AM: Lara, so great to have the opportunity to interview you about The Haunting of Crescent Hotel. Just to orient our readers: this interview takes place the week after Halloween. I wish I had done the interview earlier, so that it could run on or around Halloween, but among the many merits of this book […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Amos Jasper Wright IV, Author of “Nobody Knows How It Got This Good”
November 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thanks for the interview, Amos. Your book Nobody Knows How It Got This Good was just released by Livingston Press of the University of West Alabama, a publisher I’m growing increasingly fond of month by month. The book consists of short stories. Do you agree with Edgar Allan Poe that “a short story must […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Mike Nemeth, Author of “The Undiscovered Country”
November 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
AM: So glad to have the chance to chat, Mike. Before we talk about your new novel, The Undiscovered Country, which is a sequel to your novel Defiled, I’d like to explore our Atlanta connections. Where in the city do you live? I grew up in Marietta, close to Roswell Square, and lived in Alpharetta […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Roger Johns, Author of “River of Secrets”
October 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thanks for doing this interview, Roger. Your new novel, River of Secrets, is a sequel to Dark River Rising. Both novels feature Wallace Hartman, a detective in Baton Rouge. What drew you to the detective genre? RJ: Allen, thank you for interviewing me. It’s a real privilege to be able to do this. The […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Lee Zacharias, Author of “Across the Great Lake”
October 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
AM: Lee, I’m happy that we get to do this interview about your new novel, Across the Great Lake. I want to try to have this conversation without, as they say, any spoilers. This novel is told in the voice of 85-year-old Fern Halverson, who is looking back on her childhood. What led you to […]