Issue 10 Interviews

Check out our interviews with these exciting authors:

By the time Beverly Donofrio had reached her fifties, she thought she had seen it all. She had already lived two lives, first as a scrappy young mother on the streets of the East Village and later as the bestselling author of memoirs, including Riding in Cars with Boys, which had been translated into sixteen languages and made into a popular motion picture. Now, she was living in a vibrant, picturesque Mexican town, in a home she had built herself, where she practiced yoga, drank margaritas on her terrace, danced salsa. Still, the religious practices that had nourished her for several years had faded and she felt lost. She missed God. Then, one night, she woke to find a serial rapist holding a knife in her bed. So begins Astonished: A Story of Healing and Finding Grace (Viking), an astonishing memoir that charts Donofrio’s journey–through denial, mourning, and anger to acceptance and peace. She retreats to five very different monasteries, questioning, often humorously, herself, her life, her faith., As Publishers Weekly writes in its review, ” . . . the simple act of asking questions proved a salve, as she depicts in this insightful, candidly unfolding, soul-bearing journey to grace.”

Beverly Donofrio was interviewed by Nicholas Garnett, nonfiction editor.

Paul D. Brazill is the author of A Case of Noir, Guns of Brixton and The Neon Boneyard. He was born in England and lives in Poland. He is an International Thriller Writers Inc. member whose writing has been translated into Italian, German and Slovene. He has had writing published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Books of Best British Crime 8,10 and 11, alongside the likes of Ian Rankin, Neil Gaiman and Lee Child. He has edited a few anthologies, including the best-selling True Brit Grit – with Luca Veste.

Paul was interviewed by Hector Duarte Jr., bilingual fiction editor.

K.A. Laity is the award-winning author of White Rabbit, A Cut-Throat Business, Lush Situation, Owl Stretching, Unquiet Dreams, À la Mort Subite, The Claddagh Icon, Chastity Flame, and Pelzmantel, as well as editor of Weird Noir, Noir Carnival and Drag Noir (she also writes under other names). Her bibliography is chock full of short stories, humor pieces, plays and essays, both scholarly and popular. She spent the 2011-2012 academic year in Galway, Ireland where she was a Fulbright Fellow in digital humanities at NUIG. Dr. Laity teaches medieval literature, film, gender studies, social media and popular culture at the College of Saint Rose. She divides her time between upstate New York and Dundee.

She was interviewed by Hector Duarte Jr.