Interviews | Self-Publishing Review

An Interview with Author G.E. Merritt

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

Chester Herman, Sheila Maddock, Jimmy Martin… three people born decades apart. Three people who all suffer from the same affliction. The migraine headaches that mysteriously started when they were all the same age. With the pain came a gift, a gift that only two percent of the world’s population possess. Once they awaken they are suddenly gifted with exceptionally high IQ. They soon discover that they have unlocked parts of their brains never accessed before and develop special “gifts”. Can they adapt to their new found powers or are […]

G. E. Merritt2015-03-31T01:02:02+02:00December 27th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Heather D. Wright

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

In this book, Living and Learning From the Healing Waters of Courage, you will find lessons that will both give you courage and heal your broken heart. There are inspirational messages and poems meant to encourage you and help you discover all that God would want you to be.

We all make mistakes in life, but God gives us the right path to embrace the healing waters of courage that will make us forever strong and able to overcome all the odds that try to make or break […]

Heather D. Wright2014-12-27T04:22:16+02:00December 27th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview With Author Pamela Cuming

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

Set in New York City and Los Angeles between August 1999 and November 2001, The Stranger Box is the story of a mother and a daughter caught like two white dwarf stars in separate orbits, destined to collide. Though she does everything in her considerable power to ensure the child never finds out who she is, the vain and self-obsessed Katherine Blair is unable to change the course of her destiny or evade Eden, the resourceful daughter whose pursuit is fueled by the desire for revenge and the determination

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Cate Baum2014-12-23T04:58:15+02:00December 23rd, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Author Joanna Penn [Audio]

Joanna Penn is a self-published New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who has sold over 100,000 books. I recently interviewed Joanna on my podcast, The Martin Lastrapes Show Podcast Hour, which you can listen to in its entirety by pressing the play button below:

A few of the topics Joanna and I covered:

How she quit her job and became a full-time author
Her diverse international background
The effect religion has had on her life and her writing
How important NaNoWriMo was for her first novel

Joanna’s website, The Creative Penn, was voted one of the Top […]

Martin Lastrapes2014-12-15T01:55:48+02:00December 15th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Author Donna Brown

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

Losing Heart is about a woman – Helen – with a serious, life-threatening heart condition who is lucky enough to receive a donor heart just as she feels time is about to run out. Grateful for her new lease of life, Helen feels compelled to reach out to the donor’s mother, Marian. Sadly, Marian is unable to let go of her daughter and becomes obsessive in her judgement of Helen, with tragic consequences for all involved.

How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?[…]

Donna Brown2014-11-26T03:30:12+02:00November 26th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

An Interview With Author Bella Woodfield

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

I wrote and illustrated “The Girl and the Moon” after a late winters walk in our local park with my daughter- then aged four- furiously scooting. As she scooted along she called out that she “wanted to catch that moon mammy!” I asked her what she would do if she caught it, and she replied that she would “eat it!”

The idea was such a simple one, straight from the mind of a four year old, and I couldn’t wait to pack her off to bed that night to […]

Bella Woodfield2014-11-25T06:45:37+02:00November 25th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Children's Book Reviews|

An Interview With Author Daniel P. Douglas

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

Truth Insurrected is a science fiction conspiracy thriller in which a former FBI agent, William Harrison, investigates a decades-old extraterrestrial cover-up, conducted by a secretive and deadly group known as the Saint Mary Project, while hired guns and an alien-human hybrid stand in his way of finding and revealing the truth.

How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

I actually wrote the book 20 years ago and, at that time, tried briefly to go the traditional route. There weren’t any initial takers and […]

Cate Baum2014-11-24T09:53:26+02:00November 24th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

An Interview with Author Staffan R.B. Nordqvist, M.D.

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

Choices is the story of my first 78 years on this earth, the first 35 in Sweden and the rest in America. My three sons were born in Sweden, but the five grandchildren here in America. To me, when older family members die, one great loss is the inability to ask them questions about how things were and how they happened in the past. I feel it will be of value for my grandchildren and future generations to at least have some answers about their heritage when I am […]

Cate Baum2014-11-24T05:35:43+02:00November 24th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|