On September 2nd, I kicked off the book tour of Arctic Fire with a review.  Now I have the privilege of closing the book tour with an interview with the author, Paul Byers.

 Teddy: “Welcome Paul!”

Paul: “Hi Teddy, thanks for letting me stop by.”

Teddy: Did you always want to be a writer?

Paul: No, like most kids I probably just wanted to be fireman or policeman. I took some creative writing classes in college but didn’t really get serious about my writing until about 10 years ago.

Teddy:  How much time each day did you spend writing the book?

Paul: That is the question right there. Not being able to support myself with my writing…YET, I try to spend as much time as possible at it and I try to treat it like a second job and not just as a hobby. With my work schedule, I usually answer emails, Facebook and a little marketing in the morning. I then spend at least two good hours at night after I come home from work and write until I go to bed. It doesn’t always work that way, but that’s what I try to do. It took me about a year and a half to get Arctic Fire done.

Teddy: Was there a moment you wanted to quit writing?

Paul: There are times, like I’m sure that most writers have, when I felt discourage and frustrated, but I don’t think I have every seriously thought about hanging it up.

Teddy: Did you have a scene that you didn’t plan for, but it was determined to be written?

Paul: Yes. When writing Arctic Fire, I came to a part in the story where I thought I needed a little action. Since they were already on the iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic, what better time than to have a storm? It started out as a little action filler if you will, but it just kept growing and growing. Soon it took on a life of its own and turned into a major part of the book and became a catalyst to exposing what the true danger was.

Teddy: What are you planning on doing next?

Paul: I have another action-thriller titled Greed, sitting at the editors now and I hope to have it out by Christmas. Set in the South Pacific, an oil exploration ship encounters an uncharted island with natives who have never seen outsiders before, but the crew soon discovers that things are not as they seem.

For the next couple of months I’m going to concentrate on marketing then start another project at the beginning of the year. Nothing set in stone yet, but it looks like it may be a sequel to Arctic Fire.


Teddy: Thanks so much for stopping by Paul, it was a pleasure to have you!

About Arctic Fire:
Publisher: Fortress Publications  (July 1, 2011)
Category: Thriller, Action Adventure,  & Literary Fiction
Tour Date: September, 2013
ISBN: 978-0615504070Available in: Print & eBook,  412 Pages
Wealthy entrepreneur Nigel Cain has devised an efficient new way to bring the earth’s most precious resource to the masses – clean water – by transporting massive man-made icebergs from the frigid arctic and delivering them literally to the doorsteps of millions.
Gabriel Pike works at a small engineering firm that has been awarded the task of giving the final safety approval to pilot the first gigantic block of ice into New York harbor.
A consummate showman, Cain has built a fabulous 5-Star hotel and casino high atop the iceberg so his celebrity guests and media elite can cover this spectacle from beginning to end. Pike is whisked away from his work-a-day world and dropped into the lap of luxury where he’s expected to simply rubber-stamp his inspection.
A brutal winter storms ravages the iceberg and exposes structural inconsistencies and hidden agendas that fill Pike with serious doubts about the true intentions of the project.  But a grisly double homicide on the ice puts the inspections on the back burner and sends Pike’s life spiraling out of control when he’s accused of being the jealous murderer in a lover’s triangle.
But Pike soon discovers that there is far more at stake than just his life. He uncovers a conspiracy more heinous than anything he could have imagined – a plot that will level a city, change the political face of America, and whose shockwaves will be felt around the world. Fate rests in his hands – if he can survive long enough to take action…
About Paul Byers:

Paul grew up in Oregon on the shores of the mighty and mysterious Columbia River, and spent endless hours daydreaming on the beach in front of his house, making up stories about the ships from exotic ports all over the world that steamed up the river – what secret cargo might they be carrying; did they harbor spies who were on dark and exciting missions?
Later in adult life, he moved to another mysterious and provocative city – Las Vegas, just outside the famous Nellis Air Force base. After work he would sit on his porch and watch the fighters take off and land, igniting his imagination with visions of secret missions and rich speculation about what could possibly be hidden at Area 51.
After moving back to his native Pacific Northwest, Paul worked for the Navy and took every opportunity he could to speak with veterans from WWII to the Gulf War, listening to them swap stories and relate the experiences of a lifetime.
So it is this combination of a passionate love of history, a vivid “what if” imagination, and a philosophy of life that boils down to the belief that – there are few things in life that a bigger hammer won’t fix – that led Paul to become a writer of exciting, fact-based action-thrillers. His greatest joy is leaving his readers wondering where the facts end and the fiction begins.
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