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Featured Interview With William J Crisel

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in South Carolina but raised the first five years of my life in Misawa Japan, after which I came back to the States. Washington state was the first state I lived but I soon made my way back to Charleston South Carolina at the age of ten it’s the place in which I reside today.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I would say around five to seven years old, though I got the idea I wanted to write around ten and I began writing around age seventeen. Only recently have I published.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Stephen King, I also loved Edgar Allan Poes work, as well as Shakespeare and Homers Odyssey. All held some influence for me right from the moment I read their works.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is a dark fantasy about a fairy who goes on long epic journey. A journey filled with hardship and struggle. She pushes forward so as she can see her goals through to the end. The book was written with teens, young adults as well as adults in mind. The book while not a long read is a very detailed tale where the environment seems to cone alive and interact with the main character. It took me two years to write it and a year to make sure it would be a story that would pull the readers in. Currently I’m working on thr sequel but I’m uncertain as to when it will be ready.

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Featured Interview With Francesca Pelaccia

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Francesca Pelaccia is a new Canadian author, born and raised in Toronto. She studied English Literature at the University of Toronto and began her career in corporate editing and publishing before moving to teaching English as a Second Language to adult immigrants. The Witch’s Salvation is Francesca’s first published novel, but she is not new to writing. She has written several other manuscripts of different genres. Francesca likes to work on several projects at the same time. Currently she is writing the second book of the Witches’ Trilogy entitled The Witch’s Monastery.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have been writing forever. Often I wrote where I shouldn’t. At school, at work, on the bus, even at my kids’ hockey or soccer games.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy reading genre and literary works. I especially enjoy historical mysteries. Except for the late Ariana Franklin, my favorite authors, however, don’t write them. I love reading Janet Evanovich and Jennifer Crusie. They bring me into their worlds, make me laugh and cry, and make me forget about my world.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
The Witch’s Salvation is a tale about restoring humanity to the last surviving witch of the Carpathian Mountains. The only people who can restore her humanity are Anasztasia and Matthias, two eighteen-year olds born mortal to two immortal families of royal lineage. If they go back in time and retrieve the Golden Cup that holds the mystery to regaining the witch’s humanity, she will make them immortal. She will also dissolve the curse that keeps Matthias’s family imprisoned in the ancient boundaries of Wallachia, present day Romania, and Anasztasia’s family exiled from it. But Anasztasia and Matthias must return to Easter Sunday, 1457, the day Prince Vlad III, aka Dracula, massacred nobles. Anasztasia and Matthias return to the past where life and death adventures begin toward saving the witch, unravelling their families’ secrets, and coming into their own.

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Featured Interview With Kyle M Scott

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in a small town called Bellshill, just outside the city of Glasgow…
One of those small industrial towns that seemed to sort of rot away in the wake of Scotlands failing steel industry. The town consisted of a main street, (two shops and a couple of pigions), a small but wonderful cinema called ‘The George’, (where I spent a great deal of my free time watching such unheralded classics as Condor-man and Flash Gordon), and a couple of schools that annually pumped out a whole host of misfits, reprobates and rebels. I was one of the rebels.
I was raised in a working class family, and grew up in the late seventies and into the eighties, when music was abysmal and horror cinema was masterful.
They were great times. The shine of childhood blinded me to the economic woes of the day, of course, but there were few families that didn’t feel the post-Thatcher meltdown in some way. As for me and my one sibling, a brother, the world was one of movies and imagination.
I stayed in the same town until my mid-twenties, playing in a number of psychedelic bands, before moving to Manchester to write and direct Theater.
Eventually I moved back to Scotland, Glasgow, and have resided there ever since.
The people are incredible. Insane…but incredible.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My fascination with books came rather late in my development. I always had a problem with authority in my youth, and I had a somewhat elergic reaction to being forced to read material that didn’t gel with my passions, being horror and science fiction. It was my love of cinema that led me to the written word – namely the fact that when the James Caan and Kathy Bates starring adaptation of Stephen Kings Misery was released, I couldn’t go and see the damn thing. There was no internet back then, of course, so it was either a case of, ‘death by anticipation’, or read the book. I found the novel in a local newsagents and the fella sold me it, no questions asked.
I was riveted from the very start. The depth of character. The insights into motivations. The detail with which the whole thing bristled. I had, at that point, my moment of clarity, and realized that cinema, as brilliant as it was and is, was no match for the written word. I read all of Kings early works back then…I couldn’t get enough of them. It was around the age of fourteen that I first began writing. We were asked at school to hand in a short story – around four pages or so – and by the time mines was completed it was three schoolbooks long, and violent as hell.
I handed it in but, alas, it wasn’t the roaring success I had imagined.
Stephen King didn’t bother calling, and hot older women were nowhere to be seen.
Not much has changed actually.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
For many years my favourite author has been the late, great Richard Laymon. In many ways it was his work that not only inspired me to dive far deeper into the genre and it’s darker, underground roots, but to begin writing altogether.
The first time I read Laymon’s work I was disgusted…not by the content, but by the style of writing. I’d read little else besides King, Koontz and Herbert at that time, and was far more used to writers who took a great deal of time describing the full spectrum of characters thought/feelings and spend an equal amount of time on describing locations, objects, appearances and so on. When I read Laymon, I found his work to be almost childish. I tossed the book aside and went back to my well trodden genre mainstays…the book wouldn’t leave my thoughts, though, and eventually I picked it up and read it from the start, all the way through….I’d never read a book as fast OR one as vivid. I was in the world, (The book was called The Woods Are Dark and it’s highly recommended).
With Laymon, a few sentences would give birth to fully formed characters and situations. It’s highly intelligent and expertly crafted. Not to knock King or any of the classic authors, but for me, personally, I find it to be a far appealing writer that can place a reader deep in the heart of the story with the minimal amount of description and wording.
Both styles have their merits, and both are vastly skillful in very different ways, but for me, the fast, no nonsense approach always wins the day.
In the process of reading his work, I learned a great deal about writing with clarity and focus, and probably the best lesson I’ve ever learned about the craft – the reader is no fool. They are every bit as intelligent as the author, and deserve the respect, and the freedom, to allow their imaginations to do much of the legwork. Laymon understood that, and inspired a whole army of authors to push in new, startling directions. I see his work as a sort of hub, from which all manner of varied, brilliant writers have emerged.
It goes without saying that horror is the genre I love, and the majority of what I read is within its realms.
Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Bentley Little, Wrath James White, J F Gonzalez, Brian Keene….all these writers constantly surprise and inspire my work. They represent the next generation of horror, and cover the whole spectrum of what the genre can be.
In recent years my biggest influences have been Bentley Little, (his blending of social issues with horror fascinates me), and Edward Lee, whom I consider a man of limitless ability.
All the writers I mentioned are people I admire and whose work fuels both my imagination and my work.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book, (and my first), on the digital shelves, is called CONSUMED : VOLUME 1.

