#Author Interivews

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Author Spotlight Interview: Dr. Lee Ann B. Marino

This week on Kingdom Now: Just Between Us Christians: Q&A Author Spotlight Showcasing dozens of questions submitted by ministry friends and fans, join Apostle Lee Ann B Marino as she shares excerpts from her new book, Just Between Us Christians: Real Answers to Real Questions Submitted by Real Christians, out August 1. FOLLOW THE KINGDOM NOW PODCAST everywhere you stream!

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Meet This Author: Marie Bostwick

Q: When did you get started in writing stories? Pretty much from the moment I was able to hold a pencil. I have a very vivid memory of kneeling in front of an ottoman at my grandmother’s house, with a book on the ottoman and a piece of paper on the book, listening to thesoundtrack of Camelot (I hadn’t seen the play or the movie) and trying to write a story to make the songs hang together. Though…

[saintmeghanmarkle]

I am still ruminating on the fact that Harold emailed People Magazine to leak and plant a story about his birthday. He could not email People or any of his other favorites to correct the supposedly mistaken impression everyone had after Oprah that the RF was racist? Or correct anything else? by u/Von_und_zu_

I am still ruminating on the fact that Harold emailed People Magazine to leak and plant a story about his birthday. He could not email People or any of his other favorites to correct the supposedly mistaken impression everyone had after Oprah that the RF was racist? Or correct anything else?  In an exclusive email to PEOPLE, Harry says: ....If you, Harold, are emailing the likes of People Mag to plant a laughable story about your birthday party and how much you love being a father (over zoom or whatever), you could not take the time to tell everyone in the aftermath of the Oprah interivew that you do not think the RF is racist, that Megs never said that, that the British media said that, as you yourself asserted 2 years later in that bizarre ITV interview?! I was incredulous before, given that the losers took the time immediately after Oprah to tell Gayle King to tell everyone on American TV that it was not the late Queen or Prince Philip who said the supposedly racist stuff about skin colour. Now I am even more incredulous.Beyond that, was it not Harold and his sanctimonious wife that informed us after their big flounce to "freedom" that they were not going to engage with mainstream media henceforth? We all knew that was a big lie and that they were leaking and planting with major outlets, of course, especially after one of them accidentally spilled about the Sussex WhatsApp media group. But here we have written verification from People that Harold emailed with them directly.And in a delicious twist of the Karma knife, it is PEOPLE that EXCLUSIVELY! outs Harold as the source of this silly article. Harold - emailing - directly - to People! He is not even going thru the pretext of using "sources" or "spokespersons" or "friends."This People Exclusive really is, as Dan says, an own goal ... in every sense.https://ift.tt/yweB1Mu to add this excellent and snarky point from Richard Eden. Is he still ruminating too?https://ift.tt/gOKk7cL link to the People EXCLUSIVE! https://ift.tt/X5fhiU0 post link: https://ift.tt/MT7r4gO author: Von_und_zu_ submitted: September 11, 2024 at 05:29PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[arimeghlen]

GP: Interview with author Zorha Edwards

GP: Interview with author Zorha Edwards

This week’s guest post is an author interview with the lovely Zorha Edwards.  Enjoy!  🙂

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[morganbc728]

#Live #Interview on #ChatandSpinRadio

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Got 15 minutes to sit back with a beverage?  GREAT! Because li’l ol’ me will be featured in a Live Interview on Chat and Spin Radio!  Can I tell you how excited I am 🙂  Oh,  hee hee, I just did.

Right, so grab a burger and beverage, a steaming cupa’, or after dinner aperitif and please join me for the fun!

When?:  Monday May 25th at 6:15 Eastern Daylight Savings Time

Where?:  Chat and Spin…

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Avenged (The Arnaud Legacy #3) by Lynn Carthage Author Secrets!

AUTHOR SECRETS:

"What's your weirdest writing habit?"

