Interviews

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

An Interview with Gary Rivera: Author of The Reluctant Bully

Gary RiveraGary was born in Brooklyn, New York, and currently resides in Orlando, Florida. A widower with two grown children, loves going to theme parks, playing pickleball, watching movies, and reading. He enjoys traveling and hopes to visit every major league baseball stadium to watch a game.

Tell us about your book.

The Reluctant Bully is the second book in the Lunch Money Trilogy. I wanted to tell a different story from The Lunch Money Treasure, while further advancing the narrative of the first book, and I wanted to provide additional backstory for several characters, who will be featured […]

2025-09-30T15:18:26+02:00September 30th, 2025|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Dave Bruno: Author of Oh F*ck! Dinosaurs!

Dave BrunoDave Bruno grew up in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, and was scared of everything. Eventually, he overcame his fears thanks to horror video games and has been in love with the genre ever since. He has worked on several horror-themed projects, like an animated YouTube show called Scaredy Dave, animations for Puppet Combo video games, and becoming a game master for his Cosmic Horror-centric YouTube show, The Mythos Mystery Society.

He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011 to pursue a career in game animation. He currently works as an animator for the mobile game industry and […]

2025-09-16T18:58:15+02:00September 16th, 2025|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Chris Bennett: Author of Windslash: The Last Elemental

Chris BennettBorn and raised in the small town of Fakenham, Chris Bennett has always had an imagination and passion for storytelling. Now, as a published author, he creates tales of fantasy, drawing inspiration from his childhood memories and from everyone and everything around him. When not writing, he enjoys training, TV, video games, and spending time with others. Whilst looking for new sources of inspiration.

Tell us about your book.

It’s a Fantasy novel set 10,000 years ago in Atlantis, where an Atlantean Battle Mage discovers he can use forms of magic that the other inhabitants can’t. This marks the start […]

2025-08-26T10:40:30+02:00August 26th, 2025|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Suzan Denoncourt: Author of Heaven’s Debris

Suzan DenoncourtIt was at the height of her career as a business executive that Suzan chose to pivot away from the corporate world and embrace a totally new chapter. Literally. Gravitating toward the mystery/thriller genre, she completed the first two manuscripts in the Cisco series before pursuing publication of her debut novel, The Burden of Truth, which was a finalist for Best Crime First Novel in the Crime Writers of Canada 2025 Awards of Excellence. Heaven’s Debris followed four months later.

The third installment from this Montreal-based, married mother of two is expected in early 2026, with more novels in […]

2025-07-28T20:14:18+02:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Kenton J. Moore: Author of Vallen

Kenton J. MooreKenton J Moore is a Canadian multi-genre author living in British Columbia. He is an avid consumer of stories, a comic collector, a video gamer, and a tabletop role-playing gamer. He is best known for his fiction work that spans genres from action to thriller, suspense, and horror as well as science fiction and fantasy.

Kenton’s writing journey began in high school with a love of writing screenplays for film. He continued to write screenplays and short stories until 2013, when he released his first indie novella, Legend of the Sunlight Prince.

He currently publishes under his own independent […]

2025-06-03T13:15:50+02:00June 3rd, 2025|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Anthony Lee: Author of Toxic Minds

Anthony LeeAnthony Lee has a unique background in medicine. After graduating from medical school, he switched from clinical medicine to health technology assessment, analyzing new medical tests and treatments in a career spanning over 15 years.

As a writer, he found inspiration in a variety of literary works, both contemporary and classic. He has especially discovered the excitement of thriller novels, including medical thrillers by authors like Robin Cook and Tess Gerritsen, crime fiction by Michael Connelly, and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. After years of brainstorming his own story ideas, he finally wrote and self-published his first medical thriller novel, […]

2025-05-07T12:41:27+02:00May 7th, 2025|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Curt A. Canfield: Author of The Errors of Mankind

Curt A. CanfieldCurt A. Canfield grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, where he acquired most of his beliefs as a Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and a Church Youth Group Leader. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam conflict. During his three-year enlistment, he earned two meritorious promotions, traversed most of Southeast Asia, and lost most of those beliefs.

He went to college to understand America’s involvement in Vietnam and graduated summa cum laude with degrees in English and History with Honors. He wrote several poems and short stories that were published before he […]

2025-04-23T09:22:03+02:00April 23rd, 2025|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Shireen Anne Jeejeebhoy: Author of The Soul’s Awakening

Shireen Anne JeejeebhoyShireen Anne Jeejeebhoy is a Toronto-based author, blogger, and photographer who holds a B.Sc. in psychology from the University of Toronto. After sustaining a brain injury, Jeejeebhoy has found that her writing keeps her grounded, her photography lifts her into realms of color and light, and posting on Bluesky creates a social web to support and be supported in her restoration journey.

Jeejeebhoy’s work is an eclectic mix of fiction, biography, nonfiction, and poetry, with the city of Toronto often in a starring role. Her books include the award-winning biography Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story; the novel She, […]

2024-12-05T16:00:21+02:00December 5th, 2024|Categories: Interviews|
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