Author interview with Z. Ferguson
Author interview with Z. Ferguson
What was your childhood ambition?
I first wanted to be a cartoonist for Warner Bros., then a DJ for KJR Seattle like my idol Pat O’Day, then a songwriter like Bob Dylan, and a storyteller like Mark Twain. There’s still time, isn’t there?
What ambitions do you still have?
Write and publish a few books of course, then set up a publishing house that
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Author interview with Jenny Swallows
Author Interview with Jenny Swallows
Q. What was your first job?
I was cashier at a little gas station in town…
Q. How did you end up being an erotic writer?
I was the girl who used to spend all day in class composing funny little verses to amuse my friends, and they just started growing more and more sexual – I suppose as I did. Then I carried on for my own amusement, until one day I sent one to another writer, Chrissie Bentley, after reading something she’d published online. She e-mailed back to say she loved it, and encouraged me to start posting on the same site (eroticstories.com). It was a little difficult at first, because I think I was the only person posting verse on the site and some readers were very hostile towards it, but I slowly found an audience and I’m now #26 on the readers’ Top 100 authors list. Continue reading