Interviews

Proud winner of the 5th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards in the “Holiday” category for Super Speed Sam – Santa’s Rescue Dog.

Tell us about yourself.

I began to observe that some of the natural interactions between family and friends are gradually eroding, if not already gone for some, and having been reminded of a C.S.Lewis quotation – “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest,” set out to create a fun and exciting series of children’s short stories, with lots of adventure and splashes of humor, all paced […]

Thomas Drago is the author of the Crow Creek series and teaches drama and English in North Carolina. He has published poems, song lyrics, and short stories, appearing most recently in The Explorer, a local literary magazine.

He’s a member of the Horror Writers Association. Family legends trace his ancestry to Vlad Dracula. Maybe. His favorite number is 29.

His new book Winter is out now.

Why did you choose to self-publish?

I sold the rights to an independent press that went out of business shortly after, so I figured I’d handle everything myself. Horror has a limited audience. I […]

William Allan had a career in newspapers that lasted nearly 30 years. From 1979 to 2008 he worked for The Leader-Post in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and retired in 2008.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

I tried to write the complete book for every first-time author. It covers how to organize your copyright page and all other pre-book pages. I address editing, cover design, page layout and tax issues.

I include an overview of the U.S. and Canadian book publishing industries and I offer advice to anyone thinking about print-on-demand publishing.

Most importantly, I offer […]

I have developed a new financial instrument which will be much more valuable than the bonds or the treasury bills government sells on the open market to raise much needed funds to run the country. These are all interest based instruments and can only be used by institutions. The instrument I am proposing is without interest and will be used by everyone to purchase goods and services in the government and private sector resulting in discounts up to 60%. This is why these will be massively bought up front in large amounts in the shortest period of time to run […]

Rebecca Brockway is a happily divorced, middle-aged gal who resides in paradise – Santa Barbara, CA – with the youngest of her four children. Rebecca is a champion multitasker. She writes, reads, runs lots of vertical steps for exercise, eats avocados and chocolate daily, parents her teenage son, and dodges the Mr. Wrongs of the world while in hot (tepid) pursuit of Mr. Right.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

I will begin by clarifying what my book – Miss Matched at Midlife – is not. It’s not a book of “bad dating stories.” Although […]

Award-winning writer, William Poe, earned a bachelor’s in art from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and a master’s in anthropology from the University of Nebraska. His novel, Simple Simon (ISBN:978-1477624999), is the winner in the 2016 IndieReader Discovery Awards LGBT Fiction category as well as a finalist in the Clarion ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award 2013 in Fiction Gay & Lesbian (Adult Fiction).

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

Simple Simon is the story of a gay man struggling with his identity while coming to terms with drug addiction and loss […]

Steve Mcnought talks about running Arkbound, an independent UK publisher helping disadvantaged writers get published and reviewed in book and magazine format.

Arkbound emerged in early 2015 as a small community publisher based in Bristol, UK, committed to providing a real alternative in the publishing world. Our slogan – ‘Building Futures, Bridging Divides’ – is based upon the idea of helping talented disadvantaged authors get published, whilst offering great value services to those who wish to self-publish.

Since being started we have managed to win customer service and environmental sustainability awards, as well as helping writers from deprived backgrounds develop […]