Interviews With Writers

Author Interviews from Writers Around the World

  • Home
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Interview Submission
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sites in the BookGoodies Network
You are here: Home / Fiction / Interview with Author – Karina Kantas

Interview with Author – Karina Kantas

By Interviews With Writers


Author Bio:
Karina Kantas is a prolific author of 13 titles. Including the gritty MC thriller series, OUTLAW and the exciting YA fantasy duology, Illusional Reality.

She also writes short stories and when her imagination is working overtime, she writes thought-provoking dark flash fiction.
There are many layers to Karina’s writing style and voice, as you will see in her flash fiction collection, Heads & Tales and in UNDRESSED she opens up more to her fans, giving them another glimpse into her warped mind.

When Karina isn’t busy working on her next bestseller, she’s a publicist, author manager and VA. She’s also the host of the popular radio show, Author Assist on the Artist First Radio Network and host of the YouTube show, Behind The Pen.

Karina writes in the genres of fantasy, MC romance, Young Adult. sci-fi, horror, thrillers and comedy, romance, PNR, dystopian and erotica.

You can find her on Facebook and Twitter, where she loves hanging out with her readers.

Titles to date:

***The OUTLAW series***
In Times of Violence
Huntress
Lawless Justice
Road Rage

***Collections***
Heads & Tales
UNDRESSED
A Flash of Horror

In Times of Violence Young Adult Edition / MC romance
Stone Cold / YA supernatural thriller
Toxic/dystopian erotica

***Illusional Reality duology***
Illusional Reality / YA romantic fantasy
The Quest/fantasy paranormal romance

***Coming soon***
Broken Chains (Mafia Romance)
Predator (erotic horror)

What inspires you to write?
Life, people, movies and books.

Tell us about your writing process.
First I write the old fashioned way with pen and paper. I would sit outside a coffee shop listening to my MP3 and people watch while making notes and writing scenes. Then I later I would type everything up.
I'm not much of a plotter, but I always have an idea of the way I want to go. I have the beginning – almost always a conflict of some sort, I have the title and the main characters.

For Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?
Yes, most authors hear voices in our heads and yes, we have to listen to them. They are the ones that tell us which path to take and also stop us from moving forward if they're not happy with the direction we want to take.

Who are your favorite authors?
Tolkien – He helped me with my paranormal romance duology, Illusional Reality
J.K.Rowling – also leant a hand with Illusional Reality
S.E.Hinton – was the reason I became a writer and wrote my first novel, In Times of Violence and The OUTLAW MC series

How did you decide how to publish your books?
I started many years ago when eBooks had never been invented. So although you could publish your own paperbacks from the likes of Lulu, it was still better to find an agent and get into the top publishing houses.
I submitted In Times of Violence and the first book of Illusional Reality and gave up after so many rejections, which they were right to send.
I decided to go the self-publishing route and first used a vanity press, which I got burnt really badly by and still paying for it now. Then I decided to leave out a middle man and go totally independently.

What do you think about the future of book publishing?
I think Amazon and Kindle opened the doors to many wonderful writers that would never have thought or had the opportunity to write and sadly many terrible writers, who thought they could write and published awful books.
I hope bookstores and other online book shops, knock Amazon off the market place. As the royalties we receive are ridiculous as is the way independent authors are treated.

What genres do you write?
fantasy, thriller, horror, MC romance, paranormal, dystopian, romance, sci-fi, erotica, YA, NA

What formats are your books in?
eBook, Print

Website(s)
Karina Kantas Home Page Link
Follow Karina Kantas On Amazon

Author’s Social Media Links
Goodreads
Facebook
Twitter

All information is provided by the author and is presented as it was submitted so you the reader get to hear the author’s own “voice” in their interview.

Filed Under: Fiction, Interviews Tagged With: Fantasy, Horror, Karina Kantas, MC romance, Radio Host, thriller, YA, YouTuber

Follow Us!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Search our Site

Featured Books

Featured Book: Secret Babies for the Mafia Doctor by K.C. Crowne

About Featured Book: Secret Babies for the Mafia Doctor by K.C. Crowne A dark and enticing invitation, On a yacht overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. I allowed a complete stranger to dominate me. And he gave me a gift that changed my world forever. I assumed we’d never meet again. And I certainly didn’t expect to […]

Featured Book: Who Will Accompany You?: My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far from Home and Close to the Heart by Meg Stafford

About Featured Book: Who Will Accompany You?: My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far from Home and Close to the Heart by Meg Stafford Award-winning memoirist Meg Stafford has an adventurous spirit, and this time she takes us along for the ride. When her daughters venture into terra incognita—one of them meditating in the Himalayas and the other […]

