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The Bookhabit Show talks to Matt Fullerty, author of The Pride and the Sorrow, the winner of the Bookhabit Unpublished Competition. The international competition received nearly 300 unpublished books from authors vying for the $5000 prize. Fullerty is “thrilled” with the recognition and potential that winning the competition represents. He discusses how he got an agent for his book and how excited his agent is for him to have won. The agent thinks the award will help promote Matt’s book to Publishers.

The Pride and the Sorrow is the story of Paul Morphy (1837-1884), born in New Orleans (more…)

Diane Eble interviews Jane Kirkpatrick, author of Mending at the Edge

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Habitat by Sean Monaghan is a young adult Science Fiction thriller. The book moves along at a fast pace, with telepathic aliens destroying the peace on a giant space station. The inspirations for Sean’s writing are varied. He probably reads more than most people, being a librarian and creative writing tutor. The many environments and mediums he works in provide additional stimulation as he explores how art, music and writing can forge together to excite the recipient’s senses and improve his (more…)

Nathaniel Hensley talks with Clare Tanner on The Bookhabit Show and shares how writing has been the central theme in his life, and even had a part to play in the courting of his wife.

Nathaniel has been dabbling in Fiction writing for years, and for the most part it was based in the gloomy and dark genres of horror and crime. As his writing evolved, he began to blend the two genres, considered an unconventional category. When his first daughter was born, he decided he wanted to write something adventurous and a little spooky that he could read to his kids when they got a little older. Inspired by the style of the Harry Potter books, he decided to write the type of book that younger readers, as well as (more…)

Diane Eble interviews Cecil Murphey, coauthor of 90 Minutes in Heaven

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Sharon Kilzer has been writing most of her life. She currently works as an editor for an educational publishing firm, and spends her free time creating new adventures for Riki Storm, vampire hunter. Dark Jewel is Sharon’s first novel in what she hopes will become a vampire series featuring the irrepressible Riki Storm. (more…)

Robert Black, an English-born New Zealander, now gets to indulge his writing passion in China, where he is hoping to realize his dream of writing full time. Robert has a fascinating discussion on The Bookhabit show where he talks about a new understanding he has gained after living in the East for 7 years. It’s a lifestyle that now affords Robert the ability to live his life exactly as he wants, and you can’t ask for more than that. (more…)