Since starting his first book during the Covid-19 pandemic, retired engineer A. Michael Hibner has published three historical fiction novels inspired by family history. His newest release, The Gangs of Santa Fe (February 2025),
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An Interview with Author Wendy Johnson
Dr. Wendy Johnson is a clinician, public health expert, teacher, and mentor, as well as an activist and author. Her 2025 book release, Kinship Medicine: Cultivating Interdependence to Heal the Earth and Ourselves (North Atlantic Books),
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An Interview with Author Sequoia Rudolph
Author Sequoia Rudolph is a retired special education teacher whose first book started out as an essay that stretched into a memoir but ended up as a novel. Her debut release, In Time Out (September 2024),
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An Interview with Author Daniel Pedrick
Daniel Pedrick is a retired attorney and mental health judge who started his third career as an author with his 2017 debut Once, A Walking Shadow (Mercury HeartLink). Dan’s newest release, Liv’s Story: An Iowa Girl’s Rebellion (RMK Publications,
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An Interview with Author Donna Pedace
Since the publication of her second nonfiction book, Scandalous Women of the Old West (2020), author Donna Pedace has focused her research and writing on women who have achieved something deserving of public recognition. Her newest release,
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An Interview with Author Heidi Marshall
Before coming to the United States, author Heidi Marshall wrote more than 50 radio scripts of children’s stories. After immigrating, she became an award-winning short story author published in several anthologies. In September 2024, she released The Town That Lost Its Colors,
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An Interview with Author Christie Palmer Lowrance
Christie Palmer Lowrance has used her passion for writing in her many careers including as editor, biographer and historian, speaker and instructor, and journalist, as well as author of two non-fiction books. Her most recent release is The Last Heath Hen: An Extinction Story (May 2024),
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An Interview with Author Peter Gooch
Author Peter Gooch is a painter and former art professor whose short fiction appears in numerous literary magazines. Apprentice House Press published his debut novel SEREN in April 2025 and his second literary fiction release LIPS: Kiss The Lips That Lie in June 2025.
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Author Update 2025: Ed Lehner
Retired professor Ed Lehner is an author and poet who has published three novels and a short story collection. His newest contemporary fiction release is Sunset in Paris (Alkira Publishing, March 2025), book two in the Jennifer Morse Series.
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An Interview with Author Kira Córdova
While working on an MFA in Nature Writing, Kira Córdova spent a year editing poems written over a period of 40 years by her grandmother, lifelong poet Carma Lucatero. The dream of publishing Carma’s poetry became a family endeavor with the help of Kira’s father as well as a cousin,
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