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Author Interviews
Gary Lemons
Author of "Snake" poetry series.
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Kim Stafford
Author of "Singer Come From Afar"
Kim Stafford grew up in a very pro-writing environment. His father, William Stafford, was a poet who would typically publish one or two books a year, and between them, his parents would often write down the things that Kim and his siblings would say...
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Kim Stafford grew up in a very pro-writing environment. His father, William Stafford, was a poet who would typically publish one or two books a year, and between them, his parents would often write down the things that Kim and his siblings would say...
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Jeanne-Marie Osterman
Author of the chapbook, "Shellback"
Jeanne-Marie’s story begins with her father. Born in 1919 in Everett, Washington, he worked in the shipbuilding industry as a young man until he was drafted into the Navy during World War 2, where he served aboard the U.S.S. Nevada...
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Jeanne-Marie’s story begins with her father. Born in 1919 in Everett, Washington, he worked in the shipbuilding industry as a young man until he was drafted into the Navy during World War 2, where he served aboard the U.S.S. Nevada...
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Michael Bervell
Author of "Unlocking Unicorns"
Can you name a company that’s worth at least a billion dollars? Of course you can. In fact, you can probably name quite a few. There are the obvious ones who have been around for what seems like forever...
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Can you name a company that’s worth at least a billion dollars? Of course you can. In fact, you can probably name quite a few. There are the obvious ones who have been around for what seems like forever...
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Lynne Podrat
Author of "Listen to Me: How My Down Syndrome Brother Saved My Life"
Life can be messy. It can flip your world upside down in an instant and force you into situations that could ultimately break you if you let them. Lynne Podrat and her family experienced one such life altering event when her little brother, Bruce, was born. He wasn’t like Lynne and her other brother, David...
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Life can be messy. It can flip your world upside down in an instant and force you into situations that could ultimately break you if you let them. Lynne Podrat and her family experienced one such life altering event when her little brother, Bruce, was born. He wasn’t like Lynne and her other brother, David...
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Chelsea McKenna
Author of the Vorelian Saga
(Form Interview)
I am an aspiring author with a release date in late August. It will be my debut book called, The Blood of the Lion, the first of The Vorelian Saga. It is an epic fantasy about a dark prophecy about a rising Demon King who is determined to build an empire...
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(Form Interview)
I am an aspiring author with a release date in late August. It will be my debut book called, The Blood of the Lion, the first of The Vorelian Saga. It is an epic fantasy about a dark prophecy about a rising Demon King who is determined to build an empire...
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Victoria Hyla Maldonado
Author of The Hearts Drawn Wyld Trilogy
(Form Interview)
I was probably always writing, but the first one that stuck with me was writing a “book” for my third-grade reading class. We were given little hardcover books that were blank inside, and we had to draft and edit then put the story and illustrations in the book. I did a little Oz fan fiction about a unicorn who finds her home among the residents of the magical land of L. Frank Baum...
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(Form Interview)
I was probably always writing, but the first one that stuck with me was writing a “book” for my third-grade reading class. We were given little hardcover books that were blank inside, and we had to draft and edit then put the story and illustrations in the book. I did a little Oz fan fiction about a unicorn who finds her home among the residents of the magical land of L. Frank Baum...
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Jenifer Rowe
Author of "Unexpected Findings"
(Form interview)
Jenifer Rowe writes short stories, essays and memoir. Her work has been published in Scarlet Leaf Review, Crack the Spine, Wildflower Muse, Liars League NYC, the Sacramento Bee, and the 2018 and 2019 issues of California Literary Review. She earned Finalist distinction...
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(Form interview)
Jenifer Rowe writes short stories, essays and memoir. Her work has been published in Scarlet Leaf Review, Crack the Spine, Wildflower Muse, Liars League NYC, the Sacramento Bee, and the 2018 and 2019 issues of California Literary Review. She earned Finalist distinction...
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Elizabeth Fournier
Author of "Green Burial Guidebook"
Elizabeth Fournier, who presently owns her own funeral home and has worked in the funeral and burial industry for more than thirty years, was well versed in death even as a child. She lost her mother and her grandparents (who all shared her family home) when she was little, and her familiarity with death became a part of her identity in school...
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Elizabeth Fournier, who presently owns her own funeral home and has worked in the funeral and burial industry for more than thirty years, was well versed in death even as a child. She lost her mother and her grandparents (who all shared her family home) when she was little, and her familiarity with death became a part of her identity in school...
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Dr. Randy Overbeck
Author of the Haunted Shores Mysteries series
Dr. Randy Overbeck has over three decades worth of experience as a teacher and professor. He has donned many titles as an educator, which shows in his work. Overbeck has thus far had three books published—all by small presses—with a fourth on the way, Scarlet at Crystal River, scheduled for release this fall...
