Interviews

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

An Interview with David Franklin: Author of The Machinery of Gravity

David FranklinDavid 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 […]

2021-08-10T06:57:21+02:00August 10th, 2021|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Kyle Fox: Author of Grimdark

Kyle FoxKyle Fox is an American-born author, currently living in Southeast Asia. He has written several stories, under numerous genres, including Grimdark and its soon-to-be-released sequel Of Prophets and Pinioned Angels.

He publicly asked Stephen King to adopt him. Yet so far, sadly and surprisingly, has not received any birthday cards or baseball mitts from Bangor, Maine… What a jerk.

Why did you want to write a book?

A passion for Swords & Sorcery but also things of a more occult or hermetic nature. I have a reasonable ability to read esoteric texts. I’ve been learning for a few years […]

2021-08-10T07:22:39+02:00August 10th, 2021|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Roar Mikalsen: Author of Human Rising

Roar MikalsenRoar Mikalsen is the author of six books which are changing the world one at a time. His authorship covers a large area ranging from cosmology, mysticism, self-help, and consciousness research to power politics, human rights law, drug policy, constitutional interpretation, and social engineering. He is the founder of the Alliance for Rights-Oriented Drug Policies (AROD), an organization which addresses drug policy reform from a perspective of human rights, and a nominee of two prestigious human rights awards (Vaclav Havel and Martin Ennals).

A platform for his work is Life Liberty Productions, a publishing house and consulting agency dedicated to […]

2021-07-14T04:06:02+02:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Roar Mikalsen: Author of To Right a Wrong

Roar MikalsenRoar Mikalsen is the author of six books which are changing the world one at a time. His authorship covers a large area ranging from cosmology, mysticism, self-help, and consciousness research to power politics, human rights law, drug policy, constitutional interpretation, and social engineering. He is the founder of the Alliance for Rights-Oriented Drug Policies (AROD), an organization which addresses drug policy reform from a perspective of human rights, and a nominee of two prestigious human rights awards (Vaclav Havel and Martin Ennals).

A platform for his work is Life Liberty Productions, a publishing house and consulting agency dedicated to […]

2021-07-14T04:05:50+02:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Jimmie Martinez: Author of Summer of Haint Blue

Jimmie Martinez As a lifelong residence of New Orleans, Louisiana and metro area, Jimmie Martinez, at 76 years old, writes about the city he loves and the turbulent times he grew up in. Martinez is the author of four novels set in New Orleans: The Battle for New Orleans: The Casino Wars, Rigged, Righteous Road, which was awarded the Editor’s Choice from iUniverse, and Cajun Chameleon. The four-term Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, the quintessential Cajun, said Cajun Chameleon is “Masterfully written. Jimmie captures the true essence of life in the 60s in South Louisiana.”

Jimmie’s interest includes traveling, […]

2021-06-15T02:51:04+02:00June 15th, 2021|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Donna Dechen Birdwell: Author of Song of All Songs and Silver Winner in the 2020 SPR Book Awards

Donna Dechen BirdwellWhen Donna Dechen Birdwell was about ten years old, she became obsessed with the idea that if she was thinking with her brain, she ought to be able to think how it works! She’s been trying to wrap her mind around reality (and how humans experience it) ever since. After a brief stint as a newspaper reporter, she made a career out of anthropology – that utterly boundless science of humankind and how we got here – and then sidestepped into Buddhist philosophy and then art and photography and writing stories that tend to fall somewhere in the neighborhood of […]

2021-06-10T04:57:47+02:00June 10th, 2021|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Karen Hill Anton: Author of The View From Breast Pocket Mountain and Winner of the 2020 SPR Book Awards

Karen Hill Anton Karen Hill Anton wrote the column “Crossing Cultures” for The Japan Times for 15 years. She lectures widely on her experience of cross-cultural adaptation and raising four bilingual, bicultural children. Originally from New York City, she’s achieved second-degree mastery in Japanese calligraphy and has lived with her husband William Anton in rural Japan since 1975.

Tell us about your book.

The View From Breast Pocket Mountain, a memoir, tells my experience of crossing borders and cultures, creating a life, and finding contentment in a far-off country. It’s a story that gives a glimpse of a life not designed or […]

2021-06-10T04:51:40+02:00June 2nd, 2021|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Evan McMillan: Author of Raw Mind Volume 1: Growing Pains

Evan McMillanEvan McMillan is the author of Growing Pains, the first volume of his Raw Mind series. McMillan is a born-again Christian striving to grow, leaving his old self behind and finding balance in the life God has designed and desires for him. McMillan wishes to continue helping others in their struggles and pains as he himself searches for those elusive answers to the tough questions in life.

Tell us about your book.

Raw Mind, Volume 1, Growing Pains is in a collection of poetry comprised of chapters that are introduced and led by elements of prose with specific subjects […]

2021-06-08T10:33:30+02:00April 27th, 2021|Categories: Interviews|
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