Fiction

Interview with Author – Christopher of Detroit

Interview with Author – Christopher of Detroit

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I’m the author of the novels “The Invisible Histories of the Spiral Mountain” (2014), “The Erotic Tales of Bucephalus” (2017), and “Dominique’s Confession: A Roaring Twenties Dark Romance” (2020). In my tales of magic and mysticism, I examine philosophical dualities, transitions of the psyche, alternate realities, and spiritual revelations. As a constant traveler, I consider myself an international resident with no permanent home. Although, my birthplace of Detroit remains in my heart, and I consider Thailand my spiritual residence.

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Interview with Author – T. L. Cooper

Interview with Author – T. L. Cooper

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T. L. Cooper began weaving storytelling and social justice at a very young age when she attempted to save a groundhog’s life by creating an adventurous and full life for him in her stories while sitting on her grandpa’s knees.

Throughout her childhood, she wrote stories casting her classmates and herself as heroes and villains. Sharing her stories taught her words hold power as she watched the reactions of those around her.

She often explored teenage angst, friendship, and the choices she and her peers faced as she maneuvered high school.

By the time she started college at Eastern Kentucky University she’d developed a keen interest in human behavior and motivation, so she studied Corrections and Juvenile Services and Psychology. Her written work continued to explore human interaction and motivation.

After college she worked as a counselor with troubled teenagers, a project coordinator, a registrar assistant, and a temp before becoming a full-time author.

She has traveled extensively throughout the world feeding her passion for meeting new people and discovering both the similarities and the differences in the way people live.

Her work has been published in magazines, anthologies, books, and online. She has authored books of poetry, books of short stories, and a novel. She also writes three blogs, Write with TLC, Reviews with TLC, and Vegan Cooking with TLC.

She has served as Master of Ceremonies of a writer’s conference, taught classes and workshops, and moderated panels. In addition, she has participated in poetry readings and media interviews.

Her work continues to explore both the strength and the vulnerability that are interwoven into relationships large and small.

When she steps away from the keyboard, she enjoys yoga, meditation, hiking, golf, cooking, and interesting conversation.

Currently, she resides with her husband and three cats in Albany, Oregon.

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Interview with Author – Richard Skorupski

Interview with Author – Richard Skorupski

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After a 21 year career in the Navy, Richard returned home to his native state of New Jersey. He followed his passion for the open waters and started a second career in the marine parts business. The dense population of New Jersey and its high cost of living encouraged Richard and his wife, Cheryl, to find a peaceful, friendly environment for his second retirement. Richard and Cheryl, now happily reside in Spink County, South Dakota.
Richard’s love for South Dakota and appreciation of its people are portrayed through his third career as an author of his six books centering around the fictional town of Helen, South Dakota. All his novels and stories tell the story of middle America and the rural lifestyle.

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Interview with Author – Sean Coons

Interview with Author – Sean Coons

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Sean Coons is an author, screenwriter, musician, and educator living in Redondo Beach, California with his wife and son. Sean’s novel, Body, is an inspirational fiction comedy exploring body image and intuitive eating. Body offers readers a path to a healthier, more fulfilling life. Sean has written for The Atlantic, Salon, and The Christian Post, covering topics ranging from history to culture to Hollywood, and has toured the US and abroad as an entertainer. His work in the field of body image is informed by personal experience as well as his study of psychology and social behavior at UC Irvine and counseling psychology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

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Interview with Author – Katie Licavoli

Interview with Author – Katie Licavoli

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Katie Licavoli is an aspiring writer who split her time growing up between the DFW metroplex and a small town in the “thumb” of Michigan. She has since lived in various states. I guess you could call her a bit of a vagabond.

When not typing away on her latest writing projects she enjoys spending time in the great outdoors, practicing improving her yoga moves, or diving into her latest read (… preferably alongside a good cup of tea.)

Katie currently works as a part-time librarian, part-time freelance writer in Kansas with her husband and 20-pound orange rescue cat named M.G. She has a small collection of published short fiction and creative nonfiction, and in April 2019 she released her debut New Adult Novelette Vengeful Hearts with BTGN out of Washington.

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Interview with Author – Lexa Dudley

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I have always loved writing, whether in a day to day diary or short stories that come into my head. I am dyslexic so it has always proved difficult, but with the coming of a word processor and then a computer, life has become so much easier.
I came late to writing a novel as I have four sons, eight grand children and I helped my husband in his business.
Now I have a bit more time.
I live in Suffolk and share my life with an extremely patience man, two Ridgebacks and seven geese, having lost my horses last year. At nearly 80 I am lucky to enjoy good health, great friends and a wonderful family.

