March 7th, 2012 
admin We welcome today Richard Alan, author of the family/relationships fiction novel, The Couples. Richard is giving away a copy of his book (see details below interview)!
Richard Alan lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with his wife, Carolynn. They are the proud parents of three wonderful adult sons.He is a Vietnam combat and 101st [...]
March 6th, 2012 admin We welcome today Jill Limber, author of the historical romance novel, A Heart That Dares. Jill is giving away a copy of her book (see details below interview)!
A multi-published author and former RWA President, Jill Limber’s latest books are Montana Morning, A Heart That Dares and The Right Track. As a child, some of [...]
March 4th, 2012 admin We welcome today Valerie Stocking, author of the historical fiction novel, The Promised Land. Valerie is giving away a copy of her book (see details below interview)!
Valerie Stocking was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and wrote her first short story when she was five. When she was eight, she won a short story [...]
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1 Comment » February 29th, 2012 admin We have a wonderful interview today with Alicia Singleton, author of the suspense novel, Dark Side of Valor (Simon & Schuster). This is Alicia’s last stop on her virtual book tour this month, but she will be back in June! If you would like to review her book or host her in some other [...]
February 29th, 2012 admin We have a wonderful interview today with Deby Eisenberg, author of the historical fiction, Pictures of the Past. For more tour stops, visit her official tour page at www.pumpupyourbook.com/2012/01/11/pictures-of-the-past-virtual-book-publicity-tour-february-2012.
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As the leader of an established Chicago area Book Club, Deby Eisenberg challenged herself to write a novel that her avid readers could not put down and [...]
February 28th, 2012 admin Selwyn Mills served an apprenticeship in decorative painting before starting his own business in 1956, which lasted until his retirement in 1992. He worked as a craftsman painter, wrote for the National Paint Journal, served as President of the National Painting Contractor Association in Nassau County, New York, and taught faux [...]
February 27th, 2012 admin Richard Tillotson has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Borneo, a playwright in New York, a copywriter in Hawaii, and is a relative of an English Lord, all of which helped him write Acts of God While on Vacation, a National Semi-Finalist for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and named “Hawaii’s best fiction book [...]
February 24th, 2012 admin We welcome today Joan Bird, author of the contemporary romance novel, Tumbleweed Heights (Boroughs Publishing Group).
Joan Bird has been telling stories for years. In her first incarnation she was a singer/song writer with a rock band (yes, her Fender guitars are awesome), then she started writing books, mostly for herself.
Joan’s storytelling is legendary amongst her [...]
February 13th, 2012 admin We welcome today K.T. Wells, author of the contemporary romance novel, Nobody’s Angel (Boroughs Publishing Group).
K. T. has been telling stories since before she could read. She used to narrate books for her baby brother, concocting a plotline from the pictures. Not much has changed. One of her husband’s favorite pastimes is to listen to [...]
September 7th, 2011 admin The first great irony of Phyllis Schieber’s life was that she was born in a Catholic hospital. Her parents, survivors of the Holocaust, had settled in the South Bronx among other new immigrants. In the mid-fifties, her family moved to Washington Heights, an enclave for German Jews on Manhattan’s Upper West [...]
August 2nd, 2011 admin Debra Brenegan grew up in the Milwaukee area and graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked as a journalist and taught at Milwaukee Area Technical College before beginning her graduate work. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also [...]
July 15th, 2011 admin Blanca Beyar, also known as (Lavanya) wears many hats. She is a Doctor of Natural Health, a Reiki Master, Shaman, Spiritual Counselor and beloved Guru. Her purpose and passion in life is to assist humanity in raising their consciousness, to help them unveil their divine radiance and [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Blanca Meyar, Goddess Mother Speaks, virtual book tours 62 Comments » July 15th, 2011 admin Barbara Chepaitis is the author of 8 published books, including The Fear Principle and The Fear of God featuring Jaguar Addams (Wildside Press), and the critically acclaimed mainstream novels, Feeding Christine and These Dreams. Her first nonfiction book, Feathers of Hope, is about Berkshire Bird Paradise and the human connection with birds. [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Barbara Chepaitis, The Fear of God, virtual book tours No Comments » June 24th, 2011 admin L.L. Reaper is two multi-published, award-winning authors who decided to write under a pen name for their dangerously sexy suspense series, Black Widow and the Sandman. You can visit their website at www.llreaper.com or connect with them at Twitter at www.twitter.com/llreaper and Facebook at www.facebook.com/AuthorLLReaper.
Thank you for this interview, L.L. Black Widow and the Sandman [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: author interview, Black Widow and the Sandman, LL Reaper No Comments » June 17th, 2011 admin Wayne Zurl grew up on Long Island and retired after working for twenty years with the Suffolk County Police Department, one of the largest municipal law enforcement agencies in New York and the nation. For thirteen of those years he served as a section commander supervising investigators.
Prior to his police career, Zurl served on active [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: A New Prospect, author interview, book promotions, Wayne Zurl No Comments » June 13th, 2011 admin Michael Scott Miller works with numbers by day in the business world and with words by night. He began writing shortly after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and has had his work published in the Welcomat (now Philadelphia Weekly) and wrote music reviews for the Wharton Journal while his wife was getting her [...]
June 9th, 2011 admin Hugh Aaron, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, received a Liberal Arts degree in the Humanities at The University of Chicago. For three years as a Seabee he served in the South Pacific during WWII. He was CEO of his own plastics manufacturing business for 20 years before selling it to write full time. Several of [...]
June 6th, 2011 admin A creative writing professor at California University of Pennsylvania, Carole Waterhouse is the author of two novels, The Tapestry Baby and Without Wings, and a collection of short stories, The Paradise Ranch.
Her fiction has appeared in Arnazella, Artful Dodge, Baybury Review, Ceilidh, Eureka Literary Magazine, Forum, Half Tones to Jubilee, Massachusetts Review, Minnetonka Review, Oracle: [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Carole Waterhouse, literary fiction, The Tapestry Baby 10 Comments » May 26th, 2011 admin After working several years as research chemist, Paula Wiseman was blessed with the opportunity to stay home with her children and follow the writer’s path. She has been published in several Cup of Comfort devotional books and in Life Savors for Women. Contingency: Book One: Covenant of Trust Series, her debut novel, spent time on [...]
Posted in Author Interviews Tags: Author Interviews, christian fiction, Contingency, Paula Wiseman No Comments » May 25th, 2011 admin Chad Coenson was born in Orlando, FL, but he can barely remember that and pretty much spent most of the years following his birth in a nomadic state of perpetual motion until finally finding a home in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two dogs. He has a degree in creative writing from the [...]
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