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An Interview with Shirley Melis: Author of Banged-Up Heart: Dancing with Love and Loss

Shirley Melis: Author of Banged-Up HeartShirley Melis, a graduate of Vassar College, is a longtime business writer, travel writer and newspaper columnist who traveled the world interviewing everyone from busboys to heads of international organizations before launching a career in public relations in Washington, D.C.

Tell us about your book.

Widowed two years, I found myself swept up into a whirlwind courtship by a younger man, a rocket scientist. Falling deeply in love, we married and started traveling as if there were no tomorrow — realizing our dreams of photography (his) and writing (mine). But little more than a year later, we were fighting for […]

2017-07-18T03:29:34+02:00June 22nd, 2017|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Sandra Neily: Author of Deadly Trespass

Sandra NeilyI’ve been chased by moose, river otters, and mad mother partridges. And that’s recent. My seriously unsupervised childhood exploring clam flats, deep forests, and secret streams grew into the marrow that became my novel, Deadly Trespass.

I’ve worked to infuse my mystery-thriller with the drama and laughter of various outdoor careers, the sadness of loss, and close encounters with wildlife and unruly dogs. I live on Moosehead Lake and would rather be fly fishing, skiing, paddling, or just generally “out there” — unless I’m writing new fiction that draws people into a (safe-at-home) field trip to a disappearing world.[…]

2017-06-14T05:40:03+02:00June 14th, 2017|Categories: Interviews|

A Burning in the Darkness by A P McGrath

A Burning in the Darkness by A P McGrath A Burning in the Darkness by A P McGrath is a compelling thriller about the dynamic Father Michael Kieh, who hears people’s confessions at a busy English airport, including the confession of a murderer. When a murder happens at the airport, and Kieh recognizes one of the victims, accusations fly his way, and he must prove his innocence, as well as reconcile his dark past.

A Burning in the Darkness is riveting because the strength of its characters, primarily Michael Kieh. At times, he is dynamic to a fault, but his thoughtful interior life and his life story is what […]

2017-06-14T09:11:44+02:00June 14th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: , |

Mock My Words by Chandra Shekhar

Mock My Words by Chandra ShekharPoor David Tan. Things have not gone well for the harried protagonist of Chandra Shekhar’s novel Mock My Words. His position at Steinbeck University, one he thought of as a dream job, leaves him unfulfilled and struggling to connect with students who don’t take him seriously due to his accented English. His colleagues are brusque and cold. His wife, Laura, doesn’t give him enough attention or affection. Melissa, a brilliant student with whom he shares a cultural and emotional connection, suddenly ignores him as well.

Shekhar’s choice to write a novel about Chinese-American identity is interesting and not inherently […]

2017-06-12T08:42:18+02:00June 12th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

An Interview with Andreas Androutsellis-Theotokis: Author of Nannion

Andreas Androutsellis-TheotokisI was born in Athens, Greece, at a time when progressive rock music still got radio play. After finishing high school, I studied Biochemistry and Neurochemistry at Imperial College, University of London, obtaining my BSc and PhD degrees. Following my studies, I completed my National Service duties in the Greek Army.

Having experienced severe research withdrawal symptoms, I moved to the USA to resume professional science work, first at Yale University and then at the National Institutes of Health. Afterwards, I started my own research lab in Dresden, Germany. In parallel, I became Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, […]

2017-06-09T06:05:02+02:00June 9th, 2017|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Stephen Brown: Publisher of Stories of Yesteryear by Harry H. Brown

Harry BrownHarry Brown was a farmer, chauffeur, Boy Scout leader, storyteller and dowser. Born in 1907, he lived to be 102 years old. He lived in Halifax , Massachusetts for 98 years, making him almost a “townie.” The author owned Kemah Farm in Alexandria, NH. He was married to Mildred Blackman and had two children, Stephen and Deborah.

Tell us about your book.

Stories of Yesteryear – Horse and Buggy Days is a reissued book, written and illustrated by Harry H. Brown, that present an appealing collection of stories and tales about small-town rural New England life.

With wit, warmth and […]

2017-05-18T05:59:27+02:00May 18th, 2017|Categories: Interviews|

Meet the Unimaginables by Paul Slutsky

Meet the Unimaginables by Paul Slutsky Meet the Unimaginables by Paul Slutsky is a science fiction novel about the most fascinating of topics: interacting with life on other planets. A scientist named Alan Norton gets the chance of a lifetime to explore the universe as part of the Search for Life program, with each new life form and environment more unimaginable than the last, and he’s soon thrust into a role that could change the fate of the entire universe.

The greatest strength in this novel is Alan Norton himself; he’s something of a MacGyver – quick-thinking and endlessly resourceful. Really, you’d follow him anywhere because […]

2020-05-06T03:47:11+02:00May 16th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

An Interview with Julie Elise Landry: Author of Bless the Skies

Julie Elise LandryJulie Elise Landry grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, and became something resembling an adult in Monroe, Louisiana. She wrote her first book in the fourth grade, stealing heavily from The Hobbit and “Ella Enchanted,” but learned not to steal when her mother grinned knowingly at the draft.

In 2013, she graduated from the University of Louisiana at Monroe with a Master of Arts in English focused in creative writing. Her life has been an amalgamation of children’s stories, musicals, and violent horror films since the eighth grade, when she watched “The Ring” by herself on Halloween night. (She does […]

2017-05-11T07:55:08+02:00May 11th, 2017|Categories: Interviews|
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