Cobra Pose was the winner within the AUDIOBOOK (Thriller/Suspense/Thriller, Motion/Journey) class of the 2024 IndieReader Discovery Awards, the place undiscovered expertise meets folks with the ability to make a distinction.
Following discover an interview with authors Susan Rogers + John Roosen.
What’s the title of the guide and when was it printed?
Cobra Pose – Revealed below the Yoga Mat Mysteries Collection imprint. Writer: G-EMS PTY LTD and PS LLC. Revealed: January 30, 2023.
What’s the guide’s first line?
‘Ric. Have been attempting to succeed in you. I’m actually anxious about my father. Know you’ll arrive quickly. Are you able to name me? Thanks, Elaina.’
What’s the guide about? Give us the “pitch”.
Prepare for an exciting trip by way of the glowing sub-tropical metropolis of Brisbane, Queensland, in Cobra Pose, the second installment of the Yoga Mat Mysteries collection.
Australia could also be a surfers’ paradise … however the nefarious browsing taking place on the web is threatening to destroy the worldwide monetary system. And on the heart of all of it is Elaina Williams, a yoga teacher and novice sleuth who should use greater than her Cobra Pose to remain one step forward of the damaging hackers often called The Cobra and The Wolf. As Elaina’s father, a solicitor, disappears, she turns to the enigmatic Ric Peters for assist. However Ric, a photojournalist with a mysterious previous, could have secrets and techniques of his personal. Collectively, they have to race towards time to unravel the online of techno-thrilling intrigue earlier than it’s too late. However with the hackers continuously one step forward and the stakes larger than ever, can Elaina and Ric belief one another sufficient to avoid wasting not solely her father, but in addition Australia?
Stuffed with a quick plot, dynamic prose, and witty dialogue, Cobra Pose could have you on the sting of your seat till the very finish. Susan Rogers and John Roosen’s first award-winning guide within the collection is Useless Man’s Pose and also you gained’t wish to miss this sequel—winner of the Indie Reader Discovery Awards AUDIOBOOK class for Thriller/Suspense/Thriller, Motion/Adventures for 2024.
So seize your yoga mat, absorb a deep breath, prepare for a heart-pumping journey in tropical Brisbane.
What impressed you to write down the guide? A selected individual? An occasion?
We took up yoga! When working full time in demanding jobs, we took up Yoga in a small yoga studio on the “lifeless finish” of Cooper Avenue in Sydney. After dinner, we’d discuss all of the ‘characters’ in our lives, at work … and on the studio. We determined we’d write about folks and occasions which have impacted our lives and entwine circumstances that we have now instantly felt.
What’s essentially the most distinctive factor about the primary character? Who-real or fictional-would you say the character reminds you of?
There are two predominant characters within the collection and the protagonist alternates relying on the storyline. Usually, every guide focuses on one or the opposite characters. However it’s the change and chemistry of Ric Peters and Elaina Williams that varieties among the compelling rigidity within the tales. Ric is mentally and bodily robust however balances this along with his empathy and compassion. He is aware of the way to chuckle however he additionally is aware of the way to cry. Elaina is targeted on the regulation and justice aspect of life however feels the warmth of Ric’s ardour for her. She is evaluating the connection and dedication for Ric. Elaina reminds us of robust ladies we have now met which have a delicate, empathetic aspect. Ric’s a superb man however not excellent. He’s delicate and his previous typically retains him awake at evening. Nonetheless he is aware of the way to be mild or robust when he must.
What’s the primary motive somebody ought to actually learn this guide?
We now have been acknowledged at attending to the guts and inside the heads of all of the characters. For Cobra Pose, readers get to get pleasure from a curler coaster trip of pleasure in addition to a deepening thriller when the characters hunt out a global crew bent on making a monetary Armageddon. They get to really feel the fervour of recent love with all of its trials and tribulations and the last word sacrifice a person can pay for the lady he loves. We encourage readers to lose themselves in our tales … get to know our characters … put together to be entertained and journey to a different place for some time. We ask the reader involves the world of make-believe, to consider in afternoons of enjoyment and evenings of being enchanted. We consider our writing has a contemporary method to storytelling that’s not sure by conventional guidelines or genres. Our writing stands by itself legs and we aren’t afraid of being completely different, or including simply the fitting spice as we ramp up the connection. As a result of we don’t observe the foundations, something can occur in our tales and often does. We push boundaries, we predict in another way, we problem the established order.
In the event that they made your guide right into a film, who would you wish to see play the primary character(s)?
For Ric, a mixture of Chris Hemsworth and Hugh Jackman with a dusting of Andrew Metal. Elaina Williams is likely to be a mixture of Naomi Watts, Margot Robbie and Cate Blanchett.
When did you first resolve to grow to be an writer?
Susan Rogers knew she was a author at age six having written her first collection of tales which she illustrated and sure at house. She was off to the races after that.
John Roosen took a little bit longer along with his early give attention to writing scientific papers and studies later changed by evaluation paperwork. Fictional writing got here into play after a mid-life disaster.
Is that this the primary guide you’ve written?
No, each Susan Rogers and John Roosen have written individually and collectively in various different publications. Useless Man’s Pose is E book 1 on this collection and likewise in circulation is Tree Pose (guide 3). Surviving Paradise was a pre-YMM guide they wrote collectively.
What do you do for work whenever you’re not writing?
We now have labored as technical writers, journalists and consultants throughout a broad line of fields. We had been each within the navy concerned in small arms coaching, federal regulation enforcement; we cleaned up hazardous waste websites and have lived and labored within the America’s, AustralAsia, the Center East and Antarctica.
How a lot time do you typically spend in your writing?
We write snippets of our work every single day after which go on binges once we write for ten to 14 hours a day. Enhancing of our works consists of us studying the draft books to one another, every individual studying the guide ten occasions to the opposite to get the wording good. We guarantee every guide is professionally edited and proofread so the reader will get a high quality product.
What’s one of the best and the toughest a part of being an indie?
The most effective half is the liberty and independence of writing what you wish to, with no limits, instructions or schedules. The toughest half is tearing your self away from the writing to do another job: advertising and marketing, interviews, administration, follow-up.
Would you go conventional if a writer got here calling? In that case, why?
We write as a result of we love writing. And as an Indie writer we will management what we do and when. The one motive we might go along with a writer is to have the ability to have the elevated connections that conventional publishers have.
Is there one thing particularly that motivates you (fame? fortune?)
Our motivation is the writing. We each love to write down. When our characters come alive and march throughout the pages, it’s all definitely worth the effort and time. That’s the motivation. Then somebody reads the guide or listens to the audiobook and writes to us saying they love the characters and the guide/audiobook has impacted their lives…we’re in seventh heaven. They will inform us they love the plots or circumstances, the way in which the phrases sound collectively, or they determine with Ric Peters and Elaina Williams and we all know our efforts are value it.
Which author, dwelling or lifeless, do you most admire?
We’re each Hemmingway lovers, we love the ability and visceral really feel of his writing. However had been additionally fast choose up a Grisham novel for its intricacy and connection to life.
Which guide do you would like you would have written?
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol The 1843 novella is a traditional sporting social criticism but in addition a narrative with assorted ghosts. The language and the imagery which are timeless. We had been so fascinated with the idea of ghosts we incorporate threads of that into our third guide Tree Pose. It features a quick ghost story which takes place on the Port Writer Penal colony on the island of Tasmania, Australia.