Gareth S. Young - - 1000 Trillion Suns

After a 9 month hiatus, the Bright Lights author interviews are back. Once again, I'll have a wide range of authors stopping by to share their thoughts on writing and offer some insight into what it means to be a writer. So, without further ado, the first head on the chopping block is... Alex Kimmell Who is Alex Kimmell? ... alex kimmell (the squirrel whisperer/twodoggarage/daddy not-so-much-bucks) is an accidental novelist, anti-rhyme-ologist, oxygen inhaler, carbon dioxide exhaler who often generates harmonious sounds with various instruments of different historical importance. his work has appeared on cool places around the 1’s and 0’s like Dumb White Husband, Black Lantern Press, Front Row Lit and The Wordcount Podcast. His novel “the Key to everything” and collection of short, horrific tales “A Chorus of Wolves” were released by Booktrope Publishing. come and join the neurosis at  alexkimmell.com For dessert, I urge you all to check out Alex's links belo...

dSavannah George is another bright talent I bumped into during my involvement with the Orange Karen project. ( #teamORANGE ) She's a writer, poet, editor, artist, singer, photographer and designer, with years of marketing & public relations experience. And because that doesn't fill up her day enough she's also a teacher!  I'm exhausted just thinking about all that. Luckily, I was able to persuade her to stop by and answer a few questions before she had to run off and do ALL OF THE THINGS. :) dSavannah George Q - Hi dSavannah, tell me a little about your new story/book Well, it’s not new. I’ve been working on my novel since 1996. The main character, Jessie, is snarky, smart, sad, hopeful, searching, funny, and it’s basically the story of her trying to find her way in the world and ending up right where she started. Gareth and I had a Facebook convo the other day, and he has agreed to be my accountability partner to make sure I write a little bit each ...

Happy Labor Day! I'm back, with another Bright Lights interview, and today I'm talking with a fellow member of #TeamOrange     Tim Queeney lives up in the wilds of Maine and spends his time writing thrillers and sailing. This is a dude who knows his starboard from his...ummm...the other one. And, just to show off, he can totally do it in the dark using celestial navigation! He might be part Wizard. And just to clarify, I'm pretty sure he doesn't use celestial navigation to write thrillers... ...anyway, enough of my stupidity. Here's Tim. I'll let him do the talking... Tim Queeney Q - Hi Tim, tell me a little about your new book/story  A - It’s called The Ceres Plague. This one has my main character, Perry Helion, fighting the compelling and murderous Dr. Taylor Crandee and the shadowy cabal that backs him, known only as Paracelsus Enterprises. My last book The Atlas Fracture was set in Antarctica and this one takes place at the other en...

Back in the days of the woolly Mammoths, when tribes of humans wandered the land, one small group of people (or monkey-people like in the movies) surveyed the unending forests and snow fields of the North and said, "This will do nicely, eh?" These people are called Canadians. A common misconception about Canadians is that they all love hockey, but I'm here to...wait, what? Oh. Never mind. They do all like hockey.  Anyway, what is not so well known is that they write stories. Authors come from Canada too! Yes! If you recently perused a copy of The English Patient, Anne of Green Gables or The Life of Pi, you were looking at Canadian stuff. All joking aside, today I have another fantastic Canadian author visiting my blog. AJ Aalto comes armed with an acerbic wit and side order of snark. I asked her to stop by and talk about the adventures of her psychic detective, Marnie Baranuik.  AJ Aalto Q - Hi AJ, tell me a little about your new book. Death Rejoices is the se...

My recent participation in the Orange Karen Anthology once again highlighted the changing face of book publishing. It brought together experienced writers with first time writers and imbued everyone with a sense of togetherness. After publication, I expected the various members of #teamOrange to fade back into their own worlds, but the group has remained united, supportive of one another through social media forms and even *gasp* the real world. So, over the next couple of months, I've lined up a bunch of new interviews with members of #teamOrange . Andrew F. Butters is Canadian, so he enjoys watching burly skaters fight with sticks. (I believe the locals call it HOCKEY). And, despite being being blessed with some brains, he accidentally set fire to himself with such flair, he got to write about it in a Darwin Awards book. Fortunately, he's still here and he's still writing... Andrew F. Butters Q - Hi Andrew, your short story "Losing Vern" was recentl...