My first book was published in February 2006. I remember the first time I saw it on the bookshelves. I’d been at my local Barnes & Noble shopping when I went to the fiction section to browse and came upon my book. I knew I’d signed a contract with a publisher and we’d done everything…
I no longer remember the original inspiration for this book, but that is understandable when you look at its entire journey. I do remember working on this book when we lived on Applegate in Austin, Texas. (We moved to Georgetown, Texas from there in 1973.) In other words, it was started a very long time…
About Daren Krupa A native of New York State Krupa grew up in Phoenix and worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, waiter and telemarketer. At least a dozen novels have presented themselves throughout his life. Such a Nice Boy is the second he wrote and the first to be published. Krupa lives in the…
I no longer remember the original inspiration for this book, but that is understandable when you look at its entire journey. I do remember working on this book when we lived on Applegate in Austin, Texas. (We moved to Georgetown, Texas from there in 1973.) In other words, it was started a very long time…
Name: Larry Jukofsky Name of Book: The Final Victim Guest Post for The Story Behind the Book: Q: How did you come up with idea to write your book? Having read Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the only original as far as vampires are concerned, I realized that all post Dracula literature…
Name: Maria Lucia Name of Book: Liberation, Book One of the Andrusian Chronicles Guest Post for The Story Behind the Book: Liberation Book Synopsis Amora Madre is content in the Smokey Mountains pursuing her teaching of love, things of the spirit, and metaphysics. Her childhood invisible playmates, Casey and Nia, are always by her…
Chamed is not the registry office name of the author, yet it is not a pseudonym. She lives in Tuscany, she works mostly abroad, as a painter on canvas and porcelain. Some of her porcelain works are displayed in exhibitions in Italy, Sweden and Poland, France, Portugal and Brazil. My Heart Stopped Beating is her…
The inspiration to compose “Goddess Mother Speaks” came to me as a direct insight and message from the Goddess Mother. As a spiritual Guru, I spend much time communing with the God Force through meditation and contemplation. Over the years of development, I began to develop an attunement to certain higher frequencies such as the…
Thirty years ago, I wrote Sentiments of Blue while attending Western Michigan University. Back in those ancient times, a writer couldn’t store a story on a computer file. I left the manuscript somewhere in the basement of my first house, and over time, it seemed to vanish. The story received decent reviews from my classmates,…
When Stars Align is a historic fiction that describes societal changes that were wrought by the Civil War and its aftermath. In 1865 General Grant moved 200,000 troops into the Confederate States to enforce equality during Reconstruction. During the decade that followed ex-slaves made major progress in education, government and business. States legislated equality and…
The Story Behind the Book 