MS: Do you think this book had to take place in Florida? Is there a particular understanding of Florida in America, 2014, that makes it useful for what you’re doing here? Is Florida still a place of leisure and escape, like it was throughout the 20th century, or has it become something wild and untamed […]
Mollie Smith Waters Interviews Ted Dunagan
February 28, 2014 by 1 Comment
Ted Dunagan was born in 1943 in Coffeeville, Alabama. He completed the second grade there and then moved to Grove Hill, where he graduated from high school in 1961. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era, after which he attended Georgia State University in Atlanta. Later, he married, began raising a family, […]
Amy Susan Wilson Interviews Traci L. Slatton
January 29, 2014 by 2 Comments
ASW: Hi, Traci, and congratulations on your novel, The Love Of My (Other) Life. Your novel is both poignant and humorous and contains magical realism, mystery, and my favorite subject, I confess, literary romance. Could we begin with you giving an overview of your latest novel? And, a discussion of some of your forthcoming and […]
The Honorable Terry Lewis, A Literary Judge
December 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By Donna Meredith What surprises most people about Terry Lewis is not that he can only carve out five hours a week for writing legal thrillers. It’s that he can find any time at all. Lewis has been a circuit court judge in the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida since 1998 and was a county […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews David Bradley
October 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thanks for doing this interview on the occasion of the ebook release of your 1981 novel, The Chaneysville Incident. It’s been 32 years since the novel was first published. Does it speak differently to today’s audience than it did upon its initial release? Thanks for the opportunity. No writer really knows what a book, […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Jessica Dotta
September 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
Congratulations on your forthcoming trilogy, Jessica, and thanks for talking about it with me. Just because your books are set in England doesn’t mean you’re not a Southern author, right? Why don’t we begin with some publicity: tell us about your debut novel—and the whole trilogy for that matter. Thank you so much, Allen! I […]