Featured Interview With Elaine Kaye

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am the author of A Gregory Green Adventure Series. I first created Gregory Green after my son, who loved my homemade pea soup, thus inspiring the story Pea Soup Disaster. He had a Cabbage Patch doll named Sammy, and that’s how Sammy the teddy bear came to be.

I have worked as a library assistant and teacher’s assistant in elementary schools in the Sunshine State. Currently, I live in Florida, but I have called Michigan; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan home.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Growing up, I didn't like reading at all, actually, until 8th grade when I got a Sue Barton nurse book. I found this book at a huge, old library that was like a museum and amazing for book lovers, and, as in my case, it created a book lover. That was when I became enchanted with going to the library and reading books. I would check out books just to check out books.

I started writing in 1982 when a coworker of mine mentioned she started writing a book and I told her I'd always wanted to write. Her response to me was, "Then do it." From then on, I've been writing.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love to read books by Jan Karon, Beverly Macomber, and Beverly Lewis.

My favorite genre is romance. All kinds of romance, but I have a soft spot for Amish love stories and western/frontier stories.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Doctor Mom is part of A Gregory Green Adventure series. Raising five kids, I was always sewing up one of their stuffed animals. Once, I even gave stitches to Sammy the Cabbage Patch Doll on his right leg when he got a hole. That doll inspired Sammy the Teddy Bear and this story, which is about Gregory's teddy bear needing a tear in his leg fixed up by Doctor Mom.

BLURB: It’s Saturday, and Gregory Green can’t wait to have fun with his dad on the riding lawnmower, but something is wrong. Sammy, his teddy bear and best friend, won’t get out of bed. Gregory is worried when he sees Sammy’s left leg is torn. This is a case for Doctor Mom! Can they fix Sammy? And just how did Sammy get hurt in the first place?

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Featured Interview With Chrys Fey

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am the author of the Disaster Crimes Series, a unique concept blending romance, crimes, and disasters. I also authored Write with Fey: 10 Sparks to Guide You from Idea to Publication. Catch the sparks you need to write, edit, publish, and market your book! I run the Insecure Writer’s Support Group Book Club on Goodreads and am also an editor for Dancing Lemur Press.

I live in Florida and am always on the lookout for hurricanes. I have four cats and three nephews; both keep me entertained with their antics.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I realized I wanted to write by watching my mother pursue publication as a small child. She would write and illustrate children's books at our dining room table.

At the age of twelve, I started my first novel, which flourished into a series I later rewrote at seventeen. Although I had always enjoyed writing, I didn't start writing seriously until a strange finding sparked my imagination. One day, when I was twelve, I was playing with the blades of grass where I sat when my fingers brushed something cold and metallic. Thinking it was a key, or at least something cool, I uncovered it to find a rusted screw with a crooked tip. Well, it might not have been a key, but it acted like one, opening up the door to my imagination. A story rushed in, and I wrote every day, completing a full novel and two more after that. I was on the fourth book in the series when writer's block had me rewriting the series all the way from book one, but I had a blast doing it. Since then, I've written and started many stories.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read just about any genre, including non-fiction such as memoirs, but my favorite genre is romantic-suspense, the best of the romance and suspense/crime worlds all rolled into one story.

My favorite authors are Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb, Diane Duane, J.K. Rowling, and Janet Evanovich.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Flaming Crimes is Book 4 of the Disaster Crimes series (Hurricane Crimes, Seismic Crimes, Tsunami Crimes, Flaming Crimes). All of the fiery scenes in this story are inspired by my real life when a brush fire nearly took my childhood home. In fact, it got so close that a mere foot of green grass remained on the right side, and the woods all around my house were charred and reduced to ashes. Everything I remember from that flaming day, from a firefighter getting burned, a brush truck getting stuck in the woods behind my house, and one of our cats running outside toward the flames, is in that book, making it that much more exciting and realistic.

BLURB: Beth and Donovan are now happily married, and what Beth wants more than anything is a baby. Her dream of starting a family is put on hold as fires burn dangerously close and Donovan becomes a victim of sabotage.

