Interviews

Nooshie Motaref, author, storyteller, and biographer, has gone through many challenging life experiences unlike many women from the Middle East. She grew up in Persia, and studies in four countries – Iran, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. She received her masters and doctorate degrees in American Literature and folklore from Florida State University. Her dissertation is a proof of Carl Jung’s theory, the “Collective Unconscious,” through Persian fairytales and folktales. She is the author of Land of Roses and Nightingales, and award-winning novel, Tapestries of the Heart, which is a precursor to Bird of Passage.

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Beth Hersant holds a Masters Degree in English Literature and has worked as a poet, essayist, playwright, and author. Her first novel, Good Neighbours, received worldwide critical acclaim. She lives in Norfolk, England with her husband and children, two labradors, and a cat who believes he’s a ninja.

Tell us about your book.

It began, as big events often do, with small things – a little girl, a little dog, a microscopic virus that leads to a tragedy no one should ever have to face. Having lost his daughter to rabies, Dr. Aaron Pickman tries to derive some meaning […]

Isaiah “Jay” Green is a writer from Monroe, Louisiana. He has been writing stories and poetry since the age of twelve and has produced three books of poetry at the time of this interview. Jay currently resides in San Antonio, TX.

Tell us about your book.

Milieu acts as social commentary on our current American culture and political discourse in the form of poetry.

Why did you want to write a book?

I wanted to write this book to “voice my opinion” in a sense. After becoming more aware of the current events I was seeing on the news, internet, […]

Mark Howard is a newly published fantasy author. He studied medieval and ancient history at the graduate level, and his short story, “The Joust,” won an honorable mention at the Writers of the Future Contest.

Tell us about your book.

Godfrey’s Crusade is the fantasy novel I always wanted to read. I wanted to get certain things right about medieval battle tactics, the lord-vassal relationship, feudalism, and crusading that most other fantasy writers I’ve read didn’t seem overly concerned about. Many aspiring fantasy writers I’ve talked with appear content to dress up twenty-first-century issues in chrome breastplates and wizard robes, […]

Ian Conrey is both a teacher and student of history and theology, who actively fights against human trafficking and is working toward an M.A. in Religion. In his free time, he enjoys reading biographies and ancient mythology, discovering early American folk songs, and exploring the Cohutta Wilderness. He lives with his wife and three children in the North Georgia mountains.

Tell us about your book.

Without restating the blurb, I’ll simply say that Hælend’s Ballad is a story about what happens when the world around us falls apart. Several MC’s have to rethink their purpose when they realize that their […]

Lance Lee’s poetry is published widely in American and English journals. Elemental Natures (2020), his seventh poetry book, includes a selection of work spanning more than thirty years of poetry, art, and essay. Seasons of Defiance (2010), placed as a finalist in the 8th National USA Book Awards. Orpheus Rising (2021) is the first of a series of children’s works he has planned for the near future.

He has also published The Death and Life of Drama and A Poetics for Screenwriters, plus plays and a novel, Second Chances. A past Creative Writing Fellow of the National Endowment […]

Dieter Gartelmann had moved to Australia from Germany in 1953, and straight off to high school, learning English and the ways of the new country. The full lifecycle of a migrant escaping from the past, marriage, and four great children. After a 45-year IT career followed by a postgraduate study in cybersecurity, he now lives alone, with a new interest in writing. This is his second book.

Tell us about your book.

The book Pandemic is about the pandemic in the US. The first part is the history of how Trump handled the pandemic, described as dialogue between fictional families […]

David Franklin was born in Brockton, MA in 1932, studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Vermont before transferring to New York University to study Physics. He received his undergraduate degree in physics, continued graduate studies in physics and electronics at night school while working at the Naval Applied Science Laboratory in Brooklyn, NY. He continued to work at that facility for the next eleven years as a physicist/engineer. He then transferred to MIT where he began his work in sensory substitution (funded by Naval Research Laboratories) that was to occupy him for the next 30 years. In 1982 […]