Interviews

Shirley Melis, a graduate of Vassar College, is a longtime business writer, travel writer and newspaper columnist who traveled the world interviewing everyone from busboys to heads of international organizations before launching a career in public relations in Washington, D.C.

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Widowed two years, I found myself swept up into a whirlwind courtship by a younger man, a rocket scientist. Falling deeply in love, we married and started traveling as if there were no tomorrow — realizing our dreams of photography (his) and writing (mine). But little more than a year later, we were fighting for […]

I’ve been chased by moose, river otters, and mad mother partridges. And that’s recent. My seriously unsupervised childhood exploring clam flats, deep forests, and secret streams grew into the marrow that became my novel, Deadly Trespass.

I’ve worked to infuse my mystery-thriller with the drama and laughter of various outdoor careers, the sadness of loss, and close encounters with wildlife and unruly dogs. I live on Moosehead Lake and would rather be fly fishing, skiing, paddling, or just generally “out there” — unless I’m writing new fiction that draws people into a (safe-at-home) field trip to a disappearing world.[…]

I was born in Athens, Greece, at a time when progressive rock music still got radio play. After finishing high school, I studied Biochemistry and Neurochemistry at Imperial College, University of London, obtaining my BSc and PhD degrees. Following my studies, I completed my National Service duties in the Greek Army.

Having experienced severe research withdrawal symptoms, I moved to the USA to resume professional science work, first at Yale University and then at the National Institutes of Health. Afterwards, I started my own research lab in Dresden, Germany. In parallel, I became Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, […]

Harry Brown was a farmer, chauffeur, Boy Scout leader, storyteller and dowser. Born in 1907, he lived to be 102 years old. He lived in Halifax , Massachusetts for 98 years, making him almost a “townie.” The author owned Kemah Farm in Alexandria, NH. He was married to Mildred Blackman and had two children, Stephen and Deborah.

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Stories of Yesteryear – Horse and Buggy Days is a reissued book, written and illustrated by Harry H. Brown, that present an appealing collection of stories and tales about small-town rural New England life.

With wit, warmth and […]

Julie Elise Landry grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, and became something resembling an adult in Monroe, Louisiana. She wrote her first book in the fourth grade, stealing heavily from The Hobbit and “Ella Enchanted,” but learned not to steal when her mother grinned knowingly at the draft.

In 2013, she graduated from the University of Louisiana at Monroe with a Master of Arts in English focused in creative writing. Her life has been an amalgamation of children’s stories, musicals, and violent horror films since the eighth grade, when she watched “The Ring” by herself on Halloween night. (She does […]

Jim Grieco entered the world of entertainment back in the 1990’s. In and around Manhattan, he worked his way up the television production ladder, becoming an Emmy award-winning Director of Photography. His dedication to artistic expression has inspired his outstanding achievements in camera work, music and writing…including his award-winning screenplay “Five Thousand Years” and his critically acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy novel Ephaidria.

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Ephaidria is full of rich world-building, vivid imagery and a deep, detailed sci-fi mythology that keeps the reader rapt and at attention. The story’s collection of teens — all of whom shine with intrinsic […]

Jerry Collins is the author of Intrinsic:

In a world where nothing is as it seems comes a woman with the power to possess the souls and wills of men, to do with as she pleases. Jatara thirsts for world domination, moved by an unrelenting drive to capture and control the minds of her subjects. Jatara’s plan for world conquest is only obstructed by Derideon, an omnipotent ruler of the underworld, who wants Jatara to join his regime and praise him as her master. Will she obey? Or defy him? The battle of wills has begun, but only one […]

I was born in Nigeria , educated in Nigeria to university level. In primary school , I discovered reading and became the school librarian. In secondary school, I met Dr. Tai Solarin, who transformed my thinking with “You Can Become Whatever You Choose to Be ” and provided me the enabling environment of the school to do just that.

While in his school, I published my first verse at the age of 14 in the prestigious “Okike” magazine; wrote drama for the school’s stage also novelettes; edited the school magazine; was the President of the Young Farmer’s Club, the Medical […]