Answer: I've come to realize I write a few paragraphs, then switch screens to look at social media for about 10 minutes, then go back to write a few paragraphs. It seems like social media is now part and parcel of the writing process, which I don't particularly like, but maybe it's a bit of respite my writing mind needs. In the past, when I've been at writing residencies, it's easier somehow to completely turn off social media. At one residency, I literally couldn't get wifi in the studio, which was a true blessing. I'd tromp all the way over to the quaint computer lab once a day to check email and the rest of the time, I simply word-processed on my laptop. It was great. I know some people use software that blocks them from the web for a particular amount of time. I think it's okay to click away from your novel for short bursts of time. Better yet would be to get up and take a quick walk or do a few stretches.

"What scene made you cry while you were writing?"

Answer: At the end of Haunted (Book One in this series), there's a scene where Phoebe and her mom reconnect in a way that made me wail while writing it. I'm a parent now, and the poignancy of the connection you feel with your children is breathtakingly emotional. I can't give away too much, but in that scene, Phoebe finally gets the attention she's been craving from her mom. She has felt ignored and abandoned in favor of her younger sister Tabby, and in this particular scene, her mom reaffirms her vast love for Phoebe. As a daughter in a family of four girls, I know there is certainly competition for attention, and I felt deeply the sadness Phoebe felt in trying to connect with her mom.

Avenged (The Arnaud Legacy #3) by Lynn Carthage is out February 28th, 2017

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Enter the Dragon - Interview with Samantha Shannon

We were beyond excited to get a sneak peek at Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon and even better to get an interview with her all about dragons, magic and writing advice!

Priory of the Orange Tree might just be the most magically anticipated fantasy novel of this year. And we can say with absolute certainty that it is worth the hype. Magical women, brave warriors, powerful queens and, of course, dragons – what more could you want. We were lucky enough to chat to author, Samantha Shannon about the experience of writing Priory and her favourite fictional dragons!

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Let's #HangWith Eerie Florida Author & Paranormal Enthusiast Mark Muncy!

[parkerjcole]

Tonight on the Write Stuff--Waltz with Destiny with Catherine Ulrich Brakefield

Tonight on the Write Stuff–Waltz with Destiny with Catherine Ulrich Brakefield

As Hitler and his Nazis march across Europe…

The splendors of Detroit’s ballrooms spin Esther (McConnell) Meir around like a princess in a fairy tale Here she meets junior engineer Eric Erhardt. But will Eric abandon his playboy ways for Esther?

When war comes to America’s shores, Esther questions whether she has the grit to carry on the McConnell legacy. Meanwhile, Eric comes face to face with…

[professor-doc-emeritus]

been trying to figure out the odds on someone coming along and finishing berserk, and the more i think about it the less optimistic i am.

To start, I'm willing to bet good money that we're going to get, at a minimum, berserk chapter 364. Significant work has to already be done on it, it was originally due in april. What form we'll get it in remains to be seen, i could just as easily see them finishing it as i could see them publishing whatever exists now as a volume bonus in the final release. Maybe it will be like one of those old video game builds that people think is lost for decades and then just randomly shows up on ebay one year. But short of actively destroying what exists of it 364 will come out.

Anything after that depends on how far ahead miura planned and the whims of the copyright holders.

The best case scenario for an author's death is a Wheel of Time scenario, where the author naturally planned their work out before writing it, had at least a year to prepare for their demise, was near the end of the series anyway, and had a readily available heir apparent in the author's genre that could come in and finish the race. For berserk, the ideal scenario is that miura 1) naturally planned things out very far in advance, 2) had significant documentation detailing what was going to happen in berserk in case of exactly this, 3) didn't have that much story left to tell, and 4) either prepped his staff to be able to do berserk without him, or had an estate that's in touch with the manga scene and can find someone to captain the ship to harbor. Anything short of this is going to make finishing berserk in a way that feels true to miura extremely difficult.

