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Their writing journey, in their words

Exclusive interviews with writers and authors.

Exclusive interviews with writers and authors.

We’re happy to have this archive of excellent interviews and author success stories for you to enjoy.  Atmosphere puts the author experience first, and these interviews make up just one facet of a meaningful and rewarding author journey.

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I’m the author of two nonfiction books, What Really Happened to the Hat and the Gloves, and What Really Happened to Marion and Candace.

An Interview with M.L. Bruin

ML Bruin is an author from Southern Maine. Inspired by the birth of his grandson, he is currently writing the Noah children’s book series. There are three books published to date in the series. These heartwarming stores and written in fun rhyming pattern. The books are vibrantly illustrated and all contain positive messages.

An Interview with Talya Love

Talya Love writes dark, character-driven fantasy for readers who crave depth without indulgence. She is currently working on The Veilborn Saga, a dark fantasy about unity, power, and what it costs to stand whole in a divided world.

Dylan is a paranormal and psychological fiction author whose work centers on grief, intimacy, and the lingering presence of the supernatural. They are the author of Most Lovely Words and the Possessed series, exploring the ways love and horror often speak the same language.

Nikki grew up in central London and studied English Language and Literature at the University of Liverpool. Her childhood dream of becoming a writer was put aside when she was recruited to work for Microsoft EMEA Corporate Investigations, doing ALL the undercover things.

I grew up in Switzerland, a beautiful country that has four official languages, none of them English. My first courses in Gymnasium focused on Latin and Greek, and I fell in love with both of them. My father grew up in Norway. Hence the Scandinavian spelling of my first name. I married a Frenchman and lived in France for years. His family were refugees from what today is the Ukraine but was then part of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. When I came to the US for college, I took my first course taught in English and received my PhD in comparative literature from UNC-Chapel Hill. I taught languages and courses on the ancient world at Centre College in Kentucky. While teaching, I enjoyed writing short stories and plays. After retiring from teaching, I turned to novels about the ancient world. I have won seventeen awards for my short stories, plays, and novels.

An Interview with Alan Cohen

Alan Cohen retired after a rewarding career in medicine and turned his attention to writing and publication. His poetry has appeared in nearly one hundred venues; he has had letters to the editor in Poetry magazine and The New Yorker (a new one was just published December 8, 2025); and he has published medical articles and essays concerning current affairs. Easy in Harness: A Productive Approach to Hiring a Good Manager was published in 2023, Taxonomic Vignettes, a book of poetry, in 2024, and Inferno, a novel, in November of 2025. Each has had highly positive feedback from reviewers and readers. And he has now completed Hijacked, a new nonfiction work about how to revive equality, democracy, and freedom.

Jessica C. Wheeler is a Connecticut-based author and poet known for her lyrical prose, emotional precision, and a dry, understated perspective on contemporary life. Her writing spans across genres, including poetry, contemporary romance, upmarket fiction, and sharp-edged satire, as seen in her short story collection She’s Fine, which explores the polished absurdities of womanhood and the quiet catastrophes we disguise as composure. Her stories often circle grief, family, and the complicated performance of being ‘fine’ in a world that rarely is. As a lifelong New Englander, she draws constant inspiration from the shifting seasons, particularly autumn, which appears in her work almost as frequently as her characters do. Wheeler resides on the Connecticut coast with her husband and their two young daughters and is currently developing her forthcoming novel.

Award winning author, LPGA Class A Professional, TPI Certified Junior Golf Coach, and designer.

Maria Giakoumatos has been interested in all things spooky since she was too small to ride the fun roller coasters in amusement parks. She probably would have become a paranormal investigator if she wasn’t afraid of the dark, so she settled for just writing about spirits. Her family often took her to church as a child, so that may explain some things.