Fiction

Interview with Author – Michael J Moore

Interview with Author – Michael J Moore

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Michael J Moore lives in Seattle, Washington. His books include the bestselling post-apocalyptic novel, After the Change and Highway Twenty. His work has appeared in Blood Moon Rising Magazine, Horrorzine Magazine, Schlock Magazine, Hellbound Book’s “Ghosts, Spirits and Specters”, Minutes Before Six, Siren’s Call and Terror House Magazine, has been adapted for theater and produced in the Seattle area, is used as curriculum at the University of Washington and has received an Honorable Mention in the L.Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. His short stories will also be released by Rainfall Books, Horror Tree – Trembling with Fear, Black Petals Horror/Science Fiction Magazine, Transmundane Press and Soteira Press.

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Interview with Author – Matthew Arnold Stern

Interview with Author – Matthew Arnold Stern

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I am an award-winning public speaker and writer. My novel Amiga came from my experiences in the computer industry in the 1980s as a technical writer and computer journalist. My awards for writing and public speaking include Distinguished Toastmaster and an Award of Excellence from the International Online Communications Competition. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from California State University, Northridge. My hometown of Reseda, California plays a prominent role in many of my works.

I live in Lake Forest, California with his wife of nearly 30 years. I have two children, a granddaughter, and lots of cats.

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Interview with Author – Marcia Meara

Interview with Author – Marcia Meara

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Marcia Meara lives in central Florida, just north of Orlando, with her husband of over thirty years, four big cats, and one small dachshund.

When not writing or blogging, she spends her time gardening, and enjoying the surprising amount of wildlife that manages to make a home in her suburban yard. She enjoys nature. Really, really enjoys it. All of it! Well, almost all of it, anyway. From birds, to furry critters, to her very favorites, snakes. The exception would be spiders, which she truly loathes, convinced that anything with eight hairy legs is surely up to no good. She does not, however, kill spiders anymore, since she knows they have their place in the world. Besides, her husband now handles her Arachnid Catch and Release Program, and she’s good with that.

Spiders aside, the one thing Marcia would like to tell each of her readers is that it’s never too late to make your dreams come true. If, at the age of 69, she could write and publish a book (and thus fulfill 64 years of longing to do that very thing), you can make your own dreams a reality, too. Go for it! What have you got to lose?

Marcia has published seven novels, two novellas, and one book of poetry to date, all of which are available on Amazon.

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Interview with Author – May J. Panayi

Interview with Author – May J. Panayi

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My name is May J. Panayi and I’m 57. I have been a writer since I was a kid. Okay not anything earth shattering; just a poem in the local paper at age five, then a newsletter to the neighbourhood age ten. I hobby wrote poems and short stories throughout my teens and early twenties, then various magazine submissions, and a lot of activity in the underground fanzine scene of the eighties; contributing to others as well as producing my own. I started writing books around 2000, and currently have fourteen titles published. I moved onto just writing fiction novels with the occasional short story collection. I became a full time self employed writer in 2014. It’s been an interesting journey so far and one I hope will long continue. I write across a variety of genres, my friends call me the eclectic indie. My Sun series, in which there are two novels so far, a third coming soon to complete the trilogy, is my most popular style. It is travel romance/mystery; bit hard to categorise. My horror is next most popular though a bit graphic for some. I live by the sea in Brighton, UK, and write whilst looking out at the boats. Inspiration comes from life, the universe and everything. It never stops.

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Interview with Author – Sherri Simmons

Interview with Author – Sherri Simmons

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Sherri Simmons is a wife and a mother to her beagle K.B. She is the oldest of four children (two sisters and one brother) and the aunt to three nephews. She has been an educator in the Chicago Public Schools for 14 years, where she has taught 3rd, 1st, Intermediate Math, served as an Assistant Principal, and is currently working as a STEM Integration Specialist. She is also the Founder and President of Young Ladies At All Times, NFP (Y.L.A.A.T.), a mentoring program for young girls and a member of Young Women’s Professional League (YWPL).

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Interview with Author – Sebastian Schug

Interview with Author – Sebastian Schug

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Sebastian Robert Schug/Nicolas M. Parker (born February 25th, 1998) is an independent American author, illustrator, publisher, and novelist currently residing in suburban Burbank, California. Beginning his illustrative career at the early age of fourteen jumpstarted by author Rene Ghazarian’s The Adventures of Daniel, he has since gone on to become the main author, illustrator, and publisher of numerous works, series, as well as further collaborations with other individuals. Currently, he attends California State University, Northridge, studying Communication Studies, Political Science, as well as Art and Law. He is the founder, of Sebastian Schug Publishing.

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Interview with Author – Karina Kantas

Interview with Author – Karina Kantas

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Karina Kantas is a prolific author of 13 titles. Including the gritty MC thriller series, OUTLAW and the exciting YA fantasy duology, Illusional Reality.

She also writes short stories and when her imagination is working overtime, she writes thought-provoking dark flash fiction.
There are many layers to Karina’s writing style and voice, as you will see in her flash fiction collection, Heads & Tales and in UNDRESSED she opens up more to her fans, giving them another glimpse into her warped mind.

When Karina isn’t busy working on her next bestseller, she’s a publicist, author manager and VA. She’s also the host of the popular radio show, Author Assist on the Artist First Radio Network and host of the YouTube show, Behind The Pen.

Karina writes in the genres of fantasy, MC romance, Young Adult. sci-fi, horror, thrillers and comedy, romance, PNR, dystopian and erotica.

You can find her on Facebook and Twitter, where she loves hanging out with her readers.

