Interview with freelance writer and editor Lorri Cardwell-Casey

#1: In the short time of twelve years you’ve had over 450 non-fiction and fiction magazine credits, many of them in national publications. To what do you attribute such prolificacy? There’s no magic answer, but I think four personality characteristics help. I’m very stubborn, hard-working, goal-driven, and flexible. – On being stubborn: in order to [...]

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Reading Like a Writer, by Francine Prose

Reading Like A Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them By Francine Prose Harper Collins ISBN: 978-0-06-077704-3 Copyright 2006 Hardcover, 273 pages, $23.95 Non-Fiction/Writing Why was it okay for Gabriel Garcia Marquez to write a book-long paragraph but not okay for the average writer today? Why [...]

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Interview with Jamieson Wolf, Author and Editor of MUSINGS: A MAGAZINE OF WORDS

Please tell us about your ezine, Musings: A Magazine of Words. How did it get started? Well, it kind of started in a round about way. I had been trying to submit stories to publications, online EZines and different magazines and found the market very tough. There are a lot of writers out there and [...]

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Interview with Author Lois Winston

Do you consider yourself a born writer? Some people know from when they’re very young that they want to grow up to write books. I wasn’t one of those people. I wanted to be an astronaut, but NASA wasn’t interested in wannabe astronauts who suffered from motion sickness. Although I always enjoyed creative writing when [...]

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On the Spotlight: Beverly Stowe McClure

Do you consider yourself a born writer? No. In fact, when I was a child I hated to read. School book reports were a nightmare. Even though my teacher in eighth grade sent my poem, “Stars”, to a high school anthology, and it was published, I hated to write. I never would have imagined that [...]

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Writing Terrors

Are you afraid to write? If you are, don’t worry. Most writers live in fear. Fear can even work to your advantage and make your writing sparkle. Fear shows passion, and passion often makes good writing. It also shows you care. The important thing is to use that fear, to control it before it controls [...]

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On the Spotlight: Medical Thriller Author Beverly Bateman

Interview with Beverley Bateman I understand you were an avid reader of Nancy Drew as a child. Did you start writing stories at an early age, too?Yes. I think I’ve always been writing. In school I was always making up stories about people being killed in locked rooms and hunting down the killers. I kept [...]

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The Loch, by Steven Alten

The Loch By Steve Alten Tsunami Books ISBN: 0-9761659-0-2 Copyright 2005 Hardcover, 487 pages, $27.95 Thriller Brilliant young biologist Zachary Wallace takes part in an underwater expedition in the Sargasso Sea. However, while deep in the water, something goes terribly wrong and he’s eventually blamed for what happens. His career seriously damaged, Zachary plunges into [...]

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The Ghost Mirror, by Jamieson Wolf

The Ghost Mirror by Jamieson Wolf www.etreasurespublishing.com Copyright 2007 Ebook/Paperback YA/Dark Fantasy Thirteen-year old Mave is no ordinary girl. For one thing, she happens to be a black-eyed, redheaded powerful witch, so much so that even her own parents fear her. Not understanding her powers, her mom and dad have chosen to ignore and neglect [...]

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Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers

Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers By Shel Horowitz AWM Books ISBN: 0-9614666-3-3 Copyright 2007 Writing/Publishing If you’re serious about book promotion, this work by marketing guru Shel Horowitz is one you’ll want to add to your permanent reference shelf. The book, which is divided into four main parts—Creating a Marketable Book, Publicity, Getting into-and [...]

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