Featured Interview With Joseph Lewis

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Born and raised in Wisconsin, I come from a large family with nine other siblings. My wife, Kim, and I adopted a son from Guatemala, but tragically, he was killed as he was walking down a sidewalk in Chicago, caught between one gang after another gang. We also have two daughters, Hannah, and Emily, and one grandson, Mason. Oh, and we have two rescue dogs, Stella and Daisy. We live in Virginia now, but still consider Wisconsin to be home.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
In sixth grade, my teacher had what she called ‘story starters’ which consisted of four or five paragraphs on a notecard. The idea was if we had extra time, we could pick up one of the cards and finish the story. Completely voluntary and no credit was given, but she did give tremendous feedback and that lit the fire. Fast forward to 1987 when I had my first short story, Dusty and Me, published, and then in 2014, my first book, Taking Lives, Prequel to the Lives Trilogy, was published. I am currently working on book #10, a sequel of sorts to Caught in a Web.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Typically, I read in the genre I write it- thriller-crime-mystery, so my favorite authors are James Patterson, John Sandford, David Baldacci, and C.J. Box. One reviewer wrote, “If you like James Patterson, you’ll love Joseph Lewis!” which is not only high praise, but humbling at the same time. I makes me want to improve with each book I write.

What sets me apart from the authors I mentioned is that because my background is education where I spent 48 years as a teacher, coach, counselor, and administrator, some of my main characters are adolescents. I have a strong coming-of-age thread in each of my books that my readers like.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Caught in a Web is not my latest, but because I’m currently working on a sequel of sorts, I will tell you about it. At the end of Web, a pact was made and a secret was developed to protect those involved. But you know a secret is only good if it is kept, and unfortunately, someone broke that trust and now lives are in danger. That is the basis for my newest (January 2025) book, Black Yé’ii (The Evil One).

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Featured Interview With Lindsey Lamh

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Lindsey Lamh has been crafting creative playscapes her whole life. Her love of reading fuels her passion for storytelling. As a child, she read every book in the house and devoured whole stacks of novels from the library, working through classic literature with the excitement of a budding philosopher. Her favorite school assignments were creative writing and essays.

Lindsey attended college in Chicago at Moody Bible Institute, where her educational course was redirected from Christian ministry to the broader, more practical focus of Biblical Studies.

She married her husband, Jeffrey, in 2013 and they now have six children and a perfectly Golden family dog named Radagast. They live in South Carolina and keep busy with homeschooling, Jeffrey’s entrepreneurship, and Lindsey’s society for Christian women.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Lindsey’s been mulling over her story ideas since high school, but didn’t sit down to write seriously until 2015. Jeffrey passionately supported Lindsey’s “hobby” of writing, begging her to “stop starting new projects and just finish something!” (a plea every author needs to hear at some point).

Despite his excellent advice, Lindsey didn’t complete a project until 2021. Around this time, she received a diagnosis for a condition which is so rare and unresearched, a treatment plan has yet to be established. Suffering through an invisible type of illness alienated Lindsey from many of her support systems, resulting in a season of depression.

While slogging through this dark time, writing became a distraction from the inescapable gloom. Lindsey pressed onward by putting words on a page, learning more about herself and mental health in the meantime. She recognized she was grieving; she mourned the losses caused by her condition, and she mourned the shattered ideologies which had given shape to her life before depression broke the mold.

In 2021, Lindsey Lamh completed the first draft of a fantasy romance novel which weighed in at 170k words and was only the first installment of a 3 or 4 book series. The original idea for the story came from an email chain she and Jeffrey wrote back and forth—Lindsey giving a paragraph or two of story, and then a few optional directions the story could take from there, and Jeffrey writing back with his choice. It was a fun exercise, and one of the many ways Jeffrey has supported Lindsey in her creativity and self-expression.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Lindsey’s favorite genres are historical fiction, Victorian fiction, fantasy, short stories, poetry, and literary fiction that doesn’t fit neatly into a genre.

Within those categories C.S. Lewis is her favorite author–he’s written plenty of fantasy, poetry, and literary fiction to satisfy her love of variety! Other inspirational others include Madeleine L’Engle, Alison Croggon, Laura E. Weymouth, Naomi Novik, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and Helena Sorensen.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
A portrait hangs in Linwood Manor, depicting the Bancroft family with their matching grey eyes and brown hair. Seven years ago, they were together in the spacious old house. Alive. Now…

Only Ambrose and Matilda Bancroft remain.

Ambrose Bancroft returns to London society with his younger sister, hoping they’ll leave ghosts of memory behind. They have only each other left. While Ambrose attempts to draw Mattie out, dragging her to balls and threatening to seek suitors for her, his sister recoils from his meddling. Finally, when Ambrose compels her to attend art class before she’s ready, Mattie paints something horrific enough to banish them from society in public disgrace.

At Linwood Manor, Mattie and Ambrose aren’t as alone as they think. Taking advantage of Mattie’s desperate need to find freedom, a vanishing room lures Ambrose’s sister into an illusory paradise. When Ambrose vows to get his sister back, by force if necessary, he finds himself up against an otherworldly power bent on her destruction and Mattie’s bitterness turned to hatred.

