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Blurb:OverviewVK liked my posters, so you have to think she’s a great author! 🙂 And to talk with her, I had to time travel to the future! Listen in and find out.Like many, she started out writing as a kid, but never thought she would become an author. Her current book is the 2nd in the Vital Impetus series. If you like magic and mischief, these are the books for you.Bookhttps://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Seeker-Vital-Impetus-Book-ebook/dp/B09PB1FG2V?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mindarchitect-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=df304a19adefecdf47e930f2bf9fff32&camp=1789&creative=9325″>Revenge Seeker</a><a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Seeker-Vital-Impetus-Book-ebook/dp/B09PB1FG2V?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mindarchitect-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=df304a19adefecdf47e930f2bf9fff32&camp=1789&creative=9325″>Revenge Seeker</a><a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Seeker-Vital-Impetus-Book-ebook/dp/B09PB1FG2V?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mindarchitect-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=df304a19adefecdf47e930f2bf9fff32&camp=1789&creative=9325″>Revenge Seeker</a><a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Seeker-Vital-Impetus-Book-ebook/dp/B09PB1FG2V?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mindarchitect-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=df304a19adefecdf47e930f2bf9fff32&camp=1789&creative=9325Her Grandfather took her father’s life, and now Jess wants revenge.Heir to a multi-verse kingdom Jess should be the most powerful woman in the world, able to keep her loved ones safe and bring peace to the realms. But with her newfound powers, came newfound dangers.Jess is determined to protect the people she loves. To keep her sister, mother and boyfriend Peter safe, she sends them away, where her enemies can’t find them. When, Peter’s parents find out she’s the offspring of their mortal enemy, they are determined to keep them apart forever.Going alone is perilous, and it’s hard to tell the difference between friend and foe. Determined to bring down her maniacal Grandfather, Jess is just beginning to realize the depth of her ties to those around her and the strength they bring to her.Will she become the great protector or is she more like her Grandfather than she wants to admit?Websitehttps://www.vktritschler.comFavoriteshttps://www.amazon.com/Classic-Charles-Collection-Arcturus-Collections/dp/1398809705?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mindarchitect-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=932b46d9341f99ff2b46bdf134b0e864&camp=1789&creative=9325YouTubehttps://youtu.be/x670L7gdnRoTranscript[[[[[[[[I know[[So that’s lots of fun. We like going out, exploring. I love traveling, which has been really difficult during COVID. So I’ve struggled a bit. My restrictions in place, but I’m looking forward to those coming up again soon. Hope, but yeah, I, I love reading and I love writing for me. Writing is like watching TV.It’s a way for my brain to switch into a different mode and think about different things outside of reality.[It’s always enjoyable. I agree. You guys have done pretty good with the whole COVID thing. You’ve tried to keep it a little more secluded in sheltered.[Australia did to a certain extent. And then within Australia, obviously there’s different states. So each state had different regulations that applied as well. I think I, I lived in the strict one of the strictest states in south Australia, but now they’ve done. Okay. It’s it’s not an easy one because there’s no quick fix on it.And I don’t think from a government perspective, a one blanket approach. Meets all requirements either, which is it’s really tough. [[If your mother’s. Moving between those countries. Do you think that’s been an influence on your writing and it changes how you think of your writing?[I think helps you grow. And also helps your character development. I use a lot of characters from different locations and in some of my books from different universities, because I love the concept that each person is a little [And you can edit biology to a certain extent, but how you raised, you can really play with. I like the ability to be able to use that. And I certainly see that when I travel, we can even just have parents and direct with the children at the airport. You can tell different countries from how mom’s talking to the kid.But for me, it’s a really interesting look at humanity and how we view ourselves. When you travel[We’ll travel vast distances in [[I didn’t wake up one day and go, yay. This is what I want to do. It’s a gradual thing over time. I remember as a kid doing a little snippets of short stories and a lot of poetry in my teenage years, where you go through the angsty phase and poetry, really. And then coming out of that, I just got busy and it really wasn’t a focus point until I got into my thirties and started really wanting to get.Not escapism, but having that time to myself, walk back into my life. So for me, it became an opportunity a bit like going and watching a movie to be able to [I have to have one thing that I’ve always wanted to do that I’ve never done yet. So mine was to write a book cause I hadn’t completed anything of that stage. So I got over here and found that they had an amazing writing group here. Incredible authors. Yeah. It still blows my mind that you come to middle of nowhere.Cause this is rural Australia too. This isn’t in the middle of Sydney and yeah, all these people with this talent is. So I got to join in with this group and the skills that I grew and learned from them was perfect. It’s exactly what I needed. It was at the right time. I got my book started and then once I it’s like a drug, once you [And I just, I kept feeding the base and yeah. And I’m still doing that. I was still loving writing. I enjoy putting out lots of books. And I really enjoy interacting with people like yourself, other authors, other artistic type, because it just stimulates a different parts of your brain on a regular basis.