1. Interview
I was interviewed by The Authors Show about my novel Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate. In the interview, I share insights into the book’s themes, my writing journey, and what inspires my writing.
What you’ll hear in the interview:
- How Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate blends myth and mystery
- Lazlo’s research into secret societies and historical settings
- Behind-the-scenes writing insights
2. My IT Qualifications (which still help during editing and publishing process) working within the Science industry are too many to recall but include being in the first intake for the first professional HTML course in the UK, learning Java in 1996, building an early CMS from scratch in Perl, and attaining certificates in Search Engine Building, JSP, ColdFusion, SQL, B2B sofware such as SalesForce, and building the Online Movie Database before IMDB, to display production showreels.
3. In 2017 I became certified (with Distinction) from the TEFL Academy, London as a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language and gained experience teaching foreign students in a local professional school, although I had already taught children with varying degrees of dyslexia to read before. You can see my certificate here (although my real identity isn’t shown in full, I use it for contractual purposes).
4. As for my knowledge of history, I have been a keen genealogist since the 90s and have traced my family back to a 13th Century Knight in Burgundy.
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Lazlo Ferran is cited in the 633 Squadron Wikipedia [citation 25] entry for his interview with Cliff Robertson.
6. The Devil’s Own Dice received a five-star review from Maria Beltran for the Reader’s Favourite website.
7. The respected Beijing Review published an article on my books in China.
8. The defunct AHF Magazine, published by the Wolfian Press, now Purple Unicorn Media, said The Hole Inside the Earth had ‘Lots of cool action and drew me well in’.
9. For endorsements of my work as editor, here is Amit Bobrov on my work for his novel ‘The Journals of Raymond Brooks’: ‘Lazlo’s the best editor I’ve worked with, and I’ve worked with a few. He took an already successful novel and found every imaginable flaw, corrected dialogues, fixed my grammar and altered key scenes to make them more exiting. He’s a fountain of creativity and knowledge. When I showed my Publisher his version of my novel they were speechless and this was a novel that three previous editor worked on.’
10. I have more than 100 publications (25 as editor) to my name and more than 70 individual works.
11. With more than 100,000 of my books in the hands of readers, their popularity continues to prove that an independent, genre-busting approach can work.
My full profile is here.