Interviews

Bob Ashley is a herpetologist, serial entrepreneur, and museum director. He has a lifelong passion for reptiles and amphibians, beginning with a childhood fascination with the local turtles and snakes in his home state of Michigan. He’s turned that passion into a multifaceted career with a theme of advocacy and education. Bob founded ECO Wear and Publishing nearly thirty years ago, a company that offers natural-world-themed apparel, art, and books. He’s published more than 40 books on reptiles and amphibian natural history.

Bob is also co-founder of the North American Reptile Breeders Conference and Trade Shows with partner Brian Potter […]

Anthony Lee has a unique background in medicine. After graduating from medical school, he switched from clinical medicine to health technology assessment, analyzing new medical tests and treatments in a career spanning over 15 years.

As a writer, he found inspiration in a variety of literary works, both contemporary and classic. He has especially discovered the excitement of thriller novels, including medical thrillers by authors like Robin Cook and Tess Gerritsen, crime fiction by Michael Connelly, and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. After years of brainstorming his own story ideas, he finally wrote and self-published his first medical thriller novel, […]

Sam Torode creates books that entertain, inform, and inspire. He’s the author of a bestselling humorous novel, The Dirty Parts of the Bible – now a graphic novel – and paraphrase editions of classic wisdom books from philosophers like Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, including Living from the Soul, Secrets of the Mind, The Manual, and The Meditations. 

Tell us about your book.

It’s a rollicking adventure across Depression-era America. Tobias Henry, a Baptist preacher’s son, must travel from Michigan to Texas to recover a long-lost stash of money.

Why did you want […]

James McKenna is retired, living in southern Minnesota, and feels it is important for a person to keep active. That being said, he is an author whose style of writing is keenly reminiscent of that style made popular in the 19th century.

Tell us about your book.

My book is a tale about a young 19th century attorney who receives a strange birthday present from a family friend, Edgar Allan Poe, who convinces him to defend a woman and her two grown children who have been arrested for practicing witchcraft. The trial is to be held in an old Puritan […]

E.K. Larson-Burnett is a born-and-raised Southerner currently living in Katy, Texas, with her husband and their small domestic zoo. She is an avid ink drinker who lives and breathes books – during the day, she works remotely with authors around the world, honing and perfecting books published through Atmosphere Press. By night, she crafts her own stories…or at least tries to. The Bear & the Rose is her debut novel.

Why did you choose to self-publish?

I am a bona fide control freak, especially when it comes to things for which I have an extensive vision – I have a […]

H.S. Gilchrist is the debut author of The End of the World (first book in The Primordial Engine series), former Anthropology major turned data analyst. Nurturing a young nerd. Writing the adventures she dreams of.

Tell us about your book.

Broken Earth, dystopian future, an alien god bent on world destruction, and two badass chicks just trying to survive.

Why did you want to write a book?

It’s less a choice and more of a compulsion. I wake up and go to sleep with all these stories in my head and if I don’t write them down my head’s likely […]

Dave Garrett is a 1966 Ursinus College Graduate, majoring in Chemistry. He served in the United States Marine Corps as a Combat Engineer Officer with the West Pac Ground Forces, 1967-1968, and from 1970–1994 as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Primary duties involved Foreign Counterintelligence Matters – Soviet Union in the New York, Newark Field Offices and FBI Headquarters as a Supervisor of Foreign Counter Intelligence Operations. Following retirement, he formed his own Private Investigations Firm.

He studied the Russian Language at the Defense Language Institute, and figure sculpture and bronze casting techniques at the New […]

Growing up loving horror and mystery tales, JC Bratton writes short stories that pay homage to the Point Horror novels she would read as a kid: stories such as Slumber Party by Christopher Pike and Twisted by RL Stine. Some of her biggest influences are Alfred Hitchcock, Lois Duncan, Stephen King, and Richard Matheson. She lives in San Jose, California with her husband, stepsons, and cats.

Tell us about your book.

JC Bratton’s Things That Go Bump in the Night, Volume One (Urban Legends) is a series of 4 campfire-like short stories that are fast and quicken the pulse. They […]