[[Uh, John DRA Hoppo when I read to, cause I, I read based on what I feel like I need to have. So if I want something really light and happy, I might do like a rom-com or if I want something more in depth, I might go and, and do some like action adventure or Saifai or.[And then I start reading one book in one genre and another book in another I’m like three books, all different genres. And people are like, how the heck are you doing that? I’m like, I don’t know. Maybe I have ADHD. I just show her around. So tell us about your book. I wonder what is it called? And what’s a little bit about what it’s like.[So we did it as an anthology type thing, and I had. Really strong concept of a multi universe scenario. And I wanted to really have a play with what it looked like, how it worked, who was in it, how that functioned had he moved between worlds, that kind of thing. So I started writing the story and it was only ever, supposed to be as part of this initial book.It was like going to be his own standalone thing. But the more I got into it, the more I realized that there’s just so much to go on. It doesn’t end in this book and I got to the end of it. And I, I said to my publisher, look, I’m really sorry, but there’s more to tell and she’s no, it’s okay. Don’t worry about it.So yeah, we got booked to coming out and then I’m working at the moment towards book three, which hopefully should be the end. That’s the plan, [[So I understand that. So tell us a little bit more about the, what the stories are about. Don’t have to give things away, but synopsis for the people that are interested.[I think it brings an authentic feel to it because I can describe to the reader, places that I actually go to. So I find that quite fun. And so Jess is here in Australia, she’s being raised on the run with her family. She never really understood why she just assumed that it was some kind of government thing or there’s some generic reason why her parents wanted them to be off grid and.[As she gets older, her parents announced her. Look, are you going to have to leave? It’s no longer safe for you to be with us. And she’s okay. It follows the trend of my life for a few guys, you know, hiding me from some non-existent threat that I can’t see yet. And yet she turns 18 and gets given this book from her mom.Who’s basically not abandoned her, but they’ve left her to, to fend for herself. And, uh, and it explains in there about who she is and what she can really. And yeah, I’ve got a little bit around the background of that. If you want me to read it to you, but it, the concept of it is that it’s a multi-verse I idea, Jess is one of the realm K Kings kingdom realms, future leaders.So it turns out her mother was actually a princess. And [So really those stumblings. Of moving between worlds. And then as she grows, she gets more control Walnut, and she gets to be able to understand how it works and how to manipulate it and how to do the things that she needs to do. And she’s slightly influenced slash assisted by a boy of a similar age. She had met him in her childhood and neither of them had really understood what the other one was.[He disappeared for a number of years and then reappears back in her adulthood. And it turns out that he is the son of the opposite kingdom. And now we’ve got this juxtaposition of the light energy versus the dark energy and the two being attracted to each other and[[How does that work? What does that look like? And how do they work their way through that, but we’ve, we get introduced to it a little bit and the magic and mystery of series. We start to understand how the worlds work. We see Jess start to understand how to use the power that she has and what that means.And then in the second book, this is where the adventure really ramps up, but there’s lots of action scenes. There’s lots of underhanded ploys from different people as they try to manipulate the new pieces of. And I really got to have a look at, I guess, the concept of we, [If you’re seeing them on a actual day-to-day, they’re not just this arch nemesis off in the distance, there’s suddenly someone that, you know, and somebody you might be related to. So how much of your genes comes into. How similar are you to, to the demon that’s portrayed by everyone else. I really wanted to touch on that, particularly for Jess, her grandfather’s portrayed as this really horrible person.That’s kind of attractive her family. Rose with an iron fist and does despicable things. But I really wanted to, to see if she was suddenly living with him and surrounded by him. What does that actually look like? How does that work? Does she see it the same way? Or does she start to see the cracks and the illusion and understand what that means?Or this is, yeah, that’s, [[[I think it probably is Yia in that there’s there’s no really. Like massively graphic scenes, but there are some traumatizing trigger moments, no different than a hundred game series. But really for me, I like the fluidity of moving between Joanna’s as well. This is a kind of book that I would expect adults to be able to pick up, understand, and probably get a deeper meaning from it than a teenager.Who’s got. Really attach, I think to that relationship [So I liked that concept too, because I think there’s some things that teenagers will see. At the adults won’t and vice versa. And[So layers. What other books would you say that yours is similar to?[[[At one point, she jumps into world and, and. Where people, which obviously don’t exist in our universe, but didn’t this one. And then she moves around in between these different spheres. So I haven’t read anything that specifically reminds me of it. And I don’t know where I got the ideas or half of this stuff from, yeah, it’s a fantasy multi universe.