Featured Book: So Shall The Tree Grow by Ninie Hammon

About Featured Book: So Shall The Tree Grow by Ninie Hammon Free from 1/24/2023 through 1/31/2023 Family loyalties, deadly feuds, and international drug wars are brought to life in Ninie Hammon’s new intergenerational tale set in present-day Kentucky, four decades after the rise and fall of the Cornbread Mafia. When Ruth Hannacker finds a “just-in-case-anything-happens-to-me” […]

Featured Book: The Island by Sean Platt

About Featured Book: The Island by Sean Platt Free from 1/23/2023 through 1/31/2023 From the multiple best-selling author team that brought you Pattern Black and Burnout comes a brand new transcendent mindfuck of a fantasy novel. Two powerful and fierce immortal gods are trapped on an island, endlessly pursuing a Sisyphean task that must be […]

Featured Book: Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination by Peter J. Boni

About Featured Book: Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination by Peter J. Boni How a journey of self-discovery unearthed the scandalous evolution of artificial insemination By his forties, Peter J. Boni was an accomplished CEO, with a specialty in navigating high-tech companies out of hot water. Just before his […]

Categories

  • Action & Adventure
  • Activity Books
  • Audiobook
  • Audiobooks
  • Autobiographies
  • Bargain Books Under $3
  • Biblical Studies
  • Biographical Fiction
  • Biographies & Memoirs
  • Birds
  • Body/Mind/Spirit
  • Book and eReader Sleeves
  • BookGoodies Network Merch
  • Business Books
  • Buyer's Guides
  • Children and Young Adult Books
  • Children's – Education & Reference
  • Children's Activity Book
  • Children's Books
  • Children's eBooks
  • Christian Fiction
  • Christian Non-Fiction
  • Clean Romance
  • Coloring Books for Adults
  • Coloring Books for Kids
  • Comedy
  • Comic Books
  • Cowboy Romance
  • Cozy Mystery
  • Devotionals
  • Dogs
  • Drama
  • Educational/How-to
  • Erotic
  • Erotic Science Fiction
  • Erotica
  • Essays
  • Fairy Tale
  • Faith and Religion
  • Fantasy
  • Featured Books
  • Features
  • Fiction
    • Romance
  • Fiction Audio Books
  • Fitness
  • Gifts for Book Lovers
  • Giveaways
  • Health & Fitness
  • Heat Level 1 – G Rated Clean Read
  • Heat Level 2 – PG
  • Heat Level 3 – PG-13
  • Heat Level 4 – R Rated
  • Heat Level 5 – NC-17
  • Historical
  • Historical Fiction
  • Historical Romance
  • Horror
  • Humor
  • Humor (Fiction)
  • Inspirational Books for You
  • Interviews
  • Journal
  • Journaling
  • Kindle Unlimited
  • Kindle Unlimited eBooks
  • Kindle Vella
  • Kindle Vella Serial
  • Limited Time Free Promotion
  • Love and Marriage
  • Magic
  • Memoir
  • Military Science Fiction
  • Music
  • Mystery
  • Mystery/Suspense
  • Mystery/Thriller
  • New Age
  • News
  • Non-fiction
  • Nonfiction Audio Books
  • Nonfiction Audiobooks
  • Paranormal
  • Paranormal Romance
  • Permafree
  • PermaFree Books
  • Personal Growth
  • Pet and Animal
  • Poetry
  • Print
  • Print Books
  • Prophecy
  • Regency Romance
  • Romance – Erotica
  • Romantic Suspense
  • Science Fiction
  • SciFi
  • Spiritual Growth
  • Thriller
  • Time Travel
  • Travel
  • Urban Fantasy
  • Western Romance
  • Women's Fiction
  • Women's Health
  • YA – Action and Adventure
  • YA – Fantasy
  • Young Adult

Podcasts with Writers

Interview with Author – Faithaline Hippolyte

Interview with Author – Alex Hinkley

Interview with Author – Nina Bingham

Why Know the Significance of the Film ‘Royal Love Story From The Grave’? by Kevin Douglas Wright

Interview with Author – Susan Abraham

More Posts from this Category

Featured Books

Featured Book: Zoomers vs Boomers by Sawyer Black

Featured Book: The Hated by Walter Marks

Featured Book: The Pain Of The Unfeeling by Keith Wampler

Featured Book: Marcos Betrayal : The Hunter and The Orb by MJ Anand

Featured Book: Wedding Day and Foul Play by Duffy Brown

More Posts from this Category

Around the Site

  • Home
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Interview Submission
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sites in the BookGoodies Network

Copyright © 2023 · A BookGoodies Partner Site · Powered by WordPress and Genesis