Featured Interview With Persephone Passions

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
First, Persephone isn't my real name, but it's the pen name of a real-life ginger who loves writing sassy, sexy romance novels and can't wait to connect with readers like you, who feel the same way!

A bit about me: Like the song says – I'm a little bit country, a little bit rock n' roll! I was raised in the mountains, then moved to the beach. Why? I love being outdoors, but I hate cold weather! I'm lucky enough to live 20 minutes from four different, beautiful East Coast beaches, and that's where I go when my muse needs a little kick in the pants. I'm a huge animal lover. Currently my menagerie is small – just 50% dog and 50% cat, but they're 100% awesome. Those fur babies are my biggest fans and harshest critics (just ask about that time I forget the extra treats!) Outside of writing, I exercise my creative muscles by trying new baking recipes, nerding out on jigsaw puzzles, and watching every David Attenborough nature documentary or old-school, BBC Network murder mystery I can find.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I've been fascinated with the written word since before I could heft a dictionary. My first short story was written when I was about 4 years old – as I remember, it involved a unicorn, a missing horn, and ice cream. Clearly, not much has changed between now and then – I still love fantasy fiction and really enjoy a solid Happily Ever After.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
My favorite author, bar none, is definitely that king of the fantasy epic, J.R.R. Tolkien. Good ol' Tolks is followed closely by C.S. Lewis, Phillipa Gregory, K.F. Breene and Amir Toor. I love fantasy (urban, modern, historical…) and really geek out on any kind of history or mythology-based stories. I got started on sexy, steamy romance novels after reading a (frankly, disappointing) love scene and thinking "Hm…I could do better!"

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Ares Rising is the first in a series of short novels titled American Demigods. I started with a few basic questions – What if magic was real and the Olympians still around? How would that shape society? How would their relationships work? Who would they love? – and then spun that answer into a romance novel full of magic, mayhem, and unrestrained sexy times.

Speaking directly to the story: I had a lot of fun writing this one! It's definitely super-sexy (read: NSFW), but beyond the sex scenes (which I hope you *really* enjoy, wink wink), the story itself has some grit that I hope you'll appreciate. The main characters are Dionysus and Penelope, descendants of Aphrodite and Ares, respectively. As you might have already guessed, it's a bit of a gender-bender; I got tired of reading heterosexual/cisgender romance novels that always featured a demure heroine and a balls-to-the-wall alpha hero, or a super-dominatrix heroine with a meek, effete hero. My alpha in the book is a woman; her lover is both the beta in their everyday relationship, and the dominant one of the two of them in bed. He's her rock and her empowerment; ultimately, he's the one who saves the day and gets the girl, but it doesn't happen exactly like you'd expect.

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Featured Interview With SHARON BUCHBINDER

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Born in Washington, DC, raised in Windsor Locks, CT, moved to Albany, NY, Chicago, IL, as a trailing spouse and have moved to our furrever home here in Baltimore, MD. We have 2 cats, both Maine Coons and 2 dogs, a pug and a pitbull. The pug is in charge. 🙂

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I've always been a story teller and got in trouble for it as a child. I learned if I WROTE the stories down, then they weren't called LIES. LOL. I've been writing since I could hold a pencil and have the rejection slips to prove it!

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I'm an omnivore–and multimedia one at that. I listen to audiobooks daily on my dog walks or driving to work. I read on my ereader on the plane–I never run out of books to read! And I mark up my favorite passages in print books which are mostly non-fiction. The last audiobook I listened to was about a serial killer, before that a retelling of the gospels, my ereader contains mystery, horror, romance, romantic suspense, paranormal romantic suspense–and I'm in the middle of a young adult story, too. I read or listen to 2-3 books at a time and get my story time in wherever I go. Because, it's all about the story, isn't it? Inspiration comes to me in stories about real people who demonstrate extraordinary abilities. I'm fascinated by family secrets, secret government agencies, truth, justice and redemption.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Meows and Mistletoe, A Holiday Anthology contains eight delightful holiday tales in the magical town of Cat’s Paw Cove where anything can happen–and usually does!

CHARLOTTE REDBIRD: GHOST COACH by Sharon Buchbinder
With the help of hunky real estate agent, Dylan Graham, life coach Charly Redbird and her new kitten have found the perfect home next to a cemetery. Charly gets a new client right away, who happens to be her neighbor—and a ghost. What could possibly go wrong?

FAMILIAR BLESSINGS by Candace Colt
To repay an old man who brought him out of war's dark shadow, a former Army Ranger delivers a cryptic letter to a gifted medium in Cat's Paw Cove. If what the letter says is true, the reluctant medium and skeptical Ranger must travel back to 1720 to save a young boy from the gallows.

CHRISTMAS AT MOON MIST MANOR by Kerry Evelyn
Lanie and Matt Saunders return to Cat's Paw Cove two years after their first disastrous Christmas there. When a mysterious kitten leads Matt back in time, can he right the wrongs of the past and give his expectant wife the perfect Christmas?

GNOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS by Kristal Hollis
When an empath who’s failed at every relationship impulsively kisses an enchanted garden gnome, he magically turns into a real man. Together they must find his one true love and end the curse by Christmas or he’ll be forever alone and trapped within his stone prison.

RING MA BELL by Debra Jess
In 1979, Michael Bell fell in love with high seas radio technician Dvorah Levi's voice as she guided him to safety, but their marriage was cut short by a bullet. Forty years later, Dvorah still mourns him. Can a special holiday and a magical Sherwood cat bring him back?

PURRFECTLY CHRISTMAS by Mia Ellas
Faerie Sormey Johnson moved to Cat's Paw Cove to live a quiet life as a human until a sexy werewolf deputy needs her help tracking down a murderous monster. When Sormey offers herself as bait, the cost may be more than she bargained for.

