Interviews

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

An Interview with Stephen C. Perkins: Author of Sky Parlor

Stephen C. PerkinsIn less than three years, the thrilling, suspenseful, and sometimes controversial book titles of Stephen C. Perkins has managed to gain a loyal and rabid audience. For a preview of the prologue, book cover, and product description of the newly released science fiction/fantasy/supernatural/thriller Sky Parlor, go now to Newsspellcom.org, the only source for real alternative news! While enjoying Sky Parlor, be sure to check out the author’s other available titles at amazon.com/author/stephenperkins, and don’t to forget to come by for a visit and follow the author on Twitter.

Tell us about your book.

My latest […]

2019-08-05T09:06:27+02:00August 5th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Patrick Finegan: Author of Cooperative Lives

Patrick Finegan Patrick Finegan was born during the latter half of the Eisenhower Administration and graduated during the Carter and Reagan Administrations from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Law School and Graduate School of Business. He worked more than thirty years in law, corporate finance, management consulting and risk management. He has a wife and grown daughter and has lived in the New York metropolitan area his entire professional life – most of it in the same residential cooperative. Cooperative Lives is his first work of fiction.

Tell us about your book.

Cooperative Lives centers on two middle-aged, multi-racial Manhattan […]

2019-07-19T10:26:55+02:00July 19th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Howard E. Carson: Co-Author of All The Big Ones Are Dead

Howard E. CarsonHoward E. Carson was born in Winnipeg, Canada and followed a path that took him through careers in music, theatre, education and research. For over thirty years he has been a writer, investigative research specialist and book editor living in Toronto. His extensive travels in Europe, the U.S. and Canada provide the perspective and the wonderful backdrops for much of his research and writing.

Tell us about your book.

All The Big Ones Are Dead is a spy thriller. The trade in illegal elephant ivory and rhino horn is the tip of an iceberg made of money used to finance […]

2019-06-24T07:04:48+02:00June 24th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Martin Lastrapes: Author of Dolph the Unicorn Killer & Other Stories, Winner of the 2018 SPR Book Awards

Martin LastrapesMartin Lastrapes is a bestselling and award-winning novelist. He is also the host of “The Martin Lastrapes Show Podcast Hour.” He studied at Cal State San Bernardino, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in Composition. It’s his life goal to never be punched in the face.

Tell us about your book.

Dolph the Unicorn Killer & Other Stories is a gloriously vulgar, gut-punching, giddy-inducing collection of interconnected horror, fantasy, comedy, and literary stories that weaves together an eclectic tapestry of characters who are bonded by themes of loneliness, revenge, friendship, and sex. It’s vampires, […]

2019-06-20T12:31:28+02:00June 18th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Marjory Kaptanoglu: Author of Dreadmarrow Thief, Silver Winner in the 2018 SPR Book Awards

Marjory KaptanogluMarjory Kaptanoglu is an award-winning screenwriter and novelist. Many of her short screenplays have been produced and premiered at international film festivals. She has optioned several feature scripts, and was hired to pen the adaptation of Christopher Bram’s novel, Gossip. She is a two-time Academy Nicholl Fellowships Quarterfinalist, a Top Ten Finalist for the Hearst Screenwriting Grant, and winner of a Writer’s Boot Camp Fellowship.

Marjory indie-published her first novel, Dreadmarrow Thief (YA fantasy), in 2017. It debuted to highly favorable reviews from Kirkus and The Midwest Book Reviews, and won The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Bronze Medal, and […]

2019-06-20T12:21:06+02:00June 17th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Camden Mays: Author of Shattered Shield

Camden Mays is the author of the Cameron Cole thriller series. He finds the most fascinating stories to be those where an everyday person is placed in extraordinary circumstances and rises to the challenge. He loves aviation, football, and good music – just don’t ask him to dance.

Tell us about your book.

It’s the story of a disillusioned CIA officer contemplating his future as he gets swept up working to stop terrorists’ attacks with the help of an interagency team. Along the way he falls for the FBI liaison agent. However, as the team pursues their enemy, they come […]

2019-06-04T03:27:49+02:00May 31st, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Sheldon Charles: Author of Blood Upon the Sands

Sheldon CharlesSheldon Charles is a decorated Air Force veteran, whose career has taken him around the globe, and given his writing a unique international flair. He is the author of Three Paperclips & a Grey Scarf, Blood Upon the Sands and From Within the Firebird’s Nest. His last book (From Within the Firebird’s Nest, the third book in the Evan Davis Trilogy) held the Number One Bestseller spot on Amazon for Russian Historical Fiction, and was in the Top Ten for War Fiction, for 2018. Sheldon currently resides in Michigan, where he is a member of Michigan […]

2019-05-29T12:45:44+02:00May 29th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Ottavio Lepore: Author of The Fractured Mind

Ottavio LeporeBorn in Mola di Bari, Italy, Ottavio moved to America with his family in 1996 and now resides in New York. Ottavio has had a passion for writing from a young age which he developed from his love of reading books. Ottavio published his first novel The Fractured Mind in 2019.

Why did you want to write a book?

I began writing as a child, I fell in love with the construction of stories and different worlds which could be anything I wanted. Once I had my plot in mind i wrote and passed it to some friends who gave […]

2019-05-17T09:41:16+02:00May 17th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|
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