Category Archives: Indieview author

IndieView with SM Smyth, author of Save Our Ice

Imagine there’s another reason to reverse climate change, one which threatens to wipe out all the grown-ups in the world within a year.

SM Smyth – 27 April 2021 Continue reading

IndieView with Lynda Faye Schmidt, author of The Healing

I knew I wanted to write a novel to share my insights with others, I just didn’t know what shape my story would take until years later.

Lynda Faye Schmidt – 23 April 2021 Continue reading

IndieView with Anita D. Russell, author of Cultivating Change from the Inside Out

My younger daughter who had just given birth to her first child in March 2020 asked if I thought her son would have to protest in his lifetime as well. I started writing the book in response to that question.

Anita D. Russell – 19 April 2021 Continue reading

IndieView with Christie Leigh Babirad, author of Sapphire Stars: Poems

I like the idea that just like a music record/cd, a poetry book all your own is like tracks of music aligned to convey a certain theme, message, or feeling.

Christie Leigh Babirad – 15 April 2021 Continue reading

IndieView with Konstantina Kailliontzi, author of The One

Always be original when you write. That’s how you will shine bright in the end. After all, you can’t write a good book when you’re trying to imitate someone else’s writing.

Konstantina Kalliontzi – 11 April 2021 Continue reading

IndieView with Robert Babirad, author of In-Transit Passenger

It was challenging to revisit the difficult experiences which form a framework around which the travel and international experiences take place in the book. However, it was those same challenges which make the places visited in the book even more meaningful, so they were experiences that had to be told.

Robert Babirad – 6 April 2021 Continue reading

IndieView with June Rollins, author of She Lost Her Muse

I’ve borrowed and blended, exaggerated and embellished, from real world people and myself.

June Rollins 31 March 2021 Continue reading

IndieView with Bentley Turner, author of The File on Thomas Marks

The idea came from a short story that I had written years before but had never tried to get published. Of course, by the time the final draft of the mystery was finished, the plot was not like the short story whatsoever.

Bentley Turner – 26 March 2021 Continue reading

IndieView with Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of Orange City

I had the idea of an advertising executive who becomes addicted to the sodas in his new ad campaign, the novel built from there.

Lee Matthew Goldberg – 16 March 2021 Continue reading

IndieView with Céline Perron, author of The Next Right Thing

I always doubted my writing and worried that it wouldn’t be good enough. Essentially, I had to get out of my own way.

Céline Perron – 12 March 2021 Continue reading