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This is a list of our featured author interviews. These authors take a few minutes out of their busy schedule to sit down and answer a few questions. Get to know what they are working on next and what types of books they like to read.

Featured Author Fil Reid

Featured Interview With Fil Reid

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I live on a canal boat in the south of England with my husband and our Romanian rescue dog, Bella, and our elderly cat. We’ve been on the boat for ten years now and before that we lived in France where I learnt to speak fluent French pretty quickly.
I was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome (High Functioning Autism) after two of my now grownup sons were, and that explained a lot to me, especially my life long love of horses and my obsession with all things Arthurian.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I think I loved books from the moment I learned to read. I remember at aged just 7, when we moved from Infants to Junior School, having to do a reading age test that made me very nervous at the time. It was only years later that my mother told me I’d had the highest reading age in the class at 14. Unsurprising really, when you consider I was already reading books like Kipling’s The Jungle Book and My Friend Flicka all by myself.
I began writing at age 5 when my parents gave me a Petite Children’s Typewriter, and with a few breaks for children and working, I’ve written ever since. My third book is about to come out, published by Dragonblade Publishing, and I have some children’s and YA books with my agent at the moment.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I will read anything that is well written. I still love good children’s books even though my own children are all grown up. I used to love reading to them at bedtime and any other time they wanted, and would choose books they might have found a bit more challenging, loving it when they wanted more.
One of my all time favourite authors has to be Nevil Shute. He’s long dead now, but I could read some of his books over and over again and still love them. I belong to the Nevil Shute Norway Society.
I like a well-plotted thriller, a romance with a good storyline that’s not just all about the romance, historical fiction that’s well researched and believable, and wouldn’t say no to horror, scifi, mystery at all. So long as it’s well written.
I think when I first began writing in earnest with the idea of being published, and began my MG novels that I’d like to get published now, my biggest influence was probably Alan Garner and his wonderful children’s stories about Alderley Edge in Cheshire.
As an adult I suppose it might be Philippa Gregory and her well-researched historical novels.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I won Dragonblade’s The WriteStuff competition last year with Guinevere: The Dragon Ring, about a modern young woman who is kidnapped back to the Dark Ages by Merlin to become King Arthur’s Queen Guinevere and help him fulfil his destiny. It takes me about a month to do the first draft (they’re all about 100,00 words and over – the last is 120,000 at the moment) and then a few weeks after that to revise.

Gwen is feisty and strong willed, and finding herself in a society where women are viewed as chattels and not expected to have an opinion on anything comes as a big shock. As do many of the living conditions – a bucket in the corner as a toilet, powdered charcoal to brush her teeth, no stirrups on her horse’s saddle, rabbit skins as nappies (which way out, one wonders – it doesn’t tell you that when you research it!).

My publisher is bringing book three out on May 31st, and in this Gwen has found her place in Dark Age society and educated her somewhat male chauvinist husband in how to treat a woman. She’s also presented him with an heir, which happened in book two. But they’re still finding their feet both as a couple and as a king and queen.

Arthur is a flawed hero, handsome of course, but even though Gwen has come to love him, she’s frequently irritated by his attitude. But she’s also got Merlin as her friend, and he’s not the old greybeard we always imagine him to be. He’s a warrior who looks about Arthur’s own age, but is he? There is a small element of magic about the story, as there has to be in a retelling of Arthurian legend, but there’s also a lot of historical realism, and lots of the characters in the book were ‘real’ people – as far as we know.

I’ve tried to follow as much legend as I can, which led me down many rabbit holes of research, which I loved. I think if you’re writing a retelling of Arthurian legend you do need to include certain elements – Merlin, the sword in the stone, Excalibur, Medraut (Mordred), Tintagel etc. You’ll find them all in my books, although some of them I’ve put a slight twist on. I like to surprise my readers.

You won’t find a Lancelot though, as he’s a later medieval addition, and French! This is strictly British and very much post-Roman with ruins of their towns and cities and villas scattered all over Britain. The armies march up the old Roman roads and take shelter in ruined Way Stations. There are threats from all sides – the Saxons in the south and east, the Irish in the west, and the Picts from north of Hadrian’s Wall. Not to mention strife between rival British kingdoms.

And over all of this hangs the threat of Camlann, Arthur’s final battle in which Gwen fears he’ll fall at the hands of his nephew Medraut. She knows all the legends, and with that knowledge she wonders if she can change history, or if perhaps it’s already set in stone.

I’ve recently finished book six, and am quite sad to say goodbye to Arthur and Gwen.

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Featured Author Dr. David D. Schein

Author Dr. David D. Schein

Featured Interview With Dr. David D. Schein

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
• Dr. David D. Schein, MBA, JD, Ph.D. is a Professor, Endowed Chair of Management and Marketing and Director of Graduate Programs at the Cameron School of Business at the University of St. Thomas. Dr. Schein is frequently interviewed on employment and business law matters. He speaks for business and industry groups throughout the United States on various current topics. His new book is: Bad Deal for America. He is also the author of The Decline of America: 100 Years of Leadership Failures (2018). He has been quoted in numerous national and local publications, including Forbes and US News and World Reports. In addition to hosting “Saving America” and “Business Law 101” webcasts, he has been interviewed on numerous webcasts and podcasts in the United States and England.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I began writing in high school. In college, I was writing a script for a weekly radio program that I hosted. At the same time, I was providing some newspaper articles on arts and entertainment. Later, I began writing for professional journals and publications. I also produced my own newsletter on employment law topics during the 1990s. Over the last five years, I have focused on books in addition to academic journals.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite authors are Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. For entertainment, I generally listen to mysteries in my car. I do so much reading for research that I have little time to read for pleasure.

