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What inspired you to start writing?
One night I was having dinner at a Brazilian restaurant and a couple walking down the stairs tripped and fell. I thought to myself if those, if those two would go back in time for a minute, and avoid what happened they would.
Time Travel… Since I was a kid back in the eighties I was fascinated by that idea, and at that night I went back home and wrote my first novel The Clout of Gen. Despite it not gaining traction but to me it was the start to it all. An interesting time-travel mystery set in Japan.
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Can you tell us a little about your latest book?
A tale of greed, art and an ongoing decades love story. The Art collector of Le Marais is a tale set in Paris, spans through decades, full of Art history and passion.
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How do you create your characters?
I think they are an accumulation of what I have lived and what I have met throughout my life.
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What does your typical writing day look like?
I stopped writing since I got cancer in 2019. The eight years before that when I was writing was random. I honestly can’t pinpoint how it starts or how it ends. It all depends on my mood that day.
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What has been the most rewarding part of being an indie author?
I gave another view to my city Baghdad, a side few people know about, and as a cancer fighter, my name will live forever.
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What’s one challenge you’ve faced in your writing journey?
Self-Publshing.i struggled till my second novel The Gardener of Baghdad became a bestseller, and has more that 70,000 sales in more than 45 countries. It was never easy my first novel got only a 1,000 sales in two years.
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Do you have any favorite writing tools or apps?
No.
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What advice would you give to new or aspiring indie authors?
Believe and it will happen.
Market with bookbub and engage on Goodreads.
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How do you handle book promotion as an indie author?
Bookbub.
Social activity with Instagram and X
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What’s next for you? Are you working on a new book?
Resting, enjoying and traveling!
