Meet Mohamed Ahmed Elbossily Mohamed, author of “Caves of Comfort — Part One”
Tell us what your book, “Caves of Comfort — Part One,” is about!
Sure! Here’s the summary:
Caves of Comfort — Part One is a symbolic and reflective book about comfort, technology, and the quiet ways modern life can reshape human behavior and everyday choices. Through the metaphor of caves, screens, and survival, it explores the point at which comfort stops being protection and begins to limit movement, independence, and growth.
What did you love most about writing this book?
What I loved most was taking something as ordinary as comfort and turning it into a larger question about how safety, convenience, technology, and habit can gradually shape the way we think and live. The symbolic structure allowed me to explore those ideas without preaching or giving the reader easy answers.
The idea was also inspired by what I observed in real life, especially in my own children and in many people around me. I began to notice how each person can gradually build a kind of “private cave” around themselves through screens, routines, comfort, and isolation. That observation became one of the starting points for the concept of the caves in the book.
How did you start writing?
I started writing because I kept returning to questions about modern life, human behavior, comfort, fear, values, and the choices people make. Writing became a way for me to turn those questions into stories and reflective books that invite readers to think rather than simply tell them what to think.
But my connection with creativity began much earlier. Since childhood, I have always loved drawing, reading, and writing. For many years, my writing remained mostly as notes, fragments, ideas, and short pieces rather than complete books. I never seriously thought about turning those pieces into published books until much later in my life. Looking back, I sometimes wish I had started sooner, but I also feel that the years of observation and life experience gave me the material and perspective I needed to finally begin writing seriously.
Tell us a little bit about your self-publishing experience.
Self-publishing has taught me to think not only as a writer, but also as someone responsible for the entire journey of a book. I have worked through editing, formatting, covers, distribution, publishing platforms, promotion, and direct outreach to readers. It has been demanding, but it has also given me the freedom to develop my books according to my own creative direction and to reach readers in different markets.
What was your biggest challenge in bringing the book to market, and how did you solve it?
My biggest challenge has been discoverability: reaching the right readers without relying on a large advertising budget. I have approached that by making my books available through multiple international and regional platforms, building my own digital presence, contacting reading communities and reviewers directly, and looking for partnerships where promotion is based on genuine reader interest rather than simply paying for visibility.
What's one piece of advice you have for other writers?
Finish the work before trying to make it perfect. Writing improves through revision, but a book that remains unfinished can never reach a reader. Listen to useful criticism, keep learning, and protect the reason you wanted to write the book in the first place.
Anything else you want folks to know?
Caves of Comfort — Part One is part of a wider catalogue of my work. I currently have seven published eBooks: Caves of Comfort — Part One, Caves of Comfort — Part Two, Caves of Comfort — Part Three, Progressing Backward… and Rising to the Bottom, Island of Morality, Unchosen Encounter, and the illustrated children’s book A Journey with the Living Letters. Six of these published titles are available in both English and Arabic. I am also completing my eighth book, The Slumber Trespasser, a gothic psychological horror and mystery novel set in Transylvania in the winter of 1886. I am happy for readers or editors to explore whichever title best matches their interests.
Where can people find your book?