Most of my current influences are from the latest business and political news from around the world.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
“Bad Deal for America” genre is political satire. It is based on a deck of cards. Each card represents actual statements by a recent or current member of Congress or the Senate. The opening chapter, “Dealt a Pile of Chips” explains in detail the benefits and salary paid to the Members. The last chapter talks about how some Members have magically either become millionaires or enhanced their fortunes by being in their elected positions. The pitch of the book is for term limits for elected officials.

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Featured Author Varvara Krasneva

Author Varvara Krasneva

Featured Interview With Varvara Krasneva

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
By the end of high school, due to parents’ work, Varvara Krasneva had lived in three different continents, four countries, eight cities, and changed seven schools. Throughout these moves, Varvara has always continued to snowboard even at an indoor hill in the United Arab Emirates. Yet, snowboarding at the local mountains near Vancouver is her favorite place to ride. The Canadian author has done competitive slopestyle snowboarding since she was nine years old, competing at Provincial and National levels in Canada. Varvara is also a graduate of Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Snowboarding and psychology continuously accompany her in her writing.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
The author became fascinated with books in elementary school and started making handmade books at about the same time. The more she read, the more she wrote. The more she wrote, the more she read.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
The author’s enjoys the Ulysses Moore book series by the Italian author Pierdomenico Baccalario. Her favorite genre is adventure fiction. Dr. Seuss inspires Varvara in her writing due to his patience and commitment to writing, as well as his self-determination toward success.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
The latest book by Varvara Krasneva is “Teenage Dream”. It is an adventure fiction for young adults set in Vancouver, Canada. The book involves missions with various outdoor activities such as snowboarding and hiking. The protagonist Emily, is an agent of the Preservation Team that supposedly works for the government. After being threatened by ex-agent Kate, who seeks to reveal the true purpose of the Preservation Team, Emily begins to suspect that there are more things hidden than open about the organization and its leader, Chief. While going on missions and fighting her own family problems, her desire to find out the truth pulls her into a conflict that began twenty-seven years ago. All that is left for Emily and her friend, Agent James, is to go on the hunt after Kate and discover the truth that has been kept secret from all of them.

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Featured Author Brian Coggins Jr.

Author Brian Coggins Jr.

Featured Interview With Brian Coggins Jr.

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am not only a science fiction and epic fantasy nerd but I love reinventing stories about Greek mythology and history. Writing has always been a pathway to another world for me as my inspiration for character development and intricate mystery plots flourished from my time in film school in Orlando, Florida. I want to create an exclusive fulfilling reading experience that indulges my audiences imagination and dives them into a complex, action adventure universe full of diverse characters.

When I’m not writing, I’m spending time with my friends and family, traveling with my wife, or doing house chores that my wife tells me I never get to.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My fascination for books came with my time in college but I have always been intrigued by Greek mythology ever since high school which helped in my desire to write ‘The Olympus Trinity.’ But what drew me the most was I wanted to create a fresh take on the Greek gods. There is such a distinguished history behind Greek mythology that people know and love and I just wanted to allow myself to create a more realistic and relatable story of characters for audiences to emotionally draw to while still maintaining action packed sequences full of love and humor.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Dan Brown and George RR Martin. I love the way Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” series drops the audience right into the story, hitting the ground running out the gate and the world building that George RR Martin does with his Game of Thrones series.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is ‘The Olympus Trinity.’

How much would you sacrifice to protect your family when everything isn’t enough? This epic fantasy adventure will take you on a journey following the Greek Gods and the original Olympus Trinity.

Zeus, the King of the Gods, fears no man, being, or anything of nature in the universe except one thing . . . the loss of family. Opposed to the cruel ways of his vicious father, Kronos, Zeus has strived endlessly in instilling the traditions his mother Rhea taught to him—Family is Everything. In spite of all his protection over his children, destiny ignores no one.

When a mysterious figure comes to his home, Zeus discreetly turns to his reticent brother Hades, God of the Underworld, for answers. Unfortunately, the rebellious and uncontrollable Ocean God, Poseidon, seeks for the answers his way that collides the troubled lives of the forefathers.

Needing to cast aside their differences, the Olympus Trinity must work together if they are to unravel the threads of a perilous mystery of their past.

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Featured Author Craig Copeland

Author Craig Copeland

Featured Interview With Craig Copeland

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Raised in Los Angeles, but have lived in eight different states in the U.S. and three overseas. My dog, North was an aussie shepherd. Greatest dog on the planet. Knew over thirty different sign language gestures.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
At nine I was given Othello by my mother. Didn’t completely understand it, but it kind of read like a thriller. From there I was hooked. Wanted to be a writer. Started with poetry, then later moved on to short stories. In my twenties to earn a living I became an advertising copywriter, then later a magazine copywriter. I wrote my first book in my thirties.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I always think this question is like asking what my favorite music is. How much time do we have? I started by reading a lot of fiction and sciFi, which really got my imagination working. Later, books that were written so beautifully like Prince of Tides, White Oleander, I Know Why Caged Birds Sing. Later, when I realized that a lot of my beliefs were really imparted to me, I began to question and challenge everything, so I started to become a researcher and read more factual books on people, moments in history, and how things (really) work. Now, I am all over the place: My Life in France, Julia Child, Hail Mary, Andy Weir, NeuroTribes, Steve Silberman, Bewilderment, Richard Powers…

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Disruptors: The Gateway to Genius Level Thinking is about how we have gone from a society of disruptive intuitive thinkers to become a society of rational thinkers who chase money, fame, and social acceptance. The book is about how we all still have this genius Disruptor inside of us and how to tap into and reacquaint ourselves with our more powerful genius-level thinking. It shows that genius is not IQ and that anyone can regain their most powerful thinking.

