Interviews

Valentyn Bannikov is an established Technical Program & Project Management Professional and Scrum Master. He possesses highly valued and widely recognized industry certifications, including PMP, CSM, and ICP-APM. With over ten years of diverse technical and professional experience, Valentyn has worked across multiple industries.

His background includes involvement in both governmental and private construction projects in Latin America and Europe. He has successfully assembled and led teams to carry out extensive client projects within the IT sector, encompassing FinTech, EdTech, ecommerce, and travel domains. Valentyn, who was born and raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine, now resides in the heart of America, […]

Tamara Smith was raised in Virginia, where she resided until moving to British Columbia, Canada in her adult years. Her father was American and her mother is Canadian. Tamara has dual citizenship along with her two sisters. In her eyes, she had the best of both worlds as they lived in the States during the school year and traveled as a family to Canada during the summers. Currently, Tamara is Payroll Manager at a reputable company in BC, Canada.

In 2021 during Covid, Tamara had her second child and was on maternity leave when she had a dream that her […]

Ten-year-old Dave Tabler decided he was going to read the “R” volume from the family’s World Book Encyclopedia set over summer vacation. He never made it from beginning to end. He did, however, become interested in Norman Rockwell, rare-earth elements, and “Run for the Roses.”

Tabler’s father encouraged him to try his hand at taking pictures with the family camera. With visions of Rockwell dancing in his head, Tabler press-ganged his younger brother into wearing a straw hat and sitting next to a stream barefoot with a homemade fishing pole in his hand. The resulting image was terrible.

Dave Tabler […]

Susan Diane Black Blackmon is a genealogist turned Historical Fiction writer. After publishing several volumes of family history, her older sister nudged her into writing a story based on some of the family stories she had collected. The result was Emma, the first in the Heritage Series. While Emma was still in the proofing stage, Blackmon began work on Celey, the second in the series. Each of her books is a stand-alone work, so there’s no set reading order.

When she isn’t writing, she works as an Income Tax preparer. In the off-season, she teaches a genealogy […]

Sebastien Taveau is a puzzle solver and beyond-the-horizon watcher.

Seb’s technical and professional experience spans over 25 years in various industries. He has shaped ecosystems and products around FinTech, mobile payment, mobile security, mobile identity, and consumer solutions even when he was told it was impossible.

He has provided expert opinions for and has been quoted in the WSJ, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Reuters, Mashable, USA Today, CNN, CBC, Forbes, Dark Reading, Digital Transactions, Newsweek, etc. on topics ranging from mobile payments to mobile identity, and consumer biometrics and […]

Manson loves and hates everyone equitably. Though she’ll read just about anything, she enjoys weird shit like Hunter S. Thompson. She also likes crime fiction, the occult, horror, transgressive, science fiction, and dark fantasy.

Anthony Perconti lives and works in the hinterlands of New Jersey with his wife and kids. He enjoys well-crafted and engaging stories from across a variety of genres and mediums. His articles have appeared in several online venues as well as some indie press magazines such as Three Crows Magazine, Grimdark Magazine, Dark Matter Magazine, and Pulp Modern. He can be found […]

Born and raised in the west suburbs of Chicago, D.M. Wozniak discovered his passion for software at St. Lawrence High School, where he joined the computer lab as a ploy to get out of gym class. By the time he graduated in 1993, D.M. knew that he wanted to code for a living. But his senior year honors English teacher took him aside on graduation day and said, “Never stop writing. It’s your true calling.”

Four years later, D.M. graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering. After that, […]

Edmond Joseph “E.J.” Wedge is a resident of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and lives with his wife, Tina. Both of them have a shared love of the ocean and traveling.

Why did you choose to self-publish?

Book publishing is suffering from the same thing as television and movies. Everything is “bundled” at the executive level to drive maximum profitability and appeal to major investors, e.g. massive hedge funds. Everyone wants the biggest payout; advancing a company, let alone a huge one, by small steps, is very unfashionable right now.

I believe that’s wrong-headed, and so I’d rather strike out my own […]