Donovan escapes what could've been a deadly wreck. Their past enemies have been eliminated, so who is cutting brake lines and leaving bloody messages? He vows to find out, for the sake of the woman he loves and the life they're trying to build.

Amidst a criminal mind game, a fire ignites next to their home. They battle the flames and fight to keep their house safe from the blaze pressing in on all sides, but neither of them expects to confront a psychotic adversary in the middle of the inferno.

Their lives may just go up in flames…

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Featured Interview With David Chylde

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I'm from Waycross, Ga., and now I wait tables at Tin Lizzy's in Lawrenceville, Ga. No pets. I've spent most of my time in downtown Atlanta.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
The sixth grade. I wrote a weekly creative writing paper.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
T.A. Pratt, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Keirnan. I mostly read urban fantasy. Robert McCammon, an eighties horror writer, really inspires me.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Whiskey, Blood, and Magic is my debut urban fantasy novel from Kellan Publishing. It centers around hard rock/heavy metal vocalist Jake Reece who is a bartender at Atlanta midtown bar Medusa's. When he accepts a demon's proposition he takes a wild ride through the dark world of magic, chased by bounty hunters who want the coveted Dual Serpent Amulet.

I always wanted to be a rock singer so this character is my chance to live out the life of metal vocalist on his way to being a star–the party life, girls, groupies. This book took years and years of writing and rewriting. Much of it comes from my experience in the nightclub/adult entertainment business in downtown Atlanta. The book is about taking a dark tour of Atlanta–dark city life-but still you read about the Fox Theater, Marta, popular areas like Buckhead and Little Five Points. My hook is: Rock singer Jake Reeces faces succubus Ariel Celique with the help of three strippers who lives double lives as hunters in magic.

In this book, rock singer Jake Reece falls prey to a demon when he accepts a “flesh ride” spell that allows him to feel the carnal pleasure of others through spectral flight. Psychics in the world of magic sense his bondage, and he finds himself hunted by a clan led by succubus Ariel Celique, who needs his magic to defeat the demon in a game orchestrated by spurned angels. Jake approaches stripper\bounty hunter Marci Stone and goes through his Awakening into magic, bringing his power out of dormancy. With Marci and her two stripper sidekicks in magic, he battles the clan. A solo investigation then leads him to a gothic mansion in North Georgia where the succubus throws decadent dance raves and plies her sex drug “Bacchus,” which is running riot in the Atlanta club scene. There Jake Reece discovers she wants to keep him eternally as a sex slave. He manages to escape with Marci’s help and then plays a big show with his band Lost Angel. Record contracts are being offered amongst wild partying, but first the gang must rally together to return to the mansion and trounce their nemesis.

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Featured Interview With J DeVereS

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
First and foremost, JDeVereS is a writer! Whether generating scientific/technical “white papers”, “point papers”, technical manuals, poetry, a wide genre of magazine articles or full length novels – he writes!

Growing up in the valleys and around the beaches of Napa/Sonoma counties… he developed a love for nature that gradually melded with his love of science fiction and fantasy! Since Hollywood frequently used the vineyards and rural settings of these valleys for their movie productions he would occasionally meet television and movie stars on set.

Over time, this lead to him writing numerous celebrity interviews for a variety of magazines.

One day a friend suggested he read a novel by Andre Norton (Alice Mary North). From then on, he was “hooked”!

Much later, he began to travel internationally, spending a lot of time in Asia. During these travels he developed a better understanding of people around the world and is now a strong believer in “one people/one planet”!

Currently living in San Diego County, he has committed himself to writing a series of novel entitled “The Elfkin Journals”! These novels, though set in a fantasy/fictional environment. embody his perception of life.

A few quotes from the book “The Elfkin Journals: Blending of the Races” capture the basic elements of his life phoilosophies:

“Of all creative arts – the greatest wrought is that of a life well-lived!”

“The only lasting treasures are those you hold in your heart now your hands!”

“Life is a moment in eternity… Love is eternity born in this moment of life!”

