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Below are interviews conducted by BAIPA members of BAIPA members. If you'd like to be interviewer or interviewee, contact [email protected]. You learn more about the BAIPA Author Interviews here.

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Early New Year’s Resolution: Double BAIPA Author Interviews in 2018

December 4, 2017 by John Byrne Barry

It's too early for New Year’s resolutions, but I'm going to make one anyway, which is to make the BAIPA authors-interviewing-authors section of this blog the happening spot in 2018. We have 14 author interviews posted, but we have 180 members, so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BAIPA News, interview

Making the Best Life Possible After Retirement — Interview with Gloria Dunn-Violin

November 12, 2017 by WoodyWeingarten

Gloria Dunn-Violin of Novato talked with scores of folks before writing her second book. One of the saddest stories she heard was about “a man who had a lucrative business and retired without a clue about how to spend the rest of his life. He … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BAIPA News, Book Promotion, interview Tagged With: retirement

Joel Friedlander’s Journey to Becoming Go-To Expert on Book Publishing, Cover Design, and More

July 1, 2017 by John Byrne Barry

On July 8, in the morning session, Joel Friedlander will present We All Judge Books By Their Covers — How to Create Book Covers That Work; for the afternoon session, he'll be part of a panel doing live critiques of BAIPA authors’ book … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author Platform, BAIPA News, book design, interview, Spotlight on BAIPA Members Tagged With: cover design

Rollercoaster to Sizzle: An Interview with Woody Weingarten

May 19, 2017 by John Byrne Barry

Continuing with our author-interviews-author series, BAIPA board member John Byrne Barry interviews author Woody Weingarten, who wrote Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner’s breast cancer, after his wife recovered from breast … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BAIPA News, interview

BAIPA Author Pens ‘Cartoonish’ Mystery Play Being Staged in Mill Valley

March 4, 2017 by WoodyWeingarten

John Byrne Barry, winner of the 2015 BAIPA Best Book Award, has written a murder mystery play that’s opening this weekend in Mill Valley. It's called Publish or Perish: Tam Valley Mystery Writers’ Retreat Murder Mystery, It might be fun for you to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BAIPA News, humor, interview, Spotlight on BAIPA Members Tagged With: Mill Valley, murder mystery

JoAnn Smith Ainsworth and Her Five Navy Psychics

January 28, 2017 by Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD

JoAnn Ainsworth’s books have been racking up awards, including a recent 2016 Best Book Awards Finalist in the 'Fiction: Mystery/Suspense’ category. Her six novels reflect the exciting life she described in our fascinating chat. The heroine of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BAIPA News, interview Tagged With: psychics

An Editor’s Life — Christina V. Kueppers Interviews Linda Jay

August 10, 2016 by Christina V. Kueppers

In our continuing series of BAIPA members interviewing fellow BAIPA members, author Christina V. Kueppers interviews editor/writer Linda Jay "You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BAIPA News, Editing, interview, Spotlight on BAIPA Members Tagged With: Christina V. Kueppers, Linda Jay

From Climber to Kunoichi: Interview with David Kudler About his New Book ‘Risuko’

June 18, 2016 by John Byrne Barry

Continuing with our author interviews author series, BAIPA board member John Byrne Barry interviews BAIPA vice-president David Kudler Somehow David Kudler, founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief for Stillpoint Digital Press, overseer of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author Platform, BAIPA News, Book Promotion, ebooks, interview, Spotlight on BAIPA Members, writing Tagged With: David Kudler, John Byrne Barry, Risuko

David Kudler Interviews Christina V. Kueppers

June 4, 2016 by David Kudler

In our continuing series of BAIPA authors interviewing BAIPA authors, BAIPA board member David Kudler interviewed author Christina V. Kueppers.  Enjoy! No matter what their origin, folktales always come from the “old country.” They speak to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author Platform, BAIPA News, Book Promotion, interview, marketing, self-publishing, Spotlight on BAIPA Members, writing Tagged With: Christina Kueppers, David Kudler, Excursion to Mars, modernfairytaleteller.com, Prince Alexander and His Moustachioed Adventures, The Kingdom of Sunnymerrylandia, Tommy the Brownie

Mining Minnesota for Stories, an Interview with Author Tim Jollymore

January 23, 2016 by John Byrne Barry

[BAIPA member John Byrne Barry continues his series of BAIPA authors interviewing BAIPA authors.] Tim Jollymore, a former English teacher in Oakland, who grew up in northern Minnesota, has written and published two novels, Listener in the Snow, set … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Author Platform, BAIPA News, Book Promotion, ebooks, independent bookstores, interview, libraries, marketing, Networking, publicity, self-publishing, Spotlight on BAIPA Members Tagged With: 2015 Next Generation Indie Award for Best Fiction, Bones in the Wash, IPPY, John Byrne Barry, Listener in the Snow, Observation Hill NaNoWriMo, Tim Jollymore, Wasted

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