Category Archives: Interviews

If my hubby interrupts me, I go into a right old strop even if he is just bringing me a cup of tea because I haven’t stopped all day. What an ungrateful old boot I am.

Carol E. Wyer – 17 December 2012 Continue reading →

… goriness can be offensive. The hardest part about this is that I’m not trying to offend anyone. Violence is a part of the world and therefore violence finds itself in a story. It’s no different than how love and laughter finds itself in a story.

C. W. Schultz – 12 December 2012 Continue reading →

There is one other character in the book that is strictly based on his real world personality and that is me. My brother needed a sidekick and who better to play that role than his real life author brother? I had fun with my character and made myself omniscient. 

C. J. West – 10 December 2012 Continue reading →

If you want to be read, you’ve got to get your book out there. The reading public doesn’t come to you, you have to go to it. Writing the book is only part of the story, the other parts are getting it published and getting it read. 

Rita Plush 24 Nov 2012 Continue reading →

Don’t put your book out there without letting several (and I mean more than two) people read and critique it. Cover art is very important to a book’s success… look at other books in your target market. Thicken up your skin, you will be judged.

S.L. Baum – 1 September 2012 Continue reading →

I admired the writers I read about who did it all themselves, and when I concluded the whole agent route was “a scream into the void,” I became excited to see if I could manage it all myself.

Lindsay McFerrin Bates 2 August 2012 Continue reading →

In 2009, I realized that because of the many marketing and PR jobs I held over the years, I had all of the computer, editing, writing and marketing skills necessary to launch a small press of my own, and that’s what I did. Mainly Murder Press is a traditional, royalty-paying publisher, not a vanity press. We now publish the work of nearly 30 talented writers.

Judith K. Iview 28 July 2012 Continue reading →

I’m constantly thinking about my stories, so I tend to scribble notes or scenes on anything I find. 

Diana Murdock 26 July 2012 Continue reading →