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Name: Ayn Hunt
Website: www.authorsden.com/aynhunt

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: Houston, TX, USA

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A. My third book, “The Haunting” came out in July, 2004 in both print and ebook forms and has received rave reviews. Like my first two books, it’s a Gothic, featuring two little old ladies, one of whom’s a psychic, who investigate murders along with their niece, who tries to keep them out of harm’s way. The other characters in my books are the ghosts of the murdered victims, who often have their own personal agendas and vendettas.

Q: How old were you when you started writing?
A: I wrote my first novel when I was 11.
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Name: Farideh Goldin
Website: www.FaridehGoldin.com
Contact: FaridehGoldin@aol.com

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: Shiraz, Iran

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman is recognized as a rare documentation of Jewish women’s lives in the beginning of the 20th century Iran

Q: How old were you when you first started writing?
A: 14, but then I stopped shortly after. Read the prologue to the book. I didn’t go back to writing until 3 decades later.

Q: When did you first realize you had the potential to be a writer?
A: When I was in high school and my friends loved hearing my essays read in the classroom.

Q: What was your inspiration to write your first novel?
A: I wrote a memoir. It started from telling my daughters bedtime stories about my childhood in Iran.
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Name: Libby Hughes
Website: libbyhughes

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I was born in Pittsburgh, PA, but lived in NJ, NY, MA, and Alabama growing up.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: Towards the end of 2004, I came out with the first biography of legal thriller writer, John Grisham. My biography “Ronald Reagan: from Sports to Movies to Politics” came out for young adults February 2005. Two weeks in April I drove to Illinois and Missouri on a book tour, speaking to 3,000 young people and a large number of adults. Reagan grew up in 5 or 6 towns in Illinois, so I covered most of them.
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Name: Debra Di Blasi
Website: www.debradiblasi.com
Contact: Jaded Ibis Productions, Inc.

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I was born in Kirksville, Missouri, and raised on a large cattle farm in Unionville, Missouri. The county was, at that time, the poorest in the state. It was a kind of poverty I doubt most people can comprehend today: children with one hand-me-down dress, old shoes too big or too small, no one bathing or feeding them at home, incest, abuse… Even I grew up without plumbing, though we were never short of food, of course, and had parents who cared deeply about our education and character.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: FC2 Books (www.fc2.org) will publish my new collection, The Jirí Chronicles & Other Fictions. It’s a group of conceptual writings, a term not many literary folks will understand. Conceptual writing explores the process of writing more than the plot, for example, and includes an enormous variety of styles and media. “The Jirí Chronicles” is not limited to the printed page, but ranges from video/audio to visual art, to poetry, to internet web pages and newsletters, to consumer products. The stories in the book are mixed media, incorporating appropriated images and text, original illustrations and digital prints, footnotes, marginalia, etc. These are not haphazard choices, but ones based on the Information Age we now live in. I like to refer to this work as IDR, Information Deluge Response, a term that can be easily applied to much of the current visual art being created today. In fact, like Douglas Coupland, my work arises as much from my education in the visual arts as in creative writing.
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Name: Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Website: www.lucyjanebledsoe.com
Contact: lucy@lucyjanebledsoe.com

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: Portland, Oregon.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: My most recent adult novel is “This Wild Silence.” My most recent kid’s novel is “The Antarctic Scoop.” My next book is a collection of narrative nonfiction, “The Breath of Seals: adventures in fear and grace,” and includes my travels in Antarctica as a two-time recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers in Antarctica program.

Q: How old were you when you first started writing?
A: I started writing stories as soon as I learned to write. Being a writer was the only career I ever wanted.
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