I grew up in Australia and while I loved the wide open spaces, sports and social side, as an only child I also spent a lot of time on my own. I was always very bookish and loved writing too whether it was for school essays which required research or English short stories. I originally trained as a hotel manager
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Editor: We’re delighted to welcome Roy back for his second Featured Friday interview. You can read his first interview from back in 2016 here. Roy Huff is a Hawaii-based best-selling author, peer-reviewed research scientist, and teacher. After overcoming significant childhood poverty in the US mainland, he moved to the islands and hasn’t looked back. Despite his challenges, which include a
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Scott Kimak is a history teacher and Kung Fu master. He came up with the story “I call him – HIM” when he was a teenager but failed miserably to put pen to paper. It took nearly forty years for him to make a second attempt. This time the words flowed unrestrained. Mr. Kimak lives in Harlingen Texas with the
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Jacquelyn Benson writes smart historical thrillers where strong women confront the stranger things that occupy the borders of our world. She once lived in a museum, wrote a master’s thesis on the cultural anthropology of paranormal investigation, and received a gold medal for being clever. She owes a great deal to her elementary school librarian for sagely choosing to acquire
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I don’t think I can introduce William any better, or more thoroughly, than he has already done so, straight over to the man himself: I have been invited, by Pete at Zealot Script, to participate, as an Author, in a Q&A session, and was happy to oblige the honour. However, prior to the Q&A proper, I thought it would help
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John Ulrich was born in Berkshire where he grew up for the first three years of his life before moving with his family to Uxbridge Middlesex. His first passion is music and though he spent many years of his life working and being inside recording studios, he knew that one day he would set out to become an author and
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Jonathan Fisher is a true survivor. He is the author of August Always, his memoir. The book has been cited by The Belfast Telegraph as “a triumph.” The book itself took the author 17 years to write, a testament to Jonathan’s endurance. In April 1992, age 22, he died—albeit briefly—from an undiagnosed Addisonian Crisis. Before then, Jonathan had a full
Read moreAnimator, fighter pilot, knight, Thundercat – Jessica has wanted to be many things since childhood, but none of them as avidly as being a writer, her dream since age seven. Except perhaps Thundercat – that never gets old. Brought up in Hampshire but living in Sussex, she’s a big fan of castles, cathedrals and circles of stone, of which Britain
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Born in the flat rural terrain of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, I occupied my mind with the escapism of fantasy novels to explore the worlds created by Robert Jordan, Brian Jacques, and Christopher Paolini. Eventually, the image of a sword with a hilt in the shape of a dragon’s mouth came to me and inspired me to write what
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Kathleen McClure, known as Kathy everywhere except on her book covers, is the Texas based author of The Fortune Chronicles, The Zodiac Files, and several other non-series books. She eschews the “traditional” indie author practices of engaging heavily on social media. You won’t find her retweeting her books on Twitter, or making heavily filtered photos of their covers to get
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