Category: Interviews

Meet the Author: Delin Colón

Author Delin Colón

Delin Colón is a writer and researcher with an undergraduate background in French and a post-graduate background in Clinical Psychology. She began writing poems and short stories at the age of eight. After working in psychiatric settings, owning a construction company, starting an agency pairing writers with clients, and working as a technical writer for Sociological Abstracts, she spent over a decade researching the claims of her great-great uncle (Rasputin’s secretary) that Rasputin advocated equal rights for oppressed Russian Jews. Her book, Rasputin and The Jews: A Reversal of History is the result of her research. While nearly every book on Rasputin mentions his advocacy for the Jews, whether with admiration or derision, hers is the first to specify and substantiate those claims as the reason he was demonized by the Russian aristocracy. Continue reading “Meet the Author: Delin Colón”

Meet the Author: Rachel Rossano

Author Rachel Rossano

Rachel Rossano is an an avid reader and lover of books, as well as an an author of clean romantic fiction.  She usually writes fantasy novels that masquerade as historical, but she recently expanded into the science fiction genre.

She says her greatest writing strength is in her ability to write palpably real characters and relationships. “People intrigue me. Their decisions, interactions, and stories fascinate me. Running errands, I listen to the people around me and glean character and story ideas for later.”

The area she finds most challenging is plotting character conflict.  “I tend to avoid conflict in my daily life. It takes work to force it into my plots, but without it, my books would be boring reads.” Continue reading “Meet the Author: Rachel Rossano”

Meet the Author: Barbara Morrison

Author Barb Morrison

Author Barbara Morrison feels that working in different genres helps her balance attention to language with a strong structure. “The condensation and attention to individual words and sounds from writing poetry informs my prose, while the narrative structure of prose influences my poetry. Most days I roll a single word around in the back of my mind, poking and prodding at it to see what sounds and associations emerge.”

She says she is working on understanding better what to reveal and what to hold back—how to pace the disclosures in a long narrative. “One approach I’ve been exploring is analyzing mysteries that I admire.” Continue reading “Meet the Author: Barbara Morrison”

Meet the Author: Melissa Pearl

Author Melissa Pearl

Melissa Pearl was born in Auckland, New Zealand, but has spent much of her life abroad, living in countries such as Jordan, Cyprus and Pakistan… not to mention a nine month road trip around North America with her husband. She is now back in NZ and lives with her husband and two sons, but is moving to China in August 2012.

“I think I am quite good at writing a page-turner. I like to keep my work pacey, with lots of great dialogue and intense action. I’m not a huge fan of too much description and therefore my stories tend to move along quite quickly. I think I’m pretty good at character development too and writing relationships that the audience really want to see work out,” she says. Continue reading “Meet the Author: Melissa Pearl”