Author Interviews

At only sixteen years old, Ivan Oorton aspires to become a nuclear engineer, but that only helps in enhancing his writing journey.

David Beaumier is the communications and marketing manager at Chanticleer Book Reviews, author of The Mourning Fields, and the youngest recipient of the Village Books Literary Citizenship Award.

I am a thirty-two-year-old transmasc queer from Reno, NV. I am a single parent, and live with chronic illness and disability. I try to stay positive and I always follow the speed limit…you know, mostly. I’ve been writing my entire… 

I am 47 years old, a homemaker originally from Northumberland but now living in Plymouth with my husband, Ross, and our three children.

Chloe is a music producer and composer who is already working on other projects aside from Timeless. A NYC native, she now lives in Pennsylvania with her two dogs, two parakeets, and her dad. Creating great stories that inspire, uplift,… 

In this life, we will face difficult challenges along the way. Once they arise, there are two ways to respond to them. We can make our own decisions by doing what seems best for us, thinking that we know how… 

Mitchell Waldman’s fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web. Waldman is the author of the novels The Visitor and A Face in the… 

Harry Henry Wallace is an Australian writer based in Sydney. He has been happily married to Nelly for more than thirty-six years and is the proud father of three amazing children and grandfather of two cherished grandchildren.

Lyman Ditson is a self-taught poet and author who writes about love, memory, loss, and what it means for human creativity to meet machine intelligence. After turning to poetry during a difficult season of life, he discovered that an AI… 

Danielle Sartorelli is a first-time author and primary school teacher. With a passion for storytelling and an understanding of the transformative power of words, in Life in Instalments Danielle has crafted a heart-wrenching recount of her life, exploring the complexities… 

I am a husband, father, entrepreneur, police officer, military veteran, adventure seeker and writer. One of my favorite authors, Steven Pressfield, wrote, “I was born this way… I was detached. I felt like another person was inside me. This other… 

I write under four pen names depending on the relevant genres. J.J. Cade is the name for Moving the Force and Jubilee Ki. I also have a brand, ‘Bland on the Run Books.’ My writing includes ghostwriting non-fiction and editing.

On November 28, 2016, I lost my wife and both of my daughters in the wildfire that consumed Gatlinburg, Tennessee. As I have stumbled and crawled down this unstable, broken road of grief, I have learned many lessons along the… 

c.b.strul is the author of The Ancient Ones, CONNECTIVITY, and Papillon IV and founder of Odom’s Library. He also has in print three novellas: Spinners, Forget the Complex, and What Grows from the Stump of a Tree?, as well as… 

I work on the rigs (my next book is a fiction book based on this), but as it was recently described, I seem to end up doing a lot of “side quests”. I was an extra in Gladiator 2, and… 

I’m seventy-five years old and this is my first book. I spent over forty years as a carpenter, then a builder, then a developer, then back to being a carpenter. My only writing was contracts and specifications for my construction… 

Maria A. Arana is a writer, poet, and editor from the Los Angeles area. She has published many poems and short stories in various publications. Formerly a teacher who encouraged a love of reading and writing, she now channels that… 

Tabitha Winters is a practicing LMHC with a master’s degree in clinical psychology and a PhD in sarcasm. A sought-after lecturer on the psychology circuit, she currently works within her state’s mental health litigation division, and before she knew better?… 

Ellen Graham’s writing focuses on the West and stories of open spaces, both on the land and in the heart. A prize-winner in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, she has also been published in Narrative, High Desert… 

Thomas Penn Johnson was born on August 22, 1943, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He holds a BA in Classical Studies (1966) from then-Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, Indiana; an MA in English from UNC-G (1968); an ABD in English…