Author interviews

Angela van Liempt is a small-town girl with big dreams. Music inspires her, and she creates a playlist for every book she writes. The Atlas Cliffs series emerged from her curiosity about the paranormal, but along the way, she discovered a passion for weaving romance into her stories.

Born in Chester, UK, Linnhe spent her home-ed childhood between North Wales and the Lake District. She worked as an animator and as a sailing instructor prior to moving into graphic design and marketing. Having previously enjoyed dabbling in shorter forms of creative writing, she started working on the dystopian world of Edwin Cooper in the summer of 2023. The Incredible Machines of Thinkery: Outpost 9 is her first novel.

I’m an independently published author from Central California; I have written five books and an ongoing fantasy series, as well as an independently published collection of poetry, and I’m currently working on an enology of original short stories.

Denise is a book lover with the childhood goal of reading every book in the library. A former book-seller, operating out of her home, she delivered books decades before Amazon. The highlight of her bookselling career was packing her car full of books for black men and peddling them to guys on their way to the Million Man March. She sold every last book.

Lauren Jane Redmond is a mystery writer in Austin, Texas. She received a BA in English and Film Studies from the University of Tulsa and an MFA in Playwriting from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

Fernando J. Moguel (pen name: Mr. Pendlum) is a Mexican-American creative communicator, author, educator, and multi-disciplinary artist. His passion is using his creativity to inspire curiosity. He is based in Houston, Texas.

I’m a Christian teenage writer who loves the art of writing. Learning day by day how to make my work better and better.

I'm a lifelong community organizer who has always had a passion for helping people, especially those who fall under marginalized identities. I've often used my creativity as a way to serve others and I honestly believe if I can't be creative in what I'm doing, then I'd rather not do it at all.

Sarah Orman used to be an attorney for public schools in Texas and California. Now she writes personal essays and poetry. Her work has been published in Narrative, Witness, oranges journal, and elsewhere. Sarah is also the author of A Reader's Compendium on Substack. She lives with her family in Austin, where she is working on a memoir about her wayward youth. Although she spent her twenties on the East and West Coasts, she enjoys reminding her fellow Texans that she was born and raised here. Find out more about Sarah at sarahormanwrites.com.

Christie Goodman, APR, Fellow PRSA, is director of communications at IDRA, a national education equity and civil rights non-profit based in San Antonio. She is a graduate of Texas Tech University (and a Goin' Band and Courtjesters alum). She was a long-time leader of two Girl Scout troops and a board member of the March of Dimes San Antonio, among other volunteer roles. Christie is writing a memoir featuring a motherhood journey through infertility and near-death premature childbirth, twice, while weaving the stories of feminist biblical heroines with surprisingly parallel struggles and life consequences.