I really don't know if miura was the kind of writer to have everything planned out in detail, or if he just figured stuff out as he went along like Martin does. I'm positive that he didn't have everything planned out in detail though. Word from his assistants was that his death was super sudden, he wasn't particularly ill or stressed, so short of literal divine inspiration in the past year and change I highly doubt that he has everything storyboarded to the end. The ideal would be that he did, and all that was left to do was to draw, which his assistants could easily do, but it seems unlikely. But it is entirely possible that he's had the whole plot line written up in a filing cabinet since 87 that he just added finer details to when storyboarding time came. We really just don't know.

I doubt it though. As recently as 2019 Miura said he was still wrangling with some writing details, for instance he wasn't sure whether guts and casca would have a happy ending or not. granted, it's possible he definitely did know that and was just playing coy for the interviewer, but regardless it seems clear that there was still major stuff he was figuring out.

We also don't really know how much was left. in that 2019 interivew miura described berserk as being in it's "back half," but a lot of the fans seem to be of the opinion that we were more in the last quarter. Either way, that's a minimum 100+ chapters of manga that needs to get made. This goes beyond cobbling together an editing team to push out a handful of chapters, whoever ends up helming the task of finishing berserk is going to end up having a huge impact on the overall manga

I've said before that I think it's worth continuing the series. Best case scenario, we get an ending we're all happy with, worst case scenario, we ignore it and berserk ends at chapter 363 anyway. But I wanna qualify now that if there aren't significant plans left by miura then i don't want a continuation. I'd rather berserk end where it is than have 100+ chapters of glorified fanfiction, no matter how good, stapled onto the end of this masterpiece.

[penamerican]

On writing, ruins, and defining censorship—a PEN Ten interview with Kristen Radtke, author of the graphic memoir Imagine Wanting Only This. @pantheonbooks

[brokehorrorfan]

Schlock will be released on Blu-ray on October 16 via Arrow Video. It has been restored in 4K from the original camera negative and features the original lossless mono soundtrack.

The 1973 low budget horror-comedy marked the feature debut of writer-director John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers), who also plays the film’s titular monster. Schlock was also one of Rick Baker’s (An American Werewolf in London, Videodrome) first makeup jobs.

Graham Humphreys designed the new cover art, while the original poster will be on the reverse side. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary with writer-director John Landis and makeup artist Rick Baker

Interview with author and critic Kim Newman

Birth of a Schlock - 2017 interivew with writer-director John Landis

Archival video interview with cinematographer Bob Collins

1972, 1979 and 1982 theatrical trailers

Radio spots

Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Joe Bob Briggs (first pressing only)

Carnage! Terror! Banana skins! The mighty prehistoric ape Schlocktropus has emerged from hiding to embark on a full-scale rampage across a quiet Southern Californian suburb. The police are baffled. The army is powerless. The body count is rising. But when Schlocktropus encounters a kindly blind woman (Eliza Garrett) who sees beyond his grotesque visage, the homicidal simian is presented with a chance at redemption…

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Meet This Author: Gama Ray Martinez

Q: When did you get started in writing stories?  I can’t remember ever not writing stories. I loved reading fantasy as a kid and I was always fascinated by the idea of creating a story like that myself. Q: What inspired you to publish your book, Queens of Wonderland?  Wonderland, by its very nature, is quirky and insane. I just loved the idea of playing with that. Q: Who are the main…

[jiajing-notes]

DIS Paper Using Interviews as Research Methods

This post is about methods and writing.

This week I read some DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) papers which use interivews as research methods. Here I will give some examples and summary of the reading.

The challenge of these interview projects for DIS is that they do not DESIGN anything. Instead, they do plenty of user research as a preliminary step to design. If we just talk about the research from the perspectives of social science or communication without any implications for design, the paper may not be appropriate for DIS.

Emphasize of the goal of the paper as design

“More than just Space”: Designing to Support Assemblage in Virtual Creative Hubs (Luik et al., 2018)

This paper aims to understand interactions at creative hubs, and how this understanding can be used to inform the design of virtual creative hubs. They make it clear in the keywords: informing design and they repeatitvely mention the goad as "inform the design of virtual hubs" for several times in the paper.

