GUEST POST WITH AUTHOR OF "ASHES AND WINE" TARYN ELLIOTT



 



Hello! My name is Taryn Elliott and I’m the brainchild behind ASHES AND WINE. And I say brainchild, because my characters tend to take over no matter how thoroughly I try to plot and plan. I wouldn’t call it a muse. No, my writing can’t be boiled down to that. I work my butt off even when I’m not in the mood to deal with…

Bolts of Inspiration







I’m sure you’ve all read those blog posts where authors giggle say giggle that they just don’t know what inspired them! Rainbows! Moonbeams! Whiskers on kittens!



This isn’t going to be one of those posts. First off, I don’t giggle. Second, my cat’s the jealous type. If he caught me even looking at kittens he’d turn my arm into chop…

5 Words to Describe Marco Vieri (and the excerpts to prove it!)



   



I’m very excited to be at Great Minds Think Aloud to celebrate the release of my newest contemporary romance, Her Forbidden Hero. This book features a friends-to-lovers story involving a wounded Special Forces veteran and his best friend’s little sister—two story lines I personally love and…

GUEST POST WITH AUTHOR OF, "WORTH THE RISK" ROBIN BIELMAN







Hi Kitty! Thanks so much for having me on Great Minds Think Aloud. I’m delighted to be here!



I have a confession to make. I wasn’t always the voracious reader I am now. Growing up, I enjoyed reading Nancy Drew mysteries and stories by Ray Bradbury and Stephen King. But I didn’t finish one book and immediately pick up…

INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR OF, "EMERALD CITY DREAMER," LUNA LINDSEY







Hello Luna, thank you so much for agreeing to do this interview. It is a pleasure to have the chance to get to know more about you and your writing. First tell us about your newest novel and why you decided to write it. 



My novel is called Emerald City Dreamer, and it's about faeries and faerie hunters in Seattle. The main…

GUEST POST WITH FAYE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF "BLOODLUST"







INTERVIEW WITH JASPER HOWARD



I was lucky enough to meet up with the infamous Jasper Howard, CEO of Howard Enterprises, also knows as the Vampire Vigilante, in Italy the other evening. So I cornered him and forced him to answer some questions for me :-)



Me: Jasper! How lovely to see you…

When Life Takes You by Surprise







When writing Divinely Ruined, I was determined to write characters that were realistic, loving, and that you could relate to easily—despite the paranormal storyline. 



When I think of Tony, I think of a struggling parent trying his best to make his little girls life richer than it is. A parent struggling to do the best by his child, despite his own…

INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR OF "ALISON WONDERLAND," HELEN SMITH



 



Hello Helen, thank you so much for agreeing to do this interview. It is a pleasure to have the chance to get to know more about you and your writing. First tell us about Alison Wonderland and why you decided to write the book.



Alison Wonderland is a quirky comedy about a woman who joins an all-female…

INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR OF, "LIZARD WORLD" TERRY RICHARD BAZES



 



Hello Terry, thank you so much for agreeing to do this interview. It is a pleasure to have the chance to get to know more about you and your writing. First tell us about your newest novel and why you decided to write it. 



Lizard World is – in a nutshell -- the black comic history of a…

INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR, KERGAN EDWARDS-STOUT



 



Award-winning director and Huffington Post contributor, Kergan Edwards-Stout, who was honored by the Human Rights Campaign as a “2011 Father of the Year”, recently published his debut novel, Songs for the New Depression. The novel has received much critical acclaim and was short-listed for the Independent Literary…

GUEST POST WITH AUTHOR OF "THE FALLEN QUEEN" & "MIDNIGHT COURT," JANE KINDRED



 



How an Atheist Fell in Love with the Russian Orthodoxy



I grew up among True Believers—not in Russian Orthodoxy, but in Pentacostal/Evangelical Protestantism. I went to church two to three times a week, went to weekly Bible studies, attended every summer camp and weekend…

INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR OF, "THREE AND A HALF VIRGINS" JOHN BLUMENTHAL







Hello John, thank you so much for agreeing to do this interview. It is a pleasure to have the chance to get to know more about you and your writing. First tell us about your newest novel and why you decided to write it. 



I have no clue what this book is about, but if you insist, here’s the…

INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR OF "FLAMES OF REDEMPTION," MICHELLE THOMPSON







Hello Michelle, thank you so much for agreeing to do this interview. It is a pleasure to have the chance to get to know more about you and your writing. First tell us about your newest novel and why you decided to write it. 



Hi Kitty. I’m thrilled to be able to contribute to Great Minds Think Aloud as an author. My…

INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR OF "SINS OF THE SON," LINDA POITEVIN



 



Hello Linda, thank you so much for agreeing to do this interview. It is a pleasure to have the chance to get to know more about you and your writing. First tell us about your newest novel and why you decided to write it. 



Thank you so much for having me on the GMTA blog today, Kitty! It's a…

THIS SHORT NOVELLA WAS WRITTEN IN HONOR OF THE AUTHORS THREE DAUGHTERS AND IS A REAL HEART TUGGER. PICK UP YOUR COPY BY CLICKING ON THE BADGE OR LINK BELOW.







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GUEST POST WITH AUTHOR OF, "KINGDOM" ANDERSON O'DONNELL







From the private notebook of Anderson O’Donnell. Originally scheduled to run in The Republic, Tiber City’s largest newspaper, this article was never submitted for publication. 



Earlier this year, I had an opportunity to interview the leader of the Zero Movement and one of the world’s most controversial artists, Tiber City’s…

INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR OF, "THE BOOTS MY MOTHER GAVE ME," BROOKLYN JAMES



 



Here is the Amazon link for The Boots My Mother Gave Me: http://www.amazon.com/The-Boots-Mot...k/dp/B00457XGNM (THIS BOOK IS FREE TODAY ON AMAZON!)





Hello…

GUEST POST WITH AUTHOR OF "HOLIDAY AFFAIR," ANNIE SEATON!



 



Thank you for having me as a guest on your blog...it is a pleasure to talk to your readers. 



I have read a lot of romance over the past few years and it has been interesting to see the rise and fall and recent resurgence of the alpha male...



Do we need the alpha…

Interview with George Stratford

Author of Buried Pasts



 



I had the very great privilege of interviewing George Stratford, author of Buried Pasts. I was interested in George’s book for personal reasons: my father spent some time in England preparing for the D-Day invasion, and he always spoke with such fondness of the friendly people who took on thousands of rowdy American…

GUEST POST WITH AUTHOR OF "CARNIVAL GIRL," SONJA HERBERT



 



During the few times we carnival children attended school, I once received an A for a story about a Greek myth I had written, and on that day I decided to write about my mother’s life when I grew up. 



All through the time I raised my six children here in the U.S.A., this thought was with me, and when…