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Interview Friday: YA Author A.J. Tupps

Author Bio: Aimee Tupps grew up in a small farm community in Connersville, Indiana.  She currently resides in Grand Blanc, Michigan.  In her spare time she enjoys daydreaming, traveling, sunsets, the outdoors but most of all spending time with her family.  As a young girl she entertained herself by living adventures from her imagination.  Aimee looks at every day as a blessing and another day to make her dreams a reality.  She is still in touch with her inner teenager and enjoys the mischief she can get into. Family is one of the most important things in her life.  She has a degree in Medical Transcription.  Currently she works as an optical technician/tester.  She has one adoring husband who joins in her mischief or is the recipient of it along with her two loveable children and one hyper dog.  VS: What do you do to help balance your writing life with your family life? A.J: That is not an easy question.   This is something I work on daily.   My children ar

Book Review Thursday: One Gay American

Title of Book: One Gay American Author: Dennis Milam Bensie Author Website: http://dennismilambensie.com Publisher: CoffeeTown Press ISBN-10: 1603811532 ISBN-13: 978-1603811538 Price $13.95 Publication Date: September 2012 Genre of Book: Memoir About the Book:   Dennis Milam Bensie is One Gay American . Born in the 1960s and raised with traditional values in Robinson, Illinois, Bensie desperately wanted romance, a beautiful wedding, and a baby to carry on the family name. He denied his sexuality and married a woman at nineteen years old, but fantasized of weddings where he could be the bride. The newlyweds "adopted" a Cabbage Patch Doll and ironically witnessed a Cabbage Patch Doll wedding (a successful fundraiser staged by a local women's club) where the dolls were granted the type of grand ceremony off-limits to gay couples. In search of his identity as a gay man, Bensie divorced his wife and stumbled through missteps and lessons that still st

Interview Friday with Author Scott R. Caseley

I am excited to introduce Debut Author Scott R. Caseley on my blog today. While Isosceles is his first novel, he wrote and directed a dramatic feature, co-wrote and directed a documentary and wrote for an online magazine. He’s also a trained voice, stage, and screen actor. In addition to his creative pursuits, he is passionate about healthy living. He follows a mostly self-directed fitness quest consisting of weight training, walking, swimming, yoga, and hula hooping. When not working out, he also enjoys cooking healthy gourmet meals as well as playing board games with family and friends with plenty of coffee brewing to keep the fun going until the wee hours of the morning. VS: Welcome to my blog Scott. It really is a pleasure to have you here today. To get things started with you interview, can you share how long have you been writing?   Caseley: Since the second grade, my first short story was about nature and had a lot of personification though when my teacher told