IndieView with Shane Blackheart, author of Everything Is Wonderful Now

I have a disorder where I mostly experience nightmares, including night terrors, and at the time they had become frequent again. There’s a chunk of the book that deals with this in a creative way, but there were moments when I had to push through some of my worst fears to get to the end of the book. I just leaned into it instead of avoiding it, and I poured all of that anxiety into the writing. 

Shane Blackheart – 17 February 2023 Continue reading

IndieView with Roxana Arama, author of Extreme Vetting

I had watched a video of the president of the United States at a rally, where he compared immigrants to venomous snakes that should be crushed underfoot. I’m an immigrant, and I was horrified. For years, hearing politicians say terrible things about us, especially when they don’t understand our immigration system, had been heartbreaking.

Roxana Arama – 12 February 2023 Continue reading