We believe that our findings and their analysis through the lens of assemblage will benefit the field of Human- Computer Interaction (HCI) by informing the design of social-technical infrastructures that seek to ...

Our aspiration in conducting this research was to inform the design of interactive technologies that...

Caller Needs and Reactions to 9-1-1 Video Calling for Emergencies

This paper explores how video calling services should be designed through an interview study with people who have called 911 in the past. This paper is merely an interview project. It focuses on the challenge of 911 calling systems and provides implications for future design.

Our overarching goal is to understand how to design ... systems from the perspective of xxx, with an emphasis on matching the technology with xxx needs.

These issues illustrate that designing xxx requires careful design considerations to balance the needs of xxx and xxx.

List the contributions to design

“Hey Alexa, What’s Up?”: Studies of In-Home Conversational Agent Usage

This paper used mixed methods - survey and interviews to explore how people interact with Alexa:

Resulting knowledge will give researchers new avenues of research and interaction designers new insights into improving their systems.

Our contributions are as follows... Additionally, we provide information about the limitations and shortcomings of the technology as it is designed today, and suggestions for how CUIs can be better designed in the future.

Demostrate more design elements

Evaluating and Informing the Design of Chatbots (Jain et al., 2018)

This paper emphsizes more on implications for design.

Here is what they write in the abstract:

We conclude with implica- tions to evolve the design of chatbots, such as: clarify chatbot capabilities, sustain conversation context, handle dialog fail- ures, and end conversations gracefully.

They demonstrate and discuss some interfaces of Messenger app. In the Discussion part, they offer design implications for both chatbot designers and chatbot platform UX designers, as well as potential future usage of chatbots in HCI research. Although the implications are a bit trivial and confined in Facebook Messenger which looks like a usability test, this paper gives more sense of what a design paper would look like (the authors are industry so it quite makes sense).

Examining Self-Tracking by People with Migraine: Goals, Needs, and Opportunities in a Chronic Health Condition

This paper also spent much space to talk about design implications in Discussion section.

Create concept to demonstrate the idea

This kind of paper puts forward a new concept and demonstrate the design of technologies to support it.

Grounding Interactive Machine Learning Tool Design in How Non-Experts Actually Build Models

This paper is different because it not only shows the results of interview, also offers a concept/ framework for future design (the first author herself is a designer). Although it is not a detailed design work with evaluation, the concept has offered enough implications for future work.

Investigating How Experienced UX Designers Effectively Work with Machine Learning

This paper has the same author with the one above. It probes several open questions at the end of the paper, which is also creative.

Social Support Mosaic: Understanding Mental Health Management Practice on College Campus

This paper investigates how emerging adults seek help managing their mental wellness through social support. They define the support network as "the Mosaic of Scoial Support" and discuss the technologies to support it.

Reference

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[dear-indie-texas]

(Dear Texas Radio) In this episode Grace Allison​ interivews Alan Bourgeois​ about Texas Association of Authors​ and Indie Lector​ an online bookstore for Indie Authors  Along with the many programs and events that he has created to support and market Texas Authors and Indie Authors

[scatteredrevelations]

Writer Interivew

1) What made you start writing for the first time?

( Some of dis one is from a previous ask I answered. Don’t hate me )

 Writing is the incision in my mind which allows for my jumbled thoughts to be released from my head. It relieves the constant replay of ideas and memories of what has been going on in my life. It’s an escape from reality, where I can create my own little world, where maybe everything can be okay; though things aren’t okay. But writing helps me envision as if it all is :))

I have a passion for connecting with everyone in SOME sort of way. My writing gives me a larger variety of people I can connect to and it enlarges the amount of people I meet and really get to create that special bond with. Not only that, but I have also found that, with the personal writings, people are able to relate to what I have said and I have been told that it makes them feel understood, and as if maybe they aren’t alone in this self-absorbed world that cares for nothing other than its greedy self.

