Continuing with my series of interviews with writers whose novels were featured in the Guadian’s Self-Publishing Showcase, I’d like to welcome John O’Brien. John is a former Air Force fighter instructor pilot who transitioned to Special Operations for the latter part of his career gathering his campaign ribbon for Desert Storm. Immediately following his military service,…
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I am often asked for my reading recommendations. Here, I thought I would share with you some of the novels that demanded I read them a second time. The truest of friends, they have stuck with me through the years. Some I have read many times over.    I think that a great novel has to transport…
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Today I’m delighted to welcome Joe Cawley to my blog. Joe is an award-winning author and travel writer. He lives in the hills of Tenerife with his family and an assortment of other wildlife. The goats are no relation. (Picture of goats is Jane’s own. Almost certainly no relation.) His first book, More Ketchup than…
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Continuing my series of interviews with authors whose books appeared in the Guardian’s Self-publishing Showcase, I’m welcoming comedian, radio DJ, and host of the “Sick and Wrong” Podcast, Dee Simon. Dee’s book Play Something Dancy is a collection of comical and gut-wrenching personal essays about his experience as a strip club DJ in San Francisco in the early 2000s. Most, he warns,…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome indie author, the camera-shy Gunnar Angel Lawrence to my blog. Gunnar grew up in the city of Orlando, Florida and spent most of his youth writing odd stories that popped into his head. He spent the last several years as a ghost writer (the second ghost writer I have interviewed in recent…
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Today, I’m delighted to welcome John Kolchak to my blog. John was born in Moscow when it was still part of the USSR and emigrated to the US with his family in the 1970s. His father was a Principal Dancer and Teacher with the Bolshoi Ballet, who started his own ballet school in the US….
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Today I’m delighted to welcome travel writer, Edward Hancox, to my blog. Edward lives in the UK with his wife and two small, noisy children but spends as much time as he can in Iceland. Music – especially contemporary Icelandic music – is his other passion. He writes about both subjects for various magazines and websites, including…
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It’s Christmas Eve, and I’m delighted to invite indie author Pip Mulgrue to my blog. Pip lives and writes in Brighton. Her first book, Gren Peppard and the Lost Boy, was published via Kindle Direct Publishing in April 2011. Her second book, Gren Peppard and the Queen of Hearts was published via Lulu and KPD…
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Wishing all of my readers a very happy Winter Solstace/Yule/Christmas. It is not often you will see Matt in a party hat!   

Continuing my series of chats with authors featured by The Guardian in their Self-Publishing Showcase, I’m delighted to welcome indie author Helen Hollick to my blog.   Helen was born in Walthamstow, North East London, in 1953 and began writing at the age of 13. Desperately wanting a pony of her own, but not able to afford one,…
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