Its a quartet of satirical horror tales that cover a number of the more troubling aspects of our consumer society from varying angles and in varying styles. One tale unfolds via a narrator, for example – a hapless Gen X fella who’s marriage is burning down around him, just as the rest of our planet is going up in flames via a mysterious phenomena. Another deals with the trials and tribulations of a cannibalistic mutant, (of the variety we see so often in horror cinema), as he finds himself running low on human meat and facing a terrifying reality…the supermarket. There’s a battle between redneck and television that turns very dark, very quickly and in another tale, a pizza delivery boy finds himself delivering the wrong food to some very wrong people.

There are a lot of topics touched upon amidst the blood and mayhem among them being the pull of avarice, the mainstream media’s power to control and direct our thoughts on world events and our own lives, the class divide and religious fanaticism and the damage it can do.

I try to cover all the topics with a lightness of touch. There’s a great deal of black humor in there, too, and the whole thing is constructed as a ride. I’m not interested in heavy handed politics, only in entertaining. It’s nice to throw in some food for thought along with the body parts, though. It goes without saying the tales are very violent. At it’s heart, CONSUMED is hardcore horror written by a fan and for the fans.

My next book, due in late July, is called DEVILS DAY, and is a very different beast. This ones a story of a town under siege by demonic forces, come to claim what’s owed. Its a full length novel, and is a fast-paced, hyper violent throwback to the classic 80’s horror movies that sealed my fate. It’s set in 1985, on Halloween night, and its packed with all the goodies that entails – movie/toy/comic references and TV references from the era, horny teens in peril, young horror-literate kids on an adventure, and bad-ass demons with murder in mind.
Imagine The Monster Squad/Night of the Creeps/The Gate, combined with hardcore, visceral (and very adult), sex and violence, and you’re there.
I’m really pleased with it, so far, and can’t wait to share it.

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Featured Interview With Shifra Hochberg

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m an American living in Jerusalem, Israel. I have a Ph.D. in English literature from New York University and teach full-time at Ariel University.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
For as long as I can remember, I have loved to read. I wrote THE LOST CATACOMB only after I had produced enough academic publications to guarantee me a tenured position at the university, though much of the research took place well before I actually sat down to write the novel. In preparation for the project, I read close to a hundred non-fiction and fictional works about WW II, the Holocaust, and the Vatican.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My tastes are quite eclectic and include well-written commercial thrillers and historical fiction. My recent favorites are THE ORACLE OF STAMBOUL, Q & A, THE RELUCTANT APPRENTICE, and THE PARIS ARCHITECT. I also adore all of Cara Black’s novels, which really evoke Paris so beautifully, as well as Pam Jenoff’s historical romances.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
THE LOST CATACOMB is a Vatican thriller with a multiple timeline that weaves together three interfaith love stories that converge against the backdrop of the Holocaust in Italy. In the novel, a beautiful young art historian flies to Rome to assess a newly-discovered catacomb of enigmatic provenance. Its mysterious frescoes hold the clues to a centuries-old murder and the existence of an ancient treasure from the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem. Assisted by a handsome Italian archaeologist, the heroine soon finds herself caught up in a tangled web of intrigue and peril, masterminded by a powerful priest who is determined to destroy those who would reveal the dark secrets of the past.

The novel has something for everyone. For thriller fans–a beautiful heroine, lost treasure, ancient manuscripts, evil priests, and a plot that spirals to a shocking conclusion. For lovers of historical fiction–a genuine sense of time and place coupled with the parallel themes of the heroine’s search for her lost family roots in Rome and the provenance of a lost catacomb.

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Featured Interview With T.L. Coulter

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma. I have lived in Germany and Belgium. I currently live in Northern Utah.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
It seems that as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated with books. I started writing when I was a child. I was so afraid that others would see my work, and hate it, so I would hide it or throw it away.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Some of my favorite authors are; Jennifer Nielsen, Justin Cronin, J.K. Rowlings, Cassandra Clare, Veronica Roth and many others. With this list of authors, it is safe to say my favorite genre is young adult (YA). My family and friends inspire me in my writing. Also the readers inspire me. I want to give my readers a book they can really get into and enjoy.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
The Key is the first book in a brand-new YA trilogy.