[[I know, um, that from a self publishing side, you do have a lot more flexibility. You have a lot more control on, on looks and feels. And even on the editing side, you can probably clear a little bit back, but I do also love the concept of having feeling like you’re part of a team and having that support network here.So for me, the duality of having both. Living in the best of both worlds, I get to pick and choose a little bit on what I want to present to who and yeah, it gives me a bit of freedom, so[[[We’ll make sure to put links in there for people I’ll make sure and grab that. Thank you. So your first book, what type of feedback have you been getting from readers?[You need to give a lot of information over a short period of time, but you want to make it so that they can understand. So I, I tried not to put too much into that first book, stretch it out a little bit, but there is a lot of information cause it’s, it’s a concept reality. And so having to allude to what that meant and how it worked and who lives, [That’s quite a lot of. Generically people seem to love it. I’ve had really good reviews. I’ve had a couple of art copy stuff, come back for book two and people were really enjoying it so long. May that last, we all know as Ortho’s that a golden thing to have, but it’s, yeah, it is quite different to a lot of my other books.I do a lot of different genres a bit like how I read, I write based on how I feel. I jumped between John Aras, I’ll have two or three books on the go at any one stage. I’m a terrible, if you’re looking for somebody to, to have one specific type of book every time that’s not me, but my readership get to pick and choose a little bit.And they know there’s something new coming out all the time. I, I get to enjoy what I do and they get to enjoy books as they come in and assess them on the individual merit. And I think that’s really important. [[[Cause you know, some of the TV shows at the moment. Amazing.[[So a TV show would be great.[What are some of your favorite books[I’m sorry for a lot of you out there that hater, but I find her to be a really funny and interesting and quite a unique character in itself. And, but recently what. I think she got into audio books. I told myself I was never going to do it, but I have a really busy lifestyle. And for me, audio books are great because I can listen in the car or it can put on the headphones and go for a walk around the block and listen and read at the same time.[So I’ve been doing quite a few. I like paranormal romance stuff through that one. I’m writing some paranormal romance. So for me, it’s both interesting and engaging, but also gets that part of my brain. Okay.[[I don’t think so. I can’t have a look at I’m really bad at remembering names. I go, I’m going to admit that hair it out. I don’t remember what it,[[Yeah, sure. Sounds great. I hit the next one and I’m getting into the stories. I’m loving the stories and I’ll occasionally put a review on, I tend to be a bit cautious on reviews because I don’t want to [You’re just going. Oh yeah.[[And. He touches on and plays on some really dark themes around poverty and abuse and the, the, the, I guess the, the, the way things were at the time, but he does it in such a beautiful way. And I really enjoy that. And I have to admit, this is a little bit of a side [If you’ve never looked it up as a German author called Herman Hesse, he wrote a book called Steppenwolf. I’ve read it both in English and in German. Cause I learned and[[[[He talks to Mozart and he discusses philosophy and it’s just, it is the craziest out there book, but I just adore it. I really do from a philosophy perspective, from a duality perspective, from a real study in human nature and how and why we do what we do. I think it’s a classic, so[Do you have a favorite bookstore that you like to go to?[And so they’re constantly being Barbara bombarded with new writing books from us. It’s a bit like the library. I think like I’d donated a book of mine. For all of them to the library and she’s, uh, can you slow down a bit? [The world has changed so much. We’ve had a lot of shifts since COVID with people physically not being able to get in and do the bookstores. Even in the old days. I remember we’d have a cafe bookstore combo and you can’t do that anymore. Distancing and masks. And you can not only not wear a mask if you seated and drinking or so it’s, it’s a tough one.I do love seeing the growth in independent authors and the ability for them to be able to distribute their works and a and two. Not just traditional concept stuff like libraries, but they can now move into independent bookstores and even some of the large chain stuff. Uh, you can now get through, you know, as an independent [And it’s fascinating for me to see the spread as well. Like some of my self. I’ve seen my books crop up in the strangest places. And like, I don’t even know how that got there. Yeah. Sometimes it’s oh, that’s there. Oh, that’s kind of cool. I don’t know what I did to get that there, but happy days. Yeah. Yeah.But look, it’s, I love the journey. I love interacting with my fan base. I love hearing from my friends. I get lots of emails or messages from them, or when’s this coming out? Winston, I have you written this, but yet lots of questions about my family. Is this related to your husband? Like this way here? I know it’s not, but yeah.It’s I think the distribution world that we had has changed. If you look statistically, we’ve got a lot more pickup and things like KDP.[If you were in the elevator, give that elevator pitch of why they should get your book and[So every page, I want you to be more invested in the story so that when you get to the end of it, you’re like, no, where’s book three, because that’s the idea of golf.[

