Interviews

Interviews with indie authors, publishers and book service providers in the self-publishing realm

An Interview with Tim Darcy Ellis: Author of The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives

Tim Darcy EllisTim Darcy Ellis (BA BSc, MHSc) is a writer and physiotherapy-business owner. He was formerly a professional archaeologist. Tim’s critically acclaimed debut, The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives is a fast-paced and meticulously researched historical fiction novel. Tim is passionate about bringing his love of history, archaeology and philosophy together: and to express it by writing great fiction.

Tim majored in Medieval Archaeology at the University of York (1988), and he worked for both the Museum of London and the British Museum the 1990s. He re-qualified as a physiotherapist at the University of East London (1998). He then moved […]

2020-09-24T07:55:10+02:00September 24th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Robert Nicholls: Author of Surviving the Darkness

Robert NichollsRobert Nicholls is an Australian indie author and freelance writer. Surviving the Darkness is his first published book. Previously, Robert had a long and successful career in various roles as a specialist business lawyer, commercial mediator, chartered corporate secretary, company director, senior corporate executive, and business owner. Today, Robert’s writing focus extends to subjects including mental health, self-help and improvement, motivation, human endeavour, communication, life, and leadership, and to other writing genres, which are featured on his blog. Robert lives on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Tell us about your book.

Surviving the Darkness: Lessons learned from a […]

2020-08-20T03:11:45+02:00August 20th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Tom Roberts: Author of Lost Scrolls of Archimedes

Tom RobertsTom Roberts is the author of an historical novel and a short story collection. In 2019, at the Florida Writers Association’s Royal Palm Literary Awards, his historical novel, Lost Scrolls of Archimedes, was awarded Gold for best unpublished historical novel (published in March 2020).

A software engineer in a previous life, Mr. Roberts began writing in 2017. He is avid reader of ancient history and technology and a member of the Florida Writers Association, the Atlanta Writers Club, and the West Florida Literary Federation. His favorite authors are Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O’Brian, Steven Saylor, and Arthur C. Clarke. An […]

2020-08-20T03:08:35+02:00August 20th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with J.W. Webb: Author of Blood Feud

J.W. WebbJ. W. Webb is an English writer living here in Georgia. Mostly he writes fantasy, though sometimes diverts in even stranger directions. His epic saga titled the Legends of Ansu blends the mystic grandeur of JRR Tolkien with the gritty realism of GRR Martin. Webb’s characters are three dimensional and flawed, their world a tapestry of vivid color and constant motion. All the books feature beautiful bespoke sketches by the late Tolkien Illustrator Roger Garland.

Tell us about your book.

Blood Feud is the ninth novel in my ongoing epic fantasy series, Legends of Ansu. This story is set […]

2020-08-12T03:30:20+02:00August 12th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with C.T. Au-Yang: Author of Entanglement

C.T. Au-YangC.T. Au-Yang is an entrepreneur, a coder as well as an analyst. He never imagined to be an author of novels, but films crafted by him, along with 2 novellas and 1 novel based upon, represent the fourth of his eight projects.

Tell us about your book.

Entanglement is the novella that one can finish reading in 2 hours and may find loveful for a lifetime, the first of three of the series Understanding & Endeavour. So many quotations, songs, novels, movies and tears after, there is still no definitive answer to the almost perpetual mystery, what is love? […]

2020-08-12T03:29:57+02:00August 12th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Paul Corson: Author of Regaining Paradise

Paul CorsonPaul Corson is a prolific writer, from Memphis Tennessee. Corson’s description of his otherworldly experiences were featured in ‘The Philadelphia Inquirer’. He went on to be interviewed about his transcendent encounters on the Karen Grant Show and also on local and national TV. As a pharmacist, Corson established a protocol for the treatment of HIV/AIDs. Corson received the 2000 Philadelphia Hero Award for his contributions in supporting AIDS survivors.

Paul published the book, Touched by God: A Search for Higher Truth in 2004. His poem, “What Can Comfort Those Who Have Lost a Loved One,” has been read at each […]

2020-07-17T04:10:25+02:00July 17th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Douglas Bain: Author of The Race to the Blackened Nevers, Winner of the 2019 SPR Book Awards

Douglas BainDouglas Bain lived in seven countries by the age of ten, and used the next couple of decades to rack-up as many careers. The Woeful Wager, Book 1 of the new dark, fantasy series “The Race to the Blackened Nevers” is his first novel. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two dogs who howl along with him when he finally gets the page right. Follow him on Twitter @DBainWriter.

Tell us about your book.

The Race to the Blackened Nevers is about a race of the gods. It’s set in a world of dark fantasy where […]

2020-04-23T02:45:08+02:00April 22nd, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Ben Lyle Bedard: Author of The World Without Flags, Silver Winner of the 2019 SPR Book Awards

Ben Lyle BedardBorn in Buckfield, a rural town in Maine, Ben grew up reading Tolkien, Stephen King, and Charles Dickens. When he went to college at the University of Maine at Farmington, he published his first piece of fiction in the local college journal. After moving across the country to study creative writing at Mills College, he began writing poetry as well as fiction. In his graduate studies, he published poems in several little magazines as well as a book of poems, “Implicit Lyrics.” He won honorary mention from the Academy of American Poets in the Friends of University Libraries Poetry Prize […]

2020-04-23T02:56:10+02:00April 22nd, 2020|Categories: Interviews|
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