Interviews

Interview with Keith Soares, author of The Oasis of Filth series, The Fingers of the Colossus, and more.

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

My first book series is called The Oasis of Filth. There are three parts: The Oasis of Filth, The Hopeless Pastures, and From Blood Reborn, available separately or in one volume called The Complete Series. All three individual parts have been separately reviewed by SPR. 

The story is told by a suburban doctor who leads a rather privileged life when suddenly he’s on the front lines of discovering a […]

Interview with A. Yamina Collins, author of the short story collection, “The Blueberry Miller Files.” and owner of  Yaminatoday.com

1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

I decided to self-publish via my own company, DeeBooks Publishing, which I had a lawyer set up for me legally. I wanted to have full control over my publishing experience, which I knew would take a lot more work, but I didn’t mind. Yes, I once tried traditional publishing years ago. With self-publishing I feel like I have so much more freedom to write the things I […]

An interview with Elaine Bassett, author of The Xidoran Prophecy and Return of the Clonsayee.

Tell us about your book.

The Xidoran Prophecy is the first book in the young adult series that I am currently writing.  It’s about the extraordinary adventures of Charles Brookfield.  In this book, Charles is a typical teenage boy who has grown up helping out around his grandparent’s farm.  On Charles’ fifteenth birthday, his grandparents reveal to him that they have a secret.  They belong to an elite group of time travelers and coin collectors called Sojourners.  Those who belong to this elite group are […]

Teneca Meeks is the author of Cat Eyes, an original take on the science fiction subgenre of monster erotica.

Tell us about your book.
Cat Eyes is the first book in a series I intend to write. It introduces the reader to the leading lady Tia Calloway. It tells how Tia came to live with the equestrians and explains the crazy situation the equestrians are in. Cat Eyes is the start of the journey Tia will take not only to find herself but to find her place among the equestrians.

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

Check out this nice podcast with Joanna Penn from the guys at the Self-Publishing Podcast:

We started out by talking about speaking opportunities for writers (Sean and I want to get paid to speak), based around Joanna’s conveniently timed new book Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives, and Other Introverts, which you should go and pick up if you’re at all interested in speaking — whether you consider yourself an introvert or not.

(I’ve read it, so I can tell you it’s awesome. So go get it.)

Throughout the rest of the show, we talked about how to take ONE

Gerard Marconi, the winner of the Shorts category in the SPR Awards 2014, talks about his winning entry, ” Searching For Paradise and Other Stories”.

Tell us about your winning entry to the SPR Awards.
“Searching for Paradise” is a collection of short stories which I wrote over a period of six or seven years. Several of them were first published in literary journals or magazines. Because of my background in the arts, many are about famous artists or works of art. I tried to make some of them comic or edgy while others are more serious. I think there’s […]