Interviews

An interview with “The Bird Room” author Chad Hofmann, featured this month on SPR’s Lead Stories.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
The Bird Room is 17 short stories of horror, the paranormal, and the unknown. These stories were all written over the past five years or so with one or two that date back about seven years. I had always thought about publishing all these stories into a collection and finally the came, and here it is.

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

Jen Minkman was born in the Netherlands. In her home country, she is a trade-published author of paranormal romance and chicklit. She is also a self-published author of poetry, paranormal romance and Dystopian fiction.

Tell us something about your books. The basics: what are they about?
The Island Trilogy is a compilation of three stories set in the same Dystopian world. The first story (The Island, which I named the series after) is set on an unnamed island divided in two by a wall. People on the east part of the island call their neighbors on the other side Fools. […]

Thomas Drago is the author of Crow Creek, a strange and wonderful tale about a sinkhole and the town around it.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
Crow Creek takes place in a fictional Southern town.  The local Sheriff is investigating a recent suicide and finds himself in conflict with a prominent pastor.  The book is really about dealing with the loss of a child and about how people question their faith after tragedy strikes.  Sometimes, you can’t trust those you think you can because they aren’t as they seem.

How did you come […]

Ariel Ceylan is a senior at William Paterson University and has written several fantasy books.

How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?
I self-published because I was frustrated with traditional publishers. I wrote my first book when I was 13 and I felt that I was ready to publish, so I did so when I was 17. Of course I did try to get published traditionally, but I was rejected. It never was because they didn’t like the story, it was because I was “too young”.

What self-publishing service did you use? Happy with […]

Danish Author Claus M. Lohman talks about how his self-published novel became a TV show

How did you get the idea for Genesis Two Worlds One Mission?
About twenty years ago I wrote a novel for my own amusement, setting it on a shelf unpublished. Ten years later I got an idea for a plot for another book because of my interest in science, genetics and Amish. I thought “what if evolution continues?. What if Man kind is just a small step in the history of the species at the Planet?” I toyed with the new storyline over a number […]

An interview with A.L. Goulden, author of contemporary romance, August Fog.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
It’s about a woman named Monica Waters whose just recovered from an injury and tries to get her life back on track. She’s in a marriage that has had a difficult road to a man she’s known since high school, Alex. Just as she’s trying to literally get on her feet again, a new neighbor settles in next door and catches her eye. Quinn Matthews is an artist from New York that she’s instantly attracted to. He […]

Tell us something about your book.

The riveting crime novel, 30 DAYS, follows Marcus Freling, 30s, African American, divorcee, military veteran, clean shaven, throughout his normal life as a mail carrier. His life is turned upside down when his innocent teenage niece is gunned down in Harlem, NY.  He starts off as a grieving uncle that only wants justice after her murder.

As time goes by and justice is not served, the novel takes the reader down a dark two-year journey as Marcus morphs into a vengeful shell of himself.  He feels that in order to get justice, he […]

Interview with Keith Soares, author of The Oasis of Filth series, The Fingers of the Colossus, and more.

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

My first book series is called The Oasis of Filth. There are three parts: The Oasis of Filth, The Hopeless Pastures, and From Blood Reborn, available separately or in one volume called The Complete Series. All three individual parts have been separately reviewed by SPR. 

The story is told by a suburban doctor who leads a rather privileged life when suddenly he’s on the front lines of discovering a […]