When the new King of Arcadia, Audric Sjöberg is forced into hiding, his younger brother Rek, is sent to the mortal realm to find “the key”. “The Key” is the one person that can help Audric take back his kingdom, and restore peace within the wizard realm.

Kailee Reece is a normal teenager, or so she believes. When Kailee’s wishes turn into reality, she becomes the target of unwanted attention. Rek’s search sends him to Astoria Oregon, where he meets Kailee, and they are drawn to one another. Kailee and Rek attempt to fight their feelings, but the temptation is too great.

Kailee and Rek’s happiness is threatened by an ancient prophecy that could tear them apart. Rek must convince Kailee to return to Arcadia in order to save Audric and his kingdom. Once the kingdom is safe, Rek may be forced to say goodbye to Kailee forever.

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Featured Interview With Kathryn Dionne

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My name is Kathryn Dionne. I grew up in Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico. Now I live in Southern California with my husband, Jeff, and our two Shar Peis, Bogey and Gracie.

From an early age, my love of treasure hunting sparked an interest in archaeology. As an amateur archaeologist, I’ve been fortunate enough to uncover some very unique artifacts in different parts of the globe.

In addition to writing, I manage our five-acre property and our grove of Italian olive trees. My husband has lovingly named our business; Saint Kathryn’s Olive Oil.

In my spare time, I make cookie jars and throw pottery in my studio. I also create mosaics from discarded objects and sell them under the category of Found Art.

My books:

The Eleventh Hour Trilogy, an Amazon #1 best seller, is a supernatural thriller set in Israel. The story is based on a terrifying end-of-the-world dream I had over fifteen years ago that still haunts me to this day.

I’ve has also written a children’s book called, Derek the Fireless Dragon. It is collection of illustrated humorous poems and rhyming stories suitable for children of all ages.

Under the pen name Kathryn Longino, I have partnered with author Abby L. Vandiver and wrote, At the End of the Line, an Amazon #1 bestseller. The book is a women’s/historical fiction that spans from 1958 through 1972. It is a story of friendship, survival, and determination during one of the most tumultuous times in America’s history.

I’m currently writing a new series called; Chasing Time, which I hope to have published some time in 2014.

You can read more about my books on my Amazon author page:

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I knew at the age of eight that I wanted to be a writer. My fascination started with The Happy Hollisters series by Jerry West. I still have the entire set. My love for books evolved from reading them into writing them. At a young age I would write about everything. And then I would give them all to my mother for safe keeping. On my fiftieth birthday she gave them all back to me in a photo album. I had no idea she had kept them all these years.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Shel Silverstein is one of my all time favorite authors. I love how he is able to bring out the little kid in all of us by writing about normal subjects that everyone can relate to. But my favorite genre to read is supernatural thrillers.

The person who inspires me the most is my mother. Though she is no longer with me, I feel her presence every time I sit down to write. When I’m stuck, or if I think what I’m writing isn’t very good, I can hear her sweet voice telling me to “Just keep writing!”

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is called, At the End of the Line. and was coauthored with Abby L. Vandiver. The story takes place in Utah, 1958. Fifteen year old Beatrice “Beanie” Peterson is forced to marry a man twenty years her senior and become one of three sister wives. When she discovers that her husband is abusive, she seeks the help of her beloved piano teacher who moved away. She dials a wrong number and ends up speaking with Adeline Garrison, a wealth Boston socialite who is friends with Jack Kennedy. This sparks an unlikely friendship between the two women that evolves through phone calls, letters and postcards and spans fourteen years. The story covers some of the most pivotal moments in American history by trusting the characters right into the middle of the civil rights movement.

This was an interesting project, in that, we each took a character and wrote from their perspective. And when our characters had telephone conversations, my writing partner and I actually had the conversation over the phone as though our characters were talking. Another bit of trivia is, just like Beanie and Adeline, my writing partner and I have never met face to face.

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Featured Interview With Mark Binmore

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Born in Torquay, England and moved to London in my early 20s. I actually trained as an actor but my boredom levels were low so switched to writing. A few years ago relocated to Beziers, France where my partner and I bought an old house opposite a river and transformed it into a small bed and breakfast, so I guess I have two heads I can switch between – a hotelier one and a writing one.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I guess I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always kept diaries since I was a child and even at school used to pen short shorties and verse. Recently I discovered a whole batch of stuff I had written years and years ago, some of it long forgotten but its interesting that certain “themes” were there as a young child and still as a forty something adult – water, love, the countrywide, healing, need to be noticed and seen etc. One childhood ambition was to write a set of songs, record them and release an album so for years I would write and write but what happened was that the songs turned into longer prose and some of them into short stories. My first short story collection was published four years ago – Even When Tonight Is Over and I have followed that book with three more

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love to read memoirs either by someone relatively know or not. My new book coming out later this years is actually a fictionalized memoir so over the last few years have been reading more and more. I was inspired by reading – Diary of an Ordinary Woman, a novel framed as an ‘edited’ diary of fictional woman Millicent King (1901-1995), written by Margaret Forster. At the end I wanted to know more about this person before realizing, “actually shes doesn’t exists” – I thought that was great. I’ve just finished reading (again) diaries by Kenneth Williams and Joe Orton – mainly because I love both their observations of life and what is going on around them. Currently reading the scripts of “Generation War” by Stefan Kolditz which i as brilliant as the mini series. At the moment I am fascinated by real people’s lives during war, how they acted, behaved, survived (or didn’t).

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My forthcoming book is called “Now Is Not The Time For Trumpets”.

