Interviews

Josefina Gutierrez, an emerging Young Adult eBook author from San Antonio, chats about The Shadow of Loss and self-publishing.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?

My book is about a young girl coming to terms with life and loss.  Evelyn has lost both parents and her best friend-soul mate, June.  On top of that, she lost June in a seriously traumatic experience, which has emotionally and physically scarred Evelyn.  All Evelyn craves is to be accepted in a socially unaccepted atmosphere, high school.

How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published […]

Self-publishing has offered authors the opportunity to be more than an author or book writer. Authors today have the opportunity of turning written word into various form of multimedia format for profitability to become successful entrepreneurs, building a successful business around their knowledge and expertise.

I’m super excited to welcome Stephanie J. Hale to AuthorsCrib.com Expert Author Interview Corner to share her author millionaire message with other authors.

Mayowa: Good to have you here Stephanie.Tell us about you and how you begin your journey into the writing and publishing world.

Stephanie: My mother studied for an English Literature […]

SPR’s CEO Henry Baum has a an exclusive conversation with the President of BookBaby, Steve Spatz, about all things self-publishing and the way forward for BookBaby, as they announce a new collaboration with Blue Ash Publishing.

Tell us a little about yourself and BookBaby.
I’ve been with AVL – the parent company for all our brands – for almost 10 years, heading up the marketing for most of our music brands like Disc Makers and Oasis. I was somewhat involved with the launch of BookBaby in 2010, but as the brand grew slowly over the next 18 months, so too […]

An interview with “The Bird Room” author Chad Hofmann, featured this month on SPR’s Lead Stories.

Tell us something about your book. The basics: what’s it about?
The Bird Room is 17 short stories of horror, the paranormal, and the unknown. These stories were all written over the past five years or so with one or two that date back about seven years. I had always thought about publishing all these stories into a collection and finally the came, and here it is.

How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?
I almost tried to […]

Jen Minkman was born in the Netherlands. In her home country, she is a trade-published author of paranormal romance and chicklit. She is also a self-published author of poetry, paranormal romance and Dystopian fiction.

Tell us something about your books. The basics: what are they about?
The Island Trilogy is a compilation of three stories set in the same Dystopian world. The first story (The Island, which I named the series after) is set on an unnamed island divided in two by a wall. People on the east part of the island call their neighbors on the other side Fools. […]