Interviews with indie authors, publishers and book service providers in the self-publishing realm
Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
This book, Identifying And Overcoming Fear So That You Can Get The Job You Have Always […]
is a frequently humorous story about a young woman who experienced trauma in her childhood and is having trouble as she enters adult life, but who finds healing by diving into books — actually entering books. The experience of living inside a spy novel, a thriller, a romance, a Western, and so forth, becomes real. It’s told in the styles of the different genres she enters. Although I use genre tropes as a source of humor the goal is not satire. She only enters books she likes. The story […]
Book one, Birth of an Assassin. The setting is the backdrop of the Soviet Union. Corruption in military ranks has filtered down to street level and naive young women are being tricked into leaving Russia.
Book two, The Turkish Connection. This novel reveals the story of the gangs who are getting the girls ready for prostitution before selling them on. The Man in the Blue Fez has the protagonists of the first two novels joining forces in an
attempt to get to the core of the corruption […]
Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
Night Shade is the first book in the Dreamweaver trilogy. Essentially, it follows a young woman called Zoe who suffers from agoraphobia and is terrified from both going outside and having strangers visit her home. When a tragedy happens right on her very doorstep, however, something inside her is unlocked and she realises she doesn’t need to leave her home – simply by falling asleep she can enter the Dream Lands, a strange place where it seems almost anything can happen. The first person she encounters there is a […]
Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
You always read teen novels or watch movies where the shy underdog of a girl becomes popular and in the end “gets the guy” and then allegedly has everything and lives “happily ever after” – and the popular girl is often just the mean girl. I thought it would be fun to turn it around and write a book from the most popular girl’s point of view and her struggles in life as popularity in real life is far from a “happily ever after scenario”. To my mind, the […]
When Scott and I first met, we each still had children in our houses and 9-5 jobs. We had baseball and soccer and football and ballet classes and music lessons to chauffeur children to and from. So when we decided to try writing a novel together, we had one evening a week together that usually started around 7pm and ended at 11pm – If we were lucky. For those of you who have ever tried to follow a dream and been in this same position, you know, it makes for very slow going. That first novel, a military espionage, was […]
Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
Insane-O-Tron is a collection of six short stories that take the reader into an absurd and surreal world of talking haircuts, time travel, earwigs, drunk-hunting, R rated family television, and that’s just the start. This book is like riding a roller coaster in the dark without a safety harness. You will never guess the next twist, turn or moment you’ll be flung from the ride into the unknown.
How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?
I made a feeble attempt to get traditionally […]
Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
Dr. Lindsey McCall, former inmate at Huntsville and now Medical […]