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Post your Interviews here.

Either interviews you conducted, or interviews you gave.

You can either post the full review or a URL pointer to it on another site. Samples of both are stickied just below. But you don't need to follow those formats; any other you can think of is also welcome. EDIT: Even before I finished writing that, Sue posted up another format, a list of interviews on Cookie's Book Club to which she intends adding when she does a new interview.

Click on the folder title above, on the new page click on "new topic", and off you go.

I had an interview about 'Treespeaker' yesterday on Indie eBooks. This is the URL -
http://indieebooks.blogspot.com/2011/...

My friend Dawn Tevy interviews a lot of writters, editors, and publishers. Check out all of her shows at www.angelsandwarriors.com click on the link that says listen to angels and warriors blogtalkradio, and there is all kinds of saved episodes there that she has done :)

Check them out!

WOW (Women on Writing) interviewed me after I placed in a flash fiction contest. This is a terrific interview and I hope it gets more people interested in 1) my novel and 2) my new anthology of flash fiction.

http://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/...

Thanks for buying my book, Margie!

Andre, flash fiction = 1000 words or fewer.
hint fiction = 25 words or fewer
6-word memoir = as it says, 6 words

These forms require lots of editing and narrow scope.

Eileen wrote: "WOW (Women on Writing) interviewed me after I placed in a flash fiction contest. This is a terrific interview and I hope it gets more people interested in 1) my novel and 2) my new anthology of fla..."

It is a good interview. I have just received a copy of your book and hope to start it soon.

Forgive me for asking, but what is "flash fiction"?

Hey, Margie, you're having a good time discovering new books on Goodreads!

Andre Jute wrote: "Hey, Margie, you're having a good time discovering new books on Goodreads!"

I certainly am! I just downloaded Seb's and Will's books to the Kindle on my phone. Seb's book will be the first adult book that I have read in more than a year. I just wish I could read and write reviews more than I do.

Andrew,

Flash fiction is just ultra-short fiction. The amount varies, but many contests focus on stories under a few hundred words or even shorter.

I did a couple of simple interviews with a couple of my friends:

http://riftwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/...

http://riftwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/...

I have a goal to eventually do a lot of interviews, but my blog doesn't have much presence yet, really. I've only been doing it for about a month. :)

A blog or other netsite is a sort of sitting tautology. Nobody knows it is there because it isn't there regardless of how often you post to it, then you write just one more piece and everyone knows it is there because it is there for everyone, all of a sudden. Back in the early 90s, when the Net was young (we say it but it isn't true -- I used the military net, and then the ARPAnet twenty years before that), I put my syndicated classical music column on the net and for six months or so it built up slooowly to about 10-20k hits pa, which was already a strain on my ISP. Then, suddenly, it was a million hits, then 2.5m a year, and ISPs were firing me left and centre. Eventually I closed it down because it had become more of a burden than a pleasure. I wish all you bloggers that sort of bad luck!

Alain Gomez spotlighted a flash fiction story and then I came on as a guest blogger: flash fiction vs. using the same scene in a longer work.

http://bookbrouhaha.blogspot.com/2011...

"Flash Warden and Other Stories" available now on Amazon (Kindle version, 2 weeks)

Recent interview at Criminal-E. My book is still going around the widget. Link here: http://criminal-e.blogspot.com/2011/0...

Edited with a new one today: http://www.the-no-hoper.com/blog.html

New spotlight on "Flash Warden and Other Stories":
IndieSnippets web site:

http://indiesnippets.blogspot.com/sea...

I have started an interview series on my website. Both Cynthia Myers-Hanson (a specialist in near-death experience) and new romance/relationship writer M.H. Gerber were added this past Sunday.

Cynthia: http://tinyurl.com/3uhw4xv

Maureen: http://tinyurl.com/3njckv9

The specialist in near-death is in an endless purgatorial loop:
"The URL you followed redirects back to a TinyURL and therefore we can't directly send you to the site. The URL it redirects to is http://tinyurl.com/3qbghaz."

Does that mean the link is nearly dead?

http://tinyurl.com/3ccj79f Cynthia

It just means it was too early in the morning for me. The new link works. Sorry.

Elves Among Us: An interview with YA paranormal author Julia Crane: http://bit.ly/pxFDs2

I am running a regular indie writer interview feature on my website. I can't reasonably post them all here because it will generate too many updates for you guys, but I will post this one because I plugged Andre's book in the middle. http://schooloftheages.webs.com/apps/...

Matt, everyone else. This is of course open to interpretation by everyone else, as we have no rules, but I see absolutely no reason you shouldn't post the URL and name every time you interview someone. That is what this thread is for. We want to know when a ROBUSTer interviews someone, because the interview has extra credibility since we know the interviewer. It really takes only a second to open the post and decide if you want to go read the interview. Here's a perfect example by J.a. --

Elves Among Us: An interview with YA paranormal author Julia Crane: http://bit.ly/pxFDs2

-- A second to open the post, a second to see "paranormal", a second to hit NEXT. No waste. (Sorry to pick on you, Jeremy; you know what I read of yours; I admire your versatility.)

Thanks for the plug, Matt!

:) No offense taken. As I'm affiliated with two blog tour sites and a participate in the Facebook IWU group rolling blog tour, pretty much every week I'm going to do an interview that someone isn't interested in. The marketing part of my brain tells me to filter a bit more, but the ideological part of me wants to support indies as much as possible.

Of course, the marketing part of my brain is also the part that has helped me become a lot more focused about including keywords in stuff to both attract people interested and help people not interested stay away. :)

I've gotten a lot better about it. My early titles were stuff like 'Author interview: John Doe'.