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Interview with Author – Margarita Felices

Interview with Author – Margarita Felices

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I live in Cardiff, Wales, home to castles, mountains, rugby, Doctor Who and Torchwood, with my partner and three little mad dogs and I work for a well-known TV broadcasting company. I love living in Cardiff because, for all its modernisation, there are still remnants of an old Victorian city. I love writing and will always base my stories in Cardiff because it has such character. When I can, I go out to the coast and take photographs, we have a lovely castle in the city centre and a fairytale one just on the outskirts, so when I feel I can’t write anything, I take a ramble to those locations and it clears my head.

I have a TV production background. I used to be a professional photographer and decided to move into the TV world. I started off working on our local news programmers’ and then moved on to Arts, Factual, Drama, back to Factual, back to Drama (Torchwood, Dr Who and a few regional shows). Now I work for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and we produce some of the music for well-known TV shows, Doctor Who for example! I’ve learnt so much from working there about Marketing and Promotions. It’s been an absolute blessing.

My first full-length novel is called Judgement of Souls 3: Kiss at Dawn and is the first in a trilogy. But I wanted to do things a little different; so I began by writing the ending to the trilogy in the hopes that it will tease your curiosity into knowing how they all got there. The club in the novel is real. While writing Judgement of Souls 3, I got all my club material and clientele from there; I wouldn’t have finished that section without it. JOS2 involved over 300 years of mortal history including the French Revolution – did you know that a vampire started it? I have also visited most of the locations that I use in the novels so I have first-hand knowledge of the locations I place my characters in. It’s been extremely fascinating. I’ve also visited one of the main synagogues in London to talk about the Hebrew Bible that I use ‘loosely’ in the trilogy and it’s worked out really well. JOS1 takes place in the time of the Crusades and promises blood and gore. It’s the back story that lends a true understanding of the vampire community.

I’ve written a few short stories that I am very proud of too. They’ve been getting some great reviews on Amazon. Ordinary Wins is about how ordinary women can win and find their dreams – which in this case happens to be a famous drummer in a rock band. Trancers will have you jump out of your seat when a holidaymaker takes a wrong turn after an accident and ends up at a creepy hotel – or is it?
The Decoys is an erotic comedy about two hapless girls and two handsome jewel thieves who are hoping to get the girls to smuggle a rather infamous necklace out of the country – but really, who’s fooling who?
Check them all out.

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Interview with Author – Danyelle Scroggins

Interview with Author – Danyelle Scroggins

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Danyelle is the Senior Pastor of New Vessels Ministries North in Shreveport, Louisiana. She is a dynamic author of both Christian fiction and non-fiction books. She studied Theology at Louisiana Baptist University, has a Psychology Degree from the University of Phoenix, an Interdisciplinary Degree in Psychology /Biblical Studies, and a Masters in Religious Education from Liberty University. She owns Divinely Sown Publishing LLC. 

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Interview with Author – Dr. Sharon A. Mitchell

Interview with Author – Dr. Sharon A. Mitchell

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Dr. Sharon Mitchell gets it. She’s been a teacher, counselor, school psychologist, district consultant and autism consultant for decades. She has presented to thousands at conferences and workshops on ways to successfully include kids who learn differently. She teaches university classes to wanna-be-teachers and to school administrators on inclusion strategies and students who learn differently.

Her other books include:
Autism Questions Teachers Ask
Autism Questions Parents Ask
Autism Goes to School
Autism Runs Away
Autism Belongs
Autism Talks and Talks
Autism Grows Up

And, coming soon:
Prequel to Autism Goes to School: Jeff’s Story
The Autism Goes to School Workbook
Autism and the Dental Office

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Interview with Author – Emily Vansant

Interview with Author – Emily Vansant

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The first book I wrote was nonfiction, “A Widow’s Egyptian Adventure. ” I had it published, after that I said to myself: If I can write one book,I can write another. My next book was a paranormal romance for young adults. “Star’s Gift. I wrote book 2 “Star’s Return,” and then book 3 “Star’s Visions.
After that I translated a memoir written by Dr. John R Tapia, my uncle. “The Compromised Land.”
Lastly I wrote another nonfiction, “Friends Until The End.” I haven’t started on my next book yet.

