Interviews

Rich Leder has been a working writer for more than three decades. His credits include 19 produced movies—television films for CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark and feature films for Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Longridge Productions, and Left Bank Films—and six novels for Laugh Riot Press.

He’s been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a wedding consultant, a PTA board member, a commercial real estate agent, and a visiting artist for the UNCW Film Studies Department, among other things, all […]

Mharlyn Merritt has an MFA in Creative Writing, with a concentration in Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she served as an editorial fiction reader for The Literary Review. Mharlyn’s interests include the intertextuality between literature and film (especially Classic Hollywood cinema/Film Noir) and its impact on contemporary culture. Mharlyn is also a renowned Jazz vocalist and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Jazz Performance. She lives and writes in her hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Tell us about your book.

The Actor is a homage to Classic Hollywood with a nod to film noir and screwball comedies. It’s also a […]

T. K. Wolf is a former Army brat who now lives in Green Camp, Ohio. In addition to trips to the gun range and local bookshop, he enjoys spending time with his Golden Retriever and German Shepherd, Charlotte and Artemis. Fatal Decision is his debut novel.

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Fatal Decision is a thriller and suspense novel with a strong female protagonist at the helm. Sam Harker is a ruthless assassin with a unique motivation which makes her instantly sympathetic to a vast majority of readers, both male and female. While my plot line is perhaps not entirely […]

My real name is Linda Yoshida but I write under the pen name of Kaylin McFarren — my grandmother’s name, a writer who was never published.

Kaylin McFarren has received 50 national literary awards, in addition to a prestigious RWA Golden Heart Award nomination for Flaherty’s Crossing – a book she and her oldest daughter, New York Times/USA Today best-selling author Kristina McMorris, co-wrote in 2008.

Prior to embarking on her writing journey and developing the popular Threads psychological thriller series, she poured her passion for creativity into her work as the director of a fine art gallery in the […]

Amanda Dodson Gremillion was born in Anniston, Al. She now lives in Calera, AL with her husband and high school sweetheart, Jay, their daughter, Aubrie and their two dogs Honey Girl and Cooper. Amanda graduated from Auburn University in 2003 with a Business/Marketing degree and has since worked mainly in Human Resources and Payroll after working in Inside Sales for a short time. She is now a preschool teacher.

She published her first book in 2012 about her personal experience with severe postpartum OCD, Anxiety and depression. In 2020, she had the book professionally edited and she republished it under […]

Dan Hendrickson was born in Sheridan Wyoming near the rustic Big Horn mountain range in 1962 to Carl and Helen Hendrickson. Dan went to school in the Sheridan School District graduating from Sheridan High School in 1981. He spent his athletic time participating in boxing, martial arts, wrestling and a little track.

His father Carl owned a small eight lane bowling alley that he ran until Dan was 12 years old. After losing the business to the bank he was forced to go back to school and finish his masters in English. Dan picked up on his father’s love of […]

Everett Watson is a master electrician, and HVAC/R technician that just graduated from Ashworth College in 2020. He also graduated from Electronics Technology Institute in 1990. He graduated from California paramedical institute in 1984. He never stops studying subject matter related to his field. He is a musician and writer. As a professional he tries to satisfy the needs of his employer or client. He collects antiques and art. The industrial aspects of his field involve motor controls and computer programming. He is on the computer studying different programing software and programs (which he uses as a tool) on a […]

Tim Darcy Ellis (BA BSc, MHSc) is a writer and physiotherapy-business owner. He was formerly a professional archaeologist. Tim’s critically acclaimed debut, The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives is a fast-paced and meticulously researched historical fiction novel. Tim is passionate about bringing his love of history, archaeology and philosophy together: and to express it by writing great fiction.

Tim majored in Medieval Archaeology at the University of York (1988), and he worked for both the Museum of London and the British Museum the 1990s. He re-qualified as a physiotherapist at the University of East London (1998). He then moved […]