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Featured Author Dwight David Croy

Author Dwight David Croy

Featured Interview With Dwight David Croy

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Raised in Portland Oregon and all over that state. Now residing in North Carolina due to 28 years of military service in the Army as a Chaplain and this is where the grandchildren are. One dog, Moosie. We are in the practice of adopting survivor dogs. We have had over 12-15 dogs over our 40-year marriage. Love to walk with my dog, read, read, read, and spend time with my grandchildren. Now writing in earnest and rewriting, at some point there will be an explosion of my work for better or worse. It is a process that makes me study my Bible more and is a prayerful replacing of the pride of man with godly thoughts.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Elementary school is when I disobeyed my mom and dad over and over again in reading after the lights went out for bedtime. I read in low light, with a flashlight, and moonlight. Thus, I read with glasses and have had glasses for most of my life since 5th grade. This would be God’s “come-up-in’s” for disobedience. College and my first pastorate is when I started to write. Was raised in the sixties when “creative” writing without the rules was the main way of learning to write.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Early on John Bunyan’s “Pilgrims Progress”; always the Bible; C.S. Lewis; Chesterton; and Dickens are among many favorite authors to read. Historical Fiction and non-fiction are my favorite genres to read. The reason I like the above writers is the fact these volumes are “others” centered. They write to change the world. Perhaps not with one volume, but by causing thinking to change with creative means. That is the way I would like to continue to write.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My first book is about the disenfranchised which is very much a part of the heart of God. As a preachers kid growing up, I saw a lot of great ministry outreach and some not-so-great approaches to the population that is “fatherless.” A grid needs to be in place so that churches can evaluate themselves and their ministry to those people that God does not want us to forget. Not only churches need to evaluate, but also non-profits. I believe this book can help them from Scripture, and God’s thinking without the influence of any outside “cause.”

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Featured Author Sherry denBoer

Author Sherry denBoer

Featured Interview With Sherry denBoer

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Galt, Ontario, Canada. The youngest of four children, at seven, my family moved to Burlington, Ontario, where I spent my teenage years. Out on my own by seventeen, life was no picnic. As my debut novel, REASONS is a creation formed out of the challenges I faced as a young woman; and further enhanced by the lessons I learned. Although the story draws from my life experience, it is a work of fiction.

In my early twenties, I completed post-secondary education in sales and marketing. For years, I enjoyed my work as a Project Manager in both the Exhibit and Signage industries. And for twelve years, I was a partner with my husband in a sign manufacturing company.

I have fond memories of my role as a business owner—but life soon saw me venture onto an alternative career path. I currently live in Peterborough, Ontario, with my husband, Robert (and two cats: Shoelace and Wingnut), where I continue to pursue my writing career.

I have published my debut novel titled: Reasons, Three Lives One Soul, and I’m currently working on a second novel tentatively titled: To Cast a Shadow, and a non-fiction book tentatively titled: 42 days of isolation—lessons learned for a lifetime of happiness.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My mother took me to the library before I started kindergarten. A stack of books was always near my bedside. Learning to read, I knew books were special. I loved the look of a library and the smell. The tall wooden bookcases; the colorful spines of the thousands of books; the mixed scent of old and new books, and the hushed reference of the space, combined to thrill my growing brain—and filled me with awe. Still, to this day, I’m awe-inspired when in a library and excited about a new book to read. I cannot imagine a world without books.

I began writing at about the age of six. Back then, I wrote poetry, and later, journal entries and letters to friends and family. With a vivid imagination, I was often creating worlds and characters. My dream of one day drafting a novel and becoming a published author started when I was about ten years old. That dream took a long time to come true, but it remains just as special.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My book genre preferences are as wide as my imagination, as are my author preferences. When I was a teenager, I read Stephen King’s books. One day, I found Mila 18 by Leon Uris; that book moved me. It may have been the first time I cried while reading a novel. I’ve read many, many books; I can’t remember them all.

Another book that moved me deeply is Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. Other favorites of mine are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (which inspired my wish to create novels about hope and renewal), Dracula by Bram Stoker (which is delightfully creepy), and Pilgrim by Timothy Findley (which stirred in me a lean toward the metaphysical). And I’d be remiss not to include War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (which took a long time to read) and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (which, like War and Peace, is an exquisite study on how to write about humanity, character, and emotion). This list, a brief look into my reading, should prove that my tastes are certainly eclectic. If a book is engaging for me, I’ll read it cover to cover no matter the genre.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My life experience as a teenager and young woman inspired Reasons: Three Lives One Soul. Although the story draws from my experience as a victim of intimate partner abuse, it is a fictional story—that includes some magical realism and is a story about second chances, renewal, and hope.

