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Featured Author Greg Scorzo

Featured Interview With Author Greg Scorzo

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Originally from Los Angeles,, I’m a writer who was originally a philosopher. I have a PhD in Meta-Ethics, and an MA in Ethics and Political Philosophy from the University of Nottingham, as well as a BA in Philosophy from Whittier College in California. I was a founding member of One plus One magazine which evolved into the online platform CULTURE ON THE OFFENSIVE. I’ve also contributed to One+One Filmmakers Journal since 2010. I ran philosophy seminars at the University of Nottingham from 2008 until 2013, but became disillusioned by the constraints of academia.

I currently write political and cultural essays, I host a podcast, have recently finished my first audio play, am composing my first album of electronic music, and have just released my first novel (Love Before Covid, 2021). I’m also a speaker, teacher and someone who devises interactive talks and events.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I've never not been fascinated by books of various sorts. And I was always embarrassed about having a talent for writing. I always wanted to do anything other than be a writer, until I accepted it could be an incredibly compulsive and satisfying experience.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy classic and more contemporary examples of dark thought provoking and highly philosophical fiction: George Orwell, Amy Bender, William S Burroughs, David Foster Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut, Anthony Burgess, JG Ballard, Sylvia Plath, Donald Barthelme, Charles Bukowski, William Gibson and of course, George Batailles.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Love Before Covid is the story of writer and English teacher Joe Pastorious. Joe is a jazz fan, a Leicester based poet, and a victim of horrendous sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother. The book takes you on a trip through Joe's mind, a journey through real-time dialogues that emerge from his corrupted memories and dystopian dreams. The contents of Joe's unconscious tell us more about Joe than he could ever know, and more about our world than a dream is supposed to tell.

In Love Before Covid, you will meet an altruist who can’t stand up for himself, an impulsive bartender who will do anything to get pregnant, a traumatised art historian who hates children, a successful Mexican writer who dislikes her own friends, a charming public intellectual who once violently disfigured her boyfriend, a tall beautiful dancer who hates fat people and a teenage genius who fantasises about his porn star mother.

You will also encounter passionate feminists, violent alcoholics, religious fanatics, sadistic parents, kind misanthropes, woke bisexuals, a woman who is pressured into cutting off her penis, female kick boxers, violent vegans and a successful therapist who has a habit of ruining people’s lives. The stories in Love Before Covid co-exist within parallel realities, dreams within dreams, and very passionate and sometimes violent arguments.

It is up to you to decide whether there are any heroes or villains in this book. Whatever you decide, your moral boundaries will be pushed to their limits. And yes, before you ask, some of the characters in this book eventually catch Covid 19.

However, there is still hope in Love Before Covid. For Joe Pastorious, hope comes in the form of a psychopath named Janet Waverley.

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Featured Author Alyssa Mitchell

Featured Interview With Author Alyssa Mitchell

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in St. Louis, MO and I currently live in Indiana. I am married with two children and two dogs.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was taught to read at around age four and I loved to read then. At the age of six, I read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, where I learned my first big word, demonstration. I was so proud. I started writing short stories at the age of seven and began writing poetry at nine years old.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Maya Angelou inspired me to write poetry at a young age and I love reading her books, even today. I enjoy reading Stephen King's books as an adult. Toni Morrison has also been a sort of teacher in storytelling as well. My favorite genres would be autobiographies/biographies and African American literature. I don't think I can pick just one.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Well, this is my first published work and I am very excited. It took me about a week to write the story and another week to put it all together. I did not draw the illustrations, but used the graphics from one of my subscriptions. I'm starting somewhere, you know.

Blue Bird loves blue. Blue Bird is absolutely sure that blue is the only color worthy of attention. Worms are not even in Blue Bird's diet because they are not blue.

This book, while blue is celebrated, aims to teach young readers colors and to be okay with what they like and dislike.

