Interviews

 SPR Awards Fiction Prize Winner Martin Kee talks about his winning book BLOOM

Tell us about your winning entry to the SPR Awards.
BLOOM is a book about two people living in two equally dangerous worlds. Tennyson’s world is overcome by plague, Lil’it’s world is a menagerie of mutations and draconian information laws. Both stories parallel each other in ways the characters survive and try to find some meaning in their worlds. For Tennyson, it’s finding his childhood friend before the world ends, for Lil’it it is about self-preservation. I tell people that it’s a sort of Grimm’s Fairy Tale […]

Karl Beckstrand is a nine-time published author with 17 titles online (reviews by The Horn Book blog, School Library Journal, Midwest Book Review and ForeWord Reviews). Raised in San Jose, California, USA, he received a B.A. in journalism from BYU and an M.A. in international relations from APU. Since 2004 he has run a publishing company producing captivating stories, ads, and scripts.

She Doesn’t Want the Worms! Ella no quiere los gusanos: A Mystery (in English & Spanish) is a very original story; where did you get the idea?
I just had this vision of a girl being offered […]

Bryan Healey attended Northeastern University, studying Computer Science before entering the workforce as a software engineer. He is currently pursuing an additional degree in English. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife. He has published 9 books in total; the latest is Devotion, part of a trilogy.

I jumped right into self-publication. While I wish I had the distribution capacity of a major publishing house, I prefer to self-publish because of the ultimate creative control and feedback immediacy it offers. […]

Chris M. Finkelstein was born in the woods and raised by Christian wolves that had become secular Jews by two thousand years of refinement, the first half quite dark.

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

I already published a non-fiction book over two years ago. I did not try to get published.I did have a professional company, bookcovers.com, do the cover and the interior. They were great guides and very professional.

Since I had been through the ropes, I decided to start this novel myself, again. I did it all on my […]

Adam Santo is the author of the novel “Temperature: Dead and Rising”, a zombie novel.

How did you come to self-publish? My wife wanted me to publish some of my work. I thought “What the heck” and went to writing full time. It has been a wild ride finding the right budget to pay for self publishing.

Did you try to get published traditionally? I didn’t think to offer my manuscript for publication through the formal channels at the time. I have sent out query letters with a rejection as a response. I know rejections are just the way life […]

An interview with Megan van Eyck, author of the self-published memoir, Memoirs of a Widowed Mistress.

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

As I was writing Memoirs of a Widowed Mistress, I was uncertain as to whether I wanted to pursue the traditional publishing route or opt to self-publish. Like many, I was on the fence for a long time. The idea of signing with an agent—of being taken care of by a seasoned professional who would lead me through the wild tundra that is the publishing world—sounded great! With a title like […]