To quote from the press release, “Summer 1987. Stephen Wallingford, once the epitaph of all things fabulous and now a recluse of the modern era, receives a letter from an up and coming author wishing to talk about his life. Although reluctant to meet, Stephen decides to re-emerge from the shadows, and reflect on the past, of childhood ambitions and dreams, forgotten lovers and the scandalous demise of the bright young things. And with tears, laughter and broken hearts rediscovered, Stephen is transported back in time to a life of parties, pink gin and illicit love”.

I guess its part novel, part interview, part biography, the book reflects on the life of one Stephen Wallingford, the last of a dying breed and someone who shed light on the beautiful bright you thing era between the wars. It’s a happy book, a sad reflective book that sheds light through the many characters but mainly centres on Stephen which was loosley based on real life recluse Stephen Tennnat but with some elements of my life thrown in.

I am proud of this book though. I like the simplicity and the structure, the characters are similar to the celebrities that are forced upon us today. These bright young people of the 20s and 30s were written about, photographed, adored, despaired and ultimately hated. With today’s celebrities we vote for them, tweet them, follow them, adore them and then ultimately we wait for their downfall and relish in in. The pattern is the same.

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Featured Interview With Martin Roy Hill

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m Southern California born and raised, and grew up in the beach community of Redondo Beach, just south of Los Angeles. I still live in Southern California in La Jolla, a suburb of San Diego, with my wife, Winke, son, Brandon, and our feline supervisors, Harry and Alex.

When I’m not writing novels and short stories, I am an U.S. Navy analyst in the field of combat casualty care. Before I went to work for the Navy I was a journalist, having worked as newspaper crime reporter, a magazine investigative journalist, and the editor of a business newspaper. While it was a great influence on my writing, I eventually grew tired of journalism. Over the years, I’ve also been a medic of one sort or another in U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, the Navy Reserve, the California Nation Guard, the San Diego Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Reserve Detail, and a federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team. That experience gave me a whole other set of skills, which I use in my Navy position. Those experiences also influence my writing a great deal.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I can’t remember not being an avid reader. Book mobile days were my favorite days in grade school. In high school, I took an English class where we could read any book, but we had to write an essay about it. My teacher liked my essays and encouraged to write, so I took a journalism class and the next thing I knew I was thinking of writing fiction and nonfiction as a living.

I sold my first published piece to Reader’s Digest in 1973. It was a Humor In Uniform item based on my brother-in-laws experiences. By that time, I was in Coast Guard boot camp myself. My parents sent me a letter telling me about the piece being published and I got very excited. My drill instructor stopped me and demanded to know why I was so excited. I told him and he responded with a straight face, “Hill, you are a joke in uniform.” That was my first experience with critics.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I grew up reading a lot of the post-World War One Lost Generation authors like Hemingway, Remargue, and Dos Passos. I also read a lot of science fiction by H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, and Kurt Vonnegut, and still read them. I’ve read everything written by the late Patrick O’Brien, who created the Jack Aubrey novels like Master and Commander. I’ve also read Navajo detective novels by the late Tony Hillerman and the National Park mysteries of Nevada Barr. All three of those writers have such talent for giving the reader a sense of place. In recent years, I have become a fan of such authors as David Morrell, James Rollins, and Doug Preston and Lincoln Child. They all write great thrillers.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest mystery thriller, Empty Places, takes place in the California low desert in the area around Palm Springs in mid-1980s. My first novel, The Killing Depths, takes place aboard a crowded submarine in the middle of the ocean, and Empty Places takes place in a desert. Sort of the yin and yang of fiction.

Peter Brandt, the protagonist and narrator of Empty Places, is a war scarred news service correspondent who returns to his old haunt of Palm Springs to attend his ex-wife’s funeral. His return holds many shocks for him. The country is clawing its way out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, and even the wealthy enclave of Palm Springs is looking a bit seedy. Then Peter discovers his ex-wife, TV reporter Robin Anderson, was murdered and the local cops aren’t trying to find the murderer.

Peter is a man with many ghosts, including those of the people whose murders he covered as crime reporter for the local newspaper, and of a young Salvadoran mother whose murder he couldn’t stop. He also suffers great amount of suppressed pain and guilt he feels over the break up with Robin, whom he still loves though he won’t admit it to himself. Despite Peter’s attempts to hide the feelings he still has for Robin, he finds himself compelled to solve her murder. He and his close friend, retired cop turned private investigator Matt Banyon, start their own probe and uncover a rat’s nest of corruption involving politicians, drugs,and illicit sex. Soon, Peter and Matt find themselves the hunted instead of the hunters.

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Featured Interview With Judy Darley

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up in a small town north of Bristol, in southwest England. I’ve lived in quite a few place, including the west coast of America, but returned to Bristol a few years ago. It’s a great, vibrant city to live in – very laid-back, creative and full of interesting people.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I loved books from an early age, and made up stories to accompany pictures long before i could read the words. I remember being given a notebook one Christmas when I was seven or so, and filling the pages with terrible plagiarised fairytales with occasional original twists.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I adore short story and literary fiction. Recent joys have been Kate Atkinson’s ingenious Life After Life and Katherine Mansfield’s Bliss. I also love poetry – Alice Oswald and Claire Trévien are particular favourites. The first childhood book I recall losing myself in was A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley. I grew up in a house that reminded me of the one in the novel, and could imagine meeting ghosts on the stairs and slipping in and out of time as the protagonist, Penelope, did.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My short story collection, Remember Me To The Bees, contains twenty of my short stories, and reveals, I think, my fascinations with fractured families and minds – which I didn’t realise myself until I strung them all together. Children overhear and misunderstand things, adults face fears, take risks, lose things (including people). A bee or something bee-related appears in each story – one reviewer mentioned enjoying ‘the game of spot the bee’. It’s a perfect collection to dip in and out of when commuting, or with your morning coffee, though be warned – readers have mentioned some of the stories haunt the remainder of their day. Each story is accompanied by artwork by Louise Boulter, who also designed the cover image.

