Interviews

Interviews with indie authors, publishers and book service providers in the self-publishing realm

An Interview with Coral Walker: Author of Children of Swan

Coral WalkerMy life has been like a collection of interconnected rills, streams and brooks, swelling when it rains and diminishing when it’s dry. All the same they flow, as tributaries do, to a river. Writing is my perpetual river. I am Coral Walker, born and raised in China, and now living happily with my husband and three children in South Wales, in the UK.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

‘The Land of Taron’ is about Jack and Brianna, the older siblings of the Goodman family, who must search for their missing parents and abducted young […]

2017-04-28T08:19:30+02:00June 25th, 2016|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Pamela Cuming: Author of The Hourglass

Pamela CumingI have always strived to embrace Helen Keller’s belief that “Life is an adventure or nothing at all.” That has helped sustain me as I confront the challenges of aging, and as I am forced to accept that I am a mortal being who will die. My writing helps me feel vital and gives me a sense of purpose.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

The Hourglass: Life as an Aging Mortal confronts death and its precursor, aging, head on. It offers ways we can ease the burdens and enhance the joys of growing old.[…]

2016-06-17T04:32:19+02:00June 17th, 2016|Categories: Interviews|

A Conversation With EAC Past President and Publaunch Founder Greg Ioannou

Greg IoannouGreg Ioannou is the past president of The Editors’ Association of Canada, and has been editing books for almost 40 years. He’s also president of Iguana Books, a hybrid publishing company in Toronto. Cate Baum talks editing, eggcorns, English, and about Greg’s new crowdfunding platform for authors, Publaunch.com.

What’s your background in editing?
I’ve been a freelance editor since 1977. I’ve worked on books, magazines, government and corporate documents, board games … pretty much anything that’s editable.

Tell us about The EAC.
The Editors’ Association of Canada held its first formative meeting in 1978, and started up […]

2016-05-27T02:06:45+02:00May 25th, 2016|Categories: Interviews|Tags: |

An Interview with Chand Svare Ghei: Author of Prasvapa

Chand Svare GheiChand Svare Ghei (1976) is a leading IT and telecommunications engineer. He has an extremely broad experienced background including time spent in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia.

He has written his books in more than twenty countries and he uses reality as his main inspiration as he feels that reality provides even better stories than fantasy. This is the reason why the world he pens is close to ours, but contains various mysterious deviations.

In his early years, his mother introduced him to the world of fiction. This was the beginning of his love for creating short stories. For much of […]

2016-05-23T04:54:27+02:00May 23rd, 2016|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Dakota Kemp, Author of Ironheart: The Primal Deception

Dakota KempI’m Dakota Kemp, a graduate student at Southwestern Oklahoma State University and the author of three books: The Arrival, which is a medieval fantasy, The Shrike Chronicles: Goddess, a science fiction novella, and Ironheart: The Primal Deception.  I enjoy stories in any medium, but I prefer that either magic or spaceships be involved.  Otherwise, I might get cranky.

Tell us something about your book.  The basics: what’s it about?

Ironheart: The Primal Deception is basically a sword-and-sorcery fantasy novel that takes place in a steampunk setting.  The plot follows Jack Booker, an orphan who has turned to […]

2016-05-18T05:49:55+02:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: Interviews|

Confessions of a Repeat Offender: An Interview with “The Ancient Mariner” Phillip Giambri

Phillip GiambriPhillip Giambri’s debut book Confessions of a Repeat Offender: Musings on a Life Gone Right in Spite of Myself is filled with stories that illustrate his divergent perspective of life. Born in South Philadelphia, at eighteen he enlisted in the US Navy and served in the Submarine Force during the Cold War. He wrote anonymously about incidents his shipmates were involved in during long periods at sea for the sub’s daily newsletter, The Silent Service Breakfast News. Giambri left the military at twenty-two and then worked as a banker, actor, announcer, hairstylist, recording engineer, photographer, mail-order minister, and computer […]

2016-04-13T01:42:54+02:00April 13th, 2016|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with James Lee Nathan III: Author of Ibrahim Unites

James Lee Nathan IIIJames Lee Nathan III (JLN3), is the self-published author of two novels and nine novellas, spanning many speculative fiction sub-genres. JLN3 is best known for his scifi erotic crime drama series Robert Manis and No Brakes, both of which are bestsellers on the leanpub author platform. His latest works, CRIME-PHYTER, and Ibrahim Unites introduce readers to his Next Level Fiction experience.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

Ibrahim Unites is the final book in the ‘Are there no more Dragon Warriors?’ series, however it is a standalone offering. One does not need to have read […]

2016-04-08T04:20:30+02:00April 1st, 2016|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Author Bethany James

The Big Game- Bethany James: pirituality and LoveBethany James is a poet, plus-size model, and emerging indie author. She is a lover of Avant-Garde literature.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

The romantic and pleasurable attributes of life can be explored in this book. The Big Game: Bethany James was written by Bethany Camille James. I take poetic verse and explains a variety of topics like making love for the first time on one’s wedding night. Also the poetry book has a spirituality undertone. Spirituality can be visualized as the sensuality expressed in an emotional or physical connection between a man and […]

2016-03-18T01:26:16+02:00March 18th, 2016|Categories: Interviews|
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