Q&A with Ian Worrall
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About Ian Worrall
Ian Worrall lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of No Remorse No Regret and No Rest For The Vengeful and the upcoming No Mercy For The Guilty (April 7, 2025) and No Retreat For Justice (May 5, 2025) in the Catch Or Be Caught Vigilante Justice series. Ian is a lifelong fan of the Edmonton Oilers and one of the biggest fans of Iron Maiden.
On to Our Interview!
Q. Tell us who you are and what inspires you to write.
A. Writing was just something I wanted to do, I started off doing screenwriting and moved into self-publishing novels and other fiction.
I did the vigilante justice book series with a female character because I wanted to have a story which wasn’t always the former special forces, cop, or cover operative male character who takes revenge
Q. How did you get to this place in your life? Share your story!
A. I wanted to see where my writing could take me. Didn’t want to get to the end of my life and not have done something I had always wanted to do but never found the time, so I made the time while working two jobs and got the first book, then the second, third and fourth books done.
Books 3 and 4 are on pre-order scheduled to be released on April 7 and May 5 respectively
Q. What are you most passionate about?
A. Making my stories as good as they can be and helping other writers through my YouTube channel, The Gray Haired Writer.
Always improving the craft and not being limited to one genre.
Q. Can you tell us a little bit about your writing process, routine, and/or rituals around your writing?
A. For the first book, No Remorse No Regret, I thought of having the female character take revenge. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo kind of thing.
I first started with the main character, or hero, of the story and think of how to make the anti-hero for the story sympathetic. She is a contract killer in the first book after all.
Now I will start with the villain of the story, I got that idea from the Sacha Black book 13 Steps To Evil, the villain is actually the most important character in the story because he creates the conflict and without conflict, there’s no story.
Other times an idea will come to me and I’ll work on that if I don’t have another project that’s close to finishing, if I do I’ll write the idea down.
Q. What are a few challenges you faced in creating, marketing, or publishing your creative work? And your solutions to them.
A. The biggest challenge for everything is with working a full time shift work job that has 12 hour day and night shifts is the time to do it. The solution, with regards to marketing is to do at least one thing each day.
For writing, while on the job I have breaks where I will do the writing and on days off I just do head down nose to the grindstone and get the words down.
For publishing, I save some money to an account and when I have enough to pay for the cover and editor then I will get that done. If the book is ready and I’ve incorporated all the beta reader feedback to make the story stronger.
Q. What do you wish you had known before you started writing fiction?
A. That it will always take longer than you thought it would to get a book ready.
Q. What’s next for you in your creative work?
A. An undercover cop thriller called Burned. Set in Nova Scotia, an undercover cop gets burned on an operation, his support team is killed, he rescued a drug addicted prostitute from being killed by a biker gang and goes into hiding to help her and find out how the operation got burned and who did it.
Q. Is there anything else you wished I’d asked? Please share!
A. If you could give me the winning lottery numbers? Haha.
No Remorse No Regret (Catch Or Be Caught Vigilante Justice Series Book 1)
Once a victim…
Now a killer
At the age of 19, Melissa’s hopes and dreams were literally drowned when she was stuffed in a sports bag, tied to a cinder block and thrown into the sea.
Mistaken for a shipment of dope, she is rescued.
Indebted to the man who rescued her, she dispatches his enemies and carries on a personal side mission enacting revenge on behalf of women who’ve been raped.
But the serial killer who left her to drown resurfaces. And goes on his personal side mission to take out the one who got away.
With the police hunting them both, who will win the cat and mouse game?
Connect with Ian Worrall
Site Link ianworrallauthor.com
Twitter www.twitter.com/Scotiawriter
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/iworrallauthor
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-worrall-2411bb18
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