Managing editor Allen Mendenhall has published Writers on Writing: Conversations with Allen Mendenhall. The publisher, Red Dirt Press, describes the book as follows: As a lawyer, Allen Mendenhall asks questions. As a writer, he’s interested in the craft. Combine these two and you get this, a collection of writers discussing writing. Writers on Writing: Conversations with Allen […]
Managing Editor Allen Mendenhall Publishes “Writers on Writing”
December 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
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 Wendy Wax, Author of “Best Beach Ever”
June 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thanks, Wendy, for the interview. Our readers are no doubt familiar with your Ten Beach Road series. Best Beach Ever is the sixth and latest novel in that series, which began in 2011. How do you stay so productive? WW: Thank you, Allen. As counterintuitive as it sounds, I think motherhood helped me become […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Shuly Cawood, Author of “The Going and Goodbye”
December 12, 2017 by 1 Comment
AM: Shuly, thanks for this interview about your memoir, The Going and Goodbye. I want to start by asking you about the epigraph by Richard Wilbur, in part because he passed away just about the time your book was released. I find that intriguing because you quote him on the subject of life and death, […]