Category: Interviews

Promoting? Horror? Writing? Ask Alex Laybourne!

What is Horror? Let’s forget about the dictionary definition here. I will ask you again. What is Horror? What makes us scared? What scares you the most? What is your personal horror? Let me ask you this– what would you be most terrified of? It’s a dark nightand you are walking home from work. The …

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Pure Magic! Nick Wale Interviews Author Cheryl Pillsbury

Cheryl Pillsbury is an enterprising contemporary writer. She runs a publishing company, promotes her books, others’ books and manages to find time to interview with guys like myself. I wonder how she manages it all?  Before the interview, she nervously asked me how we would handle things. I told her to just stay calm, answer …

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The Main Event: Ufert Meets Roberts

  Cliff Roberts is a man accustomed to the public eye. He was a politician, a CEO, a businessman and a police commissioner. Now, retired, disabled and contented, he writes. He is a novelist.  Tom Ufert, politician, world traveler, charity fundraiser and writer has met his own struggles with addiction, sexuality, illness and has turned …

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“Come Fly With Me!” Mike Trahan Teases

Check out Mike Trahan’s flying log! The flying ace has been around. You’ve read “The Gift”, “The Gift: Part 2:The Air Force Years” and now come fly with Mike as he takes us on a whirlwind live interview… Takeoff from Orange, Texas: Never found the flying better, Texas under the winds, with a soft, breezy …

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McLemore Steps Out: Nick Wale interviews J.R.

  J.R. McLemore is a writer who really has to be interviewed a few times to get the full breadth of his knowledge down in print. In this interview, I wanted to start with a question about the work he is doing currently, then I wanted to take you all on a rip-roaring journey through …

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Michael Haden: On Tour!

Michael Haden kicked off his brand new blog tour with ONE interview. The interview was, luckily for Novel Ideas, with Nick Wale. What will Michael have to say about his phenomenal success? The businessman from Tampa, Florida who wrote a bestselling book tells all… Q) Michael, let me ask you to begin with, why did …

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A Live Interview With J.W. Northrup!

Exciting news, Folks! A new interview with J.W. Northrup hit Youtube yesterday, and it really is a stormer. J.W. and I discuss a list of questions as long as the arm of a giant. You really need to click the play button and watch this one. J.W. talks about the writing process, the all-important business …

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When Two Worlds Collide: Tommy Clark and Ellen Mae Franklin Interviewed!

  Tommy Clark and Ellen Mae Franklin are both highly regarded fantasy writers. It has been said that the fantasy genre is overcrowded with newbie writers who want their wild imaginations to become the next bestseller. I think it would be fair to say that Tommy and Ellen have both managed to create wonderful books. …

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Brainwashing? J.W. Northrup And Terry Irving Showdown

  J.W. Northrup and Terry Irving are writers. They feed on the food of writers. The words they can create, compound and put together take them to new places. I wanted to interview these two writers about J.W’s bestselling book “The Gold Slaves”. The Gold Slaves are enslaved humans who have been trapped underground with …

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Bestselling Author Jack Singer Won’t Be Returning to South Africa

For a writer who built his literary career on the history of South Africa, it is something he is rarely asked about. I was talking to Jack socially one night, I wanted to ask him about his life growing up in one of the most volatile countries in the world. I asked him point blank: …

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