About Charvella J. Campbell: Charvella J. Campbell is the author of newly released short story collection A Life Interrupted. The author also owns Campbell Editing & Proofing Services, Inc., and volunteers for nonprofit agencies as a grant writer. Campbell is a contributor to HERS Magazine and regular blogger on Working Mom Website. Hobbies include reading, singing and baking. What inspires you to write? I've been a writer for most of my life, crafting short stories and novellas. … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Charvella J. Campbell
Interview with Author – Jo Bissell
About Jo Bissell: Jo Bissell started writing in middle school with fantasy stories inspired by books such as The Hobbit, and in fact once turned in a journal project written entirely in Dwarfish Ruins. Now, after many years of study, she spends most of her time working as a full time physician caring for hospitalized adults. When she is not writing or doctoring, she enjoys reading, movies, traveling, archery, thrift store shopping, and snowboarding. She currently resides in the Iowa City, IA … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Jo Bissell
Interview with Author – Ed Walker
About Ed Walker: Ed Walker, known as Whitey to his drinking companions, has had a life long passion for flavor. As a young teen he began experimenting with different liquids to learn what flavors created the most pleasing combination. Adulthood brought an appreciation for alcohol. Combining quality alcoholic ingredients with surprising mixers is Whitey’s trademark when tending bar at large events or quiet intimate gatherings of friends. Ed Walker, is the head writer and bartender at A … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Ed Walker
Interview with Author – Gareth Evans
About Gareth Evans: Gareth Evans is a guitarist with his own successful Guitar tuition practice with a very low student turnover rate (the same ones keep coming back!). He started playing guitar at age 8 and by age 10 was with the teachers in the orchestral pit for school plays playing guitar chords such as 9th, diminished and major 7th chord types (and still has the music sheets). At age 13 grade 5 he obtained classical guitar with honours. Later on Distinction at higher diploma level … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Gareth Evans
Interview with Author – Callie James
About Callie James: I spent the first three decades of my life in Portland, Oregon, before picking up everything and moving to the South for much needed sunshine and a change of pace. When I'm not reading or penning young adult novels, I'm absorbed in all things supernatural, fantasy and sci-fi. Most recently, I've become hopelessly addicted to the BBC and anime. My husband and I are also very devoted to our numerous adopted animals. What inspires you to … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Callie James
Interview with Author – Sarah Michelle Lynch
About Sarah Michelle Lynch: Sarah's first job was opening a newspaper shop, when she was just seventeen. It was a good exercise in discipline, having to get up at 5a.m. on a weekend morning. Since then, she has worked all kinds of jobs including cafe assistant, student mentor and ambassador, checkout girl, bartender, shelf stacker, supply teacher and after graduating university, magazine journalist. The jobs may have come and gone but the urge to write was ALWAYS there. Sarah currently lives … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Sarah Michelle Lynch
Interview with Author – Melissa McClone
About Melissa McClone: With a degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Melissa McClone worked for a major airline where she traveled the globe and met her husband. But analyzing jet engine performance couldn’t compete with her love of writing happily ever afters. Her first full-time writing endeavor was her first sale when she was pregnant with her first child! Since then, she has published over thirty romance novels with Harlequin and Tule Publishing Group. She’s also been … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Melissa McClone
Interview with Author – Robert P. Wills
About Robert P. Wills: Robert P. Wills is a senior U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Four, Interrogator. That doesn't make him a bad person. He's been doing this sort of work for over 24 years and has decided that writing fantasy stories about unstable Gnomes was a logical career progression from writing intelligence reports. So he will concentrate on that when he retires in late 2014. Really late 2014. About as late in 2014 as one can be and still say "it was 2014 when I retired." He is … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Robert P. Wills
Interview with Author – Melissa Blue
Author Bio: Melissa Blue's writing career started on a typewriter one month after her son was born. This would have been an idyllic situation for a writer if it had been 1985, not 2004. Eventually she upgraded to a computer. She's still typing away on the same computer, making imaginary people fall in love. What inspires you to write? There's a question that hits me and I want to know the answer to it. That question can come from reading a book, watching a movie or a conversation with … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Melissa Blue
Interview with Author – Lorraine Pestell
About Lorraine Pestell: Lorraine Pestell was born in London and has had a successful career as an Information Technology professional in the UK, US, Europe, Singapore, and more recently Australia. She currently resides in Melbourne, Victoria. Although working full-time, Lorraine is a passionate volunteer for several organisations, including serving on the Boards of non-profit organisations, being a mentor for The Smith Family's iTrack program and providing project management assistance to … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Lorraine Pestell
Interview with Author – Derek Ailes
About Derek Ailes: I am a science fiction & horror writer from Valparaiso, Indiana. I also love to write horror stories about zombies and cats. I am also a political satirist. In 1985 I wrote my first short story: "The Day It Rained Candy." I also started writing a science fiction series called "Power Force." In 1994 I published my first short story: "The Night Of the Living Redheads." I co-wrote Journey Into the Unknown and Second Journey Into the Unknown with my brother Mark Cusco Ailes. … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Derek Ailes
Interview with Author – Brian Wicklin
About Brian Wicklin: Brian Wicklin was born in Kalapaluwawa, a township close to Colombo the capitol city of Sri Lanka on 18th April 1939. He was the next youngest of a family of 6 children. His father was a building engineer in the government services and his mother was housewife. They were upper-middle class and held upper middle class values and had links to some of the most powerful families of the time. His parents had a stormy relationship. When Brian was 6 years old, the family broke up … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Brian Wicklin