Tag: Interviews

Authors in the Cosmos: India Holton

Authors in the Cosmos: India Holton

Authors in the Cosmos: India Holton “So it was a matter of love at first sight? How romantic. I am always suspicious of love earned by familiarity—it shows a lack of imagination.” ~from The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels Author India Holton shows she has no lack of imagination in her two books—The Wisteria Society […]

August 17, 2021 | By | Reply More
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Ellen Meeropol

AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: Ellen Meeropol

Interviewing the sisters in Her Sister’s Tattoo On a hot August day in 1968, sisters Rosa and Esther march against the war in Vietnam with thousands of others through downtown Detroit. When they hear that mounted police are beating protesters a few blocks away, they hurry to help, to try to stop the violence. In […]

May 18, 2020 | By | Reply More
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: DANIELLE WONG INTERVIEWS AMELIA COLE

AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: DANIELLE WONG INTERVIEWS AMELIA COLE

AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS: DANIELLE WONG SWEARING OFF STARS tells the story of Amelia Cole―Lia for short—one of the first women studying abroad at Oxford University in the 1920s. Finally free from her overbearing Brooklyn parents, she finds a welcome sense of independence in British college life. Lia quickly falls for Scarlett Daniels, an aspiring […]

January 8, 2020 | By | Reply More
Interview with Kathy Pooler

Interview with Kathy Pooler

Kathy Pooler’s compelling new memoir Just the Way He Walked: A Mother’s Story of Healing and Hope profiles two addicts: her son Brian and herself. She thinks she can “fix” her son with love, money and support. She doesn’t realize how she enables him to drink more. Days and nights go by and she has […]

December 21, 2019 | By | Reply More
INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE MEIER

INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE MEIER

Nicole Meier is a native Southern Californian who pulled up roots and moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her husband, three children, and one very nosey Aussiedoodle.  Her debut novel, THE HOUSE OF BRADBURY, was chosen as a Best Book of 2016 by Refinery29. Her second novel, THE GIRL MADE OF CLAY, was […]

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Q AND A WITH AYSER SALMAN

Q AND A WITH AYSER SALMAN

In her dynamic debut, The Wrong End of the Table:  A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In, Los Angeles writer and producer Ayser Salman traces her unlikely journey from Baghdad to Hollywood, by way of Ohio, Saudi Arabia and Kentucky. First comes Emigration, then Naturalization, and finally […]

March 5, 2019 | By | Reply More
Coping: An Author’s Chat With A Character

Coping: An Author’s Chat With A Character

Author Lynn Goodwin chats to her book character Sandee Mason. Dear Sandee Mason,   I am so sorry our publisher gave up. I loved your story and I know you did too. You were always my favorite character. You let me know your opinions. Shared them without hesitation. Loved your streaks of maturity, your aspirations, and […]

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Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Patricia Harman

Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Patricia Harman

Patricia Harman spent over thirty years caring for women as a midwife, first as a lay-midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on communal farms in West Virginia, and later as a nurse-midwife in teaching hospitals and in a community hospital birthing center.  Though she loved caring for women and infants, she recently retired to write […]

November 27, 2018 | By | Reply More
Interview with Ann Hazzard

Interview with Ann Hazzard

Ann Hazzard, Ph.D. is a retired clinical psychologist who worked mostly with children and families. Along with two colleagues, Marietta Collins, Ph.D. and Marianne Celano, Ph.D., she recently published her first book, Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice (Magination Press, 2018). The book follows two families – one White, one […]

July 1, 2018 | By | Reply More
BEING AGENTED IRL – Part Three

BEING AGENTED IRL – Part Three

A Twenty-Five-Question Interview Published as a Five Part Series Part One Part Two | Hosted by MM Finck | | Anonymously Answered By Agented Authors* with Varying Publishing Career Durations and Successes from Debut to Bestselling and Represented by Multiple Literary Agencies of Varying Sizes | QUESTION ELEVEN Historically, how many story ideas do you […]

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