Like so many authors, Barbara Howell has worn many hats, including her many careers: farmer, cosmetologist, wife, mother, grandmother, woodworker and now author.
We’re starting off a new set of author interviews for 2012 with Wade Shepard.
Deatri King-Bey is originally from Decatur, a small town in central Illinois. When she was a child, Decatur was behind the times in just about every way. So behind, they had no idea how to deal with a dyslexic child. Her parents were told she’d never learn how to read, let alone write. Obviously, they [...]
Carole Eglash-Kosoff has visited more than seventy countries and is an avid student of history. She researched the decades preceding and following the Civil War for nearly three years, including time in Louisiana, the setting for Winds of Change and her earlier novel, When Stars Align.
Okay, I think my new favorite author will be Shelli Johnson. I loved her answers here, and she has given such great advice about writing, marketing, and book design, that I know you will learn a lot from this interview.
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 Side, known as “Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson.”
To get to know author Joseph Rinaldo a bit better, I asked him to tell me about himself.
Pamela Bitterman discusses her books, life, resilience, and more. Enjoy this interview.
John Banks was born and raised in Asheville, NC. He attended college in Greensboro, NC, and still resides there with his wife, Margaret. For many years, he taught in the public schools and in community colleges, and was later the Director of an adult-education program, experiences which greatly inform Glorify Each Day.
Tish Boy is an author from the Bronx. She wrote her first series of short stories as a school project at the age of nine, and realized she had a passion for it. Her craft was honed in an unlikely place, the New York State Department of Corrections where she was housed for 16 years.
