Steven Farkas

Local Author Spotlight: Steven Farkas

 

 

 

 

I usually wake up around 7 am.  First thing I do is make a pot of coffee.  Being a caffeine addict, I make a second pot of coffee in the afternoon.  If it is Summertime, then I drink coffee in the morning and ice coffee in the afternoon.  Once I’ve had my first couple cups of coffee, it’s time to walk the dogs.  Then I grab something for breakfast and climb the stairs to my office on the second floor of the house.  I usually make it to the office and start writing at 10 am.  Sometimes I start later if I have something else to do in the morning, like mowing the lawn or waiting on a repair man to arrive. On a good day with no distractions I will write from 10 in the morning until around 4 pm. There are times when I get on a run and continue on into the night in order to get all of my ideas down before they are lost forever. All of my fiction is short.  They are either a flash fiction collection, or a short story collection, or a stand alone novella.  I prefer short fiction. Often if it takes me more then a month to finish writing a collection or a stand alone piece, I tend to lose interest and throw it away.  I figure if I can’t get it done in a month then it’s not good enough to finish.  I like to read quick moving short books, so that’s more then likely why I write the way I do.  My target audience is someone who is a fan a fan of B horror and science fiction, as I am also a fan.  I think it is good to be a someone who likes the style and genre you write in.  It makes it enjoyable to write for me if I am someone who loves the genre I write.

 

 

 Writing is important, but so is promotion by going to Horror Conventions, Comic Conventions, Science Fiction Conventions, or a bookstore, to promote my work.  When you are an independent writer or publisher, it is necessary to get out and promote you’re work as much as possible.  It’s hard to gain traction for you’re writing and books when you don’t have a big publisher with a big public relations department.  Without meeting people and talking to them at big and small events, no one will ever know you’re book or you as an author exists.  I spend a great deal of time getting out to events in order to promote my work, it’s almost as important as the work itself.  So, I’m always looking for new ways to promote myself and my writing.

 

Covid has impacted my writing in that since everyone in my house was forced to work and go to school at home, I lost my office many days making it difficult to get as much writing done as I wanted. It is often hard to write outside of being in my comfortable space. It has also altered my public appearance schedule when it comes to promoting my work at conventions and bookstores in some good and many bad ways.   What I experienced as a positive was the ability to expand events I attended which I would not have thought of ever attending.  I was able to do that for events who had become completely virtual.  For instance in October 2020 I was a virtual vendor for the New York Diversity Comic Con at the NY Fashion Institute.  I came across this convention while trying to find ways to promote my work in a pandemic. Had it not been for the pandemic I would not have known about that convention.  So I now have new ways to promote my work. On the negative side, those conventions I count on attending to get the word out about my work like the Jersey Shore Comic Con and the Super Shock horror convention cancelled their events.  Only one in person outdoor event, Monster Bash, was not cancelled. While being able to find virtual ways to promote my books, those events don’t lead to sales or income.  No one clicks the link to buy the books the way they buy the books at in person events, where people can meet me and purchase an autographed copy of my books.  I found it much harder to create sales without having the opportunities to meet fans in person.

Being Neighborly By Steven Farkas Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9798434706681
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Published: Independently Published - March 17th, 2022

Horror Circus By Steven Farkas Cover Image
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ISBN: 9798545566945
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Published: Independently Published - July 28th, 2021

Welcome To The Zombie World By Steven Farkas Cover Image
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ISBN: 9798404967951
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Published: Independently Published - January 19th, 2022

A Murder In The Dark City: A Blue Detective Blue Blaze Sci-Fi Crime Story By Steven Farkas Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9798640956108
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Published: Independently Published - April 28th, 2020

Strange Experiments: A Weird Future Detective Blaze Story By Steven Farkas Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9781986069182
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Published: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform - March 6th, 2018

Spawn of The Wasteland By Steven Farkas Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9798629167877
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Published: Independently Published - March 21st, 2020

Welcome to the Harvesting Room By Steven Farkas Cover Image
$12.00
ISBN: 9798609888686
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Published: Independently Published - February 5th, 2020

Lost Into The Madness By Steven Farkas Cover Image
$12.00
ISBN: 9781093748277
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Published: Independently Published - April 12th, 2019

Mayhem, Murder, Terror A Flash Fiction Horror Story Collection By Steven Farkas Cover Image
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ISBN: 9798649591928
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Published: Independently Published - May 29th, 2020

The Jesus Camp Zombie Bloodbath By Steven Farkas Cover Image
$8.95
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ISBN: 9781093735710
Published: Independently Published - April 12th, 2019

The Plague Giver Cometh By Steven Farkas Cover Image
$12.00
ISBN: 9781726442114
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Published: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform - August 31st, 2018

We Are Lost: Short Stories on America By Steven Farkas Cover Image
$12.00
ISBN: 9781790700370
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Published: Independently Published - December 3rd, 2018

The Zombie Roller Derby Chicks From Hell By Steven Farkas Cover Image
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ISBN: 9798691531880
Published: Independently Published - September 28th, 2020

Creepy Scary Stories of Horror and Fright By Steven Farkas Cover Image
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ISBN: 9798725994063
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Published: Independently Published - March 21st, 2021

There's Blood In The Snow By Steven Farkas Cover Image
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ISBN: 9798724859387
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Published: Independently Published - March 19th, 2021