ForeWord Magazine Author Pages
 As the only trade magazine that exclusively reviews independent titles, we feel that providing a marketplace for independent publishers and their authors is crucial. One of the best ways for publishers to market their books is by getting authors to talk about themselves and their writing, and the internet is the ideal medium for reaching a global audience.
For that reason, we have invited authors whose books have been reviewed on the pages of ForeWord magazine to fill out a questionnaire or submit an essay. New authors will be added periodically, so check back in the future to read more. And by all means, write to us or your favorite author!
Selected quotes from Author pages
Stephen Evans --
"Minneapolis was inspiring for me as a writer. You could write about the Human Drama of Snow. Or use Snow as a Metaphor for the Universal Condition. Or you hurt your back shoveling Snow so that you had more Time to Write. Unfortunately, my novel is set in summer, or as they say in Minnesota, June." Ann H. Gabhart --
"I didn’t have any one person in my life who encouraged me to write. My family on both sides enjoyed books and I had an aunt who encouraged me in whatever I did. But I think most of my family thought my writing was just something cute I was doing that I would surely outgrow. I don’t think they realized how much a part of me writing was. Of course some of the reason for that was because as I got older, I became secretive about my writing for fear that someone might tell me it wasn’t something I could do. That it wouldn’t be practical even if I did write some kind of essay and won 100 baby chickens in a 4-H contest when I was in the 6th grade. I guess that’s the first writing I did that paid off." Jack Willis --
"I was a newspaper editor for twenty years and a journalism professor and student newspaper adviser for the last fifteen. My career meant everything. I wasn’t a very good multi-tasker. I wanted to write once I retired, but I just never retired. Then in 2005, cancer zonked me. I believe the disease was God’s way of telling me it was time for a change. A kick in the butt, if you will. The cancer scared me, and I retired in June 2007. Saving Jack, a story about a guy with breast cancer, was a natural for my first book. I write when I have something to say -- and when I don’t. My economics professor told me that I wrote a lot of words, but I didn’t say anything. I really didn’t have much to say about economics, but I believe that, over the years, my words have come to mean more." |