Interviews

Interview with Author – Katherine Vick

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Katherine Vick was born in the middle bit of England longer ago than she’d care to admit (1979, if you must know. Aren’t you nosy?). She studied Geography at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, writing her dissertation on the Role of Landscape and Culture in Fantasy Novels. She then moved onto a Master’s degree in Literary Studies and Creative Writing at University of Central England, where she wrote the dissertation that inspired the creation of Fodder, so she hopes you’ll feel she put her education to good use. She flirted briefly with fast food and retail work before settling down as a college administrator. She spends occasional weekends on historic battlefields in her capacity as a rather clumsy late medieval re-enactor. She (mis)spent a part of her youth writing stories based around other people’s literary and media creations. She likes to read and watch fantasy, history and science fiction – frankly anything that gets her away from the real world, which is far too much trouble. Occasionally she even gets around to writing stuff.

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Interview with Author – Aswathy Vadakel

Interview with Author – Aswathy Vadakel

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Aswathy Vadakel is an Indian-English Writer,Painter and Educator.After a six years of teaching career,Aswathy penned her first book-“Mon Amour”-Collection of Romantic Poems in 2020.
The author was born in Kerala,India and attended high school in Idukki district,India.She earned her degree in Tourism Studies and Several Diplomas and Certificates(Including United Nations Organization’s) in Education too.Currently she lives with her father,mother, brother and their pet dog in Kerala, India.
She was a University Topper in Tourism Studies and she has honored for her volunteering work for UNEP by UN, Government of India and Government of Andra Pradesh.

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Interview with Author – Neboysha Saikovski

Interview with Author – Neboysha Saikovski

I am the author working on the Pink Panthers trilogy series, including the first novel “The Greatest Thieves in the World”, which was published globally in June this year. I am a logistics specialist having worked for large international organizations and corporations such as the United Nations, Halliburton/KBR, or DynCorp, being stationed for twenty years working in areas consumed by ferocious civil wars in Bosnia and Serbia or the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Interview with Author – Chaitali Nath

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Hi! I am Chaitali Nath, a 17 and a half year old from India. I was born to two loving parents, Dr. Paras Nath and Dr. Anupam Nath Gupta. I have a younger brother, Shubham Nath.
I have been an avid reader since I remember, and being an author is a dream come true

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Interview with Author – Cady Hammer

Interview with Author – Cady Hammer

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I have always been a writer. I wrote my first novel at the age of eleven between classes. Although that text will never see the light of day, I continued experimenting with stories throughout my school years. I was often teased for being off in my own world a bit, but I have never hesitated to invite others along on the adventure I was weaving. My college studies of history and anthropology play a major role in the worldbuilding in my stories, particularly this debut novel. It is always my goal to create a world that readers want to step into, a world where they can breathe in the air and feel the wind on their skin as they stroll through a market or a city center. I also run the internationally-read website, Fluff About Fantasy, a place for young writers to learn the genre-specific craft of writing fantasy and be inspired by what they can accomplish. It is important to me to get more young people writing and creating. I know that there are a lot of talented middle school, high school, and college students who just need a little push to get them started.

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Interview with Author – Edgar Rider

Interview with Author – Edgar Rider

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Edgar Rider’s first book is entitled Riding Out The Kipling Effect. It is a narrative journey he undertook with a friend living in an eccentric ladies front room. The Kipling Effect is about navigating through outside challenges and obstacles at the same time trying to focus on a specific objective. The main character Carrie Kipling lived in complete turmoil and had anxieties mostly due to manufactured health problems and hanging out with manipulative moocher friends.

He has also written Transcending in The Fictional Burnout. It is a book of Fictional comeback stories. Some of the stories explain living for purpose and other stories are about what happens when people take unfortunate shortcuts or go down a destructive path. The stories are in different genres such as Horror, Science Fiction, Action Adventure, Spiritual and Literary Fiction. Some of the dark stories are Charred Fried Works,Charisma Corner, Making Maynard, Playtime in the Desert and Plantation Playground.
It also contains a few uplifting stories about people overcoming adversity such as Healing Hands Meant To Believe and Care 3.

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Interview with Author – Dan Lawton

Interview with Author – Dan Lawton

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Dan Lawton is an award-winning literary suspense, mystery, and thriller author from New Hampshire. He is an active member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW) Organization and the New Hampshire Writers’ Project.

His fifth novel, The Green House—a Bronze Medalist in the Adult Fiction E-Book category for the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards), a finalist in the Fiction category for the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and a finalist in the Mystery category for the 2020 Book Excellence Awards—will be released on 7/30/20.

Dan’s fourth novel, Plum Springs, won the 2019 New Hampshire Writers’ Project Readers’ Choice Award for Fiction. His first novel, Deception, was named one of the best thriller novels of 2017 by the Novel Writing Festival.

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Interview with Author – Laura DiBenedetto

Interview with Author – Laura DiBenedetto

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Laura DiBenedetto is a TEDx speaker, success coach, podcaster, educator, and researcher. She started her first company at nineteen years old and went on to retire at thirty-seven, only to discover happiness wasn’t what she thought it was.