COLLYWOBBLES FOR CHRISTMAS by Sue-Ellen Welfonder
The fate of star-crossed lovers falls into the magical paws of a time-traveling kitten determined to right an ancient wrong and claim the greatest Christmas gift of all – love.

NEW YEAR’S KISS by Darcy Devlon
In order to overcome a family curse, Griffin Brooks, the town's hotshot assistant fire chief, must earn his true love's trust. Trina Lancaster knows she can release Griffin's curse, but will her magical family baggage be a deal breaker?

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Featured Interview With Angel Sanchez

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Mexico and raised in the U.S. (Does that make me a dreamer?) More important to my writing has been the contact with clients my wife and I encounter leading U.S. travelers (many of them New Yorkers) on tours of Mexico and other Latin destinations. “We Have Taken Your Husband” is a kind of composite of the often unwarranted fears U.S. travelers bring to Mexico these days. It’s a magnificent country with a culture older than its neighbor to the north.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started in my teens, but didn’t get serious until I started having time to kill, waiting in airports for delayed flights to wonderful locations.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I admire books that violate genre rules or expand our understanding of what a given genre — thriller, romance, travelogue, whodunit — can accommodate. So, sure, I’m a fan of Knausgard (even though I think memoir is usually a mistake for less talented writers). But I’m an even bigger fan of the generation of 20th-century writers like Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett, writers who so perfected their mastery of a genre that their books became windows on the whole world. I should add that I especially like books tinged with (or steeped in) irony. Evelyn Waugh was a master, Nabokov, Thomas Mann. A forgotten writer named Norman Douglas wrote “South Wind” way back in 1917 and it doesn’t hold a candle to work by the other authors I just named, but it is funny as hell and in the way it sketches a group of British expats living on an island in the Mediterranean, it provided inspiration for my book about U.S. expats living in Mexico.

In terms of inspiration, the sound of voices echoing in my head — those of the characters but also the quirks that characterize the way an omniscient narrator expresses himself or herself.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
“We Have Taken Your Husband” starts as a genre “thriller.” A couple of New York retirees are living in a small Mexican village when the husband is kidnapped and held for ransom by … well, it’s not quite clear by whom: a cartel? Thugs pretending to be big-time narcos? None of the above? The victim’s wife, Ariana, is ordered to keep her mouth shut and not go running to friends or to the U.S. embassy for help as she awaits the ransom demand. That leaves her as imprisoned in silence as is her husband in the cell where his captors have stashed him. From that fairly conventional beginning the book unfolds to become a portrait of a complex marriage frequently betrayed by both husband and wife. Mexico, for them, holds the promise of perfect freedom, of both the poitical and the erotic kind. But does Ariana really want back the man she must risk her financial security to free? And is her husband, Schuyler Schermerhorn, heir to a once magnificent Hudson Valley estate, somehow complicit in the disaster that has engulfed him? The positive reviews are from readers who delight in the genre mash-up: pulp fiction with a sophisticated psychological edge and a bit of raw eroticism.

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Featured Interview With Srecko Sorli

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in a small village in Slovenia. After high school, I was a student at the University of Ljubljana where I graduate back in 1980 in geodesy engineering. I was attending lectures on physics, psychology, and philosophy. My big interest at that time (and still is) was Einstein Relativity Theory. I'm working on the development of Einstein Relativity for 35 years and got good results. I published several articles on the subject, most important are in Foundations of Physics, Foundations of Science, Scientific Reports – Nature. Recently I published the book "Relativity Reborn – Based on Bijective Physics" at Amazon.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
The first book I wrote when I was 32 years old, the title was "The End of Time". Recently I published a book in the Italian language: La fisica del attimo presente". Together with my colleague research fellow Davide Discaletti we published a book at NOVA with the title "The Brief History of Eternity".

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I read most scientific articles. I read the book of Hawking "The Brief History of Time" and I was disappointed. He did not say anything new. More than that, some of the statement in his book are wrong. For example, he used to say that the energy of matter is positive and energy of space (gravitational energy) is negative. In the Big Bang, these two energies are multiplying as 1 + (1) = 0, 2 + (-2) =0 and so on. This makes no sense, you cannot apply math in order to explain apperance of the energy in the universe.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
In my latest book "Relativity Reborn – Based on Bijective Physics" I develop Relativity Theory. The model of space-time is replaced by the model of the multidimensional vacuum where time has only the mathematical existence.
I developed Einstein formula E = mc2 which is the mathematical expression of Einstein’s “mass-energy equivalence principle”. This formula means that mass can be transformed into energy and vice versa. For example, we accelerate your body close to light speed. The mass of your body will be transformed into electromagnetic energy (light). The sensible question is from where originate your mass m and your energy E . Because of Einstein false idea, that universal space is “empty” deprived of all physical properties, physics for more than 100 years did not find the answer. Today we know that space is the primordial energy of the universe, we call it “vacuum”. Imagine you are placed in interstellar space far away from stellar objects. The density of space far away from stellar objects is at the maximum. You will diminish density of the space on your body surface exactly for the amount of your mass and energy, which is expressed as:
E/c2 = m = (Pmax – Pmin) x V

where Pmin is the density of the space on the surface of your body and V is the volume of your body. The formula can be written also in the flowing form:
E = mc2 = (Pemax – Pemin) x V
where Pemax is energy density of interstellar space and Pemin is the energy density of space on the surface of the physical object.

I developed Einstein’s Relativity in so-called “Dynamic Vacuum Relativity”. I developed a cosmological model called “Bio-Universe Model” where universe is a system in dynamic permanent equilibrium and evolution of life is the consistent part of cosmic evolution.

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