Category: Guest Article

MedEvac by Andrew Lafleche (Book Review #1956)

MedEvac by Andrew Lafleche is a powerful and emotionally charged poetry collection that offers a raw and unflinching look into the dark and often painful realities of life. Drawing from the author’s experiences as a veteran, Lafleche explores the harrowing effects of combat in… Continue Reading “MedEvac by Andrew Lafleche (Book Review #1956)”

Interviewing Bigfoot

I’m afraid my colleague Bigfoot is extremely shy, so he’s agreed for me, as his, er, ‘agent’, to tackle this interview. Not to say he wasn’t tickled to get the offer and to talk about his new novel—‘The Projectionist’!

I wrote a memoir, and my character’s name is different than mine by Brandi Dredge

Can a wife say she is a wife if the law identifies her as her husband’s victim? Can a mother say she is a mother if her child’s DNA is evidence of the crime? Can a woman love the same life she pities? Yes,… Continue Reading “I wrote a memoir, and my character’s name is different than mine by Brandi Dredge”

Chasing the Muse by Sharon Curcio

Many writers complain about feeling “writer’s block” from time to time.  But essentially, I don’t believe in writer’s block.  I would ask each author to reflect on a story idea that compelled him or her to write, that bubbled up from the subconscious, downloaded… Continue Reading “Chasing the Muse by Sharon Curcio”

A Character in the Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Universe of Lost Messages’ Speaks Out by Janet Stilson

Hey. My name’s Cheeta Lucida LaVera. You’ll find me inside a new book by Janet Stilson called Universe of Lost Messages. She asked me to explain a few things.

Five Questions with Mark Doyon about Deep Fried

In the forthcoming novel Deep Fried by Mark Doyon, Americanized millennial Arjun Chatterjee is a food-truck chef working in a parking lot outside the nation’s capital. He dreams up multiethnic recipes and pursues a young woman toiling in a Kafkaesque office nearby. Building a… Continue Reading “Five Questions with Mark Doyon about Deep Fried”

Interview with Richard Walter 

When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer? I came to California in the mid-60s for what I thought would be a short visit, but I enrolled at USC’s film school on a whim. Members of my class would eventually own… Continue Reading “Interview with Richard Walter “

An Unexpected Novel – AFTERMATH BOY by Robert E. Honig

For twenty years, I’d stayed away from the Washington, D.C. Holocaust Museum.  Their repository of SHOAH Foundation testimonies and video recordings of survivor interviews included contributions by my two surviving aunts. Their older sister, my mother, had died at age 53 when I was… Continue Reading “An Unexpected Novel – AFTERMATH BOY by Robert E. Honig”

Interview with Ellis Shuman

Iva Dimitrova is author of this interview. Here is a link to the review of her book. Click here. As part of my efforts to market my new book, Rakiya – Stories of Bulgaria – I ask people ‘When was the last time you… Continue Reading “Interview with Ellis Shuman”