**INTERVIEW with author JASON WHITNEY**

~~THE SEED

Genre~Children

Author~Jason Whitney

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It is a Great honor and pleasure to Interview Jason Whitney today, author of 'The Seed.'  Thank you Jason for your time. I wish you much Success!


***AUTHOR INTERVIEW***



What inspires you to write?
      When I wrote the seed, I was on a trip helping a friend move back home from Tennessee to Texas, after going through a divorce. I began to think about all the hard lessons I had to go through, to get where I was in life. That's when God gave me 'The Seed.' Sitting in a gas station, midway home, I began to write. But, it was weird. He gave it to me, back-to-front. I could see the ending, and had to find my way to the beginning.



How important is a book cover?
      As important as the dress my wife was wearing, the first time I saw her. It is the outside 'thing' that gets peoples attention, to get to know what's on the inside.



Did you enjoy reading as a child?
                             

      I loved autobiographies of our Presidents, and other U.S. historical figures. Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington, etc. I checked out a book on Jefferson twelve times in the second grade.




Is writing a passion, stress-reliever, or both?
                               

       Definitely NOT a stress-reliever. I believe that words are important, and the RIGHT words are imperative if you are going to convey the message you want. This causes me to stare at a sentence, sometimes for what seems like an hour. I write more to get the thoughts and questions out of my head that are in there, so I can sleep.



Do you have current work in progress?
      Yes. Several.                                                       

          
      

~~INTERVIEW with CARRIE ATKINS***Author of "MY NEXT DANCE***

It is with Great Pleasure & An Honor to Interview author Carrie Atkins. Author of "MY NEXT DANCE." Thank you Carrie for Today's Interview! I wish you much success in your writing endeavors.

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***AUTHOR INTERVIEW***

What inspires you to write?

                         

      Amazing authors have always inspired me to write. My earliest inspirations were Judy Blume, and Patricia Hermes. When I was in grade school, I used to write stories, and then construct books out of cardboard. After designing the cover, and adding a handmade library stamp card to the back, I would allow my classmates to check the books out for three days only. 'The Haunted Playground' was a class favorite.

Describe your perfect writing atmosphere.

      My ideal writing atmosphere is the middle of a brutal Minnesota winter, total silence, and a candle.                                                         

Did you enjoy reading as a child?

           

      I loved reading as a child, and have many memories of hanging out at the library with my mom. Looking at the books was just as exciting to me as being at 'Toy's R Us' and looking at the shelves full of toys.

How important is a book cover?           

      I think a book cover can tell a lot about the story. Let's face it, if there's a hot couple making out on the front, you pretty much know what you're going to get. The cover is important, because it is an author's first connection with the reader, and you either make it, or you don't.

Do you have current work in progress?

      Absolutely! Book two has been released, "MY LAST DANCE?" It is now selling on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Carrie-Atkins/e/B00D7Fl2UA

**INTERVIEW #2 with Award-Winning Author~LIZ R. NEWMAN**

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~~~Author Interview #2~~~

Is writing a passion, a stress-reliever, or both?
                           

With four small children at home, writing can be a source of stress, but I have to do it. Crafting is as necessary for me as breathing at this point.


Has a movie ever inspired you to write a story?
There are certain scenes that inspire stories. I find that the greatest books are inspired by some movies. For example, watch Apocalypto,and then The Hunger Games back-to-back. Although they are two entirely different stories, I think those who like to formulate stories will be able to see a parallel between the two flicks. I think this is a subconscious development on the part of the author. 



Are your characters developed from people you know?
At first, then they take on a life of their own as they begin to think, speak, and move for themselves. My characters are larger than life. They are the people we wish we could have been for one moment, when we forced ourselves not to say what's on our mind in that crucial turning point in our lives, or we were too afraid to take the chance at that one moment, when it would have made a difference. They joke at inappropriate times. They act as they please, without thought to convention, and hubris is a huge driving force for them.
              

Have you written a series, or sequel for one title?
'Vampire Eden' will be a three part book. The new paranormal romance that I am working on will also be a three part series of full-length novels.

                                          

Do you have current work in progress?
My WIP is THE VEIL, a paranormal romance set in San Francisco. The main characters are A.J. Covington, a young woman with supernatural powers, and her love interest, Ben Bach. He's a bad boy type, who shares her heightened senses. Together, they must find a way to defeat a powerful force, which draws them into the world of the undead.

**INTERVIEW with Award-Winning Author~JAMES CONROYD MARTIN**

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~~~AUTHOR INTERVIEW~~~

What inspires you to write?
I love to read, always have. As I was growing up, I would lie awake at night, inventing stories.

