Interviews

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 – Stacey Bryan

Interview with Author – Stacey Bryan

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I was born in San Francisco but raised in the San Fernando Valley in L.A. , something I think was a mistake because San Francisco has more character, in my opinion. I was a loner who climbed trees and hung out with my black cat Mr. Smith and, yes, (cliche) read a lot. I love stories of any kind: books, movies, someone telling a tale. I can be very dark in my topics but lately have ventured into paranormal comedy with my Day for Night series, book II of which hopefully will come out later in 2020. I figure laughing is better than crying, so I dove into a world of vampires and aliens and a mixed-race wannabe L.A. actress who just wants to go back to school but gets mixed up in all their drama instead.

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Interview with Author – Martin Roy Hill

Interview with Author – Martin Roy Hill

Martin Roy Hill is the author of the Linus Schag, NCIS, thrillers, the Peter Brandt thrillers, DUTY: Suspense and Mystery Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, and EDEN: A Sci-Fi Novella. His latest Linus Schag thriller, The Butcher’s Bill, received the Best Mystery/Suspense Novel of 2017 from the Best Independent Book Awards, the Clue Award for Best Suspense Thriller, the Silver Medal for Thrillers from the Readers Favorite Book Awards, and the award for Adult Fiction from the California Author Project. His latest Peter Brandt mystery, The Fourth Rising, is due out in May 2020.

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Interview with Author – Kathleen Dixon

Interview with Author – Kathleen Dixon

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Hypothetically there are endless amounts of information one can write about oneself in a bio. But practically speaking, what would others want to know? Where one lived, how one grew up, what type of education a person had, what kind of work they did, and their life experience would say a lot about someone. Yes, those are things about an author I would wonder about too or any public figure for that matter. It would say quite a bit about his or her character and orientation.

With that in mind, I will best describe myself succinctly. First off, although college education is desirable, I have had no college education. It is not because I was unable to do so, but rather, it was unnecessary for a successful and happy life, which was my goal. I had an excellent elementary and secondary school education and was fortunate to participate in the Fine Arts, abundantly taught in most schools I attended at that time. My father, a cartoonist, painter, and guitar player was also in the US military and put a request in for a transfer overseas. Soon after, our family transferred to Spain during my middle school years. These years were probably the most illuminating and happy years of my life. Spain was an artistic country. There was art everywhere I looked. And the people were the best part. From that point on, I was self-taught. I loved writing, reading, and English classes, as well as history, but creativity was always my passion. I taught myself to paint with oils, sculpt, dance, cook, sew, and just about anything else of interest. Thus was my education.

Being in a military family, I never lived in any one place as a child for more than three and a half years. This experience taught me the value of growing up in one place, surrounded by the same individuals. And I learned that to have friends you have known all your life is worth gold. Although it is an esteemed quality of life I didn’t have, I am content to be part of such a community and graciously accepted.

My husband and I were married in Portland, Oregon. Starting with nothing, we established and grew a residential remodeling and restoration company, which we continue operating for the last thirty-eight years while raising our children.

In 2011 we purchased a beautiful 1890 Queen Anne Victorian House in North Carolina, which is where we live now with our Irish Terrier, Samwise. I raised my youngest son there, and it is where I began writing my first book, “Frederic & Cassandra Book One The Sinister House.” It was slow going at first, but once I decided to complete it, I persisted until it was finished and published.

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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 – Sherif Guirguis

Interview with Author – Sherif Guirguis

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An Egyptian by birth, cosmopolitan by convection, Sherif started writing at the age of eight, and he didn’t stop since then, earning him several writing awards as his reward for his passion.
He always thought that our world needed a dash of magic, and this is what he always included in his writings.
Originally a medical doctor, but he decided to leave medicine behind to pursue his passion for the word since then he wrote three books.
The chronicles of Agartha: Book 1 – The Green boy, is his third book, his first was “The Door”, a magical realism thriller, and the “The Trinity’s Dream”, a contemporary fantasy about the end of days.
He is happily married and has two daughters, whom he adores.

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Interview with Author – Robin G Howard

Interview with Author – Robin G Howard

Robin G Howard is the author of a series of science fiction fantasy novels and short stories portraying the Jim Long space agent series plus three non-fiction supernatural titles. Entering into a turbulent world by birth in 1940 there have been many strange, unaccountable incidents showing there is far more to life than we will ever know. Life is as if being on top of an iceberg, the submerged part unknown and out of reach. The spiritual exploration discovered by a degree of metaphysical incidents that we tend to ignore and forget. Robin is a keen observer of the psychic and supernatural events that can take place in one’s own lifetime reflected in the storylines of his books.

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Interview with Author – Harry James Fox

Interview with Author – Harry James Fox

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Harry James Fox “Jim” was born in a log cabin on a ranch in western Colorado. Raised riding horses and herding cattle. Counterintelligence Special Agent with the Counter-Intelligence Corps in the U.S. Army. Served as a natural resources manager with the U.S. Department of the Interior. Advanced degree from the College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Colorado State University. Advanced degrees in Theology. Father of two and grandfather of seven.
Lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, mostly, but spends about half the time in Winston Salem, North Carolina to be close to grandkids. He loves elk hunting, the outdoors, travel, desert walks. Once told a Bible story to a group of nearly-naked men in a grass hut, all with unsheathed swords lying across their laps. Testified before Congress. He once met Emperor Hirohito of Japan in the flesh. He spent five years in Asia. Now retired, he hates chocolate, but loves green chile.
BRONZE MEDAL winner in the 2016 Global Ebook Awards in the Fiction – Fantasy/Alternate History category.

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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 – W.D. Kilpack III

Interview with Author – W.D. Kilpack III

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W.D. Kilpack III is an award-winning freelance writer published in two countries, with works appearing in print, online, radio and television, starting with his first publication credit at the age of nine, when he wrote an award-winning poem. As an adult, he received special recognition from L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest. He has been editor and/or publisher of nineteen news and literary publications, both online and in print, with circulations as high as 770,000. He is an accomplished cook and has two claims he thinks few can match: cooking nearly every type of food on a grill; and nearly being knocked flat when his grill exploded.

He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Westminster College of Salt Lake City. As an undergrad, he double-majored in communication and philosophy, while completing the Honors Program. As a graduate student, he earned a master of professional communication with a writing emphasis. He was also a high-performing athlete, qualifying for international competition in Greco-Roman wrestling.

He is a communication professor and a nationally recognized wrestling coach. He is happily married to his high-school sweetheart and is father to five children, as well as helping to raise five step-children. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he continues to live, coach and teach.

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Interview with Author – David Cuff

Interview with Author – David Cuff

David Cuff built a four-decade career in operations management and logistics, in the UK and then Western Australia, before reaching a point in his life where he wanted to engage in something completely different; hence his first book, “The Last Noah”. In his earlier years, he read most of the works of Isaac Asimov, which gave him an interest in sci-fi books with a superb plot, but which explore social science fiction as well. He now lives in Leicestershire, and also composes classical-style music.

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