Here’s the book’s description:

Combining wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, Reasons tells the touching story of Reason who, shown to us as a teenager, an elderly woman, and at thirty-five, yearns to leave her troubled past behind and to live without shame and fear. Her quest will lead her to a magical land, thrilling encounters with peculiar guides, a terrifying test, and a transformation far more remarkable than she ever thought possible. Reason’s journey shows us there’s wisdom in introspection and serves as a great reminder that people will help us along the way if we slow down and listen.

REASONS follows three versions of the heroine—each an independent life, all three forever linked.

ONE: As a troubled teenager, Reason starts a new life after escaping an abusive relationship—only to fall victim to the same man when he kidnaps her.

TWO: As an elderly woman, Reason approaches the end of her life—and struggles with Pain while searching for hope after trauma.

THREE: As a 35-year-old, Reason is led by a Raven into a mysterious world where she embarks on a quest with peculiar guides. As the guides clandestinely prepare her for the Stickman, a spine-chilling creature born of her fear, Reason tells her story.
Given a chance to reconcile her painful history, she wrestles with its ruthless effects. But success will mean reliving every detail… and conquering her fear.
If she can endure, a marvelous discovery awaits, and with it, an opportunity to meet with the younger and older versions of herself—and a chance to save them all.

The reader is transported into the heroine’s story—into a part whimsical, part dark, and emotionally intense journey. Both heartbreaking and heartwarming, the story is thoughtful, inspiring, and relevant to today’s world. It is philosophical while allowing for differing belief systems. A story of hope, the novel doesn’t shy away from the dark side of human nature—to show and courageously face that which, for some of us, is the tragedy that leads to self-realization and renewal. The story mirrors real life with its adventure, uncertainty, failures, triumphs, and discoveries—while also including a wee bit of magic. It’s not the magic of wizards and witches and such, but the existential mysteries of life that, while defying explanation, spur us forward into second chances and new beginnings.

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Featured Author Kristy Mickelsen

Featured Interview With Kristy Mickelsen

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am a 43-year-old wife and mother, whose passions include my two autistic young adult children, reading and writing. I was born in Upland California, and raised in Riverside California by my two wonderful parents Dale and Reata.
I now live in the beautiful state of Texas with my husband our kids and our two fur babies Rollie and Boxer.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I actually began reading at a young age. I grew up reading sweet valley twins as a young child but discovered my true love was reading romance novels in my early teens.
As an adult I took my love for reading and began trying to write my own stories.
I believe that writing is a creative way to express many human emotions that are sometimes hard to speak. Emotions such as love, lust, hate, anger, joy, and sorrow just to name a few. I love to write both nonfiction from my real-life experiences, as well as fictional romance, and even some erotica.
My books can be found on Amazon.com and B&N.com.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love Danielle Steel. I can never get enough of her stories. I love other romance authors as well including Jude Deverauxe and Lavryle Spencer.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book A Christmas To Remember was based off of the real emotions my mother felt when my father passed away from Kidney Cancer in 2011. The book is about finding yourself and love again after the loss of a loved one.
The book was very hard for me to write because it is so personal to me. I often found myself crying as I relived some of the memories from my dad’s cancer fight.

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Featured Author Kristy Mickelsen

Featured Interview With Kristy Mickelsen

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am a 43-year-old wife and mother, whose passions include my two autistic young adult children, reading and writing. I was born in Upland California, and raised in Riverside California by my two wonderful parents Dale and Reata.
I now live in the beautiful state of Texas with my husband our kids and our two fur babies Rollie and Boxer.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I actually began reading at a young age. I grew up reading sweet valley twins as a young child but discovered my true love was reading romance novels in my early teens.
As an adult I took my love for reading and began trying to write my own stories.
I believe that writing is a creative way to express many human emotions that are sometimes hard to speak. Emotions such as love, lust, hate, anger, joy, and sorrow just to name a few. I love to write both nonfiction from my real-life experiences, as well as fictional romance, and even some erotica.
My books can be found on Amazon.com and B&N.com.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love Danielle Steel. I can never get enough of her stories. I love other romance authors as well including Jude Deverauxe and Lavryle Spencer.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book A Christmas To Remember was based off of the real emotions my mother felt when my father passed away from Kidney Cancer in 2011. The book is about finding yourself and love again after the loss of a loved one.
The book was very hard for me to write because it is so personal to me. I often found myself crying as I relived some of the memories from my dad’s cancer fight.

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Featured Author Javier

Featured Author Javier

Featured Interview With Javier

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in a simple town in Habana, Cuba in the 1990’s. When communism started to enter it’s irreversible crisis.
We were eight in a house of 2 bedrooms so my parents and I had to move out to another town . This one was violent and way less developed, but I was lucky to avoid trouble and live a happy live.
I currently live with my fiance and our two dogs in the beautiful city of Matanzas(also in Cuba).

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
When I was 9 I did a Spanish exam that went so good they called my mom to tell her I had written an amazing story for my age and that she should encourage me to pursue a career involved with creating.
Since then I haven’t stopped writing.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Fantasy and adventure. Laura Gallego and Leigh Bardugo are currently my favourite authors.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I had a story to tell and I did it . The quest of writing project Angel Saga began 15 years ago. The world and the characters have changed in a way I feel it was meant to happen . When I review and rewrite I have the feeling of getting to a place I had visited before, maybe in a past life.
Nacimiento is the begining of Project Angel . It means Birth, because is the coming of Lídel to the world . He will collide with the reality of Cinan society and become a man. In this book he will learn what pursuing a dream really means.
Another birth happens in Nacimiento and it is the start of a procces long ago announced by a being that the creators called Father . The Termination. A series of events that will end in the extermination of the Cinan species.