                                                                

Who is your favorite author?
Several come to mind. Early Henry James; Edith Wharton; Somerset Maughan; and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

                                                             

How important is a book cover?
Extremely important. 'Push Not The River' went through thirteen possible covers at St. Martin's Press. The final one was terrific, and drew many readers to the story. I was able to secure the artwork and micro-manage the cover for 'The Warsaw Conspiracy' and I think it is the best it could possibly be.


What is success?
Success is getting your stories out to readers, and having readers respond. My first novel, 'Push Not The River' is based on an actual 1790s diary of a Polish countess. It was handed down in the family of a friend, who translated it from the Polish to English. In turn, my first two novels have been translated to Polish, and have become bestsellers in Poland. So, her story has been told in English, and then gone full circle back to Poland and her native language. 

                                     

Do you have current work in progress?
Yes, I am sticking with historicals about Poland.  But, the story will be moving back to 1683 and the battle of Vienna. This is  when King Jan Sobieski and a multinational force beat back the Turks, who meant to overrun Europe. It was literally the first 9-11 (September 11, 1683).




                                                                      

**INTERVIEW with Author CHARLENE RADDON**

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~~~Author Interview~~~

What inspires you to write?
Dreams, movies, songs, articles and all sorts of things.                   

Do you have a favorite author?
Several. Penelope Williamson; Maggie Osborne; Jodi Thomas; and Linda Lael Miller come to mind.
               

Did you enjoy reading as a child?
                   

 
Actually, I didn't get into reading much until college  and then I read mostly classics, plays, and poetry. I was in my thirties when my sister got me started on romance novels  and I was hooked not only on romance novels, but westerns, suspense, and other genres.

How important is a book cover?                

 Extremely important. I've often bought a bought, just because I loved the cover.


Do you have current work in progress?
Yes, I do. I'm re-working the first novel I ever wrote. It's a time travel that starts out in Utah, and moves to the 1834 mountain man rendezvous, as well as editing a western historical entitled Divine Gamble, slated to be released this November.            

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What inspires you to write?
Since I was very young, I have loved books and stories. My mother read stories to me and was a wonderful storyteller, when it was time to come up with something to frighten my friends at Halloween, or create something for school. I write to share all the stories inside me, and I write to problem solve. I write to bring joy to people, who don't know how good they have it, and maybe help them to think about things they can't talk about to anyone else. I want to inspire.


Who is your favorite author?
          

It's interesting to ask myself that question. I don't know the answer. I am the Chief Editor at Gypsy Shadow Publishing, and I like so much of what our authors have written. I love the spirit of the writer. The one that causes poets to suffer for others, and to love more deeply. The one that causes the words on the paper to take on a life of their own, and create whole worlds for us. I love Tolkien's Middle Earth, Andre Dumas' France, the worlds of Dr. Seuss, and Maurice Sendak.


Did you enjoy reading as a child?
                       

Yes! At one point, when I ran out of books others suggested to me, I decided to just begin with the A authors and work my way through, and begin at the zeros in nonfiction and learn something about everything. I still know my way around in nonfiction, and I still just randomly walk into the YA, youth, or adult section and pick out a few books. I read the ceral box. Really!


How important is a book cover?
                         

It's very important. It's the first and only impression some readers get of your book. If you can't grab them with the picture, they may never read the words inside. We don't want to get the white pages dirty, and in this day and age of electronic pages, the book cover is really the front door of the book.


Do you have current work in progress?
Always. I have a fantasy series in the works, and several additions to 'The Fire Series.'

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~~~Author Interview~~~

What inspires you to write?
I am a creative person. My Mom taught me how to crochet when I was five, and I learned many other handicrafts as I grew. Both my parents made things, and were very imaginative. Having come from that kind of background, I grew up being creative, 'inspired' in one way or another by just about everything. My top inspiration comes from beautiful music, true-to-life characters, nature, my friends and my family. I have many 'causes' as well, so I am often inspired by those.

            

Do you have a favorite author?

I have a lot of trouble listing favorites, since I like so many. Every time I think I've nailed it down to just a few, I read something new by someone I haven't read before, and I'm hooked all over again. I like Poe, Steinbeck, and Hawthorne, to name a few of the old timers. In the spectrum of contemporary authors, I enjoy reading Rita Mae Brown; Sandra Brown; Lillian Jackson Braun; Brian Daley; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Tony Hillerman; and Lawrence Block; to name a few. 

      

How important is a book cover?   

