Author & Editor Interviews - The Writer's Inner Journey

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Jennifer Nelson

You definitely have to look at the publishing process as an industry and a business at some point even though you may be largely focused on the creative aspect of doing the work of writing.

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Jennifer Nelson

The 5-Question [Writer] Interview: Sheryl Kraft

The writer talks about not running away, acting “as if’’ and letting the world in.

The 5-Question [Writer] Interview: Sheryl Kraft

Talking With Author Summer Wood

And, honestly, I don’t think of my novels as my children in any way.

Talking With Author Summer Wood

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Yuvi Zalkow

I’m not frightened of what is inside me…. I’m frightened that I won’t be able to get it out in a way that will affect people.

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Yuvi Zalkow

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Kathy Leonard Czepiel

I think it’s really important that as writers we not take ourselves too seriously, not take on that mantle of importance and mystery because the narrative of life also tells us that “pride goeth before a fall.

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Kathy Leonard Czepiel

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Barbara Abercrombie

The author and beloved professor discusses how “to write” is a verb (and not an identity), the overwhelming versus the manageable, and what chaos has the ability to deliver.

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Barbara Abercrombie

Five More Questions With Allison Winn Scotch

The writer talks honestly and openly about the beauty of writing when the stakes are really high, writing big versus writing quietly, and the intense and focused work of promotion and publicity. ♦ Allison Winn Scotch is the author of The Department of Lost and Found, and the New York Times Bestseller, Time of My

Five More Questions With Allison Winn Scotch

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Denise Schipani

When you consciously think about being creative, making something, writing something, it’s scary, and it’s my personal theory that this is where writer’s block comes from: the fear.

The 5-Question [Author] Interview: Denise Schipani

Stories that move readers: Andrew Tonkovich, Editor of Santa Monica Review

When I look up and find that I am giddy and self-conscious with delight at my own little participation in the project, and see, joyfully, that I have been tricked or seduced into this condition and eager, finally to see the writing succeed and scared that it won’t, well, that’s what has to happen.

Stories that move readers: Andrew Tonkovich, Editor of Santa Monica Review