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Happy NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY 2021!

  Happy NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY 2021! Happy Book Lovers Day! Although for some of us, that's every day. Whether you can curl up with a good book all day, can listen to a good book on your morning and evening commutes, plan to enjoy a good bedtime book with your kiddos, or plan to come home to a good book after a long day — celebrate National Book Lovers Day! 📚 I just found out it is National Book Lovers Day. How exciting  I love books. I love opening a book and smelling the pages and feeling the pages in my hand. Reading is a great way  To get lost from the real world for a while. Why would you read something you don’t love? Life is too short to read books you hate. When I walk into my public library the first place I got to is the books To find my next Adventure to go on And I always look forward to going home putting on my comfortable pajamas and start reading on my bed at my library I can check out 21 book that is a lot of reading but that is fine with me. Another Go...

Interviewing Author James Musgrave

Tell me about yourself?   I’m a retired college educator who began my Portia of the Pacific series while caring for my wife, Ellen, who was dying from Lewy Body Dementia. She was always a prolific reader, and she loved historical mysteries, so I began my series to entertain and read to her. Even when she couldn’t process the content any longer, she still smiled and nodded at me as I read to her, which gave me more inspiration to continue. 2.What are your favorite books to read?   I go back and forth in time. Hermann Hesse, Margaret Atwood, Rachel Kushner (her book  The Mars Room  is awesome), and Denis Johnson. Of course, I’m constantly reading other historical mystery authors, mainly to keep up with what they’re doing.   3. When did you decide you were going to write a book?   When I was teaching, and I was approached to write a non-fiction book on how to write for the “new” digital marketplace in the 1990s. Harcourt-Brace published it,  The Digital S...

Interviewing Author Kayla Klassen

Tell me about yourself? Well, let’s see… I am a wife and mother to two children who are 12 & 15. I have one dog and one cat (my furbabies!). I love reading, writing, drinking coffee, nature, animals, and music.  2. What are your favorite books to read? Actually, I really like to read health-related books, spiritual books, and I will reread select books that I love over and over again. They are feel-good books to me! I also read verses from the Bible every day. 3. When did you decide you were going to write a book? I have always wanted to write a children’s book. Though at the beginning of 2021, my New Year’s Resolution was to publish a children’s book – so here I am, as of July 31 st of this year, I self-published my children’s book titled “Nature Ninjas”! 4. How did you come up with the name of your book? As I wrote the story, of Riley and Milo searching for animal friends in the forest, the title “Nature Ninjas” popped into my head because I wrote about different creatures i...

Interviewing Author B.J. Seow

  1. Tell me about yourself? A. Hi! I’m B.J. Seow. I’m a Malaysian and have been living in Austria for the past 11 years. Back in Malaysia, I managed a company in the paper industry till 2010. I live with my husband and two children, who are my biggest inspiration. And if I’m not writing, you can find me playing the piano, being around with my girls, or when the weather is beautiful, please don’t laugh at this one… pulling weeds. Somehow it’s therapeutic.  2.What are your favorite books to read? A. I’m into autobiographies, memoirs, romance, and crime fiction. Though I do delve into some fantasy. My favorite authors are Patricia Cornwell, E.L. James, and Nora Roberts.  3. When did you decide you were going to write a book? A. It was during the pandemic. We travel to Malaysia every year with the kids. The primary reason is to visit their grandparents and families, but it’s also vital that my kids understand and observe different cultures, traditions, trying out new cuisine...

Interviewing Author M. ANN MACHEN PRITCHARD

1. Tell me about yourself?  My name is M. Ann Pritchard aka M. Ann Machen Pritchard. I grew up in East Tennessee in the town of Elizabethton. I am proud to be from a talented family of 16 children. Family means a lot to me, especially, researching family history.  I not only write books, I also write songs.  One of my songs, entitled 'Drugs and Alcohol' is in several online music stores around the world. I am an Award-Winning Author, Illustrator, Songwriter (BMI), and Actress. I am proud to be a winner of One of the 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading. I have done Acting for most of my life since high school days in the theater on Stage but when I moved to Minneapolis, MN I have done Acting in films and was able to accomplish my life dream of being a Published Author. I love writing books to help encourage children to learn how to read, get a good education, learn positive communication skills, and to help bring families closer together. I also have a small business, M...

Interviewing Author Sheyanne Warren

  Sheyanne Warren 1. My name is Sheyanne Warren. I am a middle school special education teacher (socials studies & science) by day and author by night. I have a master's degree in forensic psychology. I am a self-proclaimed bibliophile and enjoy family game nights and movie nights.  2. My favorite genre is thriller/suspense and crime fiction. Most times those two genres go hand in hand. My favorite author of all time is Cynthia Eden however, my favorite author right now is Blake Pierce.  3. My first novel was published in 2018 and I decided that year that I was going to publish it. It was time for state testing and proctors and testing administrators are not allowed any electronics or anything. So I got out a notebook and began writing. Now, I am five books in.  4. First I came up with the name. I knew that I wanted the main character to be of Hispanic descent and I researched a name that I liked and decided that her name was going to be the title of the series. ...

Interviewing Author Tony Squire

  1. Tell me about your self?  I am 58 years old.  I live in Kilcoy which is a small country town in Queensland, Australia, with my wife Sheila.  We work in and run our own gardening business, which in the climate here is wonderful. 2.What are your favorite books to read?  I enjoy military history, mainly non fiction books but I have delved in to some semi fiction/non fiction novels.  My favourite author is Bernard Cornwell and I love his books about Sharpe, Uhtred and the Starbuck Chronicles, where he creates a character and slots them in to real history.  At the moment I am reading a lot of books by Peter Fitzsimons who, again, writes about history. 3. When did you decide you were going to write a book?  I decided when I was about 12 years old but never got round to it until about 3 years ago. 4. How did you come up with the name of your book?  My character at the moment is Buckley, who is a Yowie.  A Yowie is Australia’s Bigfoot and i...