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Featured Interview With Tracy Ellen

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Hello, Everybody! I was born and raised in the Midwest, except for six steamy months when I lived in Florida at age nineteen. I live currently in the suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, which is a short jaunt up the road from the town of Northfield. This town is the setting for my contemporary romance/ romantic comedy series “The Adventures of Anabel Axelrod”. Northfield is a quaint college town located on the Cannon River and most infamous for the bank robbery attempt by the Jesse James Gang back in the 1800’s–most infamous, that is, until Anabel Axelrod came along!

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have been an avid reader my entire life. By avid, I mean all genres and three to five books a week. I haven’t always longed to be a writer, but I did sit down one weekend when I was thirteen and wrote my first book, in longhand on lined notebook paper. I think I started and finished going through puberty that weekend, as I wrote my frenzied, angst-filled love story about college sweethearts, Olivia and Phil. I can’t say whatever happened to those lust-filled pages, but I was perfectly content to read books, not write them, for another few decades. Then BAM! All of a sudden, I had a driving need to write books instead of reading them. Maybe I’m going through a second puberty, and if so, I hope it never ends because three self-published books later, I absolutely love writing! I’m currently working on my fourth novel due to be released in July 2014.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My personal favorite authors run a wide gambit and are legion, but a few off the top would be Jennifer Crusie in romantic comedy, Diana Gabalon and Loretta Chase in historical romance, C.S. Harris in historical mystery, Robert McCammon in horror, Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, John Locke’s Donovan Creed series, Charlaine Harris and Laurell Hamilton in paranormal romance, and David Gunn in sci-fi. If I had to pick a genre I prefer over all others, it would be a clever, witty, steamy romance that makes me long for more, more more!

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I’ve been told by many readers that my ongoing book series, The Adventures of Anabel Axelrod aren’t your normal romance books. Boy, was I relieved to hear that because my intent was never to write a normal romance book! If you need a book to be tied up with a neat bow and a happily-ever-after, then my first book in the series, A Date with Fate, is not for you, so please don’t download the eBook–even for free like I’m currently offering the eBook, you will be disappointed.

BUT, but, if you want a book where you become involved in the crazy, hilarious, and hot life of the unique, strong, and fun heroine, Anabel Axelrod and all her family and friends, then keep reading!

Anabel owns a bookstore in Northfield and loves her single life. She believes in sexual infatuation but not love, and certainly doesn’t need or want just one man to complete her. Luke Drake is new in town. Not-too-tall, deliciously dark, and definitely not handsome, Luke is just as determined as Anabel to get what he wants. Worlds collide and sparks fly when these two meet! Has Anabel met her fate or has Luke met his match?

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Featured Interview With Robert Saltzman

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in Brooklyn and spent most of my adult life in Chicago. I invent the characters in my writing by drawing upon my childhood memories and flair for the dramatic. With a writing style that is real and never sugar coated or phony, I endeavor to entertain my readers. My debut novel Salty and The Serpent was released in August of 2012 after taking six years to create. I am the proud father of a Marine Corps veteran and have two beautiful grandchildren. I’m currently retired and living in Florida.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always been a reader but in High School my English Teacher Mr. Hogan taught me how to really read and enjoy a book. I like to set aside at least one hour a day to read. I always knew I had a book or two in me, so I went at it. Really a great accomplishment.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite writer of all time was Elmore Leonard. His descriptions and characters come to life. I strived to do the same to my characters.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest is a short story that I pulled from the pages my novel (Salty and the Serpent). It’s only 8900 words and a few people told me they read it in one or two sit downs. Everything revolves around my hero Detective Robert Salter NYPD. To understand why he is a hero not only to the people but to the cops whose respect he earns.
My Short Story
The Billy Goat Caper
During one of Bobby’s investigations, things slowed down, so his Lieutenant told him and his partner that there other cases that need attention. So I wrote a short story about one the cases they solved in between a major investigation.
The Billy Goat Caper is about a Kentucky boy that loves to climb. At twenty-six, he packs up his life and heads for New York City. There he meets a woman and together they get involved in burglary, blood diamonds and murder. Pursued by the police they try to hide, but cannot outsmart the relentless long arm of the law. I self published it an E-Book, editing was fairly inexpensive, but I will have to sell a lot of books at $0.99 to break even. Good thing I’m not in this writing game for the money.
My editor did my heart good, when she returned the manuscript she said “I love your writing style, the way it’s casual. Your short story was like listening to a friend tell the story first hand”.

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Featured Interview With Michael P Amram

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up in Richfield, Minnesota. Adopted at 2 weeks in life, in February of 1965, I became the biracial son of a university professor and a social worker. Mom came from New York, dad came from Hannover, Germany, and they came for me one day with their 3-year-old daughter.

Records I was privy to at 18 suggest my biological father had some interest in creative writing. I never met him. My mother, who I did know for almost 30 years, was a writer. She was an ESL teacher who wrote extensively about the places in which she taught mainly Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Between the two, some ink must taint my blood. I live now with my wife in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
As a kid I was always encouraged to read. When I was 7 or 8, our family had this cabin in Bay Lake Township. My mom, my sister and I would spend summers there. Mom would take us out to the road to gather reading material from the bookmobile. Later, I remember a phase I went through in which I voraciously read elementary-level biographies. I covered everyone from Martin Luther King to Booker T. Washington. College was when I read all the classics.