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Featured Author Fil Reid

Featured Interview With Author Fil Reid

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I live on a canal boat in the south of England with my husband and our Romanian rescue dog, Bella, and our elderly cat. We've been on the boat for ten years now and before that we lived in France where I learnt to speak fluent French pretty quickly.
I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome (High Functioning Autism) after two of my now grownup sons were, and that explained a lot to me, especially my life long love of horses and my obsession with all things Arthurian.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I think I loved books from the moment I learned to read. I remember at aged just 7, when we moved from Infants to Junior School, having to do a reading age test that made me very nervous at the time. It was only years later that my mother told me I'd had the highest reading age in the class at 14. Unsurprising really, when you consider I was already reading books like Kipling's The Jungle Book and My Friend Flicka all by myself.
I began writing at age 5 when my parents gave me a Petite Children's Typewriter, and with a few breaks for children and working, I've written ever since. My third book is about to come out, published by Dragonblade Publishing, and I have some children's and YA books with my agent at the moment.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I will read anything that is well written. I still love good children's books even though my own children are all grown up. I used to love reading to them at bedtime and any other time they wanted, and would choose books they might have found a bit more challenging, loving it when they wanted more.
One of my all time favourite authors has to be Nevil Shute. He's long dead now, but I could read some of his books over and over again and still love them. I belong to the Nevil Shute Norway Society.
I like a well-plotted thriller, a romance with a good storyline that's not just all about the romance, historical fiction that's well researched and believable, and wouldn't say no to horror, scifi, mystery at all. So long as it's well written.I think when I first began writing in earnest with the idea of being published, and began my MG novels that I'd like to get published now, my biggest influence was probably Alan Garner and his wonderful children's stories about Alderley Edge in Cheshire.
As an adult I suppose it might be Philippa Gregory and her well-researched historical novels.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I won Dragonblade's The WriteStuff competition last year with Guinevere: The Dragon Ring, about a modern young woman who is kidnapped back to the Dark Ages by Merlin to become King Arthur's Queen Guinevere and help him fulfil his destiny. It takes me about a month to do the first draft (they're all about 100,00 words and over – the last is 120,000 at the moment) and then a few weeks after that to revise.

Gwen is feisty and strong willed, and finding herself in a society where women are viewed as chattels and not expected to have an opinion on anything comes as a big shock. As do many of the living conditions – a bucket in the corner as a toilet, powdered charcoal to brush her teeth, no stirrups on her horse's saddle, rabbit skins as nappies (which way out, one wonders – it doesn't tell you that when you research it!).

My publisher is bringing book three out on May 31st, and in this Gwen has found her place in Dark Age society and educated her somewhat male chauvinist husband in how to treat a woman. She's also presented him with an heir, which happened in book two. But they're still finding their feet both as a couple and as a king and queen.

Arthur is a flawed hero, handsome of course, but even though Gwen has come to love him, she's frequently irritated by his attitude. But she's also got Merlin as her friend, and he's not the old greybeard we always imagine him to be. He's a warrior who looks about Arthur's own age, but is he? There is a small element of magic about the story, as there has to be in a retelling of Arthurian legend, but there's also a lot of historical realism, and lots of the characters in the book were 'real' people – as far as we know.

I've tried to follow as much legend as I can, which led me down many rabbit holes of research, which I loved. I think if you're writing a retelling of Arthurian legend you do need to include certain elements – Merlin, the sword in the stone, Excalibur, Medraut (Mordred), Tintagel etc. You'll find them all in my books, although some of them I've put a slight twist on. I like to surprise my readers.

You won't find a Lancelot though, as he's a later medieval addition, and French! This is strictly British and very much post-Roman with ruins of their towns and cities and villas scattered all over Britain. The armies march up the old Roman roads and take shelter in ruined Way Stations. There are threats from all sides – the Saxons in the south and east, the Irish in the west, and the Picts from north of Hadrian's Wall. Not to mention strife between rival British kingdoms.

And over all of this hangs the threat of Camlann, Arthur's final battle in which Gwen fears he'll fall at the hands of his nephew Medraut. She knows all the legends, and with that knowledge she wonders if she can change history, or if perhaps it's already set in stone.

I've recently finished book six, and am quite sad to say goodbye to Arthur and Gwen.