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Interview with Author – Arnittress Dowdy

Interview with Author – Arnittress Dowdy

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I am born and raised in New York just minutes away from New York City. I consider myself to be a writer, poet and author. At a young age, I fell in love with poetry. I was amazed at how you could express your feelings, create a scene and tell a story through poetry. Soon after discovering poetry, I read her first romance novel, Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann. In 2007, my first novel Dreamtini was published. Shortly after Dreamtini’s release I stepped away from writing. I returned in 2018 and released Dreamtini the 2nd Edition, followed by Pieces of Me and Simply Me; both, are a part of the Intimately Me Collection.

When I am not writing, I am most likely trying to keep up with my two young sons.

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Interview with Author – Richard Dietrich Maddox

Interview with Author – Richard Dietrich Maddox

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Richard Dietrich Maddox grew up in the Midwest and graduated with honors from Princeton University. After graduation, he spent five years in Europe studying literature and preparing to teach meditation. He taught meditation full-time for two years before serving as the Vice President of Sales for seven successful high-tech startup companies. In 2005, he retired from the business world to concentrate on writing. He is the author of the number-one Amazon-bestselling Enlightenment novels, “Remembering Eternity,” “The Whisper of a Saint,” “Enlightened Relations: The Life in a Day,” “The Enlightenment of Joshua Inly,” and “Lucinda,” all of which have been highly acclaimed by readers.

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Interview with Author – Russ Scalzo

Interview with Author – Russ Scalzo

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Russ Scalzo is a singer/songwriter, full-time author and frequent lecturer in Biblical Prophecy, Russ brings a lifetime of technical expertise to a story he believes may very well be the substance of tomorrow’s headlines. “On the Edge of Time” began in 1994 as a 50-page short story named for the newspaper the protagonist writes for, “Chronicles of the End Times.” Russ partnered with author Steve Mamchak and ultimately split the completed novel “On the Edge of Time” into two captivating parts that they feel is both Biblically accurate as well as dramatically powerful, hitting at the essence of our lives now, and during the time that may soon be upon us.
Russ’s new series HIDDEN THRONES features Jack Bennett a consultant for the FBI’s new paranormal division. Jack has an unusual gift that pits him against powerful dark forces that threaten to take over planet earth. In this series, the author reveals the link between spiritual warfare and paranormal activity. A book for fans of the “Left Behind” series by Tim Lahaye and “This present Darkness” by Frank Peretti.

In the 1960’s and 70’s, Russ Scalzo was the front man for The Hallmarks, a band popular along the Jersey Shore, and signed a record contract with Mercury Records. The song Soul Shaking Psychedelic Sally was debuted in October of 67′ by Dick Clark on American Bandstand. After a life-changing decision, he went from performing in bars to ministering in churches and touring the country with his band, Saved By Grace. He has written too many songs to count, including music for several original musicals. He is the co-founder and president of a non-profit Christian theater company based in New Jersey, Lighthouse Stage Productions.

A twist of fate: On July 7 of 2018, The Hallmarks album containing 16 lost songs recorded in 1969 was released by The Numero Group and record label out of Chicago.

Russ currently resides on the Jersey Shore with his wife of 40+ years. He has three beautiful daughters and is a grandfather of five.

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Interview with Author – Robert Shaw

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Robert Shaw has worked in film, television, and live-events, and was involved in such films as Cowboys & Aliens, Fright Night, War Horse, The Help, Real Steel, Transformers, I Am Number Four, and many others. He co-wrote the indie action-horror film Mexican Devil, starring Danny Trejo, and made the short-film, Bedbug, as a demo for his feature screenplay Freak House. Robert has written four novels, all adapted from screenplays he wrote, and his memoir, Hollywood Assistant: My Adventures in Showbiz, will be available on Amazon in January 2020. Robert is currently writing his fifth novel, a superhero romantic-comedy.

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Interview with Author – Michael Reisig

Interview with Author – Michael Reisig

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Michael Reisig has been writing professionally for 20 years. He is a former Caribbean adventurer, an award-winning newspaper columnist, and a best-selling novelist. His works have been optioned for motion pictures, sold to overseas publishers, and produced for ebooks and audio.
He attended high school and college in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. After two years of college, he relocated to the Florida Keys, established a commercial diving business, got his pilot’s license, and traveled extensively throughout the southern hemisphere, diving, treasure hunting, adventuring, and taking chances — squeezing all the juice out of the orange of life. (If you do any less you’re cheating yourself this time around).
Reisig claims he has been thrown out of more countries in the Caribbean Basin that most people ever visit, and he admits that a great many of the situations and the characters in his novels are authentic (at least the ones for which the Statue of Limitations has expired) — but nothing makes a great read like experience…
He now lives in the mountains of Arkansas, where he hunts and fishes, and writes. But he still escapes to the Caribbean occasionally…

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