I’d like to welcome author and publisher, James Hill to the blog for #WriterWednesday.

Things you need when you’re in your writing cave: hot tea, music on my iPod when I need to find the right mood.

Things that distract you from writing: the dog.

Hardest thing about being a writer: making money. Selling books is the most difficult part.

Easiest thing about being a writer: finding ideas to write about. There are dozens of interesting things that happen in the world each day and every one of them can be turned into a story.

Things you will run to the store for at midnight: toilet paper, beer, donuts, not necessarily in that order.

Things you never put on your shopping list: milk

Favorite snacks: Devil Dogs

Things that make you want to gag: rice pudding

Something you’re really good at: writing

Something you’re really bad at: spelling

Something you wish you could do: play the guitar.

Something you wish you’d never learned to do: being a database administrator.

Things to say to an author: I left you a great review, I bought your whole series, I told all my friends to read your book.

Things to say to an author if you want to be fictionally killed off in their next book: I thought the story was great, but you know what would have been even better…

Favorite places you’ve been: Mauna Loa, Egypt, California, the top of the Empire State Building.

Places you never want to go to again: I don’t think there is any place I been to that I wouldn’t go back. There are places I never planned to go to like Antarctica, it is just too cold.

People you’d like to invite to dinner (living): Jimmy Page

People you’d cancel dinner on: Donald Trump

Favorite things to do: fishing, writing (naturally), and the obvious.

Things you’d run through a fire or eat bugs to get out of doing: being the on-call person on the overnight shift. It was a horrible time and I’d never take a job where I had to do that again.

The nicest thing a reader said to you: I read the first book and I can’t wait to read this one.

The craziest thing a reader said to you: Did you ever kill anybody and is it in the book?

About James Hill:

James L Hill, a.k.a. J L Hill, is a native New Yorker from the South Bronx, Fort Apache, of the turbulent 60’s.

He earned a degree in computer programming, his other love. A multi-genre author, his experiences seasoned his novels and the worlds he imagined.

James started RockHill Publishing LLC to publish his own work and give others access to the literary world.

The four-part adult urban crime series, The Killer Series, is complete. Killer With A Heart, Killer With Three Heads, Killer With Black Blood have all received five-star reviews. Killer With Ice Eyes, the final chapter of the boys from the Bronx, is available now.

He is currently working on a three-part historical fantasy Gemstone Series; The Emerald Lady is in publication to rave reviews. The Ruby Cradle and the third book, The Diamond Warrior, is coming soon.

Then there’s the psychological dystopian science fiction thriller, Pegasus: A Journey To New Eden for your reading pleasure.

Let’s Be Social:

Readers and Writers Podcast:

https://anchor.fm/rockhillpublishing

YouTube channel:

https://bit.ly/RockHillYouTube

RockHill Publishing Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rockhillpublishing

Author J L Hill Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/jlhill57

I’d like to welcome James Hill to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!

A few of your favorite traditions:

BBQ, I love to cook outdoors over charcoal or wood fires. I also love fishing, freshwater or saltwater fishing is a relaxing pastime.

Something that you’ll never do again:

Driving cross-country is a grueling undertaking that turned out to be less fun than imagined.

Favorite treat:

Rum floats. For those who don’t know what this is, it’s ice cream (any flavor but I like chocolate), a little Coke Cola (although Cherry Pepsi works too), and a good brand of rum (I like Captain Morgan or Bacardi Black).

A treat that makes you gag:

If it makes you gag, I will not consider that a treat, but milk.

Best memory:

Sailing on the Nile River on a felucca. That trip made it into my novel Killer With Three Heads.

Something you’d rather forget:

Hitting a patch of black ice and crashing my car into a traffic pole.

Funniest summer story:

We were having a firework war with some guys. They were firing rockets from their third-floor window, and we fired from a porch across the street. We unleashed a barrage of twenty-five-ounce rockets and set their curtains on fire. We won the war.

Something embarrassing that happened to you:

I went swimming at the beach and the lifeguard thought I was drowning. He rushed in and pulled me out. I wasn’t drowning but was drunk and doing handstands in the water.

Best thing you ever grilled:

I grilled a turkey for a homecoming for my son.

Your worst kitchen or grilling disaster:

I took a pan out of the oven with my bare hands. For some reason I didn’t think it was hot. It was.

Your favorite thing to get from the ice cream truck:

Super Deluxe Banana Split.

Some dessert that you wish you’d never bought:

Cheesecake, bad cheesecake feels like you ate rocks, and good cheesecake taste better but feels the same.

Best vacation memory:

Was a working vacation at the Miami Book Fair and we stayed on South Beach. It was a nonstop party.

A vacation disaster that you’d rather forget:

The time we went fishing and I got hit in the head with a rock. My brother and I were playing war, he told me to run, and he was going to throw a hand grenade at me. He had impeccable aim.

Best summer vacation ever:

Scuba diving in the Caribbean.

Somewhere where you don’t ever want to return:

There isn’t any place I would not go to again.

Most favorite place to write/edit:

On my boat in the marina, Ummagumma is a floating bar most of the time and very laxing.

The worst place to try to write because of all the distractions:

The beach, too much to look at and sand gets everywhere. Also never take a laptop to the beach.

The thing that you will most remember about your writing life:

Finishing my adult urban crime series, Killer With A Heart, Killer with Three Heads, Killer With Black Blood, and Killer With Ice Eyes.

Something in your writing life that you wish you could do over:

Start publishing my stories earlier. Waiting to get published was a huge waste of time.

About James:

James L Hill, a.k.a. J L Hill, is a native New Yorker from the South Bronx, Fort Apache, of the turbulent 60’s.

He earned a degree in computer programming, his other love. A multi-genre author, his experiences seasoned his novels and the worlds he imagined.

James started RockHill Publishing LLC to publish his own work and give others access to the literary world.

The four-part adult urban crime series, The Killer Series, is complete. Killer With A Heart, Killer With Three Heads, Killer With Black Blood have all received five-star reviews. Killer With Ice Eyes, the final chapter of the boys from the Bronx, is available now.

He is currently working on a three-part historical fantasy Gemstone Series; The Emerald Lady is in publication to rave reviews. The Ruby Cradle and the third book, The Diamond Warrior, is coming soon.

Then there’s the psychological dystopian science fiction thriller, Pegasus: A Journey To New Eden for your reading pleasure.