interviews with and/or by BVC authors
During interviews I’ve given—both live and digital—interviewers sometimes expressed interest in how I treated issues of faith in my work, up to and including the Star Wars novels I wrote with the late, truly great Michael Reaves (Patterns of Force, Shadow Games and The Last Jedi.) I’m a Bahá’í, by faith, so my worldview informs …
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After I’d written several Star Wars novels and a short story with the late, wonderful Michael Reaves, I was asked to give a number of interviews. These included radio shows and online interviews on the official Star Wars site and fan sites, as well. Several of the interviewers were interested in the way I treated …
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Back in 2-13, Del Rey / LucasBooks released THE LAST JEDI, co-authored by yours truly and the late (and much-missed) Michael Reaves. Concurrently with this, Star Wars fan site Roqoo Depot posted an interview with me and a review of the novel. Ahem. Says the reviewer, “ I have to say that The Last Jedi was …
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Christina Delay Please join us for a chat with BVC’s newest member Christina Delay! Very soon you will have a new book available through BVC and other outlets. SONG OF DESTINY Is this a new work or a reprint? Will there be new fiction coming from you? Soon? A: This is a …
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: CHAZ BRENCHLEY, Part 2 Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Part 1 of this interview appeared here at the Book View Cafe last week, October 13 2023 His writing is lush and evocative, but there’s something primal about the work of Chaz Brenchley. Whether he’s himself, Daniel Fox, Ben Macallan, or any of …
Author Interview: Chaz Brenchley Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel His writing is lush and evocative, but there’s something primal about the work of Chaz Brenchley. Whether he’s himself, Daniel Fox, Ben Macallan, or any of several other possible people, Chaz writes about obsession and transformation, families and friendships, identity and alienation. His characters start …
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Brenda Clough Writer Brenda W. Clough has stitched together an exotic quilt of a career and a life. She’s written classic fantasy, fantasy humor, fantasy for children, science fiction, steampunk, and even contemporary mystery. Her most recent novels are eleven volumes of historical fiction set in Victorian England featuring Miss …
Gregory Frost Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel And Phyllis Irene Radford Greg Frost has honored Book View Cafe with some of his epic historical fantasy, mostly set in Bronze Age Ireland. Now he brings us “The Girlfriends of Dorian Grey” https://bookviewcafe.com/book/the-girlfriends-of-dorian-gray-and-other-stories/ a collection of short stories that explores his fertile imagination in many different directions. …
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Welcome to the multi-tasking world of author and artist Maya Bohnhoff. Whether writing, composing, painting or any other corner of creative life, Maya has laid claim to a section of more than one artistic community. Q.) Looking on your website, it seems that your musical work …
BOOK VIEW CAFÉ WELCOMES JUSTINA ROBSON Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel “Real life often disappoints. So, it must happen in a story.” —Justina Robson Writer Justina Robson has been writing SF and F for a long time. Like many creative people she spent a good decade working at writing before her first sale. Since …
Author Interview Alma Alexander Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel https://AlmaAlexander.com https://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/bvc-author/alma-alexander/ https://bookviewcafe.com/book/fractured-fairy-tales/ Alma Alexander has the resume to be a storyteller. She was born on the banks of the blue Danube in a country whose name is but a memory. She left that home at ten and lived in five countries on four continents before …
Author Interview: Shannon Page Interviewed by Phyllis Irene Radford Shannon Page has been a member of Book View Café since 2013. Her collection of short fiction, Eastlick and Other Stories,https://bookviewcafe.com/book/eastlick-and-other-stories/ marked her debut with us. Since then, she has published several solo novels; an essay collection, I Was a Trophy Wife; https://bookviewcafe.com/book/i-was-a-trophy-wife/ and a collaborative …
I used to live in Washington DC area, and the Washington Post was my hometown newspaper. The big problem with having a major national newspaper as your local media outlet is that they are not particularly interested in writing about local authors. At least not as authors. Go ahead — win an election, get indicted for …