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Featured Author Sherlina Idid

Featured Interview With Author Sherlina Idid

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I studied in Coventry University, United Kingdom and graduated with a BA Hons in International Relations & Politics. I have been in human resource management line for a few years. I like cats whereby I spend sometime with my children pet and sometimes when the neighbour cat drops by. I love travelling to other countries which led me to be exposed to other cultures, environments, and sightseeing which eventually sparked me to write my first novel.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I love reading books, especially adventure and mystery, at the tender age of seven. I used to bring novels in hand wherever I went, in the car to restaurants, supermarkets, or even visiting. It encourages me to imagine things that I do not need to experience and how skillful in solving a mystery or an adventure.
I have wanted to write since 2017; however, due to time constraints with working in a famous oil & gas company, I only manage to start writing in the year 2020 when covid kicks in. The countless lockdowns encouraged me to start writing.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
During her early years, she was exposed to Enid Blyton books like secret seven, Hardy Boys, & Famous Five, and Nancy Drew.
In addition, her interest in readings includes mysteries & thrillers. Her interest in traveling has led her to be exposed to other cultures, environments, and sightseeing which eventually sparked her to write her first novel Mystical Adventure of Ashley Sprinkler (Book Series).
Her readings expanded to a thriller like Stephen Kings, solving mysteries like Agatha Christies, which led her to expand her writings to encompass the psychological thriller genre (novel out in April) and thriller (out in January 2023)

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Today Tomorrow Never- a YA psychological supernatural thriller genre.

Below is the synopsis:
After a plane crash that leaves Camelia and her family in grave danger, a series of strange and mysterious occurrences begin appearing. She returns home from college one day to find her mother is missing, her home vanishes before her eyes, but then suddenly all seems fine again, her home and mother returns, although now she seems different. ‘What got into her? What happened to mum?’

Suddenly her lecturer, Professor Carlos becomes invisible, her best friend Jen disappears, and she feels the intruder or the monstrous creature is still lingering within her compound. Should she scream for help, or should she overturn the intruder?

Camelia witnessed a gunshot on a forehead, streaming of blood flowing. Who murdered her friend?

Dr. Mark is in search of missing digital diamond-shaped chips. Will pursuing the lover of his life from university, Casendra is able to satisfy his thirst for selfish invention, romance or will it leads to death?
What phenomenon could it be?

It took me a year to complete writing and editing this novel with some hiccups in the formatting. This time I wanted to give readers who buy the paperback version a memorable experienced; therefore, each chapter has a graphic design with a hint of an object drawn by my child that depicts the mysterious object in this novel.

I hope you will enjoy reading it just like I am writing it.

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Featured Author Jim Giombetti

Featured Interview With Author Jim Giombetti

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
James Giombetti, known to his friends as Jim or Babe, was raised in the hills of beautiful northeastern Pennsylvania in the small town of Jessup. As an international business executive, Jim developed an insatiable desire to understand complex systems with a passion and vision for resolving global supply-chain issues. His unique skills typically apply new ideas and approaches to complex problems using simplicity in design. In The Lessons of History – Observed, Jim explores historical events and how these seemingly unrelated historical events are the root cause of today’s unresolved complex problems. He uses Will and Ariel Durant’s seminal work, The Lessons of History, as a framework to share his observations.

Jim considers his wife Barbara and family to be most important to him. If he isn’t spending time with Barb or their family, you can bet he is with Beane, his loyal companion: a dead grass Chesapeake Bay retriever.

The Lessons of History – Observed is Jim’s first book

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I was around 16 when I started to read books as a passion and to write shortly there after.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Malcolm Gladwell comes to mind. Non Fiction is what I primarily read.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Do you ever stop to think about how we may be living the same life over and over?
What can current political leaders learn from a time travel into lessons of history?
How can we find truths in history that apply to both past and future linears of life?

Across history, the idea of living takes on the same patterns over different social climates and contexts. Jim Giombetti takes you on a learning curve to uncover lessons that spring forth through time over hundreds of years in his new book ‘Lessons of History – Observed, Change Your Context – Change Your Life.’

Jim Giombetti takes readers on a journey through years of political and social changes to identify patterns of living. Through these patterns, you can gain a fresh perspective on current realities and develop strong problem-solving skills to create a new world. Jim takes ideas that are complex and thoroughly debunks them to help you find new context for living.

Accepting excuses for inaction is a mindset that is yet to uncover hidden secrets of history. In ‘Lessons of History – Observed, Change Your Context – Change Your Life,’ Jim Giombetti clears a pathway for understanding just how much history can predict life as we know it. With the knowledge of social and global politics through history, you get all the information you need to develop better habits and change your life.

Would you like to find a practical way to approach life?

If your answer is yes, then this book is exactly what you need to get started!

`Lessons of History – Observed, Change Your Context – Change Your Life,’ by Jim Giombetti is a must-read for anyone who wants to change the narrative of their life.

Jim Giombetti’s newest book uncovers hundreds of years in history through lessons on living that will help you create your new world.

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