Since a cover is your first shot at getting someone to pick up your book, I consider it highly important. It has to catch the eye and be appealing enough to make a person read the blurb. It's your first chance to woo your potential reader.

Did you enjoy reading as a child?

                                       

You know it! I was only a child with a mother who wanted me in the house, being quiet and still a lot of the time. Books and handicrafts were only two things that put me into that state. I could read the newspaper by the time I started school, and once I discovered all the great Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries, I was completely hooked. I was pretty much of a shrinking violet without many friends, so I turned to reading to transport me to a more interesting place. By the time I was thirteen, I was starting to put down my own story thoughts, and create my own realities. Reading is what made me want to write, it changed my life.  


Do you have current work in progress?
                                               

Yes, I have several in various stages of planning and writing. But, the one I'm majoring on right now is WHISPERS FROM THE PAST:Vendetta, book three in the Actor's Guild Paranormal Mystery Series, which I hope to release this year.                    

**INTERVIEW #2 with Author SNJEZANA MARINKOVIC**

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**Author Interview #2**

How important is a book cover?

                    
Book covers are like display windows in department stores. They draw you in with the possibilities of what might be behind them. However, if you are happy with what was contained inside takes much more than imagery out front. It takes something that makes you want to turn to the last page.



Have you attended book signings?
Not yet.


Is writing a stress-reliever, a passion, or both?

                                     
Writing is my passion. However, it is more of an escape from the boredom and frustration of everyday life, than a simple stress-reliever. I find myself in my own secret place, when my moods match the words on the page.


Has television ever inspired you to write?
For me, there are many different ways and means to seek inspiration. I get inspired to write while walking the streets, observing the "uncensored" world in its unedited reality. The simplicity and uniqueness of a man holding a sign that reads,"need money for beer, have empathy for my honesty" brings me closer to my muse.


Did you have favorite books as a child?

   As a child, I would read any book that I came across. However, I have always enjoyed stories about dogs, especially the ones with happy endings. I smile even now, when thinking of Lassie finding her way home.                                     

**INTERVIEW with Midnight**Author of ADDICTED 2 THUGGIN

It is with honor and great pleasure to Interview Midnight, author of 'Addicted To Thuggin.' Thank you kindly for today's interview, and I wish you much success.

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~~~Author Interview~~~

What inspires you to write?
The financial benefits. Times are tough, and writing now inspires me to fulfill my passion.


Do you plan on writing a book every year?

   Yes. I plan on writing several.


Describe your perfect writing atmosphere?
I enjoy writing in silence. I can focus more in a quiet place.


Did you enjoy reading as a child?

 During childhood, I disliked it, becoming my worst subject. But, now I love to read, and it has become my passion. I am now an avid reader.


How important is a book cover?

Book covers are very important. People have said,'don't judge a book by its cover.' But, many do. If the cover isn't attractive, you can possibly lose a potential customer.


Do you have current work in progress?
Yes. I'm currently working hard on the sequel to 'Addicted 2 Thuggin' and several other novels.


In your opinion, what is success?
To meet the goals one has strived for.


                                                           

**INTERVIEW with Author/Attorney FRANK R. SOUTHERS**

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Author/Attorney Frank R. Southers
Author of "The Grievance Committee"
Genre: Legal Thriller/Literature

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**AUTHOR INTERVIEW**

What inspires you to write?
I enjoy sharing my knowledge and helping people learn, understand new concepts and ideas, and re-discover old concepts and ideas with a different twist. As a trial lawyer, I know that story-telling is a necessity to persuade and convince the audience, judge and jury, since most people avoid focusing on abstractions instead of requiring a parable to grasp the offered theme. I also know that the possession of insight helps me understand people's wants and desires, their belief systems, their philosophy, and their values. I enjoy sending the reader to a new and different venue or world, such as viewing the legal disciplinary system from the inside, or such as viewing an organized religion in a different light, such as Catholicism and presenting the reader with a challenge to his or her intellect. I suppose I am a teacher at heart.


How important is a book cover?
                            

We've been taught almost from birth, 'you can't judge a book from its cover.' But, as adults we understand the psychology of the obvious and the covert and the way the images, colors, arrangement and size of the print can easily manipulate our need to possess this trinket which will both entertain and teach us something new. So, very important.


Did you enjoy reading as a child?

                    
Yes. As a child, my reading included the fairy tales; the Hardy Boys; Nancy Drew series; Black Beauty; some Western novels; and lots of comic books. The usual stuff in high school English classes such as Hemingway; Faulkner; Shakespeare; lots of poetry from Keats to Hopkins to Frost, etc. As an English major, the range changed, although I still read all of Faulkner and Conrad, and Joyce. Kurt Vonnegut always gave me a laugh. I enjoy a wide, wide range of literature. My favorites now include: Ken Follett; Scott Turrow; John Grisham; Jodi Picout; Dan Brown.



