Category: Author Interview
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Zena Shapter, author of Towards White
What is the biggest thing that people THINK they know about your subject/genre that isn’t so? I write science fiction and fantasy, and people (who don’t read it) tend to think of it as ‘all spaceships and magic’. It isn’t! Science fiction, for example, can indeed be based on space, time travel or life on…
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Frida R., author of Blossom’s Wine Bar
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing when I was in the fourth grade, mainly because I was too shy to stand up for myself and speak my mind. In the beginning, I was just venting in my diary. Then, I learned about onomatopoeia in class and was given a homework assignment…
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David Russell, author of Self’s Blossom
When and why did you begin writing? My first poem was triggered by acute personal tensions; through writing it, I got some sense of control over those tensions. When did you first consider yourself a writer? From my early 20s, though it took a long time for my opinion to be vindicated. Why did you…
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William C. Tracy, author of Tuning the Symphony
When and why did you begin writing? My first story was in third grade, where Mario, Link, and Zelda had to stop an evil wizard. Sadly, I never finished it. As a teenager, I wrote a narrative/humorous diary of a few family vacations. Then I started on a novel, which was terrible, put it down,…
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Phillip Vega, author of Last Exit to Montauk
What made you decide to sit down and actually start writing this book? Sitting down and writing a book was never on my radar. It just happened. In the latter part of a rainy August 2015 afternoon, after putting away the groceries, my wife turned in for a nap with the pups, so I sat…
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S.T. Sanchez, author of Sunwalker
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I didn’t consider myself a writer until I published my first book, but that is truly just a personal feeling. Holding a physical book in my hand with my name on it made it seem real. There is nothing like it. Why did you choose to write…
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Amanda Howard, author of A Dancer’s Diary
When and why did you begin writing? A Dancer’s Diary has been in the making for about 5 years now. The reason I started writing was mostly because I wanted to share my love of health, fitness, and dance with others. I have always been taught to love learning and to share it with others…
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Linda M. Crate, author of Blood & Magic
What have you written so far? I have written scads of poem, many short stories, personal essays, a few reviews, several chapbooks three of which are published: A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn, Less Than A Man, and If Tomorrow Never Comes. I have written several fantasy novels four of which are published: Blood & Magic,…
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Miranda Moondawn, author of Mooniana and the Secret of the Lost Chronicles of Sophia
When and why did you begin writing? I first began writing in my late teens. I had read a lot of fantasy and adventure books as a child, but my first major impetus for writing came from a most unexpected source – from pop and rock bands and artists like the Beatles, Neil Young, Kate…
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Allan Batchelder, author of Steel Blood and Fire
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing compulsively when I was in the 8th grade, about 14 years old. I had an English class in which writing regular short stories was part of the curriculum…only my stories were thirty, forty, fifty pages long. I just got hooked and have never really stopped.…
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