How To Get An Agent As An Indie Author
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An Interview with Sheldon Charles: Author of Blood Upon the Sands
Sheldon Charles is a decorated Air Force veteran, whose career has taken him around the globe, and given his writing a unique international flair. He is the author of Three Paperclips & a Grey Scarf, Blood Upon the Sands and From Within the Firebird’s Nest. His last book (From Within the Firebird’s Nest, the third book in the Evan Davis Trilogy) held the Number One Bestseller spot on Amazon for Russian Historical Fiction, and was in the Top Ten for War Fiction, for 2018. Sheldon currently resides in Michigan, where he is a member of Michigan […]
An Interview with Eyad H. Yehyawi: Author of Crimson Arrows
Eyad H. Yehyawi has been bowhunting for nearly thirty years, traveling across the United States, Canada, and Africa. A naturalist long before he was a bowhunter, Eyad’s passion for the outdoors dates as far back as he can remember. While majoring in biology at Quincy University, he worked in conservation and wildlife management before deciding to pursue interests in health care. Many of these stories and photos have appeared in magazines including Bow & Arrow Hunting, Bowhunter, Bowhunt America, and Outdoor Life. Eyad currently lives in Iowa with his wife and children, where he practices optometry.[…]
An Interview with Maxx Powr: Author of The Promise
Maxx Powr is a husband and father. He loves dogs. His dream situation would be a huge rescue farm taking in strays.
Tell us about your book.
The Promise is a fun sci-fi space opera romp. It has action, humor, adventure, romance and a little sex, but not erotica. The main characters have been DNA enhanced and possess special abilities, useful in fighting the invading alien Klix. They are well trained, but untested. They are brothers, sharing the same DNA and history, trained at the Piecer Academy. A trusting humanity has become complacent, believing in a false truce. When the […]
An Interview with Cara Cilento: Author of Snapshots: Say Cheese! The World Is Watching
Cara Cilento grew up in a small suburban North Jersey town. Her family of origin did not. Her parents came from urban North Jersey. Cara’s grandparents were immigrants from Italy and first generation transplants from Newark, NJ. They were a close knit family which pushed success: academic and personal. Most of all, they pushed assimilation.
Cara Cilento is a divorced mother of two boys. She has been a speech therapist for twenty-two years in the public schools. She lives in suburban North Jersey on her terms. She defines her own personal success as living her truth and not what is […]
Why I Wrote My Memoir
I’ve been telling stories about my Sicilian-American family and my career in musical theater all my life. In my delivery, I always attempted to embody the various characters I depicted—specific accents, vocal cadences, facial expression, and gesticulations. Well, I’m Sicilian for God’s sake; we use our hands to tell stories. Can we even talk without our hands? I doubt it. People seemed to enjoy these anecdotes, but I was never certain whether they liked the story for itself or because of my delivery. If they were just seeing words on a page, would it resonate? For this reason, I was
An Interview with Salar A. Khan, MD, MBA: Author of Unlocking the Natural-Born Leader’s Abilities
Salar Ahmed Khan, MD, MBA, FACA, FCCP, DTCD, MCPS, worked as an internist and pulmonologist at Karachi, Pakistan, from 1985 to 1987; as the chief of medicine, the acting director of medical services, and acting hospital director at Al-Midhnab General Hospital under the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia from 1988 to 1993; as an associate professor of medicine at Baqai Medical College and Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, from 1993 to 1994; as a surgical assistant, material management, and acting central processing supervisor at Edgewater Medical Center in Chicago from 1996 to 2000.
From 2000 to 2009, he was research […]
Self-Publishing Review is Ten Years Old! An Interview with Founder Henry Baum
Today, SPR is ten years old! Founder Henry Baum is a Manhattan-born Los Angeles musician and writer who currently lives near London, UK. He has been traditionally published in three countries, and has written several indie books, of which one has been made into a short film by Ruben Fleischer (director of “Zombieland” and “Venom”) starring Kevin Corrigan. He founded SPR in 2008 as a blog for authors to connect and share tips. Since then, the company has become a major startup in the the self-publishing industry, and employs several staff in the UK and USA.
What made you think […]
An Interview with Eva A. MacDonnell: Author of The Way of the Dog
Eva A. MacDonnell just speaks for Eros, who is the real author.
Eros lives in the Wild of New Hampshire. Well, not exactly! He lives in a very small house with an elderly couple, minding another dog and a cat, while keeping guard on 20 acres of farmland, chasing deer and wild turkeys away daily. In this dog-world, he is the undisputed alpha-dog, literally.
When he is not transcribing his life story to Eva, Eros, now an accomplished philosopher, holds court with squirrels, raccoons, bears,cardinals, and bluebirds, whom come by his house to partake in his wisdom. In between these […]
An Interview with Robert Bartlett: Author of Three Days in Autumn
Robert has lived all around the United States at one time or another for brief periods. Born in Northern Virginia, he is now a happily married father of four, residing just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. He developed his passion for writing at an early age, mostly through poetry, being published for the first time at seventeen. Later, with his love of the outdoors and with a survivalist mentality, his passion evolved into writing short stories and finally into full length novels focusing mainly in the post-apocalyptic/horror and the suspense/thriller genres.
With two titles already under his belt, (the post-apocalyptic […]