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Interview with Author – Lynne Howard

Interview with Author – Lynne Howard

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I was born and raised in Toronto, Canada and continue to reside there with my husband, our three children (ages 24, 23 and 15) and our two dogs. I graduated from law school in Toronto in 1995 and practiced law for several years before I decided to change my professional path. With the encouragement of my husband, I went back to school and became a teacher. I have been teaching Grade 11 and Grade 12 Law, as well as other Social Sciences courses at a private high school for over twenty years. I have also taught part-time at a university in Toronto, and I have written non-fiction publications for teachers and students. I enjoy doing volunteer work in my community and participating in extra-curricular activities at my school. I find the time to write my novels on weekends and holidays. I am so grateful to my family for all their support and for giving me the time I need to write.

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Interview with Author – Anushka Bhattacharjee

Interview with Author – Anushka Bhattacharjee

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Anushka is eight years old. She is in grade 3.
She was born in Arkansas,USA , then moved to Chicago, Dallas and now in Toronto.
She started reading at the age of two. She is an avid reader,a regular member of the local libraries since she was a toddler, and has read over a 1000 library books just in the past one year.While stuck at home during Covid-19 she wanted to do something constructive and that’s how she nurtured the idea of writing a book.
Her schooling started at Preston Hollow CDC , then Children’s Courtyard, Universal Academy and now at Seneca Trail. This fall she will be starting at Coronation School where she has been selected for the “gifted program”. Anushka enjoys reading, bike riding, and movies. She is also very good at ice skating. She has a sister Arushi, in kindergarten.
Anushka has inspired many little readers during her in-person Book Events, who now want to pursue their dream of becoming an author. Anushka is very active in the community, and donates part of her proceeds to charitable organizations like “Durham Children’s Aid Association” ,”Hearth Place Cancer Support Centre”,”Autism Home Base Durham Inc.”,etc . She also sends donations to Ghana for little kids.

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Interview with Author – Colin Guest

Interview with Author – Colin Guest

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After his retirement, Colin Guests wrote a memoir entitled Follow in the Tigerman’s Footsteps. Since then, he has written another ten books, with his latest, Death on the Move. It is the last in a trilogy of thriller, starting with Desperation Rules the Day. Apart from memoirs and thrillers, Colin also writes romantic novels/ and short stories.
As a lover of Tigers, he has adopted one for the past twelve years and uses the name Tigerman on various of his social media sites.

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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 – 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 – Jason R Lady

Interview with Author – Jason R Lady

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Jason is an army brat who grew up moving around a total of seven times on military bases from Germany to Fort Knox, Kentucky. From a family of avid readers, Jason was encouraged to read fantasy and science fiction, and write his own stories and comic strips from an early age. Jason wrote his first novel-length story in high school–a parody of Robin Hood that starred all his friends, and got passed around on the bus and read on the way to cross-country races. When he’s not writing, Jason works in Training and Talent Management. Jason has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowling Green State University and a Masters of Education from Cleveland State University. He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. In his free time Jason can be found talking about and enjoying 1980’s music and popular culture, watching Marvel movies, working on visiting all the MLB baseball stadiums, and following the Cleveland Indians. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife and many great friends. Monster Problems is his first novel.

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Interview with Author – James Blakley

Interview with Author – James Blakley

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James Blakley was educated at Missouri Western State College and Washburn University. While at MWSC, he was a local and national award-winning columnist and section editor of “The Griffon-News.” Blakley worked 10 1/2 years as a page and as an Assistant Librarian for the River Bluffs Regional Libraries of St. Joseph, MO. He currently lives in Topeka, KS where he worked for The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library; several years in clerical and customer support capacities for international computer companies, such as EDS and HP; and information-gathering and analysis for numerous local, state, and federal agencies.

Blakley prefers reading history, current events, and allegorical fiction, and runs the gamut cinematically. And besides writing in his spare time, he is an avid pro sports fan who enjoys playing men’s fast-pitch softball.

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Interview with Author – Gigi Sedlmayer

Interview with Author – Gigi Sedlmayer

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Gisela (Gigi) Sedlmayer was born on 19 May 1944 in Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin in Germany.
Her family escaped to the West just before the infamous wall went up. They moved around in Germany, following where her dad got work. That meant she had to change 9 times schools. In the end she never had friends again, of fear, she will lose them again.
Finally, they settled in Munich where Gigi studied architectural drafting and met Albert in 1965, marrying in December 1967. She worked as a civil drafts-person in various private consultancies in Munich.
Since her uncle was a writer, she tried to write short animal stories herself. Nothing further came of it, but she developed a love for the written word and started to consume books.
In May 1975, Gigi and her husband moved to New Zealand. Because of language challenges, she started a handcraft business. As a specialty, she made colourful parrots in several sizes of which she sold thousands in a few years.
In 1988, they decided to adopt and became adoptive parents of twin girls the year after. They lived in New Zealand for eighteen years and moved to Australia in September 1992.
One year later Gigi was diagnosed with cancer. After operations and radiation, she withdrew, thinking that she would probably soon be dead, like her friend who died of cancer, but her two little girls gave her the courage to keep going. After a few years, still among the living, her brain started to work again, so she thought, ‘Get a grip on yourself and do something good with your life’.
She remembered the time she wrote short stories and got inspired again, seeing her husband Albert writing the story of their adoption. Her English became increasingly better so she pressed on to develop her creative writing.
Albert taught her how to use a computer and she wrote many short stories. She entered them in competitions and often got very good reports back, which gave her confidence to go on writing. One day the idea for the TALON series came to her and she spent the next several years bringing the story and the characters to life.
She now loves writing and spends most of her time at the computer, developing new story lines. She also loves traveling, 4×4 touring, swimming, gardening, handcrafting, reading, fossicking and enjoys good adventure DVD’s or going to the movies.
Teaching Children Self-Confidence Through Service to Others

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Interview with Author – Rob Shackleford

Interview with Author – Rob Shackleford

An English-born Australian, Rob Shackleford has lived in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and has travelled extensively internationally.
His varied careers have included Customs Officer, SCUBA instructor, college teacher, and management roles in too many places.
With degrees in the Arts and Business, he is mad keen on travel, SCUBA diving, family history, astronomy and playing the djembe and congas.
Rob is father of two and lives with his partner on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

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Interview with Author – Alan Cook

Interview with Author – Alan Cook

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Alan Cook writes mystery/suspense novels and children’s’ books. His Carol Golden series features a young woman who has amnesia. In attempting to put her life back together she discovers that she has a talent for mathematics and code breaking. Sometimes her past comes back to haunt her, such as when she is asked to help find a former lover she can’t remember who is an alleged threat to world order, or when she is helping to find a serial killer she might have known. Alan’s children’s book, “Dancing with Bulls,” takes place 4,000 years ago on the Greek island of Crete.

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