Episode #43: How Claudia Lefeve Quit Her Job to Write Full Time
Claudia Lefeve quit her job after she started supporting herself with her writing. It’s the dream, for writers, and she’s arrived. It doesn’t mean she’s become rich, but her sci-fi romance genre,...
View ArticleEpisode #44: Dann Alexander and Planned Unparenthood: Why Not to Have a Kid
This may offend you all, but I just interviewed Dann Alexander, a Canadian writer who has not only decided he’s not having children, he has mapped out—in detail—his argument against the practice in his...
View ArticleEpisode #46: Peter Heller On Adventure Writing and The Dog Stars
Peter Heller got his first magazine article assignment by calling Outside Magazine, and looking down the masthead for an editor with the nicest sounding name, which ended up being Laura Hohnhold....
View ArticleEpisode #47: Mindy McGinnis On Selling a Young Adult Novel
Mindy McGinnis is a librarian. She has been for years. And she does exactly the sort of librarian things that I imagine librarians doing all day: She writes. She reads and she writes. In fact, she...
View ArticleEpisode #49: Terry Ambrose on Skiptracing and Authoring Cons
Terry Ambrose worked for fifteen years after school until he nearly had a mental breakdown. “I wanted to kill people,” he says. “So I did. In my writing.” Writing had a particularly cathartic effect on...
View ArticleEpisode #50: AF’s Long-Awaited Return and William Forstchen!
Hello world. We’re back. Finally. And with the 50th Author Feast Interview. I just moved to California—the L.A. area—from NYC and it’s been madness for awhile. So please forgive the absurd hiatus. If...
View ArticleEpisode #51: Terrence King; Turning a Screenplay into a Book
Terrence King and I had such a great time doing this interview. Right after it I had a huge life-changing move to the west coast, where he happens to live as well, and it took forever for the interview...
View ArticleEpisode #52 Loren Kleinman on Finishing Your Book
Loren Kleinman spent seven years writing a manuscript for her book of poetry before she was comfortable enough to show it to her friend—a well-respected poet. Her friend said she needed to start over,...
View ArticleEpisode #53: Pip and Tee on Steampunk
Dear Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris, Please forgive my absurd delay in posting this riveting episode of Author Feast. I love how you told us about how the two of you became co-authors, (and started...
View ArticleEpisode #55 Ryan Leone and Wasting Talent
As you may have noticed, we’ve taken a turn for the sporadic here at Author Feast. Production value has increased, and with it time between posts. I’ve been busy getting married and working on another...
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