I’d guess I first began writing in college. It was not until my sophomore year that I declared English as a major. I did not want to teach, I wanted to write. I took dozens of poetry and creative writing classes in my years at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. I was prolific; I had to be, and churned out some of the worst poems I’ve seen.

Upon graduating in 1989, I continued writing poetry, essays, and short stories. My first short story, based on my experiences working in a health club, was published in 1998. I kept writing, editing, re-writing, and tightening my craft. After numerous rejections from traditional publishers, I decided to go indie in 2011. My first novel, The Orthodoxy of Arrogance, came out in 2013.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy the fierceness of Bukowski. I love his detail, his use of senses. Laura Hillenbrandt, author of Unbroken, inspires me. Her research is incredible. The writing about real events is told with such passion and description. I am inspired by Twain. Huck and Jim were in the back of my mind as I wrote, particularly, my latest historical fiction novel. I’d remember how they rafted down the Mississippi discussing and gauging the racial tension. My novel has a scene on a swift boat. A black, disabled Vietnam vet, and his biracial friend drift past changing attitudes toward race, the war, and disability, in the 70s.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My current novel is titled Agent of Orange. One day, at my former “career” in Medical records, I was for some reason thinking of the line from Apocalypse Now “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” I am fond of word play, and said the line over in my mind. I wanted to relocate it, to after mass it, and distance it from that horrific weapon. I came up with “I love the smell palms make when they sway in the morning.” The story kind of grew from that line, that idea, the location of Palm Beach, Florida.

The novel grew to involve the Marine Corporal, Chauncy T. McClarren with the baggage of a disabled friend (who was his Sergeant) and a goddess-like woman who only his friend suspects is a fugitive. The story has grounding in my own life as far as being biracial, having known my mother, and having never met my black father who was killed in 1997.

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Featured Interview With John Holt

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Born in 1943 in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire. I currently live in Essex with my wife, Margaret, and my daughter Elizabeth. For many years I was a Chartered Surveyor, until I retired in 2008. I had always wanted to write a novel but could never think of a good enough plot. My first novel, The Kammersee Affair, written in 2008. was inspired by a holiday in Austria. We were staying in Grundlsee. The next lake, Toplitzsee, was used by the Germans during the war to test rockets, and torpedoes. There were rumours of gold hidden in that lake. Despite extensive searches the gold was never found. In my book, however, it is found, only in the next lake, Kammersee.

The books that followed, The Mackenzie File, The Marinski Affair, Epidemic,and A Killing In The City all feature Tom Kendall, a down to earth private detective. In August 2012 I decided to go down the self published route, and formed by own publishing brand PHOENIX. My latest novel “The Thackery Journal” is a “What If” novel regarding the assassination of Lincoln. I am currently working on two other novels featuring Tom Kendall, and another novel set during the American civil War, and I have made a tentative start on an Adventure novel.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I couldn’t tell you exactly, but I guess it was pretty early. I was brought up on Enid Blyton, the Secret Seven and the Famous Five. Every Friday when he came in from work my father would have several bags of sweets, the Eagle comic, and the Enid Blyton magazine. I enjoyed writing at school, but it wasn’t until quite late in life that I started to write. My first novel “The Kammersee Affair” was inspired by a holiday in the Austrian lake district in August 2005.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I am a self published Indie author, and I tend to read works by other Indie authors – authors like B A Morton, Alfie Robins, Rob Craven. I have written 6 novels to date. Four of them are private detective novels. Detective novels are my favourite genre, followed by thrillers. I enjoyed books by Alistair McClean, and Hammond Innes, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens. However I would not say that any of them inspired me. I write in my own style, and don’t copy anyone.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My last book published was “The Thackery Journal” – it is set during the American Civil War. It tells the story of two friends who join opposite sides. It tells of how their paths cross, and how both become involved in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. It is a what if novel and supposes that Lincolns assassination was actually planned by his own generals. I am currently working on the fifth novel to feature my private detective Tom Kendall, and hope that it will be ready by the end of May or early June.

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Featured Interview With Jim McDonald

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in central South Carolina, but moved to the Charlotte NC area about 15 years ago. I spent about 20 years traveling doing technology work, but have settled down a bit. My travels exposed me to a lot of places and people, and I use those experiences as a very loose baseline for my writing.

Other than work and writing, I play some with hot glass, and I am involved with a number of groups involved with Celtic history and culture and work with events around the Southeast.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I do not remember a time when I was not reading. There were always books around, and my mother taught English. We also traveled frequently, so books were a handy way of spending time in the car.

In addition to fiction, I read a lot on history, cultures, and the sciences. I am fairly dangerous in trivia, as long as it is not pop culture.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I bounce between genres depending on my mood. My favorite author is Robert Heinlein. Hos work is challenging, and tended to push boundaries we still haven’t reached today. I am also a big fan of Doug Preston and Lincoln Child’s books. My guilty pleasures as of late have been Rick Gualtieri’s Tome of Bill series.

My motivations in writing have always been to write for myself. I have used it as a way to process life and events in a different way, and work through the scenarios we see. There is nothing like standing in an airport watching thousands of people to get inspiration. I have a story in mind triggered by walking out of the hotel at Dragon Con a few years ago, and seeing a few traumatized ladies there in town for the Baptist convention.

I have really gotten into reading other indie authors of late. Seeing it out there, and my wife catching me doing a little writing, pushed me to clean up and publish some work. I think the indie publishing environment is giving people who would never have any other opportunity to share their stories and views. The slight rough edge on some of the work gives it a more real texture. Of course, sometimes its still just tofu.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My current book is the first in a series about a young wizard stripped of his powers, and banished from his home. He is pushing his way through a slightly twisted version of our world. Using loose interpretations of multiverse theory, I push an idea on how all of the old gods and mythological creatures could still be with us, and sometimes in our space, sometimes in theirs. It’s a bit of dark humor thrown into an urban paranormal mystery.

