Category Archives: Interviews

But I believe, despite this democratization of publishing, the reader is the one we must put our trust in and believe their discerning taste will ultimately separate the wheat from the chaff.

Collin Tobin – 24 January 2013 Continue reading →

Connect and network with other authors early on. Listen, learn, share, and commiserate. There are a lot of great communities and forums for authors on LinkedIn and Facebook. Also, check out IndiesUnlimited.com. The guy who started that this is really cool and devastatingly handsome. (ahem)

Stephen Hise – 21 January 2013 Continue reading →

I was made redundant in 2009, the run up to the event wasn’t the greatest of experiences. I’ve (perhaps!) included some of the people and extrapolated some of events that occurred during that time. So, a negative turned into a positive.

Keith Nixon – 17 January 2013 Continue reading →

So I read up on the current laws of copyright, and the found that an idea by itself — or a plot — cannot be protected. And I wondered about precedents, about who might have taken advantage of this. Shakespeare came to mind, and when I read that many of his plays were re-workings of older, or less successful authors, and that there were no copyright laws at all in 1600, I decided to try and combine past with present.

Paul Collis – 14 January 2013 Continue reading →

I started writing this book almost ten years ago. Unintentionally, I was writing a book and did not even know it. I wrote down thoughts and experiences while in therapy and it wasn’t long before I had an entire book in front of me.

John D. Moore – 10 January 2013 Continue reading →

Characters, even fictional ones, have to come from somewhere, and making characters feel real requires using a lot from life. The characters are all fictional, but there are traits borrowed from various people I know including myself.

Marion Stein – 7 January 2013 Continue reading →

Don’t be in such a hurry. EDIT … It takes longer to do a good edit job than it does to write the first draft.

Tony McFadden – 3 January 2013 Continue reading →

Oh man am I winging it. I thought the hard part would be to assemble something people could read. Getting the word out is where I feel so lost.

J. Rudolph – 27 December 2012

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I think my self-published books are just as well-written and edited as my traditionally published books and I doubt most readers could tell the difference without looking up the name of the publisher for each title. 

Beth Orsoff – 21 December 2012 Continue reading →