Featured Interview With Mitch Maiman

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently live in Long Island. I am a tennis enthusiast and active practitioner of Yoga. I became a physician at the age of twenty-four and am now retired. My lifelong experience in medicine has given me the keen insight to portray the realistic issues plaguing young physicians depicted in this book.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I became fascinated with books as a teenager, using them to escape the conflicts of my own life and enter into the worlds created by the authors. It seems that I have been writing something or other forever, but only recently launched this, my first novel.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Robert James Waller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael Connelly. I love to read compelling novels and psychological thrillers, as well as historical fiction. I am inspired by Buddhist philosophy as well as all the people that I have loved in my life.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
“Every Third Night” is an eye-opening yet poignant novel set in a busy, dehumanizing and unyielding New York City residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1984. It brings the reader into the real world of medicine at a time of limited supervision and brutal duty hours, through the vantage points of young physicians enduring stressful conflicts and volatile relationships.
As the protagonist and his colleagues grapple with the overwhelming friction of their circumstances, the intertwined subplots collide and come crashing down when a haunting mishap leaves the program reeling and their lives forever transformed.

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Featured Interview With L.N. Hunter

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m an ex-software engineer who took far too long to realise that writing fiction for humans is much more satisfying than making up stuff for computers. I grew up in Ireland but now live in a disorganised home in rural Cambridgeshire, UK, along with two cats and a soulmate.

I’ve written a number of short stories, appearing in in places such as Short Édition’s ‘Short Circuit’ and the ‘Horrifying Tales of Wonder’ podcast, as well as in several anthologies, and ‘The Feather and the Lamp’ is my first novel. There have also been papers in the IEEE ‘Transactions on Neural Networks,’ which are probably somewhat less relevant and definitely less fun.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I guess something went ‘click’ when I found the fantasy and sci-fi shelves of my local library at age 11 or thereabouts. I was never very good at English at school, and it took a long time before I thought about transitioning from reading to writing. I’ve been writing short stories since about 2016, and started my novel in 2017.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams are at the top of my list. I lean towards sci-fi and fantasy, but the lightweight end of both: I’m more of a ‘The Hobbit’ person than ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ And I like a good dose of humour in the mix, ideally that odd sort of British humour that has its roots in Monty Python.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
‘The Feather and the Lamp’ is a comic fantasy in which Imperceptibility Happenstance is launched on a series of adventures by the malicious djinn in her lamp. Along the way, she has to deal with three-headed dogs, quantum dragons and underground monks, and that’s only the start.

It was probably about five years’ worth of evenings and weekends from start to finish, though I wasn’t working on the novel full time.

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Featured Interview With Sylvia Day

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Inglewood, California. We lived there for a bit before making our way down to Redondo Beach and eventually to Anaheim. After high school, I moved to St. George, Utah. I joined the Army and was subsequently stationed in Monterey, California. After I separated from the military, I settled in Oceanside and met my husband in Carlsbad. We moved to Murrieta to start our family, finally leaving California for good in 2013 when we transplanted to Las Vegas. We’re still here in Sin City now. Our household includes four dogs (a German Shepherd, a Shiba Inu, a Chihuahua mix, and a Maltipoo) and one cat (an American Shorthair).

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve been a reader for as long as I can remember. I asked my mother to buy me a book every time we went to the store. I was twelve when I decided to be a novelist. I still have boxes of my early stories and poems in storage. After my youngest child was born, I began pursuing publication. I sat down to write my first book at the tail end of 2003, and I made my first sale to a publisher in 2004. I’ve been writing for a living ever since.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love to read Nalini Singh, J.D. Robb, Patricia Briggs, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Shelby Reed, Linda Howard, and Julie Garwood. My favorite genre is romance, and my favorite stories are long-term series featuring the same couple. Those stories have established relationships, and the mystery becomes the primary focus. I’m inspired by alternatives; by that, I mean what I would do differently if I were telling a story or how I would write a character to respond differently to an event.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
In SO CLOSE, Kane Black has been grieving his late wife, Lily, for many years. One day, on the drive to work, he spots a woman identical to her and takes her home to his hostile and suspicious family. The story is told from the perspectives of the women and the majordomo, who is an objective observer. Lily’s point of view has shades of Rebecca, with a dissonance between the new and former Mrs. Blacks. Amy, Kane’s sister-in-law, has struggled to survive within the cutthroat family and doesn’t appreciate how easily Lily settles in. And Aliyah, Kane’s mother, has been the de facto queen since Kane was a widower. Now that Lily is back, Aliyah will not cede her place on the throne without a fight. These three women have been shaped by the events of their pasts and life within a family that is more dangerous than any external hazard they encounter. If Lily has truly returned, where has she been? If the woman Kane brought home isn’t Lily, who is she really and what does she want?

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