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…

Cosplayer and author Annye Driscoll and I met last year at the Dayton Metro Library Author Symposium. It was a wonderful event for readers and authors alike, and once we’d spoken, I invited them to be a part of this series because the concept of cosplay and writing a glue guide to help with it…

Kammeron Polverari (see below for the correct pronunciation of her name, something that is always important to this writer!) is the author of From the Fires Scattered There, a work of historical fiction based on true events. The book released last year, and readers appreciate Kammeron’s attention to detail and accuracy, among other things. One reader…

Impulsivity isn’t always a bad thing, and in the case of Key North, author Jenny Poelman‘s main character in The Alphabet Woods, impulsivity leads to some major changes, challenges, and life lessons. The book released in May 2023 and is well received by readers. One reviewer was impressed with its “interesting characters, engaging story, and…

Having read Seventeen magazine back when I was young, I probably stumbled over Meredith Berlin‘s name on the staff list many times, never knowing that someday in the future, our paths would cross with this series! But here we are, and I’m interviewing the former editor in chief about her debut novel, Friends with Issues,…