Deirdra Eden

Monday, May 23, 2011

Interview with Author and Senior Editor, Joshua J. Perkey

Josh works as a senior editor for the Church magazines. Prior to coming to work for the Church, he was an associate editor with the McGraw-Hill Companies. Josh also writes fantasy novels. “My first love was epic fantasy,” he says, “but I’m having so much fun writing my second middle grade fantasy, …

Interview with Author Elana Johnson

Bio: Elana Johnson’s debut novel, Possession , will be published by Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster) on June 7, 2011. Her popular ebook, From the Query to the Call , is also available for free download . School teacher by day, Query Ninja by night, you can find her online at her personal blog or Twi…

Query Letters

Oh boy, the query letter. Some authors spend as much time on this page as they do their whole book. There are whole work shops, websites and books focusing just on the query letter. I’m going to give a brief list of basic dos and don’t and remind authors that every agent is different and has different…

Interview with Author A.J. Walker

A.J. Walker is an archaeologist who likes to get to the bottom of things. His training has taught him that under an innocuous field may lie a vanished village, while turning over a simple stone may reveal ancient writing. Finding the hidden under the surface is what archaeology is all about. It'…

Interview with Author Marsha Ward

Marsha Ward was born in Phoenix , Arizona , and although she spent two years in South America, she never roamed far from the Southwest, where she currently lives near Payson , Arizona . Marsha is an award-winning poet, freelance writer and editor whose published work includes three novels, two collabor…