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My parents “gifted” me a “selectric” typewriter in my early… early teens and I have never stopped writing… now I use fancy software and powerful computers but the writing is always from the heart regardless of the tools.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Lord! Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Verne, Tolkien, Asimov, Norton, Stewart, Heinlein, Le Quin… is there an end to the list?

My favorite genres are science fiction and fantasy but the main thing a look for is a compelling tory that teaches me, helps me grow, without lecturing me!

I recently spoke with members of a non-fiction book club and explained my basic premise that fiction is +98% non-fiction. As fantasy writers, we can create a fictional environment… add pointed ears or long fangs… but in the end we are writing about very real human emotions… human interactions… real life!

When I write, I am inspired by the incredible number of great souls I have encountered in my life time! Ironically, the easiest characters to create are “the bad guys”! I have little patience with closed minded individuals who believe there is only one way to live life… only one way to love! We are here to learn and grow!

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Warder Garith De’ Graoin and Doctor Lan De Tian lead a team of “Misfits” on a quest to save their universe from a plague that is sweeping through an entire civilization. Utilizing the power of bonded mind stones, they shape the energies of the universe to reach across time and space seeking out the enemy.

As the most elite team of Warders in the Elfkin Federation… they are assigned the responsibility to enter an alternate universe… find the weakness in the aggressor’s system and stop the plague. Unfortunately, the enemy they face possesses genetic mutations that make them the equivalent of ‘minor gods’.

Tragically, this team knows that the reason their universe is under attack is the result of their Federation meddling in the affairs of the alternate universe. To win… they must save ‘the Mother’, defeat a minor god, and restore order to the alternate universe.

What can this tiny team of 7 multi-racial Elfkins do against an entire Empire?

WIN! They either win or two civilizations will devolve into primal chaos.

From their tiny resort camp on the third planet from a minor sun… they must embark on a journey that does not understand the concept of time as a linear progression. They must win a battle using the curvature of time and the energies of two universal sources.

In this battle there is no safe place to hide… your dreams, your future, your past… even the shadows of the night are all susceptible to attack.

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Featured Interview With Cheri Vause

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I had a wonderful childhood, filled with books, comic books, and lots of tales of gods and demigods. We had a form we filled out in our LA county school where we could buy paperback books for fifty cents. I used my chore money, and later, babysitting money to buy books. I read classics like, To Kill a Mockingbird, and science fiction novels by anyone and everyone who was famous and not so famous.

I’ve carried that into my adult life, devouring poetry, classics, detective yarns, and mysteries. Living in Texas now, I’m surrounded by readers everywhere. I spend way too much money on books on Amazon, but I also frequent used book stores. The rest of the time I spend with my hubby and ducks, and my beautiful dog, Mulder.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
It never really occurred to me that I was fascinated with books. I just always had a book I was reading. It felt natural, right. Although I toyed with writing poetry, most of my adult life was spent writing white papers, editorials, and theology pieces. Fiction writing didn’t really start until about seven years ago. It was my husband who urged me, or rather harassed me into writing, The Garden of Souls. I kept telling him the story and so he turned his computer over to me, and off I went. Retirement helped, so I had lots of time. Researching wasn’t necessary because all my references were at hand from my classes.

With that success under my belt, a small press approached me, and I’ve been writing consistently since.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
The only genres I don’t read are YA and Romance. Yes, I’ve never read Harry Potter, Twilight, or The Hunger Games. Sorry. I just don’t find YA sufficiently challenging. I’m nuts about mysteries and thrillers, and I really am a Longmire fan. I’ve read nearly every one of Craig Johnson’s series. I also love Harry Bosch, so Michael Connelly’s books are high on my list. Daphne du Maurier is my all time favorite writer. I feel really good about it because Alfred Hitchcock also loved her work.

I really can’t choose one writer I love above all, but I’d probably say Dostoevsky, Collette, Graham Greene, and Somerset Maugham. And I’m in love with Yeats.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
I’m just about finished with a novella, Mortifio. It’s an adult fairytale about a prison colony. The worst prison is not the one you’re body is in, but the one in the mind. One particular prisoner learns this, but his challenge to help the other prisoners learn this threatens his life by the prison kingpin.

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