Interviews

Jan Ewing grew up as a good boy in Southern California. That went on for far too long, until one day, with little warning, he sat down and wrote a string of very dirty books that are today considered—beyond all understanding—to have been influential during the upheaval leading to the Stonewall riots. Jan lost track of them until 2005, when he learned that eBay was selling those long-forgotten epics for ridiculous sums, in most cases more than he was paid for writing them. At that point, he decided to become an author.

Jan has been a working musician, a Navy […]

Mr. Chism had a whole other career in registered nursing, but now he writes short stories about women protagonists. He holds two bachelors degrees, one in English, and one in registered professional nursing. He lives on the west coast of Florida and loves to cook, garden in pots, and ride his bicycle around the trendy warehouse district looking at murals.

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Mnemosyne’s Daughters is a book of short stories about women protagonists. They explore issues like glass ceilings, trafficking, outdated social mores, patriarchy, unfaithful lovers, and assault. Several were inspired by ancient myths. I took the […]

Daniel McFatter has worked in the oilfield industry for over fifteen years and he believes Spanish should be required learning in Texas schools. He lives in Houston with his wife, Johanna, and a gaggle of animals where he is currently writing his next book.

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Miguel Traveler is a post-apocalyptic novel that centers around Miguel Morgan, an oilfield worker from Houston in the year 2012, who suddenly finds himself in a desolate future where civilization has all but vanished. As he tries to unravel the mystery of how he ended up in the future, he must […]

Belinda Kroll is the author of three historical novels. She is also the author of non-fiction and children’s storybooks under the name Binaebi Akah. With a masters in Human Computer Interaction and a minor in English, she helps make websites and software intuitive by day, and puzzles away at her writing by night. She lives with her husband and two dogs in Ohio. Go Bucks!

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Spontaneous, fifteen-year-old Gretchen vows to help heal the nation from the recently ended Civil War. On the morning of President Lincoln’s death, Gretchen finds an amnesiac Confederate in her garden […]

E.J. Kellett is a Dystopian Fantasy Author on a mission to challenge perceptions. Kellett’s novel The Victory Perspective is a compelling story that sheds a new light on the traditional creation story. The first installment in the epic tale of creation, The Victory Perspective showcases a mind-bending plot with ominous overtones. A prime example of E.J. Kellett’s dark-tinged storytelling.

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The Victory Perspective takes the well-known creation story from the bible and turns it on its head. It is written as the “other side” of the story and explores many confronting themes about religion and humanity.[…]

Mario Kfoury is a private investor with credentials in martial arts, physical education, real estate, aviation and Technical Analysis. Self-taught in the streets of Beirut, Brussels, London, LA and New York, he synthesizes his views on life through different disciplinary and cultural prisms in favor of a peaceful/secular agnostic Deism. The story he shares appeals for democratic-socialism founded on sensible educational and healthcare systems, rigorous tax regulations; and cautions against the perils of religious beliefs, demography, and the reckless attitude towards the planet and its ecology.

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Coffee Shop University is mainly a book about cross-cultural […]

I am a graduate from Illinois Wesleyan, where I majored in Creative Writing and Computer Science, who now works as a software engineer, not merely because it affords me the freedom to spend my nights writing.

Why did you choose to self-publish?

After hearing back promising no’s from agents, I became sick of playing the submit and wait game. I also figured that even if I were to go through the process of someone else handling the publishing, the marketing would still fall on my shoulders. (And that’s really the hard part anyways). There is, too, a sort of pride […]

RD Meyer is a military officer stationed in Kansas, and he has two published novels – Akeldama and Salvation Day. He lives with his wife, two daughters, a dog, and some chickens on a country farm, where he continues to write and enjoy life.

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Salvation Day is about one person’s journey through grief and questions about why life can sometimes be so cruel. The main character, Mike Faulkner, lost his baby girl to a childhood illness, and his wife, consumed by grief, committed suicide. Because she chose to kill herself, her soul was sent […]