1.
What were you in life before you
became a writer? Did this influence your choices as a writer?
I have
spent my entire professional life working in developing economies with small
scale and poor farmer families trying to improve their productivity. Initially that was in West Africa, and then
other African countries, but for the last thirty five years Asia. A lot of this was working with the farmer
families themselves but the practice has changed over the last 20 years. Now people prefer that I work with the local
government staff, they are called extension services, to train them to replicate
the work with farmer families in their own villages, areas or districts.
In this
way I have met and worked with many village families, both husbands and wives
and their children. But working in such
remote areas was not good for my own family life. I have been married four times; widowed,
divorced, marriage annulled as she had forgotten to get divorced herself, and
finally happily married for 22 years to a widow and now happily living in a
provincial area in South East Asia.
2. Are you genre specific or general?
My first books were based on Asian history, where I was
working at the time, and the details in the book are basically true except that
I have to invent the dialogue, and develop the characters, and occasionally
invest people like a waiter or in one book a cabin boy, to make the story more
appealing. It struck me, as I was
writing that history never recorded the personal life of the people – what did
they like to eat, recreational activities, reading and writing, wives and
girlfriends, or husbands and even boyfriends.
Of course this led to questions like did they like romance
and sex? That meant that I had to
introduce characters either as participants or observers that history had
missed.
3.
What is your latest release?
I have
edited several novels for writers living in and writing about the parts of
Africa in which they lived, and one was East Africa. I had previously written my own eBook based
in Kenya, but another was further south, and I settled on Mozambique.
The
eBook is entitled “The Road to Beira”, and is basically a romance story about
two people who met as students twenty years earlier, and in Monique’s case a
recently divorced woman with two teenage children.
4.
What am I working on now?
I’m
editing a second novel for a writer who based his story in Rhodesia, Malawi and
Mozambique, back in the 1930s. It is
hard work but the story is exciting, as his manuscript was typewritten!
5.
Are you genre specific or
general? I don’t mean major genres but sub divisions of romance, mystery,
paranormal.
My
historical novels were really a phase that I started about 25 years ago,
writing only sporadically between projects, working and days off.
My
romance novels I started about five years ago after I had retired as I had more
time to develop the plot and characters.
I find that romance without sex is unrealistic. I have used my own experience a lot to
develop the plots and characters, but I have omitted pornography after careful consideration
as my stories introduce romance before their sexual activities.
6.
Did your reading influence your
choice of a writing career?
Frankly
No. I have had to travel a lot on airplanes, and tended to read novels by
writers who wrote adventures, which would last for a ten or twelve hour
flight. As a schoolboy we had set books to
read, mainly classics, but probably Lady Chatterley’s Lover had more influence
than William Pitt the Younger!
7.
Where can we find you?
I live
and work in Vietnam, not in one of the big cities like Hanoi, but in a
provincial area with easy access to fields and rivers.
Adam
Mann has written 31 romance eBooks, and published 5 Box Sets of 3 or 4 eBooks
each, which encompasses a total of 16 of his romance eBooks.
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