Interviews

Interviews with indie authors, publishers and book service providers in the self-publishing realm

Interview With Author Teneca Meeks

Teneca Meeks is the author of Cat Eyes, an original take on the science fiction subgenre of monster erotica.

Tell us about your book.
Cat Eyes is the first book in a series I intend to write. It introduces the reader to the leading lady Tia Calloway. It tells how Tia came to live with the equestrians and explains the crazy situation the equestrians are in. Cat Eyes is the start of the journey Tia will take not only to find herself but to find her place among the equestrians.

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

2014-05-31T13:30:46+02:00May 31st, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

Podcast with Joanna Penn

Check out this nice podcast with Joanna Penn from the guys at the Self-Publishing Podcast:

We started out by talking about speaking opportunities for writers (Sean and I want to get paid to speak), based around Joanna’s conveniently timed new book Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives, and Other Introverts, which you should go and pick up if you’re at all interested in speaking — whether you consider yourself an introvert or not.

(I’ve read it, so I can tell you it’s awesome. So go get it.)

Throughout the rest of the show, we talked about how to take ONE

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2014-06-27T15:13:58+02:00April 21st, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

Interview with SPR Awards Non-Fiction Winner Christine Osborne

Christine Osborne Winner SPR Awards Non-FictionSPR talks to author Christine Osborne, SPR Awards Winner for Non-Fiction about her book, Travels With My Hat.

Tell us about your winning entry to the SPR Awards.
Travels with My Hat is about my adventures and misadventures as a solo woman writer and photographer working in the Arab world.

How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?
I am a published author of fifteen non-fiction books and travel guides. I have always used my photos to illustrate my work, so having text without images in this new book was unthinkable. I tried a few […]

2014-05-06T11:14:03+02:00April 17th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: |

Interview with SPR Awards Shorts Winner Gerard Marconi

Gerard Marconi winner shorts SPRGerard Marconi, the winner of the Shorts category in the SPR Awards 2014, talks about his winning entry, ” Searching For Paradise and Other Stories”.

Tell us about your winning entry to the SPR Awards.
“Searching for Paradise” is a collection of short stories which I wrote over a period of six or seven years. Several of them were first published in literary journals or magazines. Because of my background in the arts, many are about famous artists or works of art. I tried to make some of them comic or edgy while others are more serious. I think there’s […]

2014-04-17T10:35:46+02:00April 16th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

Interview with SPR Awards Best Fiction Winner Martin Kee

 SPR Awards Fiction Prize Winner Martin Kee talks about his winning book BLOOM

Tell us about your winning entry to the SPR Awards.
BLOOM is a book about two people living in two equally dangerous worlds. Tennyson’s world is overcome by plague, Lil’it’s world is a menagerie of mutations and draconian information laws. Both stories parallel each other in ways the characters survive and try to find some meaning in their worlds. For Tennyson, it’s finding his childhood friend before the world ends, for Lil’it it is about self-preservation. I tell people that it’s a sort of Grimm’s Fairy Tale […]

2014-04-29T14:39:02+02:00April 15th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

Interview with bilingual author Karl Beckstrand

K BeckstrandKarl Beckstrand is a nine-time published author with 17 titles online (reviews by The Horn Book blog, School Library Journal, Midwest Book Review and ForeWord Reviews). Raised in San Jose, California, USA, he received a B.A. in journalism from BYU and an M.A. in international relations from APU. Since 2004 he has run a publishing company producing captivating stories, ads, and scripts.

 


She Doesn’t Want the Worms! Ella no quiere los gusanos: A Mystery (in English & Spanish)
is a very original story; where did you get the idea?
I just had this vision of a girl being offered […]

2014-05-08T10:46:46+02:00April 11th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

Interview with WaveCloud Co-Founder, Bill Van Orsdel

WaveCloud_logo_CMYKWaveCloud is a newish self-publishing company offering a variety of book publishing packages. We sat down with CMO and co-founder Bill Van Orsdel to find out a little more about the company.

Self-Publishing Review: What is WaveCloud and how long has it been online?

Bill Van Orsdel: WaveCloud provides editing, production and marketing services to authors that want help bringing a book to market. We don’t ask for any rights, and we don’t ask for a percentage. Our services are a la carte, and as we deliver the work, we also deliver all of the files to the […]

2014-02-11T17:01:03+02:00February 11th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: |

Self-Publishing with Integrity: An Interview with Dan Holloway

spi-cover-draft-10Dan Holloway is the author of the self-publishing manual, Self-Publish with Integrity, as well as the self-published novels, The Man Who Painted Agnieszka’s ShoesSongs from the Other Side of the Wall, and many others.

SPR: What is “Self-Publish with Integrity”? Is it more of a manifesto about self-publishing, as opposed to nuts and bolts info on how to self-publish?

Dan Holloway: I’ve written plenty of manifestos in my time, such as the retro-sensualist manifesto, but this isn’t one of them. It’s intended as a guidebook to help people steer a course through the […]

2014-02-22T12:56:48+02:00February 6th, 2014|Categories: Interviews, Lead Story|
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