Interviews

Lance Olsen is the author of the Sharky Marky and The Big Race(2014), Sharky Marky and the Scavenger Hunt: An Alphabetic Adventure (2015), and Sharky Marky and the Supermarket Sweep (2017).

Early in his career Lance found himself in Hollywood where he would go on to executive produce two feature films: King Cobra (1999) and Pinata Survival Island (2002). After his brief stint in LA, he decided to move back to New Orleans and pursue a career in the arts.  Lance resumed a writing career while at the same time taking classes in video-editing and graphic design.

Though Jerome “Jay” Isip now enjoys the success of being a professional MMA fighter, entrepreneur, and author, he is no stranger to the feelings of self-doubt, depression, and lack of direction that many people – young and old, male and female – struggle with at one point or another in life.

I am a nobody who became a somebody to nobody but myself. All in all—I’m just another washed up Mixed Martial Arts fighter that was addicted to drugs and alcohol and decided to make a change in my life.

My daily regimen is always up for grabs where I […]

After spending over a decade in Corporate America, Terrance J. Pinckney decided to pursue his literary passion after being laid off. Having published his second book along with his recent enrollment into Seminary, Terrance seeks to write stories that have a spiritual message which he hopes to share with readers.

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

The Trial of Garrett Palmer is about a man whose soul is on trial.  It is about how the choices we make affect those around us.  The main character, Garrett Palmer, is born into a circumstance which leads him […]

When she isn’t writing, E.P. Clark teaches Russian at Wake Forest University.  “The Midnight Land” is her first full-length novel, but unlikely to be her last.

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

To pare it down to its essence, The Midnight Land is about a woman who has to figure out how to reconcile the demands of leadership and mercy.  She’s basically empathic, so she’s constantly aware of the suffering of others around her, and also how stopping one person’s suffering might cause someone else to suffer.  She has to figure out how to stand […]

Nikki lives in the magnificent Pacific Northwest in the USA with her husband, two horses, two cats, and one slightly crazy dog. She feeds her imagination by sitting on the ocean in her kayak gazing out across the never-ending water or hanging from a rope in a cave, embraced by darkness and the sound of dripping water.

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

Dissident is about Indigo, a young woman whose father was put to death for treason. She is stuck in an abusive engagement and must hide most of her extraordinary ascard power from […]

Jack Dancer is a Southerner born and bred living in Southern California with his beautiful wife Linda; Lucy Mae a designer dog of infinite breeding and dubious appearance and Cleo the aptly named cat. Two horses, “Prince” Riki and Dusty “Butthead,” also fittingly named, round out the Dancer troupe.

After twenty-five years as an advertising executive and business owner Dancer retired to take up the writer’s life and shake up the female-dominated romance genre with fast-paced action-packed thrillers with large doses of comedy written from a man’s perspective.

Nearly all romance novels are written by women authors for women readers, […]

Cindy Irish is from Michigan. She used to write radio commercials. She still voices commercials, but now writes fiction, which she says, “is the same as making up stuff about businesses—except romance is sexier.”

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

The Song That Seduced Paris is about a famous singer from France who joins an international pop opera singing group called Bel Homme. That’s French for “beautiful man,” which he certainly is. At the first meeting between all four men, he also meets the heroine, an American ex-music teacher who’s been hired to manage the […]