Interviews | Self-Publishing Review

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 […]

Nick Alverson2015-10-05T05:35:53+02:00October 5th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview With Lin Wilder: Author of Do You Solemnly Swear?

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

In the sequel to The Fragrance Shed By A Violet, Lin Wilder embroils characters in another complex web of dysfunctional family, deceit, revenge and the politics of courtrooms. Pulitzer Prize reporter Kate Townsend’s front page story for her newspaper, The Houston Tribune, about a juror–the foreman of McAllister’s jury–stepping forward to speak about the case and her concern about why McAllister was not granted a retrial galvanizes Houstonians once again: Had a Houston jury convicted another innocent person?

Dr. Lindsey McCall, former inmate at Huntsville and now Medical […]

Lin Wilder2015-10-05T09:42:04+02:00October 5th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Author Brendan Le Grange: Author of Drachen

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
Drachen is an adventure thriller that starts with Brett Rivera on the run, and stays with her as she races to find a legendary lost treasure of Hanseatic League. Along the way she has to test herself and her allegiances as the clues take her through Estonia, Latvia, Poland, and Germany.

But Hiko, a mother-obsessed psychopath, is determined to find the treasure first, and he is prepared to play dirty.

It’s an entertaining and fast-paced read.

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

Henry Baum2015-09-10T06:49:25+02:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Ray Palla: Author of Krill America

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

This novel is an essay on human interaction when people are thrown together and forced to work toward a common goal, although they have little in common and would likely not (of their own volition) ever choose to be connected to each other. It’s the story of struggle and the measure of success. An action, adventure, thriller; KRILL AMERICA is relentless and “rife with tension and suspense.” The characters and the plot are so real that the impending death story of the Galveston research vessel is described by critics […]

Ray Palla2015-09-04T10:12:21+02:00September 4th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview With Author Whalen Klift

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
Untamed Silk is an erotic romance about a hard-charging marketing consultant who, though sexually adventurous, has a history of emotional trauma that makes her unable to commit to a serious relationship. That all changes after a one-night stand with a fellow executive/adventurer/philanthropist who she pronounces “The best kisser she ever met.” She tries to forget about him with a series of other encounters in a variety of situations, including a haunted nineteenth century mansion and a Parisian swingers club. Then, after a traumatic event forces her to resolve her […]

Whalen Klift2015-09-04T10:11:19+02:00September 3rd, 2015|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Erotica, Romance|

Writing Behind Bars Part II by Jamila T. Davis

Jamila T Davis is serving more than a decade as an inmate in federal prison. Here, she describes how she started a self-help publishing imprint from behind bars to inspire and changes womens’ lives through writing, in the second of her two-part series on self-publishing from prison.

During my first few months in federal prison, I met a woman named LaTanya Jones; she is a former prisoner and the author of a book entitled “Cannon Love.” At the time, I was extremely depressed and had no clue how I would cope with serving a decade plus sentence behind bars.[…]

Cate Baum2015-07-28T03:05:14+02:00July 28th, 2015|Categories: Features, Interviews|Tags: Non-Fiction|

An Interview with Author Evy Journey

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
Welcome, Reluctant Stranger! (WRS) is Book 3 in my series, Between Two Worlds, which is a saga about a contemporary family living in the San Francisco Bay Area. WRS is the story of Leilani and Justin, the second son in the family. In a nutshell, it’s about the many faces of love spun into a tale of loss, past political intrigue, and a young woman’s inner journey, accepting her past.