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Dr. Randy Overbeck has over three decades worth of experience as a teacher and professor. He has donned many titles as an educator, which shows in his work. Overbeck has thus far had three books published—all by small presses—with a fourth on the way, Scarlet at Crystal River, scheduled for release this fall...
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Joanna Rose
Author of "A Crowd Full of Strangers"
Writing is a process. A very challenging, frustrating, rewarding, emotional, unpredictable process. Some stories can be knocked out in a few months. Others take years. Joanna Rose’s latest work, A Small Crowd of Strangers, was definitely the latter. It took twenty years for her to turn her idea into the incredible book that it is today...
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Writing is a process. A very challenging, frustrating, rewarding, emotional, unpredictable process. Some stories can be knocked out in a few months. Others take years. Joanna Rose’s latest work, A Small Crowd of Strangers, was definitely the latter. It took twenty years for her to turn her idea into the incredible book that it is today...
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Anthony Flacco
Author of several books that recap incredible true events
Love is a funny thing. We fall in love with all kinds of things. People. Stories. Hobbies. Our jobs. Our pets. The most peculiar thing about love is that it can happen at any moment to anyone. Anthony Flacco met his first and longest love when he was 10 years old, when he got his first taste of acting in a community play...
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Love is a funny thing. We fall in love with all kinds of things. People. Stories. Hobbies. Our jobs. Our pets. The most peculiar thing about love is that it can happen at any moment to anyone. Anthony Flacco met his first and longest love when he was 10 years old, when he got his first taste of acting in a community play...
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Molly Beth Griffin
Author of "Ten Beautiful Things" and other children's literary books
Molly Beth Griffin was a very shy child. “I remember being in Kindergarten and having to dictate a story to a parent volunteer, who would write it down for me.” This was just about the worst thing anyone could ask of young Molly, who felt uncomfortable being put on the spot, and didn’t like speaking to strangers...
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Molly Beth Griffin was a very shy child. “I remember being in Kindergarten and having to dictate a story to a parent volunteer, who would write it down for me.” This was just about the worst thing anyone could ask of young Molly, who felt uncomfortable being put on the spot, and didn’t like speaking to strangers...
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Jory Mickelson
Author of "Wilderness//Kingdom"
No two writing journeys are the same. Everyone that picks up the pen does so for different reasons, at different times in their lives. Jory Mickelson’s journey started during a period of uncertainty. He was working in kitchens, having just dropped out of college after deciding he no longer wanted to pursue a degree in visual art, and in his free time he was writing essays and blog posts about topics that he felt passionate about - these were his first steps onto the literary path.
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No two writing journeys are the same. Everyone that picks up the pen does so for different reasons, at different times in their lives. Jory Mickelson’s journey started during a period of uncertainty. He was working in kitchens, having just dropped out of college after deciding he no longer wanted to pursue a degree in visual art, and in his free time he was writing essays and blog posts about topics that he felt passionate about - these were his first steps onto the literary path.
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Jennifer Conner
Author of "Fighting the Fire"
Writing is often a lonely venture. Those blessed with the gift of creative thought and storytelling are notorious for submerging themselves in the world they’re trying to describe on paper, putting up blinders to the real world around them, letting it consume their every waking thought...
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Writing is often a lonely venture. Those blessed with the gift of creative thought and storytelling are notorious for submerging themselves in the world they’re trying to describe on paper, putting up blinders to the real world around them, letting it consume their every waking thought...
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Greg Gerding
Founder of University of Hell Press
As a child, Greg Gerding never dreamt that he would become an author, let alone that he would come to own his own publishing press. He liked to read – he was determined to conquer the calendar of books his local library released every summer – but even though he enjoyed the exposure to new ideas and the worlds depicted on the pages, his appreciation for reading lingered in the shadow of his one true love...
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As a child, Greg Gerding never dreamt that he would become an author, let alone that he would come to own his own publishing press. He liked to read – he was determined to conquer the calendar of books his local library released every summer – but even though he enjoyed the exposure to new ideas and the worlds depicted on the pages, his appreciation for reading lingered in the shadow of his one true love...
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Kaitlin Celli
Author of the chapbook, "Breakthrough"
In the midst of a complicated childhood, where she was trying to pay attention to the Christian values her parents were teaching her but was constantly having her focus pulled by the battle with mental illness that raged around her, Kaitlin Celli leaned on writing like a crutch...
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In the midst of a complicated childhood, where she was trying to pay attention to the Christian values her parents were teaching her but was constantly having her focus pulled by the battle with mental illness that raged around her, Kaitlin Celli leaned on writing like a crutch...
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