Books and videogames alike fueled my imagination and then I had the tools to write this story that feels more like a message I need to deliver to humanity.

The story of the Cinans.

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Featured Author Simon Rose

Featured Interview With Simon Rose

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m the author of The Alchemist’s Portrait, The Sorcerer’s Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic’s Tomb, The Doomsday Mask, The Time Camera, The Sphere of Septimus, Flashback, Future Imperfect, Twisted Fate, Parallel Destiny, the Shadowzone series, and the Stone of the Seer series. I’m also the author of The Children’s Writer’s Guide, The Time Traveler’s Guide, The Working Writer’s Guide, The Social Media Writer’s Guide, a contributor to The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction and have written many non-fiction books with Crabtree Publishing, Beech Street Books, Weigl Publishers, and Capstone.

I offer a number of services for writers, including editing, coaching, mentoring, consulting, manuscript evaluation, and writing workshops. I’ve provided substantive and copy editing services for many other writers over the years. This has been for novels, short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biographies, inspirational books, and many other genres. I also offer copywriting services for business, including website and social media content. Full details can be found on my website at simon-rose.com. I’m the founder of Children’s Authors and Illustrators on Facebook, served as the Writer-in Residence with the Canadian Authors Association, am a member of the Calgary Association of Freelance Editors, and served as the Assistant Regional Advisor for SCBWI Western Canada.

I offer a wide variety of presentations, workshops, and author in residence programs for schools, along with virtual author visits. I’m an instructor for adults with the University of Calgary and offer a variety of workshops and writing courses for both children and adults.

I’m originally from the UK, but have lived in Western Canada since 1990. I’ve always had pets and currently have a dog and a cat, who always seem to keep me busy.

You may follow me on Twitter or Instagram, or connect on Facebook and elsewhere on social media.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I probably had a fascination with stories at an early age, whether picture books, novels, or comic books. However, I didn’t take writing seriously until I was an adult, as I mention in my next answer, when my children were quite small. I began to submit stories to publishers more than twenty years ago, with my first novel for young adults being published in 2003.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
It’s probably easier to tell a story of how I first became interested in being an author. When my children were small, I started reading children’s books again for the first time in many years. Some of the books were wonderful and I wished that I could write something similar. However, some of the books were very poor and I was surprised that they’d ever been published. This made me wonder if I could write stories of my own. I started thinking that I should write fairy tales and picture books for younger children, but after reading the first three Harry Potter novels, I realized that I wanted to write for the age group that those books are aimed at. I wasn’t interested in writing about the same things, such as magic, wizards, and imaginary creatures, and instead focused on themes that I was interested in, such as science fiction, fantasy, time travel, history, comic books, ancient mysteries and civilizations, superheroes, other dimensions, and the paranormal. The novels that have been subsequently published have mostly been in these genres.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
The Stone of the Seer is an exciting historical fantasy series of adventure novels for young adults, primarily set in the turbulent period of the English Civil War.

The Stone of the Seer, book one in the series, features the Vikings, Leonardo da Vinci, and the political turmoil of the 1640s. At Habingdon House, Lady Elizabeth Usborne, Kate, and Tom encounter a magical black stone, mysterious ancient manuscripts, and the incredible time viewing device known as the tempus inpectoris, all while under constant threat from the murderous witchfinder, Daniel Tombes.

The other novels in the series are Royal Blood and Revenge of the Witchfinder, which will be published in the coming months.

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Featured Author Michael Walker-Thomas

Featured Interview With Michael Walker-Thomas

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I have been writing all my life. My first book came out in 2018, but I love writing Novels and Poetry. I travel so much, so I like to say I am from the United States. I started in Philadelphia, Pa and now am a world traveler, getting many ideas from what I see and hear. I am also a teacher of English. I love teacher and I thank my students for allowing me to teach them. I love what I do. I have no pets.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I knew I wanted to be a writer by sitting with my Grandmother everyday when I was younger. She use to tell me stories about many things in her life. I walked with her one day and she said I should write and become a teacher, and that is what I do. Being a writer is the greatest gift I can give to the world outside of my faith in God and my marriage to my wife Briana.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
James Baldwin, W.E.B Du Bois and Maya Angelou are my favorites. They inspire me everyday. I love to read all genres.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My most recent book, The Voices You May Not Hear: The Lost Pages, is a collection of poems about life and other avenues. The book is part 2 of a series that focuses on voices that you may not hear. The stories could be real and it puts the reader in the mind of the characters.

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Featured Author Kate Harriet

Featured Interview With Kate Harriet

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I grew up in a small cosy village in England and used to live on a farm as a little girl. However I was petrified of the cows because to a six-year-old a cow is a monster.

I still live in that tight-knit little village but don’t have any pets as I am constantly being buzzed by the local woodpigeons and befriended by the neighbourhood cats.

Does this make me a Disney Princess?

