The greatest joy for me is in finding out something new to share, that I think is really going to help the reader understand an important facet of their life.

I published Creative Ways with Money (Mar 2020) and re-launched here, Create Your New Life of Abundance - as it is so pertinent to the times, with its financial recovery information.

Such a wide range... but Jack Canfield, Bill Bryson (funny), Margaret Lomas, Nhan Nguyen, and Penelope Green (When in Rome travel memoir).

Learning and earning - supporting others with their book.

Well in 2008 I worked on Sack Your Financial Planner, which was published on a lone sales page in the midst of the GFC. It was all because I wanted to write down what I learned about creating an income and starting out with investing. I am also passionate about keeping ordinary Australians & New Zealanders from losing their shirt in so-called investments.

1) Keep on writing and initiating ideas, rather than rest on your laurels once published. This way you can build up a fan-base, especially using your social media. It could be on a blog, in LinkedIn, or guest posts on other industry sites.
2) Work on getting reviews - especially on Amazon and GoodReads. Goodreads has an author profile, and you can relate and recommend your book to people who want to read your TYPE of book (a lot of them want to read novels, so don't bother with the wrong genre).
3) Keep a professional author page on Facebook, Amazon and on Smashwords of course. Get a snazzy-sounding bio written.

I use iBooks search, Amazon and SW, but usually if I heard about the book from another place, like from a friend or someone on TV.

I put down all the things I want to look into and the varying words that encompass the topic. These initial topics usually grow once research starts. I've never had writer's block, because it's more a matter of containing the information flow to what I believe in.

Romances set in Australia, travel memoirs, and interesting success and wealth books.

My iPad mini.