Children are truly the greatest gift one can be given and should never be taken for granted. I feel each child was placed here on earth for a purpose. The greatest gift we can give back to our children is choosing to embrace them just the way they are. When my son Ty first told…
After I published my first book, a novel called “Only Moments” I decided to press on with a non-fiction book that documented my Near Death Experience that was written in that book ten years earlier before it actually happened to me.. I wanted to share those incredible things I’ve had been through with my NDE…
Eight years ago my youngest daughter Carly came in to my room. I was asleep and she woke me, crying, sobbing. Carly said, “I have been taking Oxycontin everyday for over a year and I can’t stop.” I wasn’t afraid. I was confused. I didn’t know what Oxycontin was. It turned out to be the…
Name: Mike Manos Name of Book: GOD’S POOR (Amazon-E-Bay, Infinity Publishing) How did you come up with the idea for your book? The idea of the story comes from a great man of Christian faith, Panteleimon, the late Bishop of Corinth, Greece, and more specifically from his book about the old heresies. Although I am…
One of the most-asked questions I get is, “What made you write Ethan’s Chase?” (The question I’m most asked is a tie between “Ma’am, do you understand these rights as they have been read to you?” and “Wow. They let you out already?”). The answer to the question—er, the writing question—is multi-faceted. First, I read…
Name: Vila SpiderHawk Name of Book: Hidden Passages: Tales to Honor the Crones Guest Post for The Story Behind the Book: Q: Where did you get the inspiration for your book? How Did you come up with the idea to write your book? While I have written all my life, I was drawn to…
The story behind the story? To be honest, there are several. Over the past several generations we’ve boxed the early nineteenth century into two categories. On the one hand, we’ve got the military swashbucklers—the Richard Sharpes, the Horatio Hornblowers and the Captain Jack Aubreys. And on the other, we’ve got the domestic version, which grew…
Name: Lian Dolan Name of Book: Helen of Pasadena When I finally sat down to write my first novel Helen of Pasadena, after 20 years of writing in almost every other form from essays to ad copywriting to cocktail party invitations, I knew I wanted to write a book like the kind of books I…
Many years ago, really only as a hobby, I wrote a children’s book – scribbling away whilst I waited for my cases to be heard in court. At the time, I was a young criminal trial attorney in England. After that, I took up a writing correspondence course (long before the advent of the internet…
Where do story ideas come from? In the case of The Staff of Rahgorra the initial spark came from an episode of the TV series Amazing Stories. Ever since my parents took me to see the original Star Wars when I was six I’ve been a science fiction junkie—a sci fi movie and TV junkie,…
The Story Behind the Book 