Interviews

David J. Naiman writes magical realism for children under his own name and humorous medical fiction for adults under his pen name, David Z Hirsch. He lives in Maryland with his wife and two sons.

Tell us about your book.

Jake, Lucid Dreamer is the story of a 12-year-old boy who has never fully dealt with his grief after the loss of his mother four years earlier. Life has moved on but he is still damaged and angry in ways he can’t control and often scare him.

When he becomes a lucid dreamer, he looks to his dreams as a […]

After completing a master’s degree in biostatistics, and working as a statistician, Jennifer realized she was hiding behind numbers and formulas instead of creating something wholly new. Now, in writing, she has found an outward expression for her passion for the themes of philosophy, mythology, and ancient esoteric traditions that she weaves into her writing, and she loves working with the magic of words and language.

Why did you want to write a book?

Originally, I wanted to share with others what I was experiencing in terms of powerful inner transformation and transcendence. And I did end up doing exactly […]

Richard Smith’s motto is: Never give up; it can happen. And his first book, Time Trap, and now The Darziods’ Stone is proof of that.

Born in London, the youngest of three children, Richard has loved writing stories since he was 10; and regularly got top marks for his essays at school – where his favourite subject was English. After leaving school, he worked in a succession of dead-end jobs. None brought him as much satisfaction as writing – which he kept up, with his mother’s constant encouragement. Richard credits her father, a taxi driver, who enjoyed writing as […]

Dale Cox grew up living in several places around the country while his father served in the United States Air Force. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in Food Science at Brigham Young University and lived for two years in Mexico while serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

He has worked over 23 years in the food industry, primarily in new product development and process improvement. Together with his wife, LeAnne, and others, he has run several businesses, including various real estate investment ventures, mobile home park ownership and operation, and land development.

He […]

I’ve been writing and creating for most of my life. I’ve done stand-up comedy, written screenplays and television episodes across various genres.

Tell us about your book.

Footsteps in the Dark is a collection of eight supernatural/horror short stories with a Twilight Zone flavor that highlight the eternal struggle between good and evil, brought on by the human condition and the lengths people go to satisfy their desires.

Why did you want to write a book?

I wanted to bring to life ideas that were best shown through the pages of a book.

Why did you choose to self-publish?

Considering […]

R. Lawson is a retired vascular surgeon and Professor of Surgery who served as a Captain in the United States Air Force. With over 120 academic works published, he moved into fiction genre writing thrillers with a focus on terrorism, cyber spying and more. However, RECALL is written in a different genre, a fictional historical narrative.

Tell us about your book.

RECALL, a fictional historical narrative, tells the story through the impressions of four young men who played on a championship high school football team in the Fifties and end up in different capacities in Vietnam a decade later. […]

Jan Ewing grew up as a good boy in Southern California. That went on for far too long, until one day, with little warning, he sat down and wrote a string of very dirty books that are today considered—beyond all understanding—to have been influential during the upheaval leading to the Stonewall riots. Jan lost track of them until 2005, when he learned that eBay was selling those long-forgotten epics for ridiculous sums, in most cases more than he was paid for writing them. At that point, he decided to become an author.

Jan has been a working musician, a Navy […]

Mr. Chism had a whole other career in registered nursing, but now he writes short stories about women protagonists. He holds two bachelors degrees, one in English, and one in registered professional nursing. He lives on the west coast of Florida and loves to cook, garden in pots, and ride his bicycle around the trendy warehouse district looking at murals.

Tell us about your book.

Mnemosyne’s Daughters is a book of short stories about women protagonists. They explore issues like glass ceilings, trafficking, outdated social mores, patriarchy, unfaithful lovers, and assault. Several were inspired by ancient myths. I took the […]