Interviews

Sebastien Taveau is a puzzle solver and beyond-the-horizon watcher.

Seb’s technical and professional experience spans over 25 years in various industries. He has shaped ecosystems and products around FinTech, mobile payment, mobile security, mobile identity, and consumer solutions even when he was told it was impossible.

He has provided expert opinions for and has been quoted in the WSJ, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Reuters, Mashable, USA Today, CNN, CBC, Forbes, Dark Reading, Digital Transactions, Newsweek, etc. on topics ranging from mobile payments to mobile identity, and consumer biometrics and […]

Manson loves and hates everyone equitably. Though she’ll read just about anything, she enjoys weird shit like Hunter S. Thompson. She also likes crime fiction, the occult, horror, transgressive, science fiction, and dark fantasy.

Anthony Perconti lives and works in the hinterlands of New Jersey with his wife and kids. He enjoys well-crafted and engaging stories from across a variety of genres and mediums. His articles have appeared in several online venues as well as some indie press magazines such as Three Crows Magazine, Grimdark Magazine, Dark Matter Magazine, and Pulp Modern. He can be found […]

Born and raised in the west suburbs of Chicago, D.M. Wozniak discovered his passion for software at St. Lawrence High School, where he joined the computer lab as a ploy to get out of gym class. By the time he graduated in 1993, D.M. knew that he wanted to code for a living. But his senior year honors English teacher took him aside on graduation day and said, “Never stop writing. It’s your true calling.”

Four years later, D.M. graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering. After that, […]

Edmond Joseph “E.J.” Wedge is a resident of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and lives with his wife, Tina. Both of them have a shared love of the ocean and traveling.

Why did you choose to self-publish?

Book publishing is suffering from the same thing as television and movies. Everything is “bundled” at the executive level to drive maximum profitability and appeal to major investors, e.g. massive hedge funds. Everyone wants the biggest payout; advancing a company, let alone a huge one, by small steps, is very unfashionable right now.

I believe that’s wrong-headed, and so I’d rather strike out my own […]

Andrew Augustine Connor studied Art in Boston at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston and Tufts University where he attended on a full scholarship. He lives with his family in the Midwest and is at work on his second novel, Saturday Night Palsy, the sequel to Birdie Pesky. Saturday Night Palsy is scheduled for publication in late 2024 or early 2025.

Tell us about your book.

Birdie Pesky Was Here is a warm coming-of-age comedy featuring an epic bank heist, an eclectic cast of characters, and all the page-turner qualities of an old-school action suspense thriller.[…]

Having grown up in a small remote town, LaBrie James dove head first into reading and writing from an early age. Reading was a means of escape for the young LaBrie. Her literature choices have no specific genre, she would read most anything she could. As she creates her stories, she jumps into character and writes the stories from the perspective of the characters in her book.

LaBrie tends to write from both personal experience and research. Publication was a long journey for LaBrie, with barely enough money to feed her family, financing her book came with great sacrifices. Nonetheless, […]

Aneace Haddad is a McKinsey-certified Transformational Leadership Facilitator and a Professional Certified Coach. He is a former tech chairman and CEO who reinvented himself as an executive coach after discovering – with astonishment – that he liked people more than computers. Aneace draws on over thirty-five years global experience driving innovation, building high-performing teams, and coaching senior leaders around the world.

Aneace has been bridging cultures and adapting to change since childhood. Born in the United States to an Iraqi father and an American mother, he spent his teenage years at a French expat school in North Africa. Aneace now […]

David Lorne Harrison is a first-time author, writing as Lorne Kent. David was born and raised in the county of Suffolk, England and emigrated to the Ottawa, Ontario region of Canada in 1980 with his wife, Sandra. His career has been in electronic and software engineering but, now retired, David is focusing his energies on his new passion of writing crime mysteries.

He has been an avid reader of crime mysteries for the last twenty-five years and loves to watch crime TV series. His undying resolve to excel at everything he does and to solve his own mysteries, technical or […]