
Authors Interviews
When did you start writing?
I started writing fiction in 2005, when I got really upset by a film that glorified domestic violence. I wanted to write a novel upon which to base a sequel. It's still on my computer, and dozens of writing classes and workshops later, I know it's a mess. I find that real life, and my day job, informs my writing. I often have parallel fiction and non fiction projects going at the same time.
Carole Ann Moleti
When did you start writing?
I started writing songs when I was twelve, and that same year I wrote and published a sports newspaper. I wrote a play at 15 and film scripts in college, all the while continuing to write songs. Throughout my life I've written newspaper & magazine articles and columns, but it wasn't until I was 77 years old that my first novel was published.
Rick Bleiweiss
When did you start writing?
I started writing novels seriously only since I retired, some six years ago. But during my career, in selling IT services, I wrote proposal after proposal, and that feeling of handing out a well-written document provided a lot of satisfaction. So, I figure writing fiction gives me similar rewards.
RC Cameron
What was the feeling when you published your first book?
It was crazy to me, that someone liked my book enough to publish it. I liked my own stories, but I didn't have a lot of faith that other people would, and when you submit your book out into the world, you kind of automatically brace yourself for a "no." When I went through the final proofreading before we published, and saw the finished manuscript, I started crying.
J. Anne Campanile
When did you start writing?
I have been scribbling words since I picked up a crayon. I always thought of the 'what if' in my mind and enjoyed fashioning a scene from those thoughts. While others moaned about essays and term papers, I savored them. It was another chance to write. I enjoy writing.
Barbara Daniels Dena
When did you start writing?
When I was teaching writing to middle school students is when I really got into serious writing. I had penned a historical fiction before that, but it was in the studying of writing and preparing for my students and writing with them, I realized I was a writer!
Larada Horner-Miller
When did you start writing?
I think I always wrote what could be called stories. I remember writing in middle school and high school. I think I would classify them as scenes, now. What really started me was when I worked in a school system as a teacher of 4th and 5th grade students who were learning disabled...
Judy Kelly
When did you start writing?
I first began writing novels when I was in high school, many years ago. I have written many novels, most of them unpolished, but the ones I like the best are fully polished or getting there now. One is up for sale, fully edited, award winning and loved by all its readers.
M. A. Richter
What makes writing your passion?
I've been writing all my life. I was lucky enough to grow up surrounded by books, and my Mum taught me how to read before started school...
When did you start writing?
I've always written, but my first published book was in 2012.
When did you start writing?
I wrote short stories in grammar school.
When did you start writing?
I am a writer. I have always been a story-teller. It’s a family tradition. I remember my grandmother as the queen of pithy comments who served putdowns at her Sunday dinners, along with her pot roast...
When did you start writing?
I started writing ten years ago when I took creative writing classes.
When did you start writing?
I am not a child writing prodigy, I didn't start writing until I was well into my adult years. The bad news is that I don't have a long pedigree of academic degrees in writing. The good news is that when I started writing I had a whole lifetime as a voracious reader and a full bucket of life experience to draw from.
When did you start writing?
I have been writing since I was a child. I can remember writing poems when I was very young and that continued to adulthood. Composing poems in my mind while riding the subway in New York City was a habit I called - Poetry in Motion.
When did you start writing?
I started this book in 2010.
When did you start writing?
I started writing as a young child. I once told a friend that I was going to write novels and she responded by telling me that eight-year-olds cannot write novels. Well, she was right...but I did publish my first novel in my sixties!