Titles to date:

***The OUTLAW series***
In Times of Violence
Huntress
Lawless Justice
Road Rage

***Collections***
Heads & Tales
UNDRESSED
A Flash of Horror

In Times of Violence Young Adult Edition / MC romance
Stone Cold / YA supernatural thriller
Toxic/dystopian erotica

***Illusional Reality duology***
Illusional Reality / YA romantic fantasy
The Quest/fantasy paranormal romance

***Coming soon***
Broken Chains (Mafia Romance)
Predator (erotic horror)

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Interview with Author – Jutta Kopp

Interview with Author – Jutta Kopp

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Jutta Kopp is an author and photoshop tinkerer. She loves to create her own book covers and artwork related to her books. She also creates her own music, just for fun! Born to a Korean mother and a German father she is bilingual and fluent in English and German. She also speaks Korean and Japanese and a little French. Besides being an author she works as a health advisor and instructor for horseback riding and hippotherapy. Of course, horses are still her passion but she is also well versed in martial arts and just loves anything that has to do with the paranormal.

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Interview with Author – Joseph Carrabis

Interview with Author – Joseph Carrabis

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My short fiction has been nominated for both Nebula (Cymodoce, May ‘95 Tomorrow Magazine) and Pushcart (The Weight, Nov ‘95 The Granite Review) and has recently appeared in Across the Margin, The New Accelerator, parAbnormal, serialized in The Piker Press, and HDP 3. My first indie novel, The Augmented Man, is getting 4 and 5 star reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes&Noble, and others. My two self-pubbed books, Empty Sky and Tales Told ‘Round Celestial Campfires, are getting 5 star reviews (and I have more books in the works). I hold patents covering mathematics, anthropology, neuroscience, and linguistics. When not writing, I spend time loving my wife, playing with my dog and cat, flying kites bigger than most cars, cooking for friends and family, playing and listening to music, and studying anything and everything I believe will help my writing.

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Interview with Author – Joann Keder

Interview with Author – Joann Keder

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Award-winning author, Joann Keder spent most of her years in the Midwest, growing up and raising a family on the Great Plains of Nebraska. She worked for sixteen years as a piano teacher before returning to school to receive a master’s degree in creative writing. A mid-life move to the Pacific Northwest lead her to re-examine her priorities and her desire to create stories about life and relationships in small towns.

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Interview with Author – Jessie Bradford

Interview with Author – Jessie Bradford

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Jessie Bradford writes books, which considering where you are reading this makes perfect sense. He is an Amazon Best Selling author for In the House of the Lord. He also has 10 other short stories published, Burnt, The Boss’ Girl, and The Cabin being among those and voted most popular with his readers. His latest work is Bottoms Up is due to release later this coming year.

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Interview with Author – Gary Blackwood

Interview with Author – Gary Blackwood

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I grew up in Western Pennsylvania and attended one of the last remaining one-room schools in the state. Even though our library consisted of a single small bookcase, I managed to develop a fatal attraction to books early on. When I was in junior high, we had a visit from an actual author (the only such event I can recall), and I realized that not all stories are written by some long-dead, almost mythical personage; I might conceivably hope to be a writer myself. I started sending off handwritten manuscripts to magazines, accumulating so many rejections that I might have been persuaded to consider another career–except that one of them was from the famed SF writer/editor Frederik Pohl, who encouraged me to keep at it. A few years later, I sold my first story. But it took another twenty years and nine much-rejected attempts before I finally wrote a book that someone wanted to publish. Since then, I’ve sold thirty-five novels and nonfiction books and had a dozen or so stage plays produced in theatres from California to Spain. In 2005, after moving about from one state to another every few years, I settled down on the lovely North Shore of Nova Scotia.

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Interview with Author – DJ Swykert

Interview with Author – DJ Swykert

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DJ Swykert is a former 911 operator and fiction writer living in Burlington, NC. His work has appeared in The Tampa Review, Detroit News, Coe Review, Monarch Review, the Newer York, Lunch Ticket, Gravel, Zodiac Review, Barbaric Yawp and Bull. His novels include Children of the Enemy, The Pool Boy’s Beatitude, Maggie Elizabeth Harrington, Alpha Wolves, For the Love of wolves, Sweat Street, Three-fingered Jack Davis and The Death of Anyone.

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Interview with Author – Arthur M Wyatt

Interview with Author – Arthur M Wyatt

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Arthur M Wyatt is an ex US Navy Seabee, writer, painter and musician. He is the author of the two book Demon Dead Series, “The Demon Dead: Tres Zombies” and “The Demon Dead: Troubled Waters” as well as the Novella “Soul Survivor”. He lives in upstate South Carolina and owns six Guitars featuring an American Fender Stratocaster, is a voracious reader and has a one thousand book personal library and a vast collection of heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal, prog metal, jazz, blues, big band and zydeco music. He is also a whiskey enthusiast with an affection for good Bourbon and Scotch.

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Interview with Author – Peter Barker

Interview with Author – Peter Barker

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Pete Barker grew up in the seventies in a small Dorset village and in 1994, produced the history booklet, ‘East Lulworth Through the Ages’. His first published work were poems in anthologies by Poetry Now in 1990 and 1991 and by Arrival Press in 1992. Since then he has written blogs for Greenpeace and self published the non-fiction, ‘Grumpy Guide to Building Your Own Off Grid Home’ and the novel ‘System Error: invitation to revolution.’ Also writing short and sometimes bizarre stories, his piece, ‘Someone To Hold’ won the Flash 500 competition early in 2018.
Pete is a Greenpeace volunteer and with his wife, lives off-grid in mid Wales with 35 rabbits.
“For me, the best thing about writing fiction, is to sit down with an idea in your head and then to just let the story take over.”

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