An Interview with Frederick Douglass Reynolds: Author of Black, White, And Gray All Over
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.
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. 
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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. 
Dieter Gartelmann had moved to Australia from Germany in 1953, and straight off to high school, learning English and the ways of the new country. The full lifecycle of a migrant escaping from the past, marriage, and four great children. After a 45-year IT career followed by a postgraduate study in cybersecurity, he now lives alone, with a new interest in writing. This is his second book.
Roar Mikalsen is the author of six books which are changing the world one at a time. His authorship covers a large area ranging from cosmology, mysticism, self-help, and consciousness research to power politics, human rights law, drug policy, constitutional interpretation, and social engineering. He is the founder of the Alliance for Rights-Oriented Drug Policies (AROD), an organization which addresses drug policy reform from a perspective of human rights, and a nominee of two prestigious human rights awards (Vaclav Havel and Martin Ennals).