If you’ve ever thought about writing novels, you might want to think about envying YA novelist Sara Zarr’s career. Her first, best-selling, young adult title, Story of a Girl, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Awards. Book two, just released this month, is Sweethearts. It has earned glowing reviews and -- even... Continue Reading →
Her Story of a Girl got YA writer Sara Zarr noticed! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Writer Sara Zarr had an experience last night that any author would kill for – sitting in the audience at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in Manhattan, her first novel, Story of a Girl, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award for young people’s literature. For a first-time fiction author, such a nomination... Continue Reading →
Miami lawyer James Grippando on his debut novel, The Pardon! INTERVIEW
Originally published in Pinellas County Review, January 1995 Lawyers. Write one story for the college law review and for the rest of their careers they plan to write the Great American Novel. And for every one who finally gives up that dream, along comes a Scott Turow or John Grisham to inspire another generation of... Continue Reading →
74 Sex, magic, wizardry… novelist Jim Melvin’s Death Wizard Chronicles! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Jim Melvin has been a friend of mine for more than twenty years and, for as long as I’ve known him, his driving interest has been writing an epic fantasy series, something that might find shelf space alongside J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. But life kept getting in the way. He was... Continue Reading →
12 Florida writer Tim Dorsey packs a Hurricane Punch of parody! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Novelist Tim Dorsey, author of Hurricane Punch. The first time I tried my hand at fiction in high school, it was a way of dealing with people and issues that I couldn’t handle in real life. My friends thought it was hysterical and that I was a little twisted. In college, I... Continue Reading →