1. Tell me about your self? I am 58 years old. I live in Kilcoy which is a small country town in Queensland, Australia, with my wife Sheila. We work in and run our own gardening business, which in the climate here is wonderful.
2.What are your favorite books to read? I enjoy military history, mainly non fiction books but I have delved in to some semi fiction/non fiction novels. My favourite author is Bernard Cornwell and I love his books about Sharpe, Uhtred and the Starbuck Chronicles, where he creates a character and slots them in to real history. At the moment I am reading a lot of books by Peter Fitzsimons who, again, writes about history.
3. When did you decide you were going to write a book? I decided when I was about 12 years old but never got round to it until about 3 years ago.
4. How did you come up with the name of your book? My character at the moment is Buckley, who is a Yowie. A Yowie is Australia’s Bigfoot and in my town of Kilcoy, there is a statue of a Yowie in the park. This was erected about 40 years ago following a famous Yowie sighting in the 1970s. All in all, there have been thousands of recorded Yowie sightings over the past 200 years. I came up with a name for my Yowie, who I have written as a friendly giant, from a real-life escaped convict called William Buckley. At the start of the 1800s, he escaped captivity and lived with the Aborigines for over 30 years. In my first story, ‘Buckley the Kilcoy Yowie’, they meet and become friends and my Yowie adopts William’s last name.
5. What are you working on for 2021. I am currently working on a historical novel, or possibly a series, about 2 brothers, from Kilcoy, who joins the Army at the commencement of the Great War. It will be about their respective journeys through the battlefields of the Middle East and the Western Front.
6. How long have you been writing? About 3 years or so.
7.What advice would you give other authors? Follow your dream, try to get your book published by famous publishing houses, but if they ignore you then self publish.
8. Where can people find you online? https://www.facebook.com/TonySquireAuthor; https://www.instagram.com/tonysquireauthor/; https://twitter.com/AuthorTSquire
9. What is your favorite coffee drink? Cappuccino
10. What is your favorite coffee shop? Have a Chat Cafe, Toogoolawah
11. Do you plan on making a new book in the future? Yes. I have 2 more Buckley stories written, I just need to do the illustrations. I am also working on my Great War novel.
12. How many books have you written? Seven.
13. Did you go to college to be a writer? No.
This sounds like a really cute book . Thank you for sharing and taking the time to share author stories.
ReplyDelete