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IndieView with Michael Swartz, author of Split

 

I wanted to write a nature vs. nurture coming-of-age story, but I was lacking the central twist. As I was pondering different ideas, there was a patient in the cardiology clinic who was a chimera. They had a slightly different hair pattern between their left and right sides, and a few other subtle differences. 

Michael Swartz – 29 August 2025 Continue reading

Chris Kauzlarich, author of Menagerie in the Dark

Over the past twelve years, I wrote these various stories inspired by moments, whether from a scenario I was experiencing, something I observed, or simply a good old-fashioned burst of creative energy in front of the computer.

Chris Kauzlarich – 26 August 2025 Continue reading

Bookview with Chris Gerrib, author of One of Our Spaceships is Missing

My characters in this novel are the most fictional of any novel I’ve written. I’m personally a straight white male, and most of the characters in this book are none of the above.

24 August 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Breakfield and Burkey, authors of The Flight Enigma

We spent time developing the story through our standard back-and-forth process, refining the characters, crafting each chapter, and ensuring a cohesive voice throughout.

Breakfield and Burkey – 23 August 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Trevor W. Harrison, author of Tales This Side of the Elysian Fields

Each chapter is bite-sized and not dependent upon reading any previous chapter. 

Trevor W. Harrison – 22 August 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Nancy Christie, author of Moving Maggie

I had been making notes on possible storylines for my Midlife Moxie novels when I first came up with the idea of the series, since it was important that each story had its own unique conflict and situation that the main character had to deal with.

Nancy Christie – 20 August 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Dan Schorr, author of Open Bar

I very much appreciated being able to share the inside, behind-the-scenes world of high-profile sexual misconduct investigations, as I wrote about the real challenges with these matters that are rarely talked about in public.

Dan Schorr – 20 August 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Pat Black-Gould, coauthor of All the Broken Angels

The novel begins in the late 1950s and moves through the mid-1970s, a time when America was changing fast. The culture, the music, the Women’s Movement, the Vietnam War, and a country deeply divided.

Pat Black-Gould – 18 August 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Rob Tonkin, author of Asshole

The seed was discovered in psychotherapy.

Rob Tonkin – 16 August 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Kay Sparling, author of Mission Thaw

I found the graphic content the hardest to write because of the torture that the victims were put through. To have to describe in depth this kind of torture was excruciatingly difficult.

Kay Sparling – 14 August 2025 Continue reading