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An Interview With Author Hae-Lyun Kang

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

Forty Bibles and Forty Dictionaries is a memoir on the family of the man (Hae-Lyun’s brother) who committed affray in front of Prince Charles in January 1994.

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

I came to self-publish as after 10 months I was unable to get my book accepted for publication. I naively thought I didn’t need an agent so was sending off my manuscript as an unsolicited manuscript.

What self-publishing service did you use? Happy with the service?

I first saw […]

Cate Baum2015-01-07T08:01:36+02:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Author Rich Leder

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

Set in New York City, my McCall & Company PI series is fast and funny fiction. I’ve written the first two books in the series: Workman’s Complication and Swollen Identity.

They’re mysteries starring Kate McCall, an off-off-off-off Broadway actress whose father, a New York PI, is found dead in an insurance company elevator. Kate inherits his business (pretty much the last thing in the world she wanted) and takes her first job, a workman’s compensation case—featuring a ballroom dancing con man—because her current job is walking dogs in […]

Rich Leder2019-01-22T05:34:02+02:00December 30th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Rich Leder|

An Interview with Author G.E. Merritt

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

Chester Herman, Sheila Maddock, Jimmy Martin… three people born decades apart. Three people who all suffer from the same affliction. The migraine headaches that mysteriously started when they were all the same age. With the pain came a gift, a gift that only two percent of the world’s population possess. Once they awaken they are suddenly gifted with exceptionally high IQ. They soon discover that they have unlocked parts of their brains never accessed before and develop special “gifts”. Can they adapt to their new found powers or are […]

G. E. Merritt2015-03-31T01:02:02+02:00December 27th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Heather D. Wright

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

In this book, Living and Learning From the Healing Waters of Courage, you will find lessons that will both give you courage and heal your broken heart. There are inspirational messages and poems meant to encourage you and help you discover all that God would want you to be.

We all make mistakes in life, but God gives us the right path to embrace the healing waters of courage that will make us forever strong and able to overcome all the odds that try to make or break […]

Heather D. Wright2014-12-27T04:22:16+02:00December 27th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview With Author Pamela Cuming

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

Set in New York City and Los Angeles between August 1999 and November 2001, The Stranger Box is the story of a mother and a daughter caught like two white dwarf stars in separate orbits, destined to collide. Though she does everything in her considerable power to ensure the child never finds out who she is, the vain and self-obsessed Katherine Blair is unable to change the course of her destiny or evade Eden, the resourceful daughter whose pursuit is fueled by the desire for revenge and the determination

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Cate Baum2014-12-23T04:58:15+02:00December 23rd, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Author Joanna Penn [Audio]

Joanna Penn is a self-published New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who has sold over 100,000 books. I recently interviewed Joanna on my podcast, The Martin Lastrapes Show Podcast Hour, which you can listen to in its entirety by pressing the play button below:

A few of the topics Joanna and I covered:

How she quit her job and became a full-time author
Her diverse international background
The effect religion has had on her life and her writing
How important NaNoWriMo was for her first novel

Joanna’s website, The Creative Penn, was voted one of the Top […]

Martin Lastrapes2014-12-15T01:55:48+02:00December 15th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Author Donna Brown

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

Losing Heart is about a woman – Helen – with a serious, life-threatening heart condition who is lucky enough to receive a donor heart just as she feels time is about to run out. Grateful for her new lease of life, Helen feels compelled to reach out to the donor’s mother, Marian. Sadly, Marian is unable to let go of her daughter and becomes obsessive in her judgement of Helen, with tragic consequences for all involved.

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

Donna Brown2014-11-26T03:30:12+02:00November 26th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Thriller|

An Interview With Author Bella Woodfield

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

I wrote and illustrated “The Girl and the Moon” after a late winters walk in our local park with my daughter- then aged four- furiously scooting. As she scooted along she called out that she “wanted to catch that moon mammy!” I asked her what she would do if she caught it, and she replied that she would “eat it!”

The idea was such a simple one, straight from the mind of a four year old, and I couldn’t wait to pack her off to bed that night to […]

Bella Woodfield2014-11-25T06:45:37+02:00November 25th, 2014|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Children's Books|