Interview: Achy Obejas Author of Days of Awe
Ballantine Books ballantinebooks.com Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. This interview was first aired in November 2001, in a somewhat different form, on the program “Conversations with Ilan Stavans,” on PBS-WGBH. ILAN STAVANS: Days of Awe, it strikes me, is about the tension between public and […]
Feature: Contemporary Cuban Fiction
Nowhere Man by Miguel Mejides “Miguel Mejides is a Cuban novelist and storyteller who has been recognized as a major voice in Cuban literature.” —Brown University Akashic Books There are people who need to go against the grain but I’m not going against anything. Perhaps everything stems from the great handicap which life has given […]
Excerpt: Jake & the Dragons of Asheville by Brian Kacica
About the Book: http://www.dragonsofasheville.com In a small, sleepy town in North Carolina, thirteen-year-old Jake Winston has discovered he carries a unique genetic trait; one that a covert government agency will stop at nothing to obtain. After the tragic death of his father, a local firefighting hero, Jake’s absent grandfather returns and sends him on a […]
Excerpt: Blind Spot by Laura Ellen
About the Book: http://www.lauraellenbooks.com There’s none so blind as they that won’t see. Seventeen-year-old Tricia Farni’s body floated to the surface of Alaska’s Birch River six months after the night she disappeared. The night Roz Hart had a fight with her. The night Roz can’t remember. Roz, who struggles with macular degeneration, is used to […]
Interview: Lindsey Drager Author of The Lost Daughter Collective
Dzanc Books FIRST SEVEN LINES: “Come nights, the girl crawls into bed to wait for her father to tell her a tale before sleep. He is down the hall working and she can just make out the sound of rapid typing from beyond his open office door. Because her room is one of the Institute’s […]
Interview: David Leo Rice Author of A Room in Dodge City
Alternating Current FIRST SEVEN LINES: “It’s 6 a.m. I’m lying on a bench in a Bus Station, the only traveler to have gotten off here, staring across the concourse at the shuttered café, imagining it open, myself outfitted with a coffee and two rubbery muffins alone at one of its tables, waiting for the bus […]
Interview: Victoria Capper Author of The Governess by
http://victoriacapper.com FIRST SEVEN LINES: “What was that man doing? Thea instinctively drew back in her seat. Drew back, away from the man coming towards their stationary coach, on a motorbike with a gun over his shoulder. They were pulled up at one of the many road work traffic stops, and he was coming straight towards […]
Interview: Herta Feely Author of Saving Phoebe Murrow
Upper Hand Press FIRST SEVEN LINES: “At the end of the day, as Isabel stepped through the large glass doors of her law office, a strange thing happened. Outside in the cold, she suddenly felt trapped in a bright cone of light. As if some alien spaceship were training its eye on her. Uneasily, she […]
Interview: Michael Merschel Author of Revenge of the Star Survivors
Holiday House FIRST SEVEN LINES: “My situation is desperate. I have crash-landed on an inhospitable world. Communication with my commanders has broken down. My shields have been compromised. I am critically short on vital supplies. I am isolated. Adrift.” Shelf Unbound: What interested you in writing a Middle Grade novel? Michael Merschel: To be honest, […]
Interview: Natriece L. Spicer Author of The Journey Through a Thousand Lies
FIRST SEVEN LINES: “A little bit of game and a whole lot of truth. Life is just like that. For whatever it’s worth to the buyer so much game is sold worldwide people forget the truth is free upfront; it only costs on the back end of damage when ignored initially. Games are created, curated […]