Describe your perfect writing place.

                                         
                   
My Study on the back side of our house in Austin is quiet, and with needed stuff readily available.



Do you have current work in progress?
Yes, Book Two is being edited, and we should have the results very soon. Book Three has been re-written and is almost ready for an editor and I am about forty-percent finished with Book Four, all about the Texas Grievance Committee in San Antonio. For your reading, the first chapter of Book Two is on my website at: http://www.southers.com
                                                                                        

**INTERVIEW with Author PETER DARRACH**

It is an honor and with Great pleasure to Interview Author Peter Darrach. Thank you Peter for today's Interview. I wish you very much success.

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What inspires you to write?
Actually, I have two degrees in literature(a B.A. in English and an M.A. in German), so I have a pretty fair background for writing. However, probably so much literature turned me off for a while, twenty-five years to be precise, until suddenly I had this consuming idea about a man injured while asteroid mining and then repaired by aliens. I don't know exactly where the idea came from, but I sat down and wrote a chapter a day for a month, and boom, the first book was born. Yes, I spent some time afterwards polishing, editing, and reducing the work to its current form. But, the idea flowed out of me as if I had tapped a hidden spring. I do a fair amount of research, of course, to get the astrophysical and physics details right.

The next two books in the series followed on a little more systematically. I gave more attention to plot development, to pacing, to characters, but the actual writing was quite similar. More of a gush, like striking oil, as if it was all coming from some pre-formed deposit. I guess this is what it feels like to be aligned, or in communion with one's muse, choose your preferred metaphor.


Did you enjoy reading as a child?

                       
Very much so. I read vociferously from the age of five or six, until the age of fourteen or fifteen, when I suddenly developed other interests. My reading covered the fiction of the day: Tolkien; C.S. Lewis; Asimov; Bradbury; Dick; Anderson; and many more. But also: science; particularly astrophysics; paleontology; archeology; physics; and explosives, etc.


How important is a book cover?

As long as the people who read it are human, which seems to be most of the time so far, readers will be subject to the same immediate assessment and judgement of a book's face as is normal, when-ever two strangers meet. First impressions are critical. The cover is almost inevitably the vehicle for this first impression.


Describe your perfect atmosphere when writing.
Where I am physically is not so important. I have written while on vacation in Florida, while at home in Austria, in multiple hotels, and airports around the world. The where is not so important. But, I do need quiet, or perhaps non-vocal, preferably classical music in the background and minimal interruption to really let the words flow. The time of day is also not too important to me.



Do you have current work in progress?
Book three in the Second Skin sequence, Tavern On The Edge Of Time, will arrive in December. Here is a synopsis:

During the year 2125, former asteroid miners Max Cody and Elaine Zhou never get a moments rest. No sooner have they doused the flames of war between Earth and Mars, or returned from their first trip to the Tavern on the Edge of Time, when they are called upon to help fit out the fledging Martian colony orbiting Jupiter's moon Callisto. 

In parallel, Earth extradites the war's formenter, ex-billionaire arms merchant Xanthus Rex, hoping to gain from his insights into Martian teleportation technology. But, he manages to turn Earth's resources toward private revenge against Max, Mars, and the Callisto Colony.

In the meantime, aliens are leaking into the Earth-Mars continuum from the Tavern, whose proprietor repaired and upgraded Max, after accidentally injuring him during an asteroid mining expedition. Max's enhancements help, of course. But when strange beings with the power to animate matter, the Assemblers find their way to Earth, Max, Mars and humanity are sorely beset.

Worse yet, the Tavern itself is becoming unstable. Its acquisitive host having overstretched his considerable powers. His prospecting for collapsed neutron matter has also opened portals between continua, inadvertently adding still more aliens to the mix. That's when the Assemblers' overlord arrives and Max finally meets his match. Oh, and Elaine is expecting their hybrid baby. Yes, you might say these are difficult times at the Tavern on the Edge of Time.

Beyond that, I have begun to sketch out a possible fourth book in the current series. It exists more like the ribs of a boat in a boatyard, the superstructure reasonably well defined. But the planking and caulking, not to mention the running tackle, sails, rudder all must be defined.
                                      

**INTERVIEW #2 with Author EVE PALUDAN**

It is an honor and with Great pleasure to bring back author Eve Paludan. Thank you Eve for today's Interview. I wish you much Success!

