Self-Published Authors in the News

Kirk Forbes, author of Love, Kristen, was featured in a Public Service Announcement regarding cervical cancer. Forbes’ book remembers his daughter, who lost her battle with cervical cancer at only 23 years old. Book details >>

Joseph’s Review Blog gave a positive review of Dave Moyer’s Life and Life Only. “Good work by Moyer with this semi-autobiographical tale,” said the blog. Book details>> 

The Register-Guard (Eugene, Ore.) featured Steve Greene, author of Exploring Wild Death Valley and Death Valley Book Of Knowledge. His belief in non-petroleum vehicles led to Greene riding from Florence, Ore. to a speaking engagement at Death Valley National Park on a tricycle. Book details >>

Daryl Pinksen, author of Marlowe’s Ghost, was interviewed by the St. John’s Morning Show on CBC Radio One 640 AM (Newfoundland and Labrador). Pinksen discusses the theory that Shakespeare’s work was actually written by another famous, and controversial, playwright named Christopher Marlowe. Book details >>

James L. Hendricks, author of The 440^th Signal Battalion, was featured in the Mountain Democrat (El Dorato County, Calif.). Eager to journal the stories of men who served in the 440^th battalion, Hendricks sent surveys to over 1,000 veterans. His project soon turned into a published book. Book details >>

What If Your Prince Falls Off His Horse? was a finalist in the USA Book News Best Book Awards. The book gives women the tools to get involved in financial planning. Book details >>

The Beethoven Journal, published by the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San José State University, reviewed The Beethoven Years by Robert Shearer. The journal is sent to all members of the American Beethoven Society and many libraries. Book details >> 

Beth’s Book Review Blog gave a positive review to Dave Moyer’s Life and Life Only. “There’s a very realistic quality to the characters and their situations and actions that was very appealing,” Beth said.  The book earned a “Like It.” Book details >>

Kirk Forbes, author of Love, Kristen, was featured in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. The journal is published by Oncology Nursing Society. Book details >>

The Independent Collegian (Toledo, Ohio) featured Randy V, author of Coven of Celsus Elizabeth. The vampire novel differs from other vampire novels in the amount of explicit content. “I write best when I do not restrict myself,” the author told the Independent Collegian. Book details >>

Dr. Gregg Korbon, author of Beyond Reason, was interviewed on the Morning Edition radio show on NPR. At only nine-years-old, Korbon’s son, Brian, told Korbon and his wife he would die before his tenth birthday. He collapsed during a Little League game later that year. Book details >>

Brian Q. Torff, jazz bassist and author of In Love With Voices was interviewed in the Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.) “I conceived the idea to tell my story, but to do so primarily through the many great musicians I’ve been fortunate to work with,” Torff told the Courant. Book details >>

The Cape Cod Times featured Elizabeth Moisan, author of Master of the Sweet Trade.  An article about the pirate ship Whydah inspired her to write the novel. Originally, she wrote the book for children but expanded and geared it for adults to avoid sugarcoating the pirates’ more controversial behavior. Book details >>

Dave Moyer, author of Life and Life Only, was highlighted on CLHoops.com, the CLBA Web site. Moyer is donating one dollar to the CLBA for every book purchased through the Web site. Book details >>

Dave Moyer, author of Life and Life Only was featured in Trib Local (Crystal Lake, Ill.) Moyer’s short story The Price of Humiliation was published in Puffin Circus literary magazine. Book details >>

The Global Talk Radio Blog featured Michael McKay, author of A Big House for Little Men, a book that follows fictional character Cody through the Massachusetts prison system. “I myself like speaking to today’s youths and explaining to them about the system and how not to go down that wrong path in life,” McKay told the blog. Book details >>

Linda Foster, author of Struggling for Love and Life, was featured in the Daily News (McKeesport, Pa.). Foster was preparing for a book signing in the same bookstore where she used to shop for books. Book details >>

Nora Novak, author of Art Damaged, was interviewed in the Modern Luxury Riviera (Newport Beach, Calif.) “I felt I had a story to tell set in the art industry,” Novak told the Riviera. Book details >>

The Independent (Northumberland, Ontario) spotlighted Albert Dell’Apa, author of How to Win a Chestnut Fight. Dell’Apa wrote the book as a tribute to his parents, who immigrated to Canada from southern Italy. Book details >>

R.K. Price, author of I’ve Already Met the Devil, was featured in the Alexandria Times. Price once worked as a political and media consultant for the presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. Book details >>

Stanley Ely, author of Living Alone Creatively, was interviewed by Brian Sandell of Before Bedtime on Blog Talk Radio. “Twelve percent of American women and sixteen percent of men now enter their forties never being wed, the highest percentage in the nations history.” Ely told Sandell. Book details >>

The Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.) featured Neal, E. Wixson, author of  Echoes from the Boys of Company ‘H,’ a collection of letters, journals and diaries of the Civil War soldiers from Company H, 100^th Regiment. Wixson and his daughter spent years transcribing sometimes barely legible letters for the book. Book details >> 

The U.S. Department of Energy added Darryl McMahon’s The Emperor’s New Hydrogen Economy to its textbook catalog. The catalog provides a list of textbooks, handbooks, research reports, and other works that can be helpful to those studying forms of energy. Book details >>

Bob Murray of 1240 WTAX News Radio (Springfield, Ill.) interviewed Isaac Morris, author of The Absence of Goodness. Morris discussed the process of writing and publishing a book. Book details >> 

Amy Liptak Caruso, author of The Black Squirrel Ball, was featured in The Republican (Southwick, Mass.) Caruso’s mystery novel, based on a local park, is not targeted to the usual mystery-reading audience. “It’s a curl up on the couch, sunny, silly mystery,” Caruso told The Republican. Book details >>

Bill Hunt, author of A Full-Grown Man, was featured in The News Courier (Athens, Ala.) after winning first place in the Almost Famous Authors Faire. A Full-Grown Man is Hunt’s first completely fictional work. Book details >>

The Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, has nominated Ghetto to Ghetto, by Ernest H. Adams, for The Sophie Braded Award. The award recognizes literature works that explore the Jewish experience. Book details >> 

The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.) featured Animals in Heaven? Catholics Want to Know! by Susi Pittman. Pittman is preparing for an upcoming book signing. Book details >>

Johnny Bluehorse, by Emery Mehok, was featured in the The Times of Northwestern Indiana (Munster, Ind.) “Westerns are not wildly popular like they once were,” Mehok tells The Times, “but I love doing them.” Book details >>