Lisette Brodey's Blog, page 21
May 13, 2013
CHAT WITH JULIA MUNROE MARTIN
(Julia Munroe Martin as J.M. Maison)
Julia Munroe Martin writes The Empty Nest Can Be Murder series as J.M. Maison. For many years Martin was a work-at-home writer and stay-at-home mom to two (now young adult) children. These days you’ll find her at her dining room table, in an old house on the coast of Maine, where she is happiest and most comfortable with her family or when writing or researching her next story.
Time to chat with Julia!
What is your latest book?
Desired to Death is a mystery fe...
May 5, 2013
CHAT WITH SIMON HAY
Simon is a healer, a medical intuitive and a medium. Simon travels throughout Australia, and the world, undertaking healings and connecting people to spirit. Consistently, amazing health responses occur during healings, and he’s well respected in the field of energy healing.
What is your latest book?
The Disciple is a biography about Jesus’ birth, childhood and death. After a life-altering encounter with spirit, I revisit and remember my past life as the disciple, Judas.
My life, my family, the...
April 28, 2013
CHAT WITH DEB NAM KRANE
Deborah Nam-Krane was born in New York, raised in Cambridge and educated in Boston. You’re forgiven for assuming she’s prejudiced toward anything city or urban. She’s been writing in one way or another since she was eight years old (and telling stories well before that).
She first met some of the characters in The New Pioneers series when she was thirteen years old, but it took two decades—and a couple of other characters—to get the story just right.
Time to chat with Deb!
What is your latest bo...
April 21, 2013
CHAT WITH CHRISTA POLKINHORN
Christa Polkinhorn is a writer and translator who lives and works in California and part of the year in her native Switzerland. When she doesn’t write, she reads, travels, gets together with friends, enjoys a glass of wine or a piece of dark chocolate.
Time to chat with Christa!
What is your latest book?
Emilia, a novel dealing with a family of artists and their struggles with love and creativity. It takes place in the south of Switzerland, in Paris, and Peru.
Is your recent book part of a serie...
April 14, 2013
CHAT WITH STACY JUBA
Stacy Juba has written about reality TV contestants targeted by a killer, an obit writer investigating a cold case, teen psychics who control minds, twin high school hockey stars battling on the ice, and teddy bears learning to raise the U.S. flag: she pursues whatever story ideas won’t leave her alone. Stacy’s titles include the adult mystery novels Sink or Swim and Twenty-Five Years Ago Today, the children’s picture books The Flag Keeper and the Teddy Bear Town Children’s Bundle (Three Comp...
April 10, 2013
WHEN YOU ASSUME… part 2 in the series EDITING: MORE THAN I BEFORE E.
“When you assume, you make an ASS of U and ME”
By Laura Daly
When you’re editing, whether it’s your own work or someone else’s, you may find there are common problems in the writing that boil down to this: assumptions being made about what readers know.
Readers don’t know what you know. They don’t have plot outlines in front of them, detailed character sketches and descriptions of scenes. With a nonfiction book, other than an index and a table of contents, they may not understand fully what the...
April 7, 2013
CHAT WITH RAINE THOMAS
Raine Thomas is the award-winning author of a series of YA fantasy/romance novels about the Estilorian plane, including the Daughters of Saraqael trilogy and the Firstborn trilogy. She is a proud member of Romance Writers of America and is a contributing blogger to The Writer’s Voice. When she isn’t planning weddings, writing or glued to social networking sites, she can usually be found on one of Florida’s beautiful beaches with her husband and daughter or crossing the border to visit with he...
March 31, 2013
CHAT WITH DOROTHY DREYER
Dorothy Dreyer has always believed in magic. She loves reading, writing, movies, take-out, chocolate, and spending time with her family and friends. Half-American and half-Filipino, Dorothy lives in Germany with her husband and two children. She also tends to sing, so keep her away from your karaoke bars.
Time to chat with Dorothy!
What is your latest book?
My Sister’s Reaper releases May 29th. It’s my debut novel and is in the genre young adult urban fantasy/paranormal.
Here’s the blurb:
Sixteen-...
March 24, 2013
CHAT WITH W. M. DRISCOLL
W.M. Driscoll is a poet and author. He can currently be found working on The Gods Trilogies.
Time to chat with Will!
What is your latest book?
The Living Gods. It’s a high fantasy turn with a lit bent. Hopefully more interesting than the description makes it sound.
Is your recent book part of a series?
It is. The series is called, The Gods Trilogies. It’s not really about gods; name’s more ironic than descriptive. It is about all sorts of fantastical events and people though. I saw it originally a...
March 17, 2013
MEET PETER CARROLL
Peter Carroll is a Scotsman with a penchant for black humour and gritty realism. He lives in Dunblane with his wife and daughter and as well as writing he plays bass guitar. Peter has three novels under his belt so far. His literary heroes include Stephen King, Irvine Welsh and Christopher Brookmyre.
Time to chat with Peter!
What is your latest book?
Stark Contrasts: It’s a crime thriller, set in London, featuring a rather unusual serial killer/vigilante – a sociopath who appears to have a socia...
