Interviews

Frederick Douglass Reynolds is a retired Black LA County Sheriff’s homicide sergeant. He was born in Rocky Mount, Virginia, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan where he became a petty criminal and was involved in gangs. He joined the US Marine Corps in 1979 to escape the life of crime that he seemed destined for. After a brief stint in Okinawa, Japan, he finished out his military career in Southern California and ultimately became a police officer with the Compton police department.

He worked there from 1985 until 2000 and then transferred to the sheriff’s department where he worked an […]

Paul A. Broome was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. After receiving his master’s degree in literature, he moved to Mississippi where he taught at Alcorn State University, an historically Black college in West Central Mississippi. Now retired, he lives and writes in Alabama with his wife and black lab and crazy tabby cat.

Tell us about your book.

Clouds Float South is a collection of ten linked short stories loosely based on events from my life on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee during the fifties, sixties, and early seventies. Each story is narrated by the third born of four […]

Nick Nikolov used to read fantasy in high school and play a lot of video games, emphasis mainly on games. First encounter with amazing storytelling was in a game called “Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver” for a hard-to-come-by Playstation console – you read that right, the very first Playstation. The importance of amazing stories became starkly apparent since that encounter. In the coming years up until graduation from University with a bachelor’s degree in Automation, games were my main source of gripping narratives.

Upon entering the workforce, the need to create grew so great that a change had to be […]

L. Owen Paxton is a life-long free thinker and learner. After undergoing a deep personal transformation, he became devoted to the pursuit of truth in life and the living of it. Discovering that knowing your true personal identity is the key to your experiencing enlightenment, gave him the passion for making this vital, but hidden information accessible to all. Preferring to live in a natural setting, he lives in the northern Rockies within sight of the Grand Teton Mountains. He is married and has three adult children.

Acting on an inner calling, Paxton now shares his “Awakenings Leading to Enlightenment” […]

Lata Gullapalli is an investment banker by profession, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. She has worked in investment banking for over 20 years in South Asia, Russia, and the UK. She advises companies on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructure, and capital raising. She has designed products for raising capital and has set up and run start-up companies, devising strategies and funding. She has lead teams to enter into joint ventures and taken a company public with an initial public offering.

She has studied and has qualified in corporate law, financial strategy, taxation, and economics, among others. She is an MBA […]

George Hudoba, originally from Hungary, now lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of his childhood dreams was to drive a truck, and he became a truck driver for six years. He has been with multiple companies, ran loads from New Jersey to California, but mainly delivered to New York City safely with no accidents for years.

In his professional life, he works in the healthcare industry. He holds an A.A.S. in Computer Science. When not working or writing, he enjoys playing with his three nephews, hiking, or traveling the globe.

He created an alternate universe in high school, as the current […]

Daniel James is an author of speculative (and sometimes dark and weird) fiction from Liverpool, England. His character-driven, action-packed urban fantasy novel, Hourglass, received a Kirkus Star from Kirkus Reviews, and was voted one of their Best 100 Indie novels of 2021.

He first began writing as a hobby and creative outlet to distract himself from the mundanity of completing his Bachelors of Science at Liverpool Hope University. Growing up, he spent perhaps a little too much time daydreaming about superheroes and horror movies.

In his mid-teens, he got his first bass guitar and joined his first band. No […]

Katharine M Sweet hails from Michigan where she lives with her husband and two rescued pups. She’s had an active imagination since she was a child and loves to spin tales for family, friends, or anyone who will listen. Writing stories has always brought her comfort and given her a way to connect with others. Admittedly she’s a horror fan reading a lot of Steven King, Dean Koontz, and Richard Laymon to name a few. After falling into romance books for the first time in 2019, she’s been reading most anything she can get her hands on. She loves creating […]