When Mattie commits the ultimate betrayal, Ambrose realizes he never stopped protecting her long enough to learn what she really wanted. But before he learns to let her go, Ambrose is broken in body and mind, far beyond his capacity to endure.

When the dust settles, will Mattie be lost to him forever? Will Ambrose be the last of the Bancrofts?

“A Voracious Grief” is gothic horror about grief and friendship. Life-altering grief can wear the oddest clothing. For Lindsey Lamh, it looked like losing a family member, but not to death; chronic pain that’s depressing but not debilitating; suicidal thoughts underneath a calm, cheerful persona. When no one understood her hardship, when all they had to offer were platitudes, Lindsey longed to find empathy. That’s why she writes—because she’s not the only one who’s been there.

“A Voracious Grief” is a novel that asks big questions about how we evolve beyond our traumas. It gives voice to silent suffering, reflecting what it looks like to be overwhelmed by grief. It’s a story about family ties twisted with fear. It’s about embracing pain, and daring to hope.

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Featured Interview With Sherri Moorer

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and bred in Columbia, South Carolina, where I’ve lived my entire life. By day, I’m an Administrative Coordinator working in Professional Licensing, and all other times, I’m a writer. I live on family land with my husband of nearly 26 years and our two parrots, Zack (a 24-year-old sun conure) and Bubbles (a nine-year-old Moncks Parakeet).

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always been fascinated by books. I drew in my storybooks before I learned how to read to add to the stories and was always filling notebooks with my tales. I’m thankful for computers now to make it a lot easier!

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love science-fiction and mystery/suspense novels. In scifi, I like Blake Crouch and Emma Newman. In mystery, I like P.D. James and J.A. Jance. I’ve also recently discovered Tony Hillerman and his daughter, Anne Hillerman.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Broken Time is about Alessi, a theoretical physicist who makes an amazing discovery over Antarctica that comes closer to proving her theories about multiple realities and universes than anything else. Her determination to prove this theory leads her to disobey a direct order and send a message into the spatial anomaly, which leads to catastrophic consequences that threaten all of existence.

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Featured Interview With Arti Manani

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in West London, England and I’m a huge fan of dark suspense thrillers. I work full time in marketing, and follow my passion and urge for writing during my time off, in the evenings and on weekends. I also love to travel, read, and especially binge-watch films whenever I run out of brain power.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always loved reading. I’d re-read the same stories as a child, the Ladybird books and ones with morals. Books that taught us a lesson, like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, really stuck with me and I’d want to read more. I moved on to bingeing on the Goosebumps and Famous Five books, and, as I grew older, true life novels like A Child Called It. At each stage, I’d pretend I was an author and end up writing a couple of pages my own novel. I printed my first book when I was 13, using Word and designed my cover with WordArt. I print the pages using my home printer, glued the pages together and used tags to create a ‘book’. I still have it and it makes me cringe and smile at the same time. I’ve explored a range of genres over the years, but it’s the thriller and suspense genre that really grabbed me.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
There are so many great authors out there; John Marrs, Alice Feeney, Alex Michaelides, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen… I can go on. Domestic thrillers, crime thrillers, suspense thrillers, give me a thriller with those twists and turns and an unreliable narrator and all those tropes that leave you on the edge of your seat – I love them! There’s no one author that inspires me specifically, they’re all pretty much inspiring.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is the suspense thriller, If They Knew, which is about a woman called Ella-Rose who lives on her own in a small maisonette. Ella works from home and she’s adamant that someone’s watching her. Her desperate search for answers leads her down a twisted path of suspicion and deceit that forces her to accuse everyone she knows. If They Knew comes with twists, turns, a lot of suspense, an unreliable narrator, a stalker/being watched trope, and a lot of secrets and lies.

If They Knew is available in paperback or Kindle on Amazon, free to download for Kindle Unlimited customers, and will soon be available to listen to via Audible.

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Featured Interview With Nitika Sharma

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am Nitika Sharma .
You can read between the lines
My poetry serves there pieces of mine.
I was born and brought up in the foothills of Himalayas India where my roots ,heart and soul belong .
Having cynical combination of creative and analytical mind ,I am an engineer woth poetic mind .
I had two pups named Bonn and Cookie but their journey was short lived with us .

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started writing when I was 22 .Writing was introduced to me through pain but then all emotions entered slowly diving me in each colours of rainbow.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favourite authors are Khaled Hosseini ,John Green,Robert Thier ,Rupi Kaur, Elena Armas etc.
My favorote genre is Romance for sure.
My life events ,thoughts,observations ,people,phases i live in and environment i breathe in inspires me to write.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book Ask my Abyss is a poetry collection that take you through the blank journey of light in dark. The time amidst black and white, The time of blankness, The time of insight. Ask my Abyss deep dive you into this time. Extracting theories of thoughts wrapped in blankets of soul ,surfing through the fullness of voided heart eventually rising like musings of poetic mind, Ask My Abyss answers it all. It answers turmoils, It answers black, It answers toils. It bring you back.

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