Interviews

Bart Ringer was born in Compton, California where he lived until the age of five when his family moved to North Long Beach where he grew up. From as long back as he can remember, his family spent summer vacations visiting relatives who lived in small towns in Southeastern Idaho. It was from those experiences that he developed a love for small towns and the lifestyles that they offered. Early on he decided that if he could ever figure how to do it, he would like to live somewhere in a small Western town.

After graduation from Jordan High School, […]

Salar Ahmed Khan, MD, MBA, FACA, FCCP, DTCD, MCPS, worked as an internist and pulmonologist at Karachi, Pakistan, from 1985 to 1987; as the chief of medicine, the acting director of medical services, and acting hospital director at Al-Midhnab General Hospital under the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia from 1988 to 1993; as an associate professor of medicine at Baqai Medical College and Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, from 1993 to 1994; as a surgical assistant, material management, and acting central processing supervisor at Edgewater Medical Center in Chicago from 1996 to 2000.

From 2000 to 2009, he was research […]

Born in 1961, in northern Nigeria, of parents from south-western Nigeria, I spent my primary school years in Ibadan and secondary school was completed in the famous Dr. Tai Solarin’s Mayflower School, Ikenne. Both towns/cities are located in western Nigeria.

I discovered reading very early and was artistically inclined as well. I loved to draw and paint before I was attracted to writing. I started to write seriously from my late secondary school years. My passion is very strong for writing. I know a lot of my patients and friends will disagree because they think I have a natural love […]

O. Ryan Hussain is the new voice of comedic fiction and satire. The characters featured in his debut novel, The Outlandish and the Ego, are vibrant creations from a true genius. There is currently nobody better at blending truth, comedy and dirty fun.

Tell us about your book.

The Outlandish and the Ego is a comedy that is really about a few things—the absurdity of our political system, mental health, policing, and news and information being manipulated. It’s only through the wild mockery of those things that this book can claim to be comedic.

What do you think are […]

Eva A. MacDonnell just speaks for Eros, who is the real author.

Eros lives in the Wild of New Hampshire. Well, not exactly! He lives in a very small house with an elderly couple, minding another dog and a cat, while keeping guard on 20 acres of farmland, chasing deer and wild turkeys away daily. In this dog-world, he is the undisputed alpha-dog, literally.

When he is not transcribing his life story to Eva, Eros, now an accomplished philosopher, holds court with squirrels, raccoons, bears,cardinals, and bluebirds, whom come by his house to partake in his wisdom. In between these […]

Suzanne grew up in Richardson Texas with her sister and two brothers. She learned from her parents that everyone can make their dreams become reality, and that life is a combination of luck and skill. She began to dream big at a young age and feels extremely lucky in this life being the mom of four incredible children.

Immediately after graduating from high school, Suzanne was discovered and left for Paris to pursue her modeling career. She traveled around the world living in Tokyo and Milan, and then ultimately moving to London with her former husband. After eleven years in […]

William H. Coles is a literary fiction writer, winner of multiple awards including finalists The William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition, The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, among others. His fiction publications include five novels, collections of short fiction and three books on the writing of literary fiction stories.

To learn the art of writing fiction he studied in more than 100 courses and workshops with instruction from more than seventy-five authors, editors, and teachers and created storyinliteraryfiction, a website with resources for fiction writers, illustrators, and avid literary-fiction readers.

He was an ophthalmic surgeon specializing in ocular-injury repair and […]