The title is ‘Bound and Hagged’ and is part of the ‘Home Summonings’ series. All of the titles are bad puns, but they also get to the heart of the narrative.

I’m also starting a series free on my website of ‘Melvin’s Mangled Myths.’ Melvin is a character from the series who is an angel, and a muse. But his versions of history are not always quite right.

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Featured Interview With Matthew Alan

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Hi everyone – I grew up in Canton, Ohio (A Bulldog from Canton, McKinley) and then graduated from Kenyon College. From there, I earned a masters degree from Western Illinois, after which I began a career in teaching and coaching. I currently live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always loved reading, and enjoy the intimacy in the world that the mind/book connection can create. As far as writing, I started years ago with a memoir, but it turned into more of a passion for fiction over the last ten years.

Growing up as a seemingly outgoing introvert, books and my imagination allowed me to be entertained and amused for hours, without having to worry about what someone form the outside might think. A perfect escape for a child’s mind.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I like most genres – from JK Rowling and the Harry Potter series to David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day) is something I can read over and over again.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
What We Leave Behind – A story about struggle, a story of hope, and mostly, a story about love. A journey with a unique young girl who is so sure of what is out there waiting for her, that she never compromises her belief in finding it.

Jane Rawley Solomon’s humor, character, and passion for others, serve as a reminder that we choose our own path to happiness, regardless of the events that impact our lives.
I started writing this novel in 2009, after losing my remarkable dog, Rawley, to a bone tumor in a very emotional process. As the next year continued, my other canine companion of twelve years, Max, passed away from liver cancer. In that same period, a very dear coaching colleague – far too young to deal with her medical issues – passed away from cancer. Not to be a bearer of grief, as we all deal with these events in our lives, but from 2008-2012, I watched as my father battled pancreatic cancer, fighting with amazing resolve.

Amidst so much loss and pain, it was easy to write the sad parts of this book. The trick was keeping the hope, the love, the fight, and the joy – that they all managed to hold onto – represented in my heroine, Jane.

Despite numerous challenges, I knew I wanted to push through and finish this work when a former teammate from college lost her struggle with cancer earlier this winter. This book’s dedication is for those people who struggle with illness and pain, and yet never lose their optimism or their love for others. I hope I do them – and through them, all of you – justice.

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Featured Interview With Houston Havens

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?

I’m kind of and international baby. Being an Irishman and the forever rolling stone, my father moved his family all over the world, so I wasn’t raised in just one city or country. And I’m just as guilty of gathering no moss. I retired from a successful modeling career and an adventurous lifestyle, so I could settle down and set the world on fire with my sexy paranormal, fantasy, and sci fi romance stories. Modeling made it possible for me to live in several states and work in nearly all the others at one time or another. It’s a big beautiful country. When I’m in the US, I’ve been spending a great deal of my time in the South and out West.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always loved books. My interest in the paranormal, fascination with quantum science, passion with myths, and the lure of my mysterious Celtic Irish-Druid bloodlines are what I like to combine with generally unknown truths, strange facts, and questionable fiction. My novels reflect a mix of the past, present, and future, with sexy blends of futuristic science fiction, paranormal, fantasy, western romance, always with love everlasting. I strive to entertain my readers with seductive stories created from my decadent imagination and traces of what some call my provocative lifestyle.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Before I started writing, I enjoyed reading Johanna Lindsey. When I’m not writing a book, I love reading nonfiction authors like Courtney Brown, Ph.D., Fred Alan Wolf, Joseph McMoneagle, Ingo Swann, Norman Friedman, Gary Zukav, Robert A. Monroe, Joseph F. Goodavage, and Jane Roberts. I get many story ideas while reading them. I also like books on writing craft to hone my skills. It’s always nice to refresh the mind with authors like Laurie Alberts, Barbara DeBolt, and Jack M. Bickham.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Why be tempted by one man’s seduction when you can be loved by three? Sinful Surrender, book one of my Psychic Ménage series, explores the answer. Sinful Surrender is a multi-genre, multi-themed story with a little bit of something for everyone. Romance sub-genres: Paranormal, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy. Themes: Ménage (MFMM), Psychics, Futuristic, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian with Light BDSM.

It is the year 4860, 700 years after Earth experienced catastrophic destruction when a rogue planet’s trajectory passed too close to Earth. There were survivors, not all human, and not all happy.

There are several societies living vastly different lives in diverse environments with varying levels of technology. Some underground, some on the planet’s surface, and some on space stations. Those on the surface have been under attack by the Dirt Dweller’s Underworld government for a very long time.

Top psychic spy Fay Avalon saw too much on her latest mind traveling mission and is now on the run from her post-catastrophic dystopian government, searching for the truth and proof. She escapes but is shot down, landing in the arms of the enemy. In Logan, Drakker and Arlo’s world, women are so rare the men have accepted a polyandrous ménage lifestyle. They are all attracted to her, but the eldest are afraid she is there as a spy.

As the first in the series, this sexy story sets up the world and the series plot, and while it focuses on the underground and surface dwellers, the reader is given brief introductions to the other survivors as well. The second book in the series is finished but is in the self-editing stage before it can be submitted to the publisher. At this point, seven books are planned for the series.