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~~~Author Interview #2~~~

What does it take to become successful?
A lot of authors will tell you it takes hard work and a burning desire to become successful, and to that, I would add, you need a plan. This plan should consist of three steps, because not only do you have to envision what you want from your career, you have to figure out how you can achieve what you want. Let's get started:

You need to establish a web presence. Besides your own dedicated web site for the people who are not glued to social networks, the primary social networks are: Facebook; Goodreads; Twitter; Google; and Pinterest. When you establish your web presence, you need to provide interesting content that is amusing, educational, thought-provoking, and has cool graphics. Your content should be relevant to your books in some way, even distantly. You can get more traffic to your site or page by offering occasional freebies. Always have positive interaction with your online fans, and try to answer questions and emails in a timely way. Encourage people to share your posts on Facebook, and ask them to RT(retweet) on Twitter, so that you are crowd-sourcing your fans and friends, but still giving them a lot back. There has to be value to what you offer online, and I discourage subscriber-only information, because people are less willing to give out their email addresses than in times past. If you have a newsletter, you should post it publicly online as well as emailing subscribers. Always say thank you to compliments, and try to be interested in other authors' books and promotions too. Get these cross-promos going with other authors to build your readership and fan base. Be as positive as you can when dealing with others. Taking the high road and keeping politics and religion off your page, unless you are a faith-based author, or a political novelist, will take you a long way with readers. Aim for a mainstream audience in your topical discussions, when possible.

Your realistic plan for success should include how you will support yourself, until your books take off. I chose freelance novel editing, because it dovetails reality with my writing career. It provides a way for me to learn from other authors' mistakes and triumphs, and editing improves my craft, while other people pay me to learn how to become a better writer, by editing their work. I really enjoy it too, am experienced, and apparently very good at it. Several of my editing clients are on the top one-hundred list of indie authors in terms of sales, and make their own living as Kindle authors. I am very proud of my client list, and I appreciate their trust in my skills. I also do a bit of ghostwriting(anonymous writing) and I only do that when it pays well. I have eliminated freelance editing of academic manuscripts from my writing-based services, because editing fiction pays about ten times more, when my hourly rate is figured in. Truly, academic editing is much more time-consuming, and for me was only a way to make a living, until I could break away and become independent of a day job. I don't recommend that people leave their day jobs, without a savings cushion, a plan, and clients for your services already established. Always, have a plan for income, while you are writing your books. Please don't put all the burden on your spouse either. You have to have income, while you are writing novels. 

No matter what genre you write in, I'm going to encourage other authors' to write series novels. I can tell you that book series have a much higher audience draw, and repeat customers than single titles. It is not just me, who has figured this out. I love writing single titles, but they do not perform like series titles, at least not for the people I know, and for myself. 



Of all the books you've had published, which one was the most enjoyable to write?

'Tara Takes Christmas.' It's the first time that I have written the second book in a series, and it was so much fun to take my characters further into their love story, and really build on what I started in the first book. I knew my characters very well already, so when I started the second book in the series, I didn't have to create a whole new cast or a new setting, just a new adventure for them. It was very freeing as a writer to have these building blocks already in place and just concentrate on the further development of a love story, and posing new conflicts that threaten to tear apart my hero, and heroine. It was a very easy book to write, and so pleasant. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and the characters were just waiting to play in a new adventure. I love this series, and it is really beginning to establish my brand identity as an author. I have the framework for the whole series planned out, what main events will happen in each book.


Describe your perfect writing atmosphere.

                                                                  
I like it perfectly quiet, or sometimes write with music. I live alone, so I can write at night, which is my preference. My creativity seems to be pretty high, between midnight and 2 a.m. I write best, while wearing pajamas. I like snacks when I write, not messy ones, though. I have a really comfortable rolling office chair. It's leather, and has arms. I prefer Logitech key boards, because of their springy touch. My rolling-cart style desk is a curb find, but it is the perfect height for me. I have a twenty-three-inch wide screen monitor  plugged into my laptop, and I love seeing the words at a larger size. This helps avoid eyestrain. I also have a lap desk that I use in bed, and have another laptop computer set up in my bed, almost all the time. I have taken my computer to the beach, but it's too bright outside, or even in the car to see the screen. If I want to write at the beach, I just do it on paper, and type it when I get home.


How important are promotions to a book?
Very important, very. If you don't promote, you probably won't sell a dozen books in a month. It's a must.



Are your characters created from real-life events?
I have a disclaimer in my novels that the characters are fictional. I should probably stick to that statement.