Ed Teja is a writer a poet, a musician and former boat bum. He writes about the places he knows, and the people who live in the margins of the world. After being friends with tech giants, pirates, fisherman, and a coterie of strange people for many years, he finds the world an amazing place filled with intriguing, if sometimes crazed characters.
Where do you live?
Jeff is currently living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Ed lives in Silver City, New Mexico, USA.
What’s your home life like?
Ed: My wife and I love camping with our converted van. She is a visual artist and looks to nature for inspiration. I enjoy being away from the trappings of civilization.
Jeff: My wife and I have been traveling the world for some years now. We walked the Camino in Spain before coming to Asia. Ed joined us in Thailand for a time and traveled with us to Cambodia.
What genre(s) do you like to write? To read?
As a team, we write political/technological thrillers that deal with the ramifications of disruptive events and technology. We are fascinated by cryptocurrency and the benefits and challenges it presents to global institutions and for people.
Ed lived on a boat in the Caribbean for ten years, and writes stories out of that experience that tend to be irreverent and humorous--like life.
We both read across the spectrum... Ed loved Murakami's WILD SHEEP CHASE and Celine. So go figure. Why did you start writing?
Ed: I can't remember ever not writing. I wrote puppet plays when I was a kid in Berlin, and started my first novel (never finished) in seventh grade. (It was basically my take on King Solomon's Mines).
Jeff: I love the idea of dealing with ideas in a story. The political and technical aspects intrigue me.
What do you do when you’re not writing?
Ed: I read, go camping, travel to new places. I also recently got a black belt in karate and training is important to me. I watch a lot of Systema videos and the last time in Thailand, I had fun training Muay Thai (on Koh Kong). Jeff took embarrassing videos of me in the ring.
Jeff: See new things; explore the world, make fun of Ed doing Muay Thai (Ed put that in).
Where do you like to go when looking for a new book to read?
Ed: I love going to libraries and pulling out random books with intriguing titles. Sometimes I hear about a book in a lecture (I'm addicted to writing lectures) or from a friend or colleague.
Jeff: I have a huge to-be-read pile on my Kindle and constantly get recommendations from Ed!!
At what point do you call it quits when reading a new book?
Ed: When my interest flags. I stop caring about the characters and events and the prose isn't adding enough to sweep me across the finish line.
Are you independently or traditionally published?
Independent.
How many books/stories have you published so far?
Ed: I started writing books a long time ago, writing computer books for Prentice-Hall, TAB Books and others. Most had exciting titles like: A DESIGNER'S GUIDE TO DISK DRIVES and had the shelf life of a gnat. But I've written seven novels under my name (and ghost written more), two of those with Jeff.
Jeff: The two crypto thriller novels with Ed, and we also wrote two short stories, one that we wrote most of in Cartagena, Colombia--it takes place there.
What book/story are you currently promoting or working on?
We released the second Bitpats novel this May. Bitpat is a term we coined for expatriates who are involved with cryptocurrency. We are working on a short story now that involves a professional gambler in Phnom Penh... coincidentally, he likes Bitcoin.
What’s the elevator pitch?
As with other tools, emerging technologies offer the power to do good or harm, depending who wields them. Surveillance capitalism poses a growing threat to freedom—one that Boone and her Bitpats are determined to confront and vanquish. The battle is on.
How long have you been working on it?
We spent two years on the second book. We had a draft done, but then when Ed visited Jeff in Thailand, we decided to restructure it... to make it stronger. So we did a total rewrite.
When will it be available to buy? Where?
It's on Amazon in ebook and paperback.
How can readers find you?What inspires you to keep writing?
Everyone has heard these, but we love them (and both writers):
“There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
Playing with possibilities, asking "what if?" is inspiration aplenty.
Anything you’d like to add?
Writing has always been important... it's a joy, hard work, a frustration, and finishing a book, one that seems to work and connect with readers, a special event.
My thanks to Ed and Jeff for participating in My Laughably Inane Blog.
Sincerely,Nicholas P. AdamsJust a small-town boy with an overactive imagination.
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