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Featured Interview With C. Michael Lorion

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Gardner, Massachusetts in the United States and lived in Gardner for the first 33 years of my life. In 2000, I moved to East Templeton, a town adjacent to Gardner, and that’s where I’ve been living for the past 14 years with my lovely wife and six of my seven wonderful children.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve loved books since before I could read when my mother would take me to the library to check out Dr. Seuss, Sesame Street, and Richard Scarry books. When I learned to read I read all the romanticized stories of the Old West–Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickock, etc. Then, when I was in 7th or 8th grade, I bought my first-ever novel–the paperback edition of Stephen King’s The Stand. That book opened up a whole new world to me. It was fascinating, frightening, vulgar, sad, and hopeful. That book changed my life. That book began my true fascination with holding a book in my hand and being transported to a different place to live out a different story other than my own.

I started writing many short stories when I was in junior high, but finished only one of them–a single page story (aptly titled A Short Horror Story) that you can read in its entirety on my website: chadmlorion.com.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Christopher Golden, Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, Orson Scott Card, Jack McDevitt, Eric Nylund, Patrick Rothfuss, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, Vernor Vinge, Joe Hill, to name a few.

Favorite genre is a cross of horror and contemporary fantasy.

I am inspired by a couple particular authors, namely Stephen King, Robert McCammon, and Christopher Golden. Their writing is so good, their characters well-drawn people I would want to meet, the honesty in their writing shines through on every page. My children also inspire me–the way they play with each other, the imaginary worlds they live in and explore, it’s all fertile soil for me and my own imagination.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My debut novel, Totem (Book 1: Scars), is the first installment of a trilogy and is now for sale on Amazon in the Kindle Store. It’s the story of Kimi and Achak, two people from a different time that have come back to the small city of Old Wachusett, Massachusetts, one seeking revenge for a horrendous act against the people that once inhabited the land, the other willing to sacrifice everything to save Old Wachusett. Abby and Josh, two teens who were once boyfriend and girlfriend, may hold the keys to unlocking the Totem, and ancient relic that holds the spirits–and more?–of a people long-forgotten. The story of the Totem trilogy spans one year in the fight for survival of Old Wachusett.

Totem (Book 1: Scars), took me three years to write (yes…three years!). Let me expound. I wanted to explore what would happen if a parent was responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the death of his/her child. I started writing that story, but about a year into it I realized I was writing a family drama, and although I have nothing against family dramas, those are not the types of books I read. I had a problem. I decided to keep the same characters and the same family situations, but I threw in a supernatural, contemporary fantasy, horror twist. I am now much more comfortable with the story.

The sequels, Totem (Book 2: Ashes), and Totem (Book 3: Ghosts), are due to be released later this year and early 2015 (that is, if I can keep on schedule in writing them!).

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Featured Interview With T. Hunt Locke

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m a Boston boy. The Boston area is a fantastic place for a child. The history, the old buildings, the strong sense of place and culture, all help to create a strong foundation. Now I live in northern Thailand. Although it is quite a different place than Boston and New England, the culture is quite deep and is a wonderful place for a writer to live.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
From quite an early age books became my constant companions. Perhaps it was the Johnny Tremain book which sparked my lifelong passion. Writing came later and in the form of academic papers as I made my way through two graduate degrees. My first novel, The Ming Inheritance, was published in 2011.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Tricky question! I don’t have a favorite author in the way I have a favorite Rock and Roll band. Though, if I were to make a list, Umberto Eco would certainly top my list. I also don’t have a singular inspiration other than my love for history and a good story.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest novel, Jim Thompson Is Alive!, is the second novel in the Sam Collins Mystery Series. A Sam Collins Mystery is an erotic historical thriller set in Thailand and Southeast Asia. The aim of my novels is to dig deep into the history and culture of Thailand/Asia while providing the reader with a sexy and thrilling read.

Jim Thompson Is Alive is such a book which finally unlocks a mystery that has baffled historians and observers for decades.

Jim Thompson, the Thai Silk King and famed World War II spy, had cut out a life of wealth, fame, and intrigue in post-war Thailand. He had built his Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company into an iconic fashion brand. Then, on a crisp clear Easter Sunday afternoon in Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands, this man of contradictions walked into the mists of history.

Jim Thompson Is Alive! is an erotic and majestic tour de force which dives headfirst into the web of deception which lies at the heart of the Jim Thompson story.

Meet the seductive women who try to ensnare Sam Collins into their own treacherous webs of sex, mystery, and intrigue. They are matched in wits, if not looks, by men who will stop at nothing to beat Sam to Thompson and to bury the Thai Silk King’s ghost once and for all.

Rigorously researched over a three year period, including several interviews with people who knew Thompson, T. Hunt Locke brings the elusive history of Jim Thompson into a riveting, sexy, and thrilling novel.

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Featured Interview With Felicia Mires

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised near the beach, sugar-white sands of Pensacola, Florida. Now I live on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. I’ve always loved living near the Gulf.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
As soon as I could read, I became obsessed with books. I can’t count how many times I got in trouble for taking the other student’s turns when it was time to read aloud. I started writing after the summer of my 4th grade year…a romance. I still write romance!

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy reading a variety of authors CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Donita K. Paul, Wayne Batson, Francine Rivers, Dee Henderson, etc. Everything inspires me to write…conversations with family and friends, television shows, other books, random events. Life is full of opportunities that make great literature.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I wrote my latest series because my daughter asked for a fairy tale. Once I wrote one, I realized all the characters needed their own stories. I got sucked into the worlds I’d created. I’m intrigued by the idea of walking through a portal into a grand adventure, facing the unknown, rising to an impossible challenge, forming relationships, and meeting the love of your life. Epic fantasy is wide open to the imagination. There are no limits for your characters or the beauty of a far-away realm.

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