Archive for the ‘Author Interviews’ Category

This week I interview the author of Cleanse Fire, SWAT meets The Lord of the Rings, by Anastasia V. Pergakis. Comment to participate in her giveaway! Details below. Enjoy!

Welcome to the Fantasy Indie Author Interview series, where I feature interviews with independent author-publishers in the fantasy/speculative fiction realm. This week I interview the lovely and magical Fantasy author & illustrator, Vonnie Winslow Crist. Enjoy!

Welcome to Indie Author Mondays, where I feature articles and interviews about the exciting field of independent author publishing. This week I feature an author interview with Cheryl Shireman; she’s spunky, she’s independent and she’s full of vim and vigor. I’m inspired just interviewing her. Enjoy!

Welcome to our Monday series of interviews with indie fantasy authors. This week I feature a Q&A with author and editor, Ralph Scott, about his unique novel, Conversations With A Dead Girl.
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1.    What got you into writing this book in the first place?
Easter Sunday, 2009, I was on working sabbatical in Hermosa Beach, California, more than 400 miles [...]

Welcome to the weekly Indie Fantasy Author Spotlight. Today we feature in interview with fantasy author, Jeri Cafesin, author of the collection of tales, Fractured Fairy Tales of the Twilight Zone.
What can you tell us about Fractured Fairy Tales of the Twilight Zone?
So, when I was a kid I used to watch this cartoon [...]

Welcome to the weekly Indie Fantasy Author Spotlight. Today we feature American Gothic author, Vanessa Cavendish, author of the work-in-progress, Earthworm Soup. Vanessa, thanks for agreeing to be a featured Author for my Fantasy Indie Author Monday series.
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Sure! A bit about me: I write American Gothic. I could say Country Horror or Rural Fantasy or [...]

Welcome to the weekly Indie Fantasy Author Spotlight. Today we feature LeAnna Shields, who is the author The Alestrion Chronicles: Slaves Redeemed.
I had fun interviewing her!
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Beth: What got you into writing this book in the first place?
LeAnna: I got into writing The Alestrion Chronicles: Slaves Redeemed when the vision of the main character Aria came to mind. [...]

Welcome to indie author, M. Edward McNally, who is the author of a Musket & Magic Fantasy series beginning with Book One:  The Sable City.
I had fun interviewing him!
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Beth: What got you into writing this book in the first place?
Ed: It started with an image in my head: A wounded warhorse in a field of blonde steppe [...]

Welcome to my weekly series of interviews with independently published fantasy authors. This week I interviewed Matt Posner about America’s greatest magic school. Enjoy!
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1. What got you into writing this book in the first place?
I was working at a yeshiva high school in Long Island, which caused me to get very immersed in the culture of [...]

Welcome to my weekly series of interviews with independently published fantasy authors. This week I interviewed James C. Wallace II who shares with us his lifelong love affair with Oz.

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1. What got you into writing this book in the first place?
As a child of the 60s, my parents taught me to read from the fourteen original [...]

Welcome to my series of Interviews with Indie Authors. Today I feature — quite proudly — the release of my husband’s suspense novel, The Torah Codes.
In celebration of the day, we’re doing a series of giveaways to blog commenters throughout the day! We’ll be giving away three lovely items:

at 12 noon, the mp3 album, [...]

In less than 3 minutes learn all you need to know to be a successful writer… (Okay, I’m kidding a little, but not much…)

Question for my fine Writer’s Fun Zone friends: What is the best piece of writing advice you have ever received, and who told you?

Thank you!
The best advice I ever received was from [...]

For Writing Prompt Saturdays, today, interview your author…
Okay, I’ll explain. One of my favorite activities is journaling where I dialogue between various parts of me, like my editor and my writer, or my planner, and my muse. Sometimes I know who the parts are before I begin. Sometimes their identities emerge while I write. Either [...]

A video interview of Novelist, Lee Child. What do you think of his advice?

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