Her awakening and subsequent journey into true success, passion, pleasure, joy, and profound love of life inspired this book. She has helped countless people to transform their lives through her public appearances, newsletters, books, and products.

Laura grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, USA, and now lives on the Island of Maui in Hawaii, USA.

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Interview with Author – C. Darayl Howard

Interview with Author – C. Darayl Howard

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C. Darayl Howard, is a writer from Los Angeles, California. A graduate of Cal State Northridge, C. Darayl is a lover of R&B music as evidenced by the frequent reference to this genre of music in her books. She is a ‘girl-mom’ that loves nothing more than spending time with her five daughters. A self-proclaimed book-worm, from song lyrics to poetry and now novels, C. Darayl has been writing since she could pick up a book.

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Interview with Author – Karina Guardiola-Lopez

Interview with Author – Karina Guardiola-Lopez

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Karina Guardiola-Lopez, is an American-Honduran, Jewtina from New York City. She is writer, poet, actor and educator. She has been published in various magazines, anthologies and websites including: Great Weather for Media, The Scrib Arts Journal, Poetica Magazine, Indolent Books, Acentos Review, New Voices Anthology, The BX Files, Abuela Stories, Latinoauthor.com, Latinabookclub.com just to name a few. She has also featured at various venues including: The NYC Poetry Festival at Governor’s Island, National Black Theatre Bowery Poetry Club, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Q-Boro Lit Crawl, The Bronx Museum and many other locations.

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Interview with Author – Elgon B Williams

Interview with Author – Elgon B Williams

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Born in Springfield, Ohio, Elgon Williams grew up on a farm near the town of South Charleston and the village of Selma in rural southeastern Clark County, “…about two miles from nowhere and between cornfields.” He graduated from Shawnee High School in 1974. In the fall of that year, he began studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, receiving a BA in Mass Communication in 1978. Later, in 1981, he received a degree in Marketing Administration from The University of Texas in Austin. After serving as a Chinese Linguist in the USAF, he worked in Retail Management for much of his adult life. He also has experience in Computer Repair, Technology Consulting, Radio & Television Production, Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations, and Sales Management.

His publications include FRIED WINDOWS (IN A LIGHT WHITE SAUCE), BECOMING THUPERMAN, and HOMER UNDERBY, which blend urban fantasy and science fiction. Upcoming publishing projects include THUPERHEROES, the third installment in The Thuperman Trilogy and NINJA BREAD CASTLES, the sequel to FRIED WINDOWS.

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Interview with Author – Natalie Jenkins

Interview with Author – Natalie Jenkins

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Natalie P. Jenkins is an award winning author from Salyersville, Kentucky. She has written two books, a memoir “Fourteen Day Fiancé” and a novel “After The Storm” set your be released in December of 2020.
Natalie is a professionally trained writer, with many years of experience. She began her career in 2015 by translating books into French and Spanish, most notably her translation of “How To Be Filled With The Holy Spirit” by famed Christian Author A.W. Tozer.

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Interview with Author – Odessa Gillespie Black

Interview with Author – Odessa Gillespie Black

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Since I was four, I loved reading and I could understand more complex words than other children my age, so I picked up as many books as I could find. As my father worked a little cotton candy stand outside, I’d go to work with him, find a spot in the floor in front of the magazine rack and read until he closed down for the night. In the 1980’s, True Crime magazines were all the rage, so I ended up with a possibly unhealthy fascination with morbid articles found inside them. I figured I’d end up writing crime fiction when I was older, but as a child, enough true crime had been committed against me that I couldn’t stomach the thought of writing anything close to that genre, in my early teen years.

With a tumultuos home life, I decided to begin writing at age 13. I could create worlds where I wasn’t living in a hoarder house and didn’t have to fight off unwanted advances. These worlds were my saviors. They kept me safe. My local church youth group also gave me hope, yielding a higher power that I could look up to when times were rough. The kids in that youth group began to read my work. When I saw that I could bring them to tears of joy or sadness, I wondered if there was a real future for me in Journalism of some sort. I took my first class in seventh grade and that was all she wrote….. (Hmm, yes, pun intended.)

Today, I’m the survivor of sexual abuse and hoarder (pets and material items) parents. I give credit to my parents, though, at times, there were different decisions they could have made, they engrained the love of Jesus deep in my soul. I am now the devoted wife of a wonderful, loyal, loving husband, the proud mother of four kids, a ecstatic grandmother, and a fur-baby pet mom. Paws and Claws Pet Rescue in Cherryville, NC is my contribution to help end homelessness for unwanted pets.

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Interview with Author – Miles A. Maxwell

Interview with Author – Miles A. Maxwell

Miles A. Maxwell, out of Cheyenne, Wyoming, is an IFR certified private pilot and student of Traditional Chinese Medicine for more than ten years, speaks bits and pieces of ten languages, surfs, skis, sails, and scuba dives.

He is the author of the State Of Reason mystery – technothrillers including Loss Of Reason, Search For Reason, Drone (Prequel) and Finding Reason in the State Of Reason mystery series, and the Naomi Soul mystery – technothrillers Die By The Pen and Vibrate. His stories all have just one goal: the enhancement of human life.

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