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Mum says I started reading when I was about three out of sheer nosiness. I wrote my first alphabet book when I was seven and bound it together with blue parcel string.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favourite author to read is Jane Austen, as her books feature heroines who stand their ground against society’s rules and despite overwhelming odds.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
It’s a week before Christmas when 30-year-old London copywriter Jess Smith hopes that childhood crush Matthew Churchill will honour a decade-old pact and ask her to marry him.

But on the eve of the deadline, Matthew announces that he is marrying her old school bully instead.

Heartbroken, Jess flees to the beautiful frost-covered village of Birling Grove to recoup at her parents’ farm cottage. But soon she clashes with a notorious local earl…

As their feelings grow, will Jess find new love or will a dithering Matthew get in the way?

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Featured Author ETHAN KOIL

Featured Interview With ETHAN KOIL

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in the south-west and west of England, and currently live near Bristol.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve written fictional stories as far back as I can remember. Wrote my first novel at 16, and have been writing (albeit with some long non-writing periods) ever since.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favourite fiction authors are usually in the horror, dark fantasy, or crime genres. Long list, but Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Daphne du Maurier, and Patricia Cornwell. I am also interested by real-life stories about the strange / mysterious / paranormal, so often work these into my writing.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Floating Hair enjoyed a very long gestation period. I started writing it in 1996, wrote around 60 pages, and then became a bit disillusioned with writing and stopped. Picked it up again in 2009, and spent the next 3 years turning my initial attempt into a full-length novel: receiving no interest from publishers or agents.
Then spent 2019-21 rewriting the novel, before self-publishing.

Floating Hair is a gothic horror novel with a female perspective set in north-eastern United States.

David, grieving for his lost wife, returns to the town of his childhood: finding love and solace and escape.
Malsham: now filled with romantic, sexual, and criminal lives.
And some bad men. Especially one…
In 1692, Lucy was burned as a witch to conceal his crime: the ravaging fire destroying every aspect of her identity. In the centuries that follow, no-one is held responsible. But now she is given a chance of retribution…
On a cold October night, there is a light in the sky. The population of Malsham watches its blazing progress, before it crashes into the lake. In that moment before impact, some become psychically bound: their lives forever linked.
The explosion resurrects Lucy as a fiery vampire. Initially unable to leave the waters, she births small dragons which feed upon the townspeople: gaining sustenance from their endeavours.
Rain deluges the region. Hauling herself from the lake, the rainwater coats her skin: churning from transparent into disparate dark colours. She strides towards the closest house…

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Featured Author Eliza Stopps

Featured Interview With Eliza Stopps

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I have lived in the Pacific Northwest my whole life. I currently own a horse, a Great Pyrenees dog, and a black cat. They are all very cute and may or may not feature in one of my books in the future.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started “writing” books before I actually knew how to write. I would fill up notebook after notebook with just scribbles and pretend to write books! Eventually, I started writing poetry and stories all the time. I wrote my first actual book when I was nine years old and it was about 70 pages long. I was even published in a poetry collection when I was eleven! But I didn’t finish my first real “novel” until I completed NaNoWriMo in 2016 when I was 21. My first book was published a year later!

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read a lot of indie authors because they are kind enough to send them to me in the form of ARCs. I also listen to a lot of audiobooks and will pick up just about anything that sounds interesting. My favorite genre usually involves a mystery of some kind, but the only thing I don’t read is horror.
I am constantly inspired by everything around me. If I feel like I’m lacking inspiration, I usually take that as a sign that I need to go do something other than write for a while. I’ll paint, go horseback riding, or spend some time out in the garden, and I usually find the inspiration while I’m there.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is my Kindle Vella story, The Disappearance of Susannah Dane. That book was a Top Faved Kindle Vella story for weeks when it was first released and it even hit the top 20 in its categories on Amazon when I released it on Kindle Unlimited! You can buy the full novel in paperback or eBook on Amazon, or start reading it chapter-by-chapter on Kindle Vella.
This novel is very dear to me because it is set in a small town on the Oregon Coast, where I happened to have my honeymoon almost nine years ago. I have spent a lot of time in that area and there is this haunted, sad feeling to many of the locations. It’s the complete opposite of a sunny, white sandy beach in Florida. It brings a lot of nostalgia for me and I love writing these books. The main character, Paige, is kind of a version of myself in high school (if I had a backbone.) She’s strong and determined to find out what happened to her best friend which eventually leads to a tragic loss. This novel ties into small-town drama going back generations, which I love digging into. It also deals with sensitive topics like teen pregnancy and abortion, murder, and teen drug use.
I spent six months writing and publishing this novel on Kindle Vella, week-by-week, and then another six months publishing the sequel. The sequel, The Absence of Aurelia Perez, is out on Kindle Vella now and will also be available in paperback and KU soon!

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Featured Author Chimnese Davids

Featured Interview With Chimnese Davids

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am Chimnese Davids was born in Retreat, Cape Town South Africa. I am a digital and content creator, social media consultant for various businesses in manufacturing and tourism. I completed my studies at Varsity College Rondebosch in Accounting & Finance. A career that stems from property management, property development, manufacturing, and marketing.

Currently resides in Greenpoint, Cape Town.
I don’t own any pets, but if I should have it would be a dog. Especially a labrador or a husky.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always loved books especially being at the library and finding new books to take me on a journey and bring the imagination alive.

