About krista marson: Hello, my name is Krista, and I was a travel agent back in the day when there was such a thing. The '90s were good to me and I got to bounce around the globe on the last bit of coattails that was once the booming travel agent industry. I am currently in the process of writing out my travel tales. What inspires you to write? I've traveled extensively and have many unique experiences to share. Everyone has always told me that I needed to write my travel stories … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – krista marson
Interview with Author – Stefanie and James Wilson
About Stefanie and James Wilson: Stef and James met in Sydney and currently live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. They love traveling, and when they are home, they enjoy spending time with family and enjoying the outdoors. What inspires you to write? Stef: Travel! Both of us have traveled a lot and have funny or interesting stories we would often tell people. I had always wanted to write a travel memoir, and James suggested it would be fun to write a collection of our travel stories. Over … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Stefanie and James Wilson
Dream Pop Origami by Jackson Bliss
DREAM POP ORIGAMI combines lyric personal essays with autobiographical lists about growing up as a hapa teenager in small town America, falling in love in the big city, growing through the pain of cultural hyphenation, traveling to Japan for the first time as a Nisei, and teaching/serving abroad in Argentina and Burkina Faso. Dream Pop Origami is textual choreography between author and reader, an anti-memoir that resists narrative linearity at every turn, and also a series of intersecting … [Read more...] about Dream Pop Origami by Jackson Bliss
Interview with Author – Jackson Bliss
About Jackson Bliss: I'm the winner of the 2020 Noemi Book Award in Prose and the mixed-race/hapa author of Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021), Amnesia of June Bugs (7.13 Books, 2022), Dream Pop Origami (Unsolicited Press, 2022), and the speculative hypertext, Dukkha, My Love (2017). My writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Ploughshares, Guernica, Antioch Review, ZYZZYVA, and the Columbia Journal, among others. I'm the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Jackson Bliss
Interview with Author – Mary Hill-Wagner
About Mary Hill-Wagner: Dr. Mary Hill-Wagner is an author, professor, and former newspaper journalist. She lives in the Inland Empire in California with her spouse and dogs. She enjoys The Antiques Roadshow (even went once), poetry, movies, and Broadway Musicals (singing them loudly and off key). She thinks being in the company of artists is the best thing in the world! She is grateful to her editor, publisher, and agent for believing in her work. What inspires you to write? Stories, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Mary Hill-Wagner
Interview with Author – Jori Aguilar Sams
About Jori Aguilar Sams: Hello! I'm Jori. I'm the face behind Writeious Books. Over the past twenty years, I’ve lived in five countries. This has given me palette full of color, and offered me plenty of material to write about. I've been a freelance journalist for years, too, where I've penned over 1500 pieces for Yahoo alone. I've even received honors for my work. In university, I studied medicine but it left me feeling empty-handed, so instead of reading medical … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Jori Aguilar Sams
Interview with Author – Ashley Elliott
About Ashley Elliott: ASHLEY ELLIOTT was raised in Conway, Arkansas. A survivor and an advocate for victims, she devoted more than a decade to her quest for justice after her father’s murder and mother’s kidnapping. She holds a BS in Organizational Communication from the University of Utah, and is an avid hiker, athlete, bodybuilder who has competed in and won medals in various competitions. She lives in Utah with her husband and children. The Demon in Disguise is her first book. What … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Ashley Elliott
Collateral Intentions by Constantine Dhonau
“…it peels back layers and defenses in one’s own psyche and relays the message of vulnerability that is universally common in being human and necessary in the journey of self-love.” “Even now as I read the first page I laughed out loud. I think if you choose to buy this book, I believe you may find something in it to make you wonder, make you laugh, make you want to be a better person, and make you appreciate life just a little bit more.” At what point does practicing vulnerability fortify … [Read more...] about Collateral Intentions by Constantine Dhonau
My so Called, Gay Schizophrenic Life: Introspection by Aaron Stickney
This book follow my journey through the years of 2012 up to 2018. Here I describe what it was like dealing with issues of my mental health disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder and other various facets. Which includes sexual harassment in the work place, religious facets and other factors. Targeted Age Group:: 14 and Above What Inspired You to Write Your Book? What inspired me to write this book was that we all have a voice in life but some of us don't wish to share their stories or … [Read more...] about My so Called, Gay Schizophrenic Life: Introspection by Aaron Stickney
Interview with Author – Paz Ellis
About Paz Ellis: Paz Ellis has been writing since childhood. She began her journey as a writer with poetry and short stories. She grew up in a household of voracious readers. When she was about twelve years old, her mother gave her a wonderful gift—her first hardcover book. It was a beautiful copy of Little Women. She looked at it and realized that her name would be on a book cover one day. However, her first book was a product of grief. She wrote a memoir, Plantains and the Seven Plagues, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Paz Ellis
Interview with Author – Brooke Jones
About Brooke Jones: Called "LA's FUNNIEST LADY" by the now-defunct Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Brooke Jones spent many years as a Radio Personality and Political Satirist in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Her LA morning radio show, "Brooke Jones & The Morning Muse" -- Political Satire for the Deeply Twisted -- was a huge hit. Newspapers wrote about her; columnists quoted her, and Johnny Carson even invited her to be a guest on The Tonight Show. Jones … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Brooke Jones
The Reluctant Hotelkeeper by John Searancke
John Searancke came to the role of hotelkeeper almost accidentally, and most definitely with much reluctance. After his parents’ marriage fell apart, he was dragooned in, at the age of 22, to pick up the pieces of their new venture, a barely-trading country house hotel that had, frankly, seen better days. Not only was it posting an annual loss, but the fabric of the building was crumbling and there was no money left to make improvements. There were to be battles royal with neighbours not … [Read more...] about The Reluctant Hotelkeeper by John Searancke