Interviews

Armani, from Montréal Canada holds a BA in Political Science. He works as a writer, entrepreneur and barber. Armani has also worked for political parties, boards of directors, Brazilian start-ups and served drinks. His writing, fiction or otherwise is a search for the reasons behind our actions and whether they really help us as a people. Electric Order is Armani’s first novel.

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Electric Order is a story that looks at our modern societies in the near future. It’s a dark future and relatively sooner than some dystopic authors tend to portray the possible horror […]

Dan Hendrickson was born in Sheridan Wyoming near the rustic Big Horn mountain range in 1962 to Carl and Helen Hendrickson. Dan went to school in the Sheridan School District graduating from Sheridan High School in 1981. He spent his athletic time participating in boxing, martial arts, wrestling and a little track. His father Carl owned a small eight lane bowling alley that he ran until Dan was 12 years old. After losing the business to the bank he was forced to go back to school and finish his masters in English. Dan picked up on his father’s love of […]

Abandoned by a cackle of laughing hyenas, Michael Sussman endured the drudgery and hardships of a Moldavian orphanage until fleeing with a traveling circus at the age of twelve. A promising career as a trapeze artist was cut short by a concussion that rendered him lame and mute. Sussman wandered the world, getting by on such odd jobs as pet-food tester, cheese sculptor, human scarecrow, and professional mourner while teaching himself the art of fiction. He now lives in Tahiti with Gauguin, an African Grey parrot.

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When a strange title for a novel hijacks his […]

Holly Quan is an award‐winning writer and communications specialist. She’s been freelancing since 1988 and has written documentary film scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, corporate communications materials and several non‐fiction books. In 2000, Holly and her long‐time partner moved from Calgary to a small town in the Alberta foothills. That transformation from city mouse to country mouse was the inspiration for The Sow’s Ear Café, her first novel.

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The Sow’s Ear Cafe is, on one level, a contemporary romance set in the gorgeous foothills of southwestern Alberta, Canada, involving two broken people who learn […]

Gar LaSalle is an award-winning historical fiction author and documentary filmmaker from Seattle, Washington. He holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts, Reed College in Portland, and Cornell University Medical School. A co-founder of the nation’s largest physician management company, LaSalle now teaches about survival in the business of medicine at Cornell, Columbia, and the University of Washington. When not welding massive sculptures or traversing the globe for book research, he can be found in his Maury Island studio in the Puget Sound area of Washington State.

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Inspired by true events, Widow Walk, […]

David J. Naiman writes magical realism for children under his own name and humorous medical fiction for adults under his pen name, David Z Hirsch. He lives in Maryland with his wife and two sons.

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Jake, Lucid Dreamer is the story of a 12-year-old boy who has never fully dealt with his grief after the loss of his mother four years earlier. Life has moved on but he is still damaged and angry in ways he can’t control and often scare him.

When he becomes a lucid dreamer, he looks to his dreams as a […]

After completing a master’s degree in biostatistics, and working as a statistician, Jennifer realized she was hiding behind numbers and formulas instead of creating something wholly new. Now, in writing, she has found an outward expression for her passion for the themes of philosophy, mythology, and ancient esoteric traditions that she weaves into her writing, and she loves working with the magic of words and language.

Why did you want to write a book?

Originally, I wanted to share with others what I was experiencing in terms of powerful inner transformation and transcendence. And I did end up doing exactly […]

Richard Smith’s motto is: Never give up; it can happen. And his first book, Time Trap, and now The Darziods’ Stone is proof of that.

Born in London, the youngest of three children, Richard has loved writing stories since he was 10; and regularly got top marks for his essays at school – where his favourite subject was English. After leaving school, he worked in a succession of dead-end jobs. None brought him as much satisfaction as writing – which he kept up, with his mother’s constant encouragement. Richard credits her father, a taxi driver, who enjoyed writing as […]