Interviews with indie authors, publishers and book service providers in the self-publishing realm
An Interview with Cara Cilento: Author of Snapshots: Say Cheese! The World Is Watching
Cara Cilento grew up in a small suburban North Jersey town. Her family of origin did not. Her parents came from urban North Jersey. Cara’s grandparents were immigrants from Italy and first generation transplants from Newark, NJ. They were a close knit family which pushed success: academic and personal. Most of all, they pushed assimilation.
Cara Cilento is a divorced mother of two boys. She has been a speech therapist for twenty-two years in the public schools. She lives in suburban North Jersey on her terms. She defines her own personal success as living her truth and not what is […]
For 28 years John Jay McKey has been a student of success, building and leading data analysis teams in the banking sector, a Big Four accounting and consulting firm, the Office of Inspector General, and a multinational Fortune 50 company. While commuting from Chicago to Washington DC to work for the OIG, Jay had a personal epiphany that led him on a deep dive into the world of quantum physics. That journey resulted in the writing of Leverage the Field for Success, which explains how one can use what scientists call the universal energy field, the zero-point field, or […]
I live in Scotland, UK and have written numerous documentary voice-over scripts broadcast on television in the UK and USA (Discovery Channel, PBS etc.). I also work as a ghost writer, copywriter and part-time chef. I have two children, one of whom I tipped out of a kayak on her 3rd birthday while writing the non-fiction book, Why Have Adventures?
D.R. Pollock has been an avid sailor for over 50 years, including a crew member for one year on Elissa, the Texas Tall Ship. The years of sailing adventures and misadventures inspired several sections of Koa Kai. He is widely traveled and lived in a dozen states, including six years in Hawaii. Pollock holds a BBA from Georgia State University and an MBA from Drexel University. Koa Kai is his second book, and first novel.
Bart Ringer was born in Compton, California where he lived until the age of five when his family moved to North Long Beach where he grew up. From as long back as he can remember, his family spent summer vacations visiting relatives who lived in small towns in Southeastern Idaho. It was from those experiences that he developed a love for small towns and the lifestyles that they offered. Early on he decided that if he could ever figure how to do it, he would like to live somewhere in a small Western town.
Salar Ahmed Khan, MD, MBA, FACA, FCCP, DTCD, MCPS, worked as an internist and pulmonologist at Karachi, Pakistan, from 1985 to 1987; as the chief of medicine, the acting director of medical services, and acting hospital director at Al-Midhnab General Hospital under the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia from 1988 to 1993; as an associate professor of medicine at Baqai Medical College and Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, from 1993 to 1994; as a surgical assistant, material management, and acting central processing supervisor at Edgewater Medical Center in Chicago from 1996 to 2000. 
Born in 1961, in northern Nigeria, of parents from south-western Nigeria, I spent my primary school years in Ibadan and secondary school was completed in the famous Dr. Tai Solarin’s Mayflower School, Ikenne. Both towns/cities are located in western Nigeria.