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An Interview With Author Cindy Irish

Cindy Irish is from Michigan. She used to write radio commercials. She still voices commercials, but now writes fiction, which she says, “is the same as making up stuff about businesses—except romance is sexier.”

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

The Song That Seduced Paris is about a famous singer from France who joins an international pop opera singing group called Bel Homme. That’s French for “beautiful man,” which he certainly is. At the first meeting between all four men, he also meets the heroine, an American ex-music teacher who’s been hired to manage the […]

Cate Baum2022-10-21T11:53:39+02:00December 7th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Cindy Irish|

An Interview with Author Deloris Cook

Deloris Cook is a certified life coach, employment specialist, motivational speaker, actor, and author with over fifteen years of experience. Her mission is to help others identify and overcome the fears that have paralyzed them from succeeding in new ventures or jobs, especially when there is fear of the unknown and public criticism or humiliation. Deloris had to remove her own fears and blocks so she could go from being fearful to fearless.

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

This book, Identifying And Overcoming Fear So That You Can Get The Job You Have Always […]

Deloris Cook2015-11-23T09:17:52+02:00November 23rd, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

Book Jumping with Bonnie Ballou

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

is a frequently humorous story about a young woman who experienced trauma in her childhood and is having trouble as she enters adult life, but who finds healing by diving into books — actually entering books. The experience of living inside a spy novel, a thriller, a romance, a Western, and so forth, becomes real. It’s told in the styles of the different genres she enters. Although I use genre tropes as a source of humor the goal is not satire. She only enters books she likes. The story […]

Bonnie Ballou2015-11-19T09:55:25+02:00November 19th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Rik Stone: Author of the Birth of An Assassin Series

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

Book one, Birth of an Assassin. The setting is the backdrop of the Soviet Union. Corruption in military ranks has filtered down to street level and naive young women are being tricked into leaving Russia.

Book two, The Turkish Connection. This novel reveals the story of the gangs who are getting the girls ready for prostitution before selling them on. The Man in the Blue Fez has the protagonists of the first two novels joining forces in an

attempt to get to the core of the corruption […]

Henry Baum2015-11-02T05:14:17+02:00November 2nd, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview With Author Helen Harper

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

Night Shade is the first book in the Dreamweaver trilogy. Essentially, it follows a young woman called Zoe who suffers from agoraphobia and is terrified from both going outside and having strangers visit her home. When a tragedy happens right on her very doorstep, however, something inside her is unlocked and she realises she doesn’t need to leave her home – simply by falling asleep she can enter the Dream Lands, a strange place where it seems almost anything can happen. The first person she encounters there is a […]

Cate Baum2017-03-24T06:28:36+02:00October 22nd, 2015|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Fantasy|

Interview with Author Anya Valentino

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

You always read teen novels or watch movies where the shy underdog of a girl becomes popular and in the end “gets the guy” and then allegedly has everything and lives “happily ever after” – and the popular girl is often just the mean girl. I thought it would be fun to turn it around and write a book from the most popular girl’s point of view and her struggles in life as popularity in real life is far from a “happily ever after scenario”. To my mind, the […]

Anya Valentino2015-10-23T04:32:14+02:00October 21st, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

Our Writing Day – David J Bishop & Scott Cordero

When Scott and I first met, we each still had children in our houses and 9-5 jobs. We had baseball and soccer and football and ballet classes and music lessons to chauffeur children to and from. So when we decided to try writing a novel together, we had one evening a week together that usually started around 7pm and ended at 11pm – If we were lucky. For those of you who have ever tried to follow a dream and been in this same position, you know, it makes for very slow going. That first novel, a military espionage, was […]

David Bishop & Scott Cordero2015-10-14T07:57:01+02:00October 14th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Fantasy|

An Interview with Nick Alverson: Author of Insane-O-Tron

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

Insane-O-Tron is a collection of six short stories that take the reader into an absurd and surreal world of talking haircuts, time travel, earwigs, drunk-hunting, R rated family television, and that’s just the start. This book is like riding a roller coaster in the dark without a safety harness. You will never guess the next twist, turn or moment you’ll be flung from the ride into the unknown.

How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

I made a feeble attempt to get traditionally […]