I started writing when I was twelve years old, I believe that I had a vivid mind and could get lost in the characters that I was writing about. I started to write fanfiction stories in my twenties and from there I have published 2 poetry bundles including a memoir and also a traveling journal of a pilgrim’s journey to the Holy Land.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Currently Francine River’s and her book Redeeming Love
Danielle Steele had been a favorite since I was in my youth.
Some of our local authors like Eva Mezza, Dominique Malherbe, Marilyn Daniels to name a few.

My favorite genre’s is romance, inspirational and self help

Who inspires me in my writing I’d say my family they are my greatest support system.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My current book is a traveling journal of a pilgrim’s journey to the holy land. She found herself in a place to bring her closer to who she is and also the battle of finding a life in the realm that only God can present to her.
It is a journey of someone that goes on a life-changing, altering journey to know that there is more to the life she is currently living. That no matter the ruins that were left behind in her life, only by seeking inner peace whether in mountains, desserts, or hills. God will find you in your ruins.

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Featured Author S.M Irvine

Featured Interview With S.M Irvine

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
S.M Irvine was born and raised in the heart of Southern Africa, Somewhere deep in the country of all mysteries called Zimbabwe. With games of power and money high profile people of Zimbabwe play, making it one of the poorest countries in the world S. M Irvine never got to leave the country physically but through the fantastic worlds the unsung gods called writers created. Through the fantastic creations from Blake Pierce, Liliana Hart, Michael Lister and many more indie writers, the inspiraton came, the love of writing, creating characters, settings and the life came leading to my debut novel, Price of Poison. I stay with my siblings and I love my neighbour’s dog which I’m still trying to talk him out to let me adopt it. His name is Rufus.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started writing articles, short stories that featured in local newspapers and poetry that I read out to the whole school every Mondays and Fridays during the assembly period. I wrote my first short story when I was thirteen, when I was fifteen I was working on a novella that I simply printed and handed it to my friends and close family members to read. I felt that urge to publish a book professionally. I actually never stopped writing until wrote something that I felt was worth trying to publish. Now here I am with a historical fiction about Pablo Escobar.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I’m reading new authors everyday and I am being fascinated by their writing style, their creativity their stories, but I love writers with stories that give me the chills, the writers of crime fiction and thriller for now I’m settling with anything from Blake Pierce, Michael Lister and Jack Baum’s Tetradome Run. It’s a masterpiece that I can’t stop reading over and over again.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest book is my debut novel, a historical fiction story set in the beautiful land of Colombia, in the 80’s during the Pablo Escobar Era.

Juan wants Pablo Escobar to pay – Pablo has everything that makes him invincible.
His hunger for revenge sends him on a killing spree.
The obsession of wanting to see Pablo Escobar paying for the death of his wife and daughter turns Juan Martinez into a monster no one could even recognise.
S.M IRVINE’S first historical fiction novel lays bare the hidden world of how revenge based motives can turn a person into something more evil than the one he’s trying to eradicate.

Rivalry is simply created when two people misunderstand each other. Intense rivalry is when the misunderstanding turns into hatred and hatred drives one towards the path for a clap back. The itchy feeling to clap back drives one into a phase of no return where you want your rival to feel you, to submit to you and to yield. The fact is it won’t change you unless for the worst. The hunger for a vibrant clap back blinds you from reality. It might seem like the right thing, it might feel like you’re saving humanity from all possible evil but all it leads you to is a deranged personality where you will never be able to discern between the good and the bad, where you’ll never be able to choose between what’s good and what’s not. In a matter of time, that clap back turns into a more gory aspect called REVENGE. The hunger for REVENGE makes you just as bad as your rival and you’ll not see it. This is in fact a PRICELESS POISON mortals can ever possess.

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Featured Author Carol Harris

Featured Interview With Carol Harris

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I spent my early life in the east end of London, which was then a very poor area, not the trendy place it is now. I’ve lived in mid-Wales for the past 30 years, in an old vicarage in a small village. I used to have dogs (mainly Afghans and Lurchers), cats and horses and the occasional snake and other small animal, but nowadays just have visiting pheasants and smaller birds. However, our fields have Highland Cattle and Shetland ponies. Some of may activities have included fencing, playing Taiko (Japanese drumming), Indian dance and collecting fans.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always loved reading and writing, and wrote my first ‘books’ at about five or six years of age (and you can see two of those early books on my website). My published books have come out over the past 25 years. My books include business books (mainly based on NLP – Neuro-Linguistic Programming), educational books for children and various other topics, including a very popular book on traditional pig keeping and a collection of 150 stories about amusing things that have happened during my life (such as ‘Why did a pig eat a kipper’? ‘How did our street get covered in lino’? and ‘How inanimate objects strike back’.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I prefer to read non-fiction – mainly books on psychology, health and business, but do read lots of other things that cross my path. And a tip for people wh say they have no time to read is to keep a book in the loo and read a page or three each time you visit!

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I’m aiming to publish two books this spring. The first is on business and the second is on personal effectiveness. But as humour and simplicity are two of my key principles, both books are conversations between me and inanimate objects around my house. The second book is conversations between me and food and also contains recipes – more info. on this coming soon.

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Featured Author Mubarak Sandhu

Featured Interview With Mubarak Sandhu

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Hi !
My name is Mubarak Sandhu. I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer and worked in the same industry for more than 2 years before turning into an entrepreneur. I founded a music record label in the year 2015 and co-founded an event management company in the following year. I have always loved writing, and kept on working as a freelance content writer and at times, ghost writer as well, along with working on the growth of both my companies.

