Interviews

Alice McVeigh – author of the prizewinning Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel and the new Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation – was born in South Korea, of American diplomatic parents, and lived in Asia until she was 13.

Alice achieved a B.Mus with distinction in performance at Jacobs Indiana University School of Music, and spent three years studying cello privately with William Pleeth, Jacqueline du Pre’s “cello daddy.” Since then she has freelanced with orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic and Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique all over the UK, the EU, America and […]

Daniel James is an author of dark fantasy, thrillers, and horror, from Liverpool, England.

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. 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.

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 points for […]

Nooshie Motaref, author, storyteller, and biographer, has gone through many challenging life experiences unlike many women from the Middle East. She grew up in Persia, and studies in four countries – Iran, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. She received her masters and doctorate degrees in American Literature and folklore from Florida State University. Her dissertation is a proof of Carl Jung’s theory, the “Collective Unconscious,” through Persian fairytales and folktales. She is the author of Land of Roses and Nightingales, and award-winning novel, Tapestries of the Heart, which is a precursor to Bird of Passage.

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Beth Hersant holds a Masters Degree in English Literature and has worked as a poet, essayist, playwright, and author. Her first novel, Good Neighbours, received worldwide critical acclaim. She lives in Norfolk, England with her husband and children, two labradors, and a cat who believes he’s a ninja.

Tell us about your book.

It began, as big events often do, with small things – a little girl, a little dog, a microscopic virus that leads to a tragedy no one should ever have to face. Having lost his daughter to rabies, Dr. Aaron Pickman tries to derive some meaning […]

Isaiah “Jay” Green is a writer from Monroe, Louisiana. He has been writing stories and poetry since the age of twelve and has produced three books of poetry at the time of this interview. Jay currently resides in San Antonio, TX.

Tell us about your book.

Milieu acts as social commentary on our current American culture and political discourse in the form of poetry.

Why did you want to write a book?

I wanted to write this book to “voice my opinion” in a sense. After becoming more aware of the current events I was seeing on the news, internet, […]

Mark Howard is a newly published fantasy author. He studied medieval and ancient history at the graduate level, and his short story, “The Joust,” won an honorable mention at the Writers of the Future Contest.

Tell us about your book.

Godfrey’s Crusade is the fantasy novel I always wanted to read. I wanted to get certain things right about medieval battle tactics, the lord-vassal relationship, feudalism, and crusading that most other fantasy writers I’ve read didn’t seem overly concerned about. Many aspiring fantasy writers I’ve talked with appear content to dress up twenty-first-century issues in chrome breastplates and wizard robes, […]

Ian Conrey is both a teacher and student of history and theology, who actively fights against human trafficking and is working toward an M.A. in Religion. In his free time, he enjoys reading biographies and ancient mythology, discovering early American folk songs, and exploring the Cohutta Wilderness. He lives with his wife and three children in the North Georgia mountains.

Tell us about your book.

Without restating the blurb, I’ll simply say that Hælend’s Ballad is a story about what happens when the world around us falls apart. Several MC’s have to rethink their purpose when they realize that their […]

Lance Lee’s poetry is published widely in American and English journals. Elemental Natures (2020), his seventh poetry book, includes a selection of work spanning more than thirty years of poetry, art, and essay. Seasons of Defiance (2010), placed as a finalist in the 8th National USA Book Awards. Orpheus Rising (2021) is the first of a series of children’s works he has planned for the near future.

He has also published The Death and Life of Drama and A Poetics for Screenwriters, plus plays and a novel, Second Chances. A past Creative Writing Fellow of the National Endowment […]