All this month, you can get 25 short stories and novellas from Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO) authors absolutely free through the SPFBO Shorts promotion.
As part of the promo, I virtually sat down with a host of the participating authors.
Today’s author interview is with Andrew Einspruch.
Tell us a little about your SPFBO Short.
The Wombanditos is a prequel novelette to my humorous fantasy series The Western Lands and All That Really Matters. In it, Princess Eloise Hydra Gumball III is Future Ruler and Heir to the Western Lands and All That Really Matters, and responsibilities and commitments of Court life are closing in on her. So when her best friend, Jerome (a chipmunk), suggests they sneak away for the day, she pushes down her worries about leaving the comforts and reassurances of castle life, and says yes.
The journey is amazing.
And then it isn’t.
What has been your favorite part of SPFBO?
I’ve participated in two of them now, and what’s awesome is how incredibly supportive just plain nice everyone is. The variety of work submitted is vast, the quality of most of it is high, and even though there’s ultimately only one book that’s chosen, everyone is rooting for everyone.
What are you currently working on?
I’m currently working on book four in the series, Queen Eloise.
Author bio
Andrew Einspruch is the author of the humorous YA fantasy series The Western Lands and All That Really Matters. He’s also had more than 120 children’s books published, both fiction and non-fiction, that have sold around the world. Starting with the four-book Dunkin’ Dazza series in the 1990s, Andrew’s work has covered everything from basketball to DNA, biographies to histories to mysteries, outback heroes to Christmas Island red crabs, and from how the rides work at amusement parks to how the Australian Government works (perhaps the greatest mystery of all).
Andrew is the co-founder of the not-for-profit charity the Deep Peace Trust, which fosters deep peace for all species. Based in rural New South Wales, Andrew, Billie and their adult daughter Tamsin run the Trust’s A Place of Peace, one of Australia’s largest farm animal sanctuaries. The cows, sheep, horses, goats, dogs, cats, and geese, as well as local wildlife including kangaroos, wombats, and cockatoos, are a constant source of inspiration.
If you ask, he’ll deny he ever programmed in COBOL for a bank.
Web: https://andreweinspruch.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/andreweinspruch
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-Einspruch/e/B001HPNZOK
Other stores: https://books2read.com/thewombanditos
You can pick up Andrew’s SPFBO Short The Wombanditos and more at the SPFBO Shorts promo on Bookfunnel all month long.
And if you want more SPFBO awesomeness, check out the all-new SPFBO Sampler, featuring previews from over 70 past and present SPFBO titles.