And on that note:

What frightens you the most? An interview with horror author Erik Lynd. http://bit.ly/mY5Sr2

I forgot to say that I'd interviewed an old internet acquaintance of mine, Marti Norton, who's just epublished her first MG fantasy novel. Forgive me; it's my first attempt at an interview -

http://kates-scribbles.blogspot.com/2...

Succubus Soccer Mom: An interview with paranormal romance author Michelle Scott about her new book, Straight to Hell

http://bit.ly/p9hKWk

Succubus Soccer Mom -- be afraid, be very afraid.

On the strength of just that, Jeremy, I'd have hired you as an advertising copywriter.

Twitter is slowly improving my pithiness.

The Dead Speak: An interview with YA paranormal suspense author Craig Hansen

http://bit.ly/vulMwh

The Hideous and Depraved People Pulling The Strings of the World: An interview with Occult Horror Conspiracy Author Athanasios

http://bit.ly/uam4ct

Magical Tattoos and Parental Legacy: An Interview with YA paranormal author Wanita May: http://bit.ly/t5vOZR

]The connection between one horror author, Martin Landau, and Haruki Murakami: An interview with horror author Peter Balaskas http://bit.ly/sZetg6

It was surprisingly good interview in that he put a lot of thought and effort into his responses.

I interviewed Dianne Greenlay recently. I focused more on who she is, rather than her books. Even though I'm a writer, I find myself more interested in the people behind the books, rather than the books themselves. We're all walking stories, I'm afraid.
http://christopherbunn.com/?p=1214

I love her remark about her parents scrimping and saving to buy a set of encyclopedia.

Ever hear of a writer from a home without books?

The best thing any parent can do for his/her/its children is to give them access to books.

Excellent interview, Christopher. The first thing that caught my attention was that the author was a fellow Canadian. More than that, though, I knew I would like her. I honestly do not think I have met a single person from Saskatchewan who was not a salt-of-the-earth type and she did not disappoint.

I loved the cover of the book and the idea of the story sounds like it's right up my alley. I am now following her on Twitter. And, even though I promised myself no more book purchases, alas I must confess: I bought a Kindle copy.

Not sure whether to thank or rue you...

I interview John Garrett, an artist and writer who put together a mixed comics/prose humor eBook.

http://www.riftwatcher.blogspot.com/2...

Why doesn't CarFax talk about ghosts? An interview with paranormal romance and romantic suspense author K.A. Jordan: http://bit.ly/rtCpVQ

Jeremy puts his finger on why the trad publishers won't want Kat, regardless of how well she writes. Her second book was very different from her first. For the trade to be interested, she'll have to prove first that she can stick to the series she's planning.

Nice interview. I briefly had a 1966 Mustang convertible for an open, summer car, pale peppermint green. I bought it on an impulse on a Saturday morning because it was cheap and in good nick. It was a crude car, so I shortly sold it on. In a straight line it was amazingly fast, but on corners a handful, and the brakes weren't much use. If Kat gets her Cobra, I'll be the first to cheer, and to whisper in her ear to drive it carefully, it's a valuable antique!

Yeah, I know I'm not interested in only writing in one genre. Though I'm mostly working on paranormal/fantasy stuff, I have my non-magical historical mystery I'm planning for next year among other things, plus it's hard for me to think of series arcs longer than three 100k books or so that don't seem horribly stuffed with unnecessary stuff.

I actually am an anomaly in that I'm an American not from NYC who never got a driver's license, and perhaps, as a consequence, don't have much personal interest in cars or motorcycles. Various circumstances conspired together to put in this situation and I keep saying, "Someday", but that someday seems to keep passing year after year.

Surprisingly, it's worked out either okay for me.

I haven't kept a car for almost twenty years. People want to see me, they come here, or send a car for me, and a plane if further away, as I won't fly commercial anymore: too much of a hassle (Osama bin Laden's true legacy -- inconvenient travel).

Yes, I want to keep writing different genre. Contemporary and Paranormal are just the first two. I've got fragments of a SciFi series running around loose on my hard drive.

The Paranormal series is the most commerical of the bunch. I've got to go back home to Ashtabula and read some more history.

I've had 2 Mustanges - they were a lot of fun to drive. More fun than the Camero I had between them. (The Camero was a rust bucket.)

Cobra'a ARE very valuable. I'd have to hit the lottery in order to buy one. I might settle for a '96 Mustange - but I wouldn't sell my soul for it.

Thanks for the interview J.A.!

You're welcome.

Cool interview. Well done on both sides!

A dream of a huge tree inspires a fantasy, an interview with Katie Stewart: http://bit.ly/uefIGA

Great interview, Jeremy, and Katie, well articulated!

Nice to hear you are working on a sequel to Treespeaker!

Degrees in Anthropology and History, . If I could do it all again, those would be my two majors. Next time, I suppose...

Thanks for that Jeremy. I love your tag - "non-gritty fantasy"! Does that make it smooth fantasy? ;)

I'm proud to know Katie and Jeremy.

Thanks, Andre and Sharon.

Katie,

A new sub-genre!

J.a. wrote: "Thanks, Andre and Sharon.

Katie,

A new sub-genre!"

Now...how do I get Amazon to add it? :)

Ha ha, therein lies the rub...

English Secret Agents and Sprawling Continental Espionage--Not 007, but 1812: An interview with historical fiction author M.M. Bennetts

http://riftwatcher.blogspot.com/2011/...

I remember her from Authonomy! Her avatar was a pair of dirty riding boots. Any horsemen with manure on their books is the real thing.

I haven't read it all, but the book was really, really good as a rough draft.