An Interview with Gary Rivera: Creator of The Reluctant Bully

Gary was born in Brooklyn, New York, and presently resides in Orlando, Florida. A widower with two grown kids, loves going to theme parks, taking part in pickleball, watching motion pictures, and studying. He enjoys touring and hopes to go to each main league baseball stadium to observe a recreation.

Inform us about your e-book.

The Reluctant Bully is the second e-book within the Lunch Cash Trilogy. I needed to inform a special story from The Lunch Cash Treasure, whereas additional advancing the narrative of the primary e-book, and I needed to supply extra backstory for a number of characters, who might be featured in e-book three. My focus for TRB was telling a narrative about childhood bullying from a number of completely different views. Bullying was a subtopic in my first e-book, however in TRB I wrote about how kids and their dad and mom cope with the problem. Many kids undergo in silence, and I hope they learn my e-book and uncover that they don’t have to.

Why did you wish to write a e-book?

I’ve at all times loved writing and needed to put in writing a e-book, however life took me in a special path. I’ve many concepts percolating in my head, and once I lastly determined to put in writing my first e-book, it was fairly straightforward for me to decide on the place to begin. My youngsters have been the inspiration for my first e-book, and I’ve them to thank for lastly getting it finished.

Why did you select to self-publish?

I’m an avid reader of books, magazines, and on-line articles, and I found how well timed and/or tough it’s to discover a writer/agent to get your e-book to print. My characters imply lots to me, and I needed to present them life–even when my household and I are the one ones who ever get to know them.

What do you suppose are the principle pitfalls for indie writers?

Mine was that I believed I didn’t want any assist–that was naive. Additionally, the variety of firms that begin contacting you and telling you the way they’ll aid you develop into a best-selling writer is overwhelming. Be careful for the sharks.

What suggestions are you able to give different authors trying to self-publish?

Write about what you like, at the least at first, and discover discussion groups that may encourage and assist you when you get began.

Inform us in regards to the style you wrote in, and why you selected to put in writing this form of e-book.

Throughout a pizza dinner with my youngsters, I began telling them a narrative that I by no means completed. That was the genesis for The Lunch Cash Treasure. I needed to place that story on paper as a result of I at all times knew how it could finish, however I didn’t know if it could be fascinating sufficient that anybody would wish to learn it.

As somebody who acquired picked on a terrific deal at school, I needed to handle bullying, however determined to attend till my second e-book to make it the central focus of the story. I needed the principle characters to be kids as a result of I really feel they’re much smarter than adults suppose they’re, and rising up in a home with 4 sisters, with no brothers, I felt snug in making my major protagonist a woman.

How do your family and friends get entangled along with your writing? What do they consider your e-book?

A few shut family and friends members are my beta readers. After I revealed The Lunch Cash Treasure, I used to be completely satisfied to have reached my goal, and would have accepted if my family and friends advised me they have been pleased with me, however they really helpful that I not write one other e-book. Nonetheless, their glowing opinions of my first e-book impressed me to get “blind opinions,” which have been additionally extraordinarily optimistic. That motivated me to wish to end the trilogy, and, to this point, the opinions for The Reluctant Bully have been rewarding.

Why did you write about this explicit topic?

I attended a Catholic Faculty, and was bullied lots. Despite the fact that I used to be typically depressing as a youth, and I by no means shared how dangerous issues generally have been, I at all times hoped for higher days. In highschool, issues modified for the higher. Nonetheless, although I used to be by no means the bully that I handled in Catholic Faculty, I now understand I partially grew to become the individual I disliked. I would like my readers to think about their actions, and younger readers to hunt assist if they’re being bullied.

What did you study in your journey as an writer?

For years, I nervous that I might write my e-book and by no means see it in print as a result of I couldn’t get a writer, however self-publishing could make your writing objectives attainable. I nonetheless have no idea if my writing is nice, however to this point, I’ve not acquired any adverse suggestions and I want to suppose that I’m doing one thing proper.

What’s subsequent for you as an writer?

I’ll begin the third e-book, Cupid’s Conundrum, subsequent 12 months. For now, to maintain energetic, I’m writing 4 one-act performs. I could by no means publish them, however I’ll end it.