Author Interviews

Madison lives on the east coast of North Carolina, where she embraces the roles of full-time mother, wife, and educator. When she isn’t writing or teaching, she can often be found outdoors—whether walking beneath coastal pines, tending a garden, or chasing the salty air of the shoreline. She has a deep love for homemade meals shared around the table, especially when paired with a glass of cabernet. Her writing is rooted in both family and imagination, weaving together the beauty of daily life with the wonder of storytelling.

Zach Adams has had a passion for writing and storytelling their entire life. However, they didn’t decide to pursue it as a profession until they realised that working in retail was completely draining their remaining life force. And so, Adams set out to create a fascinating and captivating universe, which they achieved in their debut novel and album, Dead Man Walking.

A voracious reader since preschool, Ekta was one of those ‘nerdy’ kids who competed in spelling bees. If her parents wanted to punish her, they would take away her books, so Ekta made sure to behave. She got her start in niche publishing in 2005 and has written about and edited everything from healthcare to home improvement to Hindi films.

Annabel Youens originally studied creative writing at the University of Victoria before falling into ‘her own alternate dimension’—the world of tech. As employee number eleven at Abebooks.com and co-founder of two global startups, she spent twenty years building companies in New Zealand, California, and her home base of Victoria, BC, before returning to her first love: storytelling. At age forty-six, she resigned her chief marketing officer position to pursue her authorial dreams, founding Salt Line Press and completing her debut novel. Thread Traveller explores themes close to her heart: the possibility of reinvention at any age, the cost of putting everyone else first, and the radical act of choosing yourself.

Tom’s debut novel, Moving in Stereo, about a troubled tennis professional from the nineties, won an American Writing Award. He received an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University, where he’s also taught creative writing, and his work has been published in Glimmer Train, The Under Review, and elsewhere. With his latest work, one reviewer wrote, “a novel steeped in a vivid sense of place and culture…women confront men, men confront themselves and each other, and life goes on.” He calls Minneapolis his home.

Amy Minett loves her dog, her cat, and her sister, not necessarily in that order. A Maine native, she’s equally at home in the forest or on the beach, so long as she has a book in hand. Growing up, she always had a secret soft spot for lighthearted romance, and she still loves watching over-the-top romantic comedies with her sister.

Hi, my name is Marie Angel, and I love to write romantic suspense and romantasy. My passions include romance and the mystical. I live in Collegeville, PA, with my three cats, and I am an avid reader and fan of Nora Roberts and JR Ward, among many others.

My name is Stephanie Fidis. By day, I work as an inside sales rep for Dover Publications, but by night I’m a writer, a cozy girl-gamer, an amateur cook, a runner, and a cat mom. I have my bachelor’s in creative writing as well as an MFA in writing from Albertus Magnus College. I reside on Long Island with my fiancé and our cat, Cooper.

Crystina Luna is an author from California. When she’s not writing, she can be found reading, enjoying motorsports, or on a long run with her Jack Russell, Larry.

E.M. Duffield-Fuller is a dark fantasy author who has previously written Obsidian and the Darkwatch Trilogy, as well as short stories for several anthologies and journals. Her next novel, Killing Hares, is coming out January 22 with Honno.

Jenn Crowe is a thriller author who loves crafting fast-paced, suspenseful stories with shocking plot twists. She enjoys writing in the domestic and psychological subgenres. When she’s not writing, brainstorming, or reading about fictional worlds, Jenn works as a marketing and communications manager. She lives in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, two children, two dogs, and a temperamental orange cat.

Mary Keating is a poet, disability rights advocate, attorney, and Yale Law School graduate. She became a paraplegic in 1973 after a car accident at age fifteen and has spent over fifty years challenging assumptions about disability. She runs her own law firm and is the poetry editor for ScribesMICRO. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared in Rattle, Wordgathering, and SFWP. Her memoir in verse, Recalibrating Gravity, is funny, fierce, and authentic as it explores life as a disabled person. It is praised for its clarity and emotional honesty.

I came to writing fiction while working as a technical communicator in the IT world, but I had written many articles about high tech and politics for some time, publishing them online. Most of my career before that was in academia, where I specialized in visualizing and managing geospatial data (think GIS and digital cartography). My first novel, Turkey Shoot (2018), was prompted by the ongoing refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe. It was an international conspiracy thriller, and set the stage for my next novel, Her Own Devices (2018). Turkey Shoot hadn’t ended well for my protagonists, and out of guilt, I decided to rehabilitate them.

Dan Morgan is a Welsh American sociologist, educator, and corporate trainer whose former professions include international roller derby skater and stand-up comic. He is also a gay man in recovery from drug addiction who has spent much of his life looking for a place to call home, including living on the streets. Before earning an MA in Sociology and a Doctorate Degree in Education, Dan held numerous jobs, many of them legal. He has co-authored a sociology textbook and published scholarly articles. This memoir is his most personal book to date.

With multiple degrees in economics, finance, computer science, and an MBA, Guy Morris earned a reputation as a thought leader and innovator even before graduation, when he developed a macro-economic model that outperformed the Federal Reserve and changed how we develop economic models to this day.

Gene Turnbow is a writer and editor, painter, musician, animator, and maker, and has worked in everything from game design to special effects, film archiving and restoration, to industrial robotics. He is also the founder and station manager of SCIFI.radio, the world’s only science fiction and fantasy-themed radio station.

Ali R Jaber is a Lebanese-American author, writer, poet, and influencer who bridges cultures through storytelling. Born in the United States and originally from Nabatieh, Lebanon, Jaber writes with a voice rooted in heritage, resilience, and identity.

When Jessica Belshe was a rockabilly singer and burlesque performer, she thought that was adrenaline. Then she became an EMT, married a cop, became a mom, and took a job as a 911 dispatcher. But nothing gets her heart racing like writing a good plot twist.

Orange Pebbler is a pen name. I’m a small-island-born academic currently focused on computer science research – algorithms and applied work – and I tend toward aiming for practical benefit that can hopefully reach actual people beyond the papers. Research like that can be incredibly strict, so there’s freedom of thought in creative writing that I cherish. Here, as Orange Pebbler, I’m a new author who writes fantasy and romance.

Valerie Taylor is an award-winning author living in Connecticut, originally known for her romantic comedy trilogy What’s Not Said, What’s Not True, and What’s Not Lost. She also pens the A Venus Bixby Mystery series, including A Whale of a Murder and Switched at Death. A self-described ‘average Jane,’ Valerie draws inspiration from classic TV comedies, oldies music, and her lifelong love of storytelling.