Interviews

I am a huge fan of Marc Horne. And it’s not just because he’s been known to write homages to Stan Lee or name books after Morrissey songs, or even because he’s been known to say a few kind words about my own work.

His new novel, This Unhappy Planet, is a satirical dramedy about two guys who hatch a scheme to open a chain of spiritual fitness clubs, hoping to get rich quick off of bored yoga moms and affluent New Age seekers. Its brilliance is in Marc’s ability to lampoon both the main characters’ cynicism as well […]

<—That’s me, the editor of Self-Publishing Review.

Self-promotion time.  I don’t do a huge amount of self-promoting about my own book here, but here goes.  Case in point, didn’t mention that my novel, The American Book of the Dead, recently won the Gold IPPY award for Visionary Fiction.  It also won Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival.

Today there’s an interview up by Todd Keisling.  I talk about the roots of the novel and self-publishing.  On self-publishing, a snippet:

TK: How about self-publishing? What got you started there?

HB: My first novel was released by Soft

I got turned onto Eddie Wright via a tweet by blogger Mike Cane, who suggested that the two of us together would be explosive. Naturally, with a teaser like that I had to check out Eddie’s novel.

Broken Bulbs is either about a junkie trying to write a screenplay or a writer who thinks he needs to fix in order to create. Either way, it’s a compelling meditation about the intersection of art and addiction and the way that both are essentially born of our need to feel like our life has meaning. Narratively, the book plays out like a […]

An interview with Vicki Hopkins, author of The Price of Innocence.  See how you can fill out this interview here.

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

My first self-publishing experience was in May of 2009, when I published a popular blog – Lessons From the Phantom of the Opera.  My readers begged for it in book form, so I thought the self-publishing route was my best choice for the type of non-fiction reference.

The Price of Innocence, my first novel, is also self-published.  Before release, I did not submit […]

An interview with Craig Lancaster, author of 600 Hours of Edward, the forthcoming The Summer Son, and the newest member of the Backword Books collective. Reminder: writers have the opportunity to fill out this interview as well. Details here.

Self-Publishing Review: How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally?

Craig Lancaster: For me, the decision to form my own small literary press and shepherd my own projects (and others’ projects — I hope to have some exciting news about that soon) represents a full circle. I originally self-published my first book, “600 […]