Writing is kind of like this gateway for what I want to do in the future. I want to be a journalist / author type person thing xD. That’s the “ job description “ though it doesn’t layout exactly what I want to do. I’d really love to travel the world, meet as many people as I can, hear THEIR stories and what THEY have gone through, experience those certain situations myself, and get their stories out there. A lot of people don’t have access to social media or the news where they are capable of GETTING THEIR VOICE HEARD. I want to be that fuse between the world and that one soul :)  If I can help someone in some way, I will.

I started writing for the first time because I finally wasn’t able to keep all my chaotic thoughts and ideas trapped inside my skull. They needed released or they were going to completely destroy me.. so writing was my way of setting them free:     I started writing because I finally had a reason to write.

2) If you could only write about the ocean, the forest, or the desert for the rest of your life, which one would you pick?

I have no favourites. NONE AT ALL! But if I HAD to pick one it’d have to be the desert, and let me tell you why; The majority of people will likely choose either the ocean or the forest, which is something I can understand; the forest is beautiful, mesmerizing, natural, and true to our world - it is the habitat of millions of animals and is a place many people wouldn’t dare roam. The ocean, is mysterious and full of species we have yet to even imagine. It’s truly beautiful and fascinating, how could you not love it? But the desert? What’s so great about that? The desert seems plain, simple, bland, and most of all hot and hopeless. There’s no trees to make you feel safe and watched over, there is no water to quench your thirst. There is nothing but the glaring beams of sunlight and a never - ending swimming pool of sand.  But what about the journey it takes to get across the supposed wasteland? What about the mysteries it holds deep within it’s layers of granular substance that humans are too lazy to explore - being blinded by the belief there is nothing there? What about the beauty of silence, and calmness. Nothing but the familiar sight of orange. Nothing but you and the world around you. You could make anything with that empty space.. and with so many undiscovered secrets of the dunes? There is really no limit..

3) Would you ever write a memoir?

It’s rather humiliating because at first I was like WHAT IS THIS. A MEMORIAL? Then I started planning a memorial for.... I honestly have no clue :) I just wanted to try and be artistic #FAIL. Anyways, I finally decided there’s no way that’s what it was and looked it up :D Erm. From my understanding it’s a biography.  So that means a thing about me.  okay.

4) Do you like writing by hand, or writing with a computer?

I LOVVVE writing by hand. It’s so natural and makes everything feel genuine. But my hands, especially my wrists, are excruciatingly weak and the pain often gives me massive headaches, and for that reason MOST of my writings do end up forming on the computer, and later on I write it on paper.

5) Would you rather be popular among many readers, or unpopular, but loved by critics?

I don’t need people to love my writing, I just need them to read it.  I don’t write for other people, I write for myself. If they don’t like it, why should I care? It’s not FOR them. It’s for ME. And IIIIIIIIIIIIII like it. So shut your mouth.

6) Do you listen to music while you write? What is the best writing music?

I actually used to never really be into music. Like, at all.  But someone special to me showed me music I could really relate to and easily find the story in.  In conclusion, you might think you don’t like music, but really? You’ve just never found the right song.  ( LIKE HAPPY FEET :DDDD AND HOW THEY FIND THEIR MATES :DDDD ) Uh.  The best writing music? Is the music you connect with and are able to feel comfortable with. Music that inspires you, helps you focus, and relates with how you are feeling.

7) Do people you’ve met find their way into your writing?

YES. I THINK I MIGHT BE MISUNDERSTANDING THIS QUESTION BUT YES. I LOVE writing about other people’s experiences. The lot of my stuff is, sure, stuff I can connect to. But really it’s the people I meet and talk to and hear the stories from that inspires me to write. A lot of my pieces are based off of real people and real stories.  Perhaps you’re next? ;))

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