Characters Welcome is almost afraid to present our guest this week…Michael Sykora is, after all, an assassin and.well…I suppose it’s safest for me if I just step aside and let him do the talking. 🙂 My name is Michael Sykora and I’m a hired killer. Hell of an introduction, right? You’re probably picturing me […]
Category Archives: Author Interviews
Characters Welcome: Stagger
Characters Welcome is proud to bring you Stagger, a fantasy hero from James Maxey’s latest adventure series. Stagger himself will be telling you the story of how he first met the woman he falls madly in love with. And really, who can resist a woman capable of tearing a man’s arm off? Trouble has a […]
Characters Welcome: Quinn Hollister
Characters Welcome is a new blog series in which authors have a chance to introduce their characters and tell readers how they “met.” I’m honored to have kindle bestselling mystery author Aaron Lazar join me for the first post in this series. Please welcome him, and particularly welcome his character, Quinn Hollister! How I Met […]
Interview with Author Shah Wharton
Today, I’m joined by Shah Wharton, author of a new adult fantasy novel, Finding Esta… Shah, the “new adult” label is a relatively recent book category. How would you define the term? And what made you decide to write new adult, as opposed to young adult or adult? Actually, Heather from Buried in Books told […]
Interview With Publisher Lida Quillen of Twilight Times
Since next week is “Read an Ebook Week,” I decided to sit down and talk to a woman who has been in the ebook publishing business from the start. Ebook publication wasn’t on my radar when I submitted Touch of Fate to Twilight Times in 2005. I wanted to see my book in print, and […]
Interview: Luc Reid, Author of Family Skulls
I recently had the chance to interview Luc Reid, author of Family Skulls, which I recently reviewed here. I’ve “known” Luc Reid since shortly after the boot camp I attended with Orson Scott Card in 2003. Luc was an alumni from a previous year, and he organized the lot of us into a still-thriving community […]
Short Story Review and Three-Question Interview: Spidersong by Alex Shvartsman
I must confess that I read very little “flash” fiction (short stories under a thousand words), so I don’t consider myself an expert on the subject. All I know is that I found Spidersong by Alex Shvartsman be satisfyingly creepy. The spiders are coming, but with the adults chattering endlessly, the children cannot hear the […]
Short Story Review and Three-Question Interview: Twelvers by Leah Cypess
If you’ve ever read “The Happiest Baby on the Block,” then you’ve probably heard of the first three months of a baby’s life being referred to as “the missing fourth trimester.” Some theorize that with greater intelligence and greater head size, our babies come out a little too early, compared to other animals whose babies […]
Short Story Review and Three-Question Interview: Movement by Nancy Fulda
If I were given only one word to describe “Movement” by Nancy Fulda, I would choose beautiful. I have more words, and will do my best to use them well, but I wonder if any can do as much justice to the story as the one. Hannah is an unusual character, suffering from what specialists […]
Short Story Review and Three-Question Interview: The Sighted Watchmaker by Vylar Kaftan
Science fiction, in its full glory, teases our imagination and asks us to question the very nature of ourselves and our universe. The Sighted Watchmaker, by Vylar Kaftan, is such a story. Umos isn’t a maker. Or at least, he doesn’t think he is. The makers abandoned him, and now he must fulfill their desires […]