Interviews

Tell us something about your book. What is it about?

The Lord of Salamander is the coming-of-age story of Elijah Pendleton, a boy with no past. For as long as he can remember, he’s lived under the control of his abusive aunts in a small rural town where everything is deeply ordinary, until one day when his short life changes forever.

It’ll be a strange incident involving a cat and mysterious oak tree, that will put Elijah on the path of discovering his true identity, and begin the greatest journey into the heart of the unknown; through a world of […]

Mark Lingane is a commercial writer specializing in reports, enabling him to travel the world. He is also a Sci-Fi writer, with his latest Noir mash-up Sucker a #1 Best Seller on Amazon.

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

Well, it’s about this guy, see, who thinks he just this average joe, a good looking PI who barely gets by from case to case. One day he gets a call about a missing person from a bombshell of a dame. They meet, but he only sees trouble so he declines the case. After that everything […]

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

The story behind The Sundry Worlds of Fiona is that it started out to be a film! I’ve always had a huge interest in movies and theatre and performers—love ’em. As an undergrad at LSU, I took almost every film studies course available. I studied film production briefly at Memphis State. I had been wanting to experiment with animation, so I started out trying to create Fiona as both a novel and a film.

To avoid the tedious and time-consuming manipulations of the characters, I tried to find objects […]

Ricardo Fayet and his business partner Emmanuel Nataf launched Reedsy, a curated network of book services for independent authors, in 2014.

SPR caught up with Ricardo for a chat about Reedsy and the exciting opportunites the site offers for self-publishers.

Can you tell us what Reedsy is, in a nutshell?
Reedsy is a curated network of top publishing professionals. We have created a beautiful place for editors, designers, and soon publicists to have an exhaustive profile and showcase their activity and portfolio. Authors can browse this network to find their perfect publishing professionals according to their genre and personal requirements.[…]

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

It starts out as something pretty simple: there’s a country, Al’Bora, trying to apprehend a rogue mage/pirate, the Ocean Spinner, who’s able to control water. A young knight named Sitor and a handful of companions (companions obtained through all sorts of shenanigans) are tasked with hunting him down. But the closer they get, the more complicated the group becomes: everyone has a different reason for wanting him dead, they’re all keeping secrets, and betrayal seems inevitable. What was once a rather straightforward quest ends up devolving into a desperate […]

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T.B. Markinson – Senior Reviewer at SPR

Lives: London, UK
Occupation: Writer and Reviewer

T. B. Markinson is an American writer, living in England. When she isn’t writing, she’s traveling the world, watching sports on the telly, visiting pubs in England, or taking the dog for a walk. Not necessarily in that order. T. B. has published A Woman Lost, Marionette, Confessions From A Coffee Shop, and Claudia Must Die. [/box] Hello SPR fans and visitors! My name is T. B. Markinson and I’ve been reviewing books on SPR since 2012. Partnering with SPR […]

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

THIS BOOK BELONGS TO is an action-adventure story for kids aged 7-12, and tells the story of a nine-year-old girl named Amy, who finds a magical sketchbook within the ruins of her old house and finds that whatever she draws inside it will come to life. This starts well, but Amy’s imagination gets the better of her and what starts off as harmless fun then becomes a national emergency as her drawings become more ambitious in scale. And that’s when the army show up…

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