The pandemic stopped all the ongoing work, and hence gave all the time to complete the novel that I started writing in the year 2015. I completed my novel in 2020, and it was published worldwide in July 2021. Looking at a very positive response for the same, the novel was translated in Punjabi language and the Punjabi Edition was published in February 2022. The name of my fiction novel is ‘Boris – The Last Qahn Alive (Unearthing the Spear of Neutrality)’ and this makes me an author of two books, which are available globally via online platforms.

I was raised at Patiala, Punjab and I put up in Mohali, Punjab now. I do not have pets, but I love dogs and treat the stray/street dogs like pets only.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was about 11-12 years old when I became curious about how writers think and put their thoughts into words. My curiosity was never about reading but more about writing something of my own. I initiated with small poems, gradually moved on to longer poems and articles, eventually creating clearer thoughts and a better understanding of how to pen them down.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I am not a consistent reader, but there were some books that left deep impact on me. One was The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and the other was I Too Had A Love Story by Ravinder Singh.

My favorite genre is fiction, followed by real-life stories.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
The name of my latest book is ‘Boris – The Last Qahn Alive (Unearthing the Spear of Neutrality)’ which is a fictional work and is inspired by curiosity that everyone has for one thing or the other.

This book narrates the story of Boris, who lives with a group of nomads but belongs to the legendary race of Qahns whose leader Yura once sacrificed his own self to save the Kingdom and its people, when attacked by the ferocious King of Seabed – Crato. Boris faces the same responsibility, which is to save the Kingdom of Ekaardus during Crato’s next invasion. He explores the lands and forests and learns immensely from his journey and leaves a mark wherever he goes. Eventually, he returns to the Kingdom when it is about to fall prey to Crato’s wrath, and wins over the war by using the Spear of Neutrality.

Boris – The Last Qahn Alive is a novel for one and all – complexities of situations are put in rather simple words, characters are described well to picturise them conveniently, bifurcations of chapters is done for easy references and bookmarks, and brief poetic conversations work as icing on cake, making the story more engrossing and tasteful.

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Featured Author Jeanette Watts

Author Jeanette Watts

Featured Interview With Jeanette Watts

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Chicago, which says a lot. Chicagoans are a gregarious lot. It takes an extra 15 minutes to get through a grocery store, because somewhere along the way, we’ll end up in a conversation with a complete stranger about where to find the soy sauce, or how long it took me to make the coat I’m wearing.

The first time I moved, I was 3 years old and my father went to graduate school in Bozeman, Montana. That started a trend that has lasted all my life; I’ve lived in Illinois, Montana, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Carolina. I want to add a few more states to that list. I absolutely adore New England, and I’d also like to live in the Pacific Northwest sometime.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
If the family stories are to be believed, I have loved words since I figured out what they were. By the time I was three, I had memorized all my favorite storybooks and would correct the adults if they skipped a word when reading to me. When I was 4 or 5, we were in the college bookstore buying my father’s books for his graduate school classes, and I walked up to my mother and handed her a book. The title of it was “Teach Me to Read.” You can guess the rest.

When I was in 4th grade, I used to entertain my best friend Terri on the walk to school with my own stories. I didn’t know what fan fiction was, but I was making up my own Star Wars fan fiction. I narrated serial installments every day on our walk. When my best friend asked me to repeat some of my stories to another friend, she kept having to stop me because I was forgetting things. Finally she looked at me and asked, “Are you writing this stuff down?!” I wasn’t. I had to fix that. I have been writing ever since. It’s all her fault. She will cheerfully admit it’s all her fault.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite influences since high school and college are Margaret Mitchell and Edith Wharton, but mostly I read history books. I discovered the biography section of the school library when I was in 4th grade, and that started my lifelong love of history. My favorite authors are David McCullough and Shelby Foote and Ron Chernow. Hey, if Hamilton is good enough for Lin-Manuel Miranda, it’s good enough inspiration for me!

Tell us a little about your latest book?
“My Dearest Miss Fairfax” will be released on March 14th. It is a retelling of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” from the point of view of her rival/frenemy, Jane Fairfax.

I have two other books that are inspired by Jane Austen, so I am in a lot of online chat groups. I ended up in a conversation that culminated in my going out and buying a used copy of “Emma,” marking it up prodigiously with highlighters, and using the original text to reconstruct the events as they occurred in Jane Fairfax’s life. It was a very interesting process! When I wrote “A Woman’s Persuasion,” it’s a modern-day translation of “Persuasion.” I went chapter by chapter in order, taking the original text and setting it in 2008 United States and asked what would happen if Captain Wentworth was another woman? It took a lot of thinking, but it was all a linear process.

This time, the information I needed was scattered across the entire book. Only in writing this did I realize that Jane Austen had written a murder mystery of sorts, and the protagonist fails to solve the crime! Of course, the crime in this case is a secret engagement, not a murder. But Emma fails to put all the clues together. I was constantly having to go back and rewrite events, because new details are introduced after the fact. I had to rewrite every letter, and change the book’s title, because I had forgotten about a letter at the very end of the book that was full of important details!

Painstaking as it was, it was worth it. The end result, I like to think, feels like a thorough, honest reporting of what was going on from this different point of view.

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