Coffee Time! Michael Sanchez

Lorraine Carey is a retired children's reading specialist, teacher and, an International Award-Winning Author.  Her love for paranormal stories and urban legends began at a young age, when staying up all night to watch spooky movies or reading a scary book started a lifelong passion. Lorraine is no stranger to the paranormal, as she has encountered many unexplainable events during her lifetime. Ma...

Too much competition in printing hard and soft-cover books and the market is oversaturated. It is a growing market for those individuals, who plan to publish a book for the first time, and for those writers who've written and published multiple books, but are struggling in sales.  

Audiobooks is great source of business for authors. However, some authors prefer to hire someone else to do their work for them such as a voice actor. Should writers take advantage of narrating their work or let someone else take the credit?

Some audiences or groups enjoy a fairytale (happily ever after) story. Compared to others who enjoy a cliffhanger (open-ended) story where it leaves the audience or group with more questions than answers and look forward to a sequel. Which one do you prefer?

For some time now I have been asked if what I do is just a hobby and if it's my goal? Yes, many writers out there just do it for fun or to write for themselves like a memoir where the writer can look back at their notes to recount a memory, but that is not my goal. My goal is to inspire others while at the same time enjoying the work that I do as an author and maybe become a full-time author.

Over the years there have been great movies that originally came from great stories written by authors, who no one has ever heard of, and sometimes from popular authors, However, some movies do not provide the same magic as their counterparts and leave quite a bit of material out of the story. This sometimes upsets the audience and the author, because of the changes made in the story to make the m...

My good friend Mathew Burdette always wanted to write a book but was too afraid to do so, due to fear of rejection or failure, but was thrilled to know that I the host was a writer and had published several books. This inspired Mathew, so he advised me, that he would someday write and publish a book. It has been about two years now, and Mathew contacted me on Facebook and told me, that he finished...