Blogcritics Category: Books: Interview

Interview with Romantic Thriller Author Dave Donelson

Dorothy Thompson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:02:40 EST

"I poured through everything about the Congo I could find ... then I traveled to Central Africa to see what it was really like."
Dave Donelson is represented by the interviewer's Pump Up Your Book Promotion, a public relations agency specializing in online book promotion. Dave Donelson’s career as a broadcaster, entrepreneur, and writer has taken him from the jungles of Australia’s Cape York Peninsula to the minarets of Riyadh. He’s climbed the spire...

Book Review: Outliers - The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Justin McHenry — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:59:17 EST

The frizzy-haired cult hero does it again, this time taking on the subject of extreme success.
Malcolm Gladwell is back, much to the delight of the legions of fans he won with The Tipping Point and Blink (not to mention a trove of articles for The New Yorker). In his new book, Outliers: The Story of Success, the frizzy-haired cult hero shines his always-questioning light on extremely successful people and asks what makes them so. (An outlier...

Interview with Horror Writer Joel M. Andre

Dorothy Thompson — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:29:28 EST

"I watch the night sky and get inspiration from it. Your mind drifts off among the stars, and you end up with some great ideas."
Joel M. Andre is represented by the interviewer's Pump Up Your Book Promotion, a public relations agency specializing in online book promotion.Kill 4 Me, a technological thriller set in rural America, follows Casey Dwyer, a small town girl who becomes caught in a spirit’s unrelenting quest for vengeance after she receives a cryptic and...

Interview with Paranormal Historical Romance Author Lisa Hendrix

Dorothy Thompson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:12:45 EST

"I wanted to write books when I was 8...I saw it as an easy way to make a living. Boy was I wrong."
Lisa Hendrix is represented by the interviewer's Pump Up Your Book Promotion, a public relations agency specializing in online book promotion.After years of daydreaming complex stories for familiar characters from film, TV, and books — nearly always involving a romance that hadn’t been included by the original writer — Lisa...

Interview with Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, Author of The Truth: I'm a Girl, I'm Smart and I Know Everything

Dorothy Thompson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:52:19 EST

This is a fictional diary written by a ten-year-old girl. She speaks the truth clearly and has an innate wisdom that we all had as children.
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein is represented by the interviewer's Pump Up Your Book Promotion, a public relations agency specializing in online book promotion. Written by a ten-year-old girl as a diary, Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein’s latest book, The Truth (I’m a Girl, I’m Smart and I know Everything), embeds lots of positive...

Interview with Mary Cunningham, co-author of WOOF: Women Only Over 50

Mayra Calvani — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:40:51 EST

"Letting women know they�re not alone is our prime objective," says Cunningham.
Mary Cunningham is the author of the popular 'Cynthia's Attic' tween fantasy/time-travel series. She's also the co-author of the soon-to-be-released book, WOOF: Women Only Over 50, an uplifting collection of personal anecdotes and poems about how it feels and what it means to be a woman in her fifties. Mary lives in the beautiful...

Interview with Sci-Fi Thriller Author Dan Ronco

Megalith — Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:27:45 EST

Dan Ronco's fast-paced, edgy thrillers give the reader a glimpse into a deadly near-future.
Dan Ronco is the author of the sci-fi thrillers PeaceMaker and Unholy Domain. After a career in the I.T. field, he chose to apply his knowledge to the speculative fiction genre. His fast-paced, edgy thrillers give the reader a glimpse into a near future where artificial intelligence has wrought drastic changes in the world, but some ancient...

Interview with the Authors of new Anthology for Writers, Grit for the Oyster: 250 Pearls of Wisdom for Aspiring Writers

Dorothy Thompson — Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:13:34 EST

Exclusive interview with the authors of the new anthology, Grit for the Oyster: 250 Pearls of Wisdom for Aspiring Writers.
The authors of Grit for the Oyster are represented by the interviewer's Pump Up Your Book Promotion, a public relations agency specializing in online book promotion. More than a how-to, Grit for the Oyster: 250 Pearls of Wisdom for Aspiring Authors is a confidence-building book is designed to draw readers to a closer relationship with God, to...

Interview: John Trudell, Poet and Songwriter - An Un-Mined Mind!

Richard Marcus — Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:34:49 EST

Thought is energy, and when you take energy away from humans we're flat - we're mined out.
Industrial tech no logic civilization is the mining processThe intelligence of each arriving human generationIs programmed to perceive the reality that meets the needsOf the industrial society each human generation arrive inThe human beings are individually and collectively mined... John Trudell; "Somewhere Inside My Head"; Lines From A...

An Interview with John McWhorter, Best-Selling Author, Linguist, and Cultural Critic

Heloise — Tue, 4 Nov 2008 19:58:50 EST

"In terms of prosaic vs. prophetic, I must admit that much of the time the word I would choose [for blogging] is pathetic."
John McWhorter’s profession may not put him on the fastest name-recognition track, but his pluck in taking on hip-hop made him an iconic target this summer among his peers and would-be (or wannabe) hip-hop politicos when he challenged this musical sacred cow. The publication of All About The Beat found some "haters" and yielded him...