S2E7-045 Being Present with Ian Hooper

Guest Bio

Ian Hooper grew up in the coastal town of Larne, Northern Ireland. He joined the Royal Air Force at age eighteen and worked initially as an aircraft technician before being commissioned as an Intelligence Officer. After serving for two decades, he and his Australian wife relocated to the southwest of Western Australia.

In 2014, writing under the pen name of Ian Andrew, his first novel, A Time to Every Purpose, was released to critical acclaim, and in 2018, the first of his ‘Wright and Tran’ crime series, Face Value, won the Publishers Weekly Booklife prize for fiction. In 2024, his poem, Just Enough won the Shore Lines writing for performance prize.

He is now the executive director of independent publisher, Leschenault Press and its imprint, The Book Reality Experience, as well as being an author, editor and ghost-writer. In addition, he is the co-founder of the international series of independent author book fairs. A fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, he holds qualifications in management, training, and learning design as well as a master’s in creative writing.

Living in rural Western Australia, surrounded by a resident mob of kangaroos, he is currently working on the next novel in the Wright & Tran series of detective stories.

Links

Contact Ian

Website: https://bookreality.com/project/ian-andrew-3/

Website: www.indieauthorbookfair.com

Things you can enter

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Show Notes

• Ian was the go to for farewell poems and short stories.
• Started writing first story on the train
• Chose self publishing thinking only a few people would want his book.
• Ran training courses for others to self Pub
• Still provides assistance to other Authors through Book Publishing Experience
• Started writing first as Ian Andrew (first and middle name)
• Chose to have female leads in his detective series.
• Mindfulness means to be present
• Recommends App called ‘Balance’
• Reward to see Authors open their books for the first time.
• Reward self – Travel to Europe
• End of day Decompress = Bourbon and Coke.
• A part of Indie Author Book fair series.
• Discussed alternate perspectives of Indie publishers internationally.
• Superpower = Rewind button