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February 28, 2012
Interview with Selwyn Mills, author of 'Confessions of a Color-Blind House Painter
Selwyn Mills served an apprenticeship in decorative painting before starting his own business in 1956, which lasted until his retirement in 1992. He worked as a craftsman painter, wrote for the National Paint Journal, served as President of the National Painting Contractor Association in Nassau County, New York, and taught faux painting. While painting professionally, Mills earned his doctorate in psychology and operated a successful private psychotherapy practice.
Dr...
February 27, 2012
Interview with Richard Tillotson, author of ACTS OF GOD WHILE ON VACATION
Richard Tillotson has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Borneo, a playwright in New York, a copywriter in Hawaii, and is a relative of an English Lord, all of which helped him write Acts of God While on Vacation, a National Semi-Finalist for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and named "Hawaii's best fiction book of 2011" by The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He works in Honolulu and vacations in Washington DC.
February 23, 2012
Interview with 'Tumbleweed Heights' Joan Bird + Giveaway
We welcome today Joan Bird, author of the contemporary romance novel, Tumbleweed Heights (Boroughs Publishing Group).
Joan Bird has been telling stories for years. In her first incarnation she was a singer/song writer with a rock band (yes, her Fender guitars are awesome), then she started writing books, mostly for herself.
Joan's storytelling is legendary amongst her family and friends. For years she's been including short stories with her holiday greetings each...
February 22, 2012
Literarily Speaking Presents: Gordon Gumpertz, This is Your Life!
Literarily Speaking is honored to have Gordon Gumpertz, author of the action/adventure novel, Red Hot Sky, here today in our featured series, This Is Your Life!
Gordon Gumpertz brings fiction readers another exciting action/adventure experience in his new novel RED HOT SKY. This is the author's second book, following his highly acclaimed novel TSUNAMI.
In addition to writing novels, Gordon has won gold and silver awards in national and regional short story competitions. He i...
New Sci-Fi Paranormal Book for Review: The Green Memory of Fear by B.A. Chepaitis
B.A. Chepaitis will be touring in March and April with her sci-fi paranormal novel The Green Memory of Fear.
On Prison Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams uses her empathic gifts to make criminals face the fears that drive their heinous acts. Very few escape the telepathic web she weaves around them. . . . until now.
When Jaguar takes on an assignment investigating a psychiatrist on trial for abuse of a little boy, she finds a killer unlike any she's faced before. Dr...
February 17, 2012
The Self-Publishing Report: Interview with Political Author Michael Charney
Today is our second edition of The Self-Publishing Report where we talk to authors who have gone the self-publishing route and want to talk about it. Today's guest is political author Michael Charney. He talks about his latest book, Chasing Glenn Beck, and why he decided to self-publish it.
Thank you for this interview, Michael. You self-published your latest book, Chasing Glenn Beck: A Personal Experiment in Reclaiming Our Hijacked Political Conversation. Would you please...
February 14, 2012
AuthorVid: Suspense Author Alicia Singleton Talks to Literarily Speaking
We have a treat for you today. Today is our sixth edition of AuthorVids! So what is an Author Vid? An AuthorVid is where we send questions to an author and they answer them in a video they have prepared themselves. Today's guest author is Alicia Singleton, author of the wonderful suspense novel, Dark Side of Valor. Please check out her website and book information following the video. And don't forget to follow Alicia on her virtual book tour January 3 – 27. You can visit her ...
February 12, 2012
5 Things You Should Know About The Canker Death by James R. Bottino
1. The Canker Death is not easy to classify. I realize that many authors say this of their novels. I only started saying so after my literary agent, editor, and, later, my readers all told me so. Oddly enough, I wrote the book with both the literary and the sci-fi, fantasy audiences in mind, which is a bit of a strange mix. I've been happily surprised to find that people with many different reading preferences have enjoyed the book. If I were to really narrow it down...
Interview with 'Nobody's Angel' K.T. Wells + Book Giveaway!
We welcome today K.T. Wells, author of the contemporary romance novel, Nobody's Angel (Boroughs Publishing Group).
K. T. has been telling stories since before she could read. She used to narrate books for her baby brother, concocting a plotline from the pictures. Not much has changed. One of her husband's favorite pastimes is to listen to her tales after asking her to tell the story of people they observe in restaurants, airports or the subway.
Fascinated by the human...
February 11, 2012
The Self-Publishing Report: Interview with Marie-Thérèse Browne (Marie Campbell)
Today begins a new series at Literarily Speaking called The Self-Publishing Report. I wanted to build another blog to talk about the self-publishing experience, interview self-publishing authors, so forth, when I nixed the idea being as Literarily Speaking is already established and growing well and could surely use all the wonderful information we could gather from those authors who have decided to take the self-publishing route. Today's guest is Marie-Therese Brown, aka...
