Millicent Dillon is the world’s expert on Jane and Paul Bowles, one of America’s most extraordinary and puzzling literary couples—both cutting-edge literary geniuses, expatriates in Tangier before and after WWII, both gay and yet devoted to each other for 35 years, even throughout Jane’s terrible 16-year illness after her stroke… Read more“<i>The Forces Within:</i><br>the Millicent Dillon interview on Jane & Paul Bowles”
Category: Interviews
Interviews with professionals, experts, and role models in the world of fiction.
The Forces Within:
Interviewing the Bloggess
I think people laugh because it’s bizarre and they feel better about themselves in comparison, but a small part of them is nodding in recognition because they too once wondered why Jesus wasn’t considered a zombie.—the Bloggess You’ve been hearing it from me for months now: the Bloggess found this… Read more“Interviewing the Bloggess”
Tension on Every Page:
the Donald Maass & Lisa Rector interview
Donald Maass is the head of Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, selling more than 150 novels every year to major publishers in the U.S. and overseas. He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004) and The… Read more“<em>Tension on Every Page:</em><br>the Donald Maass & Lisa Rector interview”
Bob Spear: the third self-publishing interview
Bob Spear is a long-time bokstore owner, book reviewer & packager, and self-published author. Bob has published 11 books of nonfiction and is working on five mysteries to be self-published soon. He currently blogs about his venture back into the world of self-publishing with his latest mystery, Quad Delta. First—why… Read more“Bob Spear: the third self-publishing interview”
Silent Sorority: the second self-publishing interview
Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos independently published her book, Silent Sorority, on April 18, 2009, after eighteen months of approaching traditional publishers from her background as a professional marketer. She did her due diligence, spent five years writing her book, hired an editor and designer, identified her unique, focused market, and blogged… Read more“<em>Silent Sorority:</em> the second self-publishing interview”
Genre Wars: the first self-publishing interview
Michelle Davidson Argyle and Davin Malasarn, along with Scott G. F. Bailey, run the Literary Lab, a vibrant online community dedicated to the literary craft of fiction. In the past several months, they’ve run a contest for short stories in a variety of genres, with the results published as the… Read more“<em>Genre Wars</em>: the first self-publishing interview”
Gobsmacked! Carolyn Cassady interview, Part 1
Dean merely looked at Camille, pointed at his wrist, made the sign “four”. . .and went out. At three the door was locked to Roy Johnston. At four it was opened to Dean.—Jack Kerouac, On the Road Neal turned back abruptly and, taking a step or two toward me, raised… Read more“Gobsmacked! Carolyn Cassady interview, Part 1”
Gobsmacked! the Carolyn Cassady interview, Part 2
In July of 2009, I posted Part 1 of my interview with writer and literary figure, Carolyn Cassady. I’m very pleased now to be posting Gobsmacked! Part 2. Carolyn, according to popular legend Jack Kerouac taped a bunch of sheets of paper together (in some versions it’s a roll of… Read more“Gobsmacked! the Carolyn Cassady interview, Part 2”
Hey, Craig!
the Craig Bartlett interview
I met Craig Bartlett in 1980 on the The Evergreen State College Cooper Point Journal, where he was staff cartoonist and photographer and I was production manager. We were young, barely 20, and following in the footsteps of Lynda Barry and Matt Groening, who’d been running the Cooper Point Journal… Read more“<em>Hey, Craig!</em><br> the Craig Bartlett interview”
Query Queen! the Wendy Burt-Thomas interview
This week, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Wendy Burt-Thomas, author of the Writer’s Digest Guide to Query Letters, which just hit stores in January, 2009. Wendy, thank you so much for joining us! Query letters are always a serious concern for both aspiring and publishing writers. I know… Read more“Query Queen! the Wendy Burt-Thomas interview”