The old saying is to write what you know, and author Caitlin Avery has done just that. In 2010, she released a memoir “that’s about learning from her mistakes, and learning how to accept herself entirely—one that alters her love life eternally.” She then poured her personal experience on several fronts into her women’s fiction…

Author Kimberly McMillan knows how to write enjoyable, relatable, and heartfelt fiction. Her debut novel, Never Enough Time, launched in early 2023 with Warren Publishing, and readers have used all three adjectives to describe the novel. Other readers praise different attributes. One Goodreads reviewer wrote, “I love stories like [this]—stories that have flawed characters who…

Plants, their survival, and climate change have always fascinated me, so I’m looking forward to reading The Life of Plants in a Changing Environment by Rishikesh Upadhyay. The book released in July 2022, and though it is Rishikesh’s fourth book, he says he’s been writing and preparing for years and loves “sharing his stories with the…

It’s rare that I feature two people at a time in these interviews, but today is one of those days. Stephen and Mary Weller are partners in both life and in writing. Married with “kids, pets, and a mortgage” for many years, they’re coauthors of the first two books in the Kantara Scrolls Series with…

One of my favorite types of people to showcase in this forum are the emerging authors, and DJ Hicks falls into that category. Though he’s just celebrated the one-year anniversary of his debut, First-Name Basis, the book was the “first (official) project” to make it from his head to the page thanks in part to…

Author Helen Garraway and I might write in different genres, but we certainly have (at least) two things in common: both of us inherited our love of reading from our mothers, and we started writing somewhat late in the game. Despite her delayed start, Helen is doing something exactly right: she’s an award-winning and USA…

Knowledge is power, and we can all learn something from experiences that differ from ours. Lexi Andresen Lutz hopes to help others with that learning process. She is the author of All Mixed Up: Discovering the Beauty in Racial Ambiguity, a memoir released in 2023. The book “delves into the complexities of navigating different cultural…

What is it they say about word-of-mouth referrals? How important they are? I can attest. That’s how  author Ron Lamberson and I “met.” Ron reached out in March 2023 regarding an interview, and he’s been waiting patiently ever since! During that time, he’s been busy writing (among other things) and will be releasing the third…

Fantasy is a genre I don’t read a lot of, and I’m continually impressed by authors who take on the challenge. One such person is Michigan author Dani Resh, whose first and second books in her planned trilogy published in 2021 and 2023, respectively, by Warren Publishing. Readers loved the debut, Compass to Vinland, calling…

Author Tracey Yokas reached out to me about an interview in late 2022, but soon thereafter, I thought about pulling back on the feature. I even told Tracey I might be putting a pin in the project. But when I looked at Tracey’s request again, I knew I needed to keep the series going because…