Author Interview with W.H. Beck & Book Giveaway
“What if [Malcolm] could prove to the Academy that he was a critter of…valor and merit? Maybe…he could admit the truth. Maybe then everyone could start thinking that not all rats are skuzzy.” ~ from...
View ArticleIn Case You Don’t Hear From Me
… It’s because I’m getting ready for this: You might think “getting ready” means sit-ups and squats and tanning salons. And, based on my natural skin tone and the number of blueberry muffins I eat in a...
View ArticleQ&A with Stevan Allred, A Simplified Map of the Real World
You cannot grieve for a puzzle, nor celebrate the death of a cipher. You have to make some sense out of the man first. ~ from “The Painted Man” in A Simplified Map of the Real World Maps guide us,...
View ArticleSpotlight: 4 Author Interviews from 2015
In a time when so much divides us–religion, politics, and even something as simple as distance–books bring us together. We write them; we read them; we discuss them. And much can be learned from a good...
View ArticleQ&A with Robert Hill, author of The Remnants
There are acts that happen upon us, and moments that happen for no reason, and if we are to survive what comes our way to finish our rotations around the sun…then we who are able must deliver ourselves...
View Article50 Author Interviews At Your Fingertips
Since 2010, I’ve interviewed 50 authors about their novels, memoirs, collections of short stories, poetry, and more. In these Q&A’s, we’ve talked things like influences of the universe, how change...
View ArticleQ&A with the Editors of Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
“We dug deep and pushed seeds / from locked away vaults / into the earth so gentle we pushed / and we wondered if the past / could be reborn.” ~ from “Fairy Tales & Other Species of Life” (Chloe …...
View ArticleQ&A with Kim Suhr, author of Nothing To Lose
“Poetry has gotten them into this and poetry will have to get them out.” ~ from “Right Place, Right Time” in Nothing To Lose In the heart of Wisconsin right now, we are covered in white. Winter...
View ArticleQ&A with Jackie Shannon Hollis, author of This Particular Happiness: A...
“This is what I did. This is what my girlfriends did. With dolls, with little sisters and brothers, with children we babysat. We pretended. We practiced. We prepared. Our mothers said to us, ‘When you...
View ArticleQ&A with Erika Dreifus, author of BIRTHRIGHT: Poems
“You say that the Bible is just an old book, / But when I consider the story of a Levite’s concubine, / I wonder what has changed since those ancient times.” ~ “On Reading Chapter 19 in the Book of...
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