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Shells Chats with author Jeremy Shipp

At what precise moment did you say to yourself, 'I'm an author and I'm going to write stories and that's all there is to it'? I wrote my first novel when I was 13, but I don't think I truly thought of myself as an author until I was 18. That's when I started sending out my work to publishers. That's also when I started wearing a spork necklace, which had nothing to do with my writing career, so

Shells Chats with author Tammy Branom

What made you want to become an author? I think I was born to be a writer. I've always wanted to write. I was always making up stories to tell people (not lies to tell, but actual tales) since I can remember. The first story I "wrote" was in 2nd grade about a family of rabbits having dinner. Very Peter Cottontail. I made it into a little book of green construction paper, complete with my

The Result of $100 in Advertising on Facebook

Ok, so I decided to experiment with a Facebook ad the other day.  I wanted to see what kind of result I could get from a $100 budget.
The first thing that I discovered was that Facebook actually has a pretty nice interface through which you can design your ad (you can get to their ad interface by clicking on the "Advertising" link which appears at the bottom of your wall posts...you have to click

Video Interview With Douglas Brown

Here's a great interview with Rhemalda Publishing author Douglas Brown, check it out and his book, Legends Reborn (The light of Epertase, Book One).

Shells Chats with author Tommy B. Smith

What do you find most appealing about writing in the dark fiction genre? The intensity of what I'm capturing in time. In creating, that's really what we're doing, isn't it? We're capturing an emotion, an area of the imagination, or something we see inside or outside ourselves, and displaying it through our chosen form. Dark fiction is the form I gravitate toward. I doubt Chicken Soup for

Shells Chats with author Michael Tabman

Can you tell us a bit about Midnight Sin?Midnight Sin is an inside look at the dark and mysterious world behind the cop's badge. Rookie cop Gary Hollings quickly learns that wrestling street thugs and arresting drug dealers while trying to track down a serial rapist is nowhere near as tough as watching his back from his fellow cops. He must also fight his inner demons – ones that he never knew he

Shells Chats with author Jesse Petersen

When and how did you make the choice that writing was what you wanted to do full-time? I've actually always written full-time. I was lucky that my husband had a great job with a good salary and he wantedme to go ahead and make a go at this career. So I did in 1999. My first book was published in 2005 (under another name) and my first zombie book sold in 2009. People have different reasons for

Shells Chats with author David L. Craddock

When did you decide writing was something you wanted to do?I've enjoyed writing all my life. I was the guy in school who had to stifle shouts of excitement when the teacher opted to give essay exams instead of multiple choice or some other format. But I didn't seriously consider becoming a writer until college.Throughout high school and my first two years in college, I was a Computer Science (CS)

Shells Chats with author Craig Dilouie

What do you find more challenging, being a technical writer or writing fiction?Technical writing is the day job for me. One would assume that it's an entirely different animal than fiction writing, and they'd be right. With technical writing, you are simply trying to explain a subject accurately and make it as interesting as possible. But because the topic is fixed and what you are writing is

Words with Jonathan DeCoteau, author of "The Storm World Series"

Can you tell us a little bit about The Storm World Series?
The Storm World Series, comprised of Speaker of the Gods, The Wave Dancer, and Rise of the Stormbearer, is an apocalyptic coming-of-age epic about an ancient Christian order, The Resurrection Men, knights of the end times who've plotted for millennia to survive The Maelstrom, a supernatural storm two thousand years in the making that will