Lisette Brodey's Blog, page 15
July 13, 2014
CHAT WITH CHRISTINE DAVIS
Christine Davis is the best-selling author and illustrator of three of Amazon’s top 10 pet-loss books. Her latest release Breathing Fire charts a new course — that of offering adult survivors of childhood abuse a way of reclaiming the passionate lives they were born to live. A victim herself, Davis’ awe-inspiring story invites readers to become apprentices on an epic journey of slaying dragons, manifesting miracles and healing body, mind and spirit.
Chris, a native of New York City, lives...
July 6, 2014
CHAT WITH JULIE MANGANO
Julie Mangano has been involved in the publishing industry since 1989 as a publications manager, writer, editor and art director. Braha is her first mystery. Born and raised in Southern California, she now lives in Round Rock, Texas with her husband. Mangano is currently at work on the sequel.
What is your latest book?
My book is called Braha, a mystery that is a blend of contemporary and historical fiction. It is a carefully-crafted tale of two unforgettable women, born centuries apart, w...
June 29, 2014
CHAT WITH JULIE SHACKMAN
Julie trained as a journalist but writing romance has always been a dream of hers.When she hasn’t got her head in a book or drafting one, she writes verses and captions for greetings cardcompanies. Julie says writing at home seems to be incredibly difficult for her — she usually requires coffee, music and noise!
Rock My Worldis her first contemporary romance novel. Julie has just finished writing her second novel (a rom-com) and is polishing that at the moment whilst beginning to do some...
June 22, 2014
CHAT WITH CIARA BALLINTYNE
Ciara Ballintyne is a fantasy author and lawyer. She enjoys reading, horse-riding, and speculation about taking over the world. If she could choose to be anything it would be a dragon, but instead she shares more in common with Dr. Gregory House of House. M.D. Confronting the Demon is her debut book.
Time to chat with Ciara!
What is your latest book?
Confronting the Demon is an adult high fantasy novella. Alloran’s rather pampered life has just had a severe shake up and spat him out in the worst...
June 15, 2014
CHAT WITH ROSARY McQUESTION
Rosary McQuestion was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Wisconsin, and she currently lives in Michigan with her husband and their three cats. Following a long career in advertising and marketing, which included owning her own agency and later becoming director of marketing and creative services for a well-known party goods manufacturer, she now indulges in her love of writing—full time.
Time to chat with Rosary!
What is your latest book?
Once Upon Another Time
What do you think some of the g...
June 8, 2014
CHAT WITH DEANNA SLETTEN
Deanna Lynn Sletten is a bestselling and award-winning author. She writes women’s fiction and romance novels and has also written one middle-grade novel that takes you on the adventure of a lifetime.
Deanna’s women’s fiction novel, Widow, Virgin, Whore,made the top 100 bestselling books on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble in March 2014. Her romance novels Memories and Sara’s Promise both won semi-finalist in The Kindle Book Review’s Best Indie Books of 2012 and 2013 respectively. Sara’s Promise...
June 2, 2014
THE APPEAL OF WRITING YOUNG ADULT
When people learn I’ve written several books, one of the first things they ask me is “What genre are they?” That sounds like a pretty easy question. After all, I should know the answer to that better than anyone, right? Not always.
I finished my first-written novel, Squalor, New Mexico, in 1996. All I knew is that I had written a novel about a girl growing up in East Coast suburbia, but my focus was not solely on telling her story. I had a passion to tell a universal tale of dysfunction that i...
June 1, 2014
CHAT WITH FIONA QUINN
Canadian born, Fiona Quinn is now rooted in the Old Dominion outside of D.C. with her husband and four children. She unschools, pops chocolates, devours books, and taps continuously on her laptop.
Time to chat with Fiona!
What is your latest book?
I was involved in a project with two local Sisters in Crime chapters. Sisters in Crime (SinC) is a national support organization for female crime writers, though males are welcome, as well.
Our book, Virginia Is for Mysteries is a compilation of 17 shor...
May 25, 2014
CHAT WITH ZOE E. WHITTEN
An experimental dark fiction writer, Zoe has written several novels and novellas that fuse fantasy, sci-fi, horror, crime fiction, black comedy and musicals.
Born in Denison Texas, Zoe is a high school dropout and a GED graduate. Despite these depressingly low qualifications, she has worked as a computer technician, a webmaster, an internet help desk operator, a video producer, a movie theater projectionist, an amusement park ride operator, a telemarketer, a dishwasher, and a wrestling federat...
April 27, 2014
CHAT WITH GLYNIS ASTIE
After thirteen years in Human Resources, Glynis decided to make good on her promise to write a book. Rather than detailing the bizarre issues she had encountered over the course of her career, she elected to write about her real life French fairy tale: the story of how she met and married her husband, Sebastien, in six short months. She currently lives in Westchester, New York with her incredibly romantic husband, two angelic sons and two adorable kitties.
Time to chat with Glynis!
What is your...
