Joe M. McDermott is the author of seven novels and two short story collections. His latest novel, Fortress at the End of Time, comes out on January 17, 2017, from Tor.com. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an MFA in Popular Fiction from the Stonecoast Program of the University of Southern Maine What made … Read more
Scott Hawkins is forty-five and works as a computer programmer. He’s been a member of AbsoluteWrite since 2006. He lives in the Atlanta suburbs with his wife and seven dogs. The Library at Mount Char is his first novel. Scott has also been instrumental in keeping Absolute Write’s server running for close to ten years … Read more
Accomplished writer and editor P.N. “Pat” Elrod is the author of 24 commercially-published novels, more than 20 short stories, and the editor and co-editor of several collections. In her copious spare time, she freelance edits and critiques. What is that editors do and don’t do? That depends on the editor and the kind of editing … Read more
Follow Your Dream: An Interview with Madeline DiMaggio By Christina Hamlett (Excerpted from “ScreenTEENwriters”) Former actress and published author Ms. Madeline DiMaggio is a successful author and television screenwriter whose trademark wit and imagination have been stamped on such shows as Bob Newhart, Kojak, Three’s Company, as well as documentaries, soaps, animation and movies of … Read more
By Alex Shapiro Aaron Krach is a writer and artist presently living on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a B.A. in Visual Arts and continued his studies at the University of Copenhagen. A former editor at Empire magazine and Gay City News, he is currently a … Read more
Interview by Amy Brozio-Andrews Amy Gahran is a self-proclaimed blogging info-provacateur. She’s a writer, editor, trainer, content strategist, and consultant who’s been freelancing since the late 1990s. The author of Contentious, a weblog aimed at “how we communicate in the online age,” she’s just returned from the BlogHer blogging conference this past weekend in Santa … Read more
Wordmountain’s Lisa Abbate brings us a terrific interview with book-marketing guru, publicist Penny Sansevieri. You can listen to the interview: If you’d rather read the transcript, you can find that here.
Spotlight on Deidre Knight Interview by Christina Hamlett Name: Deidre Knight Title: Agent Agency: The Knight Agency Address: P.O. Box 550648, Atlanta, GA 30355 How long have you been an agent? I began agenting nearly seven years ago, in the spring of 1996. My husband, Judson Knight, has been a silent partner since that time, and in 2003 will join … Read more
Interview by Christopher Seufert Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944, an illegitimate “war baby” whose father was a Canadian airman and whose mother was in Britain’s Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted as an infant and raised in Essex by a family belonging to a religious sect (now extinct) called the Peculiar … Read more
Interview by Alyice Edrich When did you begin your writing career and what inspires you to write? Writing runs in my family. My mother writes college textbooks and I began working for her when I was in high school. I also was the editor of my high school paper and co-editor of the school literary … Read more
