (2010 – 2014). Visitors to her blog are welcome at http://traciemcbridewriter.wordpress.com/.

What inspires you to write?
Dreams. Nightmares. Fears and desires. Everyday events and impossible imaginings. But mostly, I’m inspired by other writers, and the drive to make an emotional impact on readers in the same way that my favourite authors impact on me.

Tell us about your writing process.
Being a short story writer, I don’t have to plan in as much detail as a novelist might. Depending on what my impetus is for writing, I will either outline a plot or create a mind map of ideas and themes. I prefer pen and paper for planning and laptop for construction.

For Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?
Good grief, no! My characters are often the sort of people I would cross the street to avoid.

What advice would you give other writers?
Writing is usually seen as a solitary profession, but the support, encouragement and advice of other writers is invaluable; seek out other authors, preferably those who are familiar with your preferred genres and who are further along in the journey than you are, and learn from them. But at the same time, learn to discern between useful advice and not-so-useful (the better writers are not always the better critics).

How did you decide how to publish your books?
Explore everything! Legacy publishing, small press, author co-ops, self-publishing…the options are varied, and a little dizzying for newcomers, but I’d advise new authors to keep an open mind and be flexible when it comes to publishing. The only thing you want to steer clear of is vanity publishing (you’ll recognize them by the exorbitant sums of money they’ll be charging authors to produce and market their books).

What do you think about the future of book publishing?
Just like Andy Warhol’s predicted 15 minutes of fame for everyone, I think that in the future, everyone will be a book publisher. Such is the beauty (and the peril) of e-books and Print on Demand technology.

What do you use?: Professional Editor, Professional Cover Designer

What genres do you write?: Horror, fantasy, science fiction

What formats are your books in?: Both eBook and Print

Website(s)
Tracie McBride Home Page Link
Link To Tracie McBride Page On Amazon

Your Social Media Links
Goodreads
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
LinkedIn

All information in this post is presented “as is” supplied by the author. We don’t edit to allow you the reader to hear the author in their own voice.

Filed Under: Interviews With Authors Tagged With: dark fantasy, e-book, Horror, Paperback, Science Fiction, short stories, speculative fiction


Free and Bargain Books delivered to your email daily, subscribe now to find great new books every day.

Are you looking for ebook deals? We have them! We also have free ebooks - check them out!

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Sign up for our Featured and Bargain Books Newsletter

Fiction

  • Fiction
  • Action & Adventure
  • Drama
  • Fantasy
  • Historical
  • Horror
  • Mystery/Suspense
  • Paranormal
  • Romance
  • Romance – Erotica
  • Science Fiction
  • Women’s Fiction
  • Fiction Audio Books

Listen to Your Favorite Books

Nonfiction

  • Art/Photography/Coffee Table
  • Biographies & Memoirs
  • Body/Mind/Spirit
  • Business Books
  • Cooking and Food Books
  • Crafts and Hobbies
  • Educational/How-to
  • Essays
  • Faith and Religion
  • Gardening Books
  • Health & Fitness
  • Humor
  • Inspiration and Photography Books
  • Pet and Animal Books
  • Science and Math
  • Travel
  • Nonfiction Audio Books

More Good Stuff

  • Featured Books
  • Children and Young Adult Books
  • *Reading Room
    • Interviews With Authors
    • Audio Books
      • Nonfiction Audio Books
      • Fiction Audio Books
  • Spanish
  • Giveaways from BookGoodies
  • Readers: What Podcasts Do You Listen To?
  • Readers: What Devices do You Use to Read eBooks?
  • Readers: What Do You Like on an Author’s Website?

For Authors

  • Authors: Tell Readers About Your Book
  • Author Interview – Tell Us About Yourself
  • BookGoodies MEGA Submit Book Buyers Guide
  • Advertise Your Bargain Books
  • Advertise Your Free eBook
  • Advertise Your PermaFree Book
  • Universal Link Tool for Amazon Books
  • Subscribe to Our Newsletters
  • BookGoodies News

Copyright © 2022 BookGoodies Network