Interviews
Hi Mike Gentilcore, thank you for agreeing to this interview.
Oltobooks : Tell us a little about yourself and your background?
Mike Gentilcore : I am a retired Chemical Engineer in Greater St Louis.
Oltobooks : What are your ambitions for your writing career?
Mike Gentilcore : I have no immediate plans for another book.
Oltobooks : When did you decide to become a writer?
Mike Gentilcore : I wanted to write this story since the late 1980s. I kept notes and source material. Because of the content, I waited until I reached retirement age.
Hi Mary Langer Thompson, thank you for agreeing to this interview.
Oltobooks : Tell us a little about yourself and your background?
Mary Langer Thompson : I'm a retired secondary English teacher and public school principal who now writes full time.
Oltobooks : What are your ambitions for your writing career?
Mary Langer Thompson : To continue writing and publishing children's books, poetry, short stories, and eventually a novel.
Oltobooks : When did you decide to become a writer?
Mary Langer Thompson : My own high school English teacher told me I could write.
Hi Iyana Jenna, thank you for agreeing to this interview.
Oltobooks : Tell us a little about yourself and your background?
Iyana Jenna : I'm Iyana. I live in Jakarta, Indonesia and I mostly write guy on guy short stories.
Oltobooks : What are your ambitions for your writing career?
Iyana Jenna : I just want to share my stories to readers out there.
Oltobooks : When did you decide to become a writer?
Iyana Jenna : I've been writing since I was at the elementary school. I decided to publish my work in 2013.
Hi Stephen B. Pearl, thank you for agreeing to this interview.
Oltobooks : Tell us a little about yourself and your background?
Stephen B. Pearl : I'm a speculative fiction writer born and raised in southern Ontario Canada with a great love for cats and an interest in both science and metaphysics. I'm working on, at present, my thirty-third year of marriage and hope you enjoy my books.
Oltobooks : What are your ambitions for your writing career?
Stephen B. Pearl : To make a decent living. Also to finish off the sequels I have planned before I die of old age.
Oltobooks : When did you decide to become a writer?
Stephen B. Pearl : Many moons ago when university was a recent memory and before I knew better.
Hi Theodora Yeldell Mays, thank you for agreeing to this interview.
Oltobooks : Tell us a little about yourself and your background?
Theodora Yeldell Mays : I'm a Positive thinking, God-Loving & God-Fearing woman who loves inspiring people, especially our youth and I focus on possessing the attitude of gratitude no matter the situation.
Oltobooks : What are your ambitions for your writing career?
Theodora Yeldell Mays : I want people to see, read and absorb the heart and mind touching messages in my poems that will impact their thinking and feeling in a positive way.
Oltobooks : When did you decide to become a writer?
Theodora Yeldell Mays : I feel my writing juices were stirred up in me in the 3rd Grade when our English Teacher had us to pick from a list of topics and write it in the form of a poem. I selected the topic...OH SUMMER IS A FUN TIME. I enjoyed playing with and rhyming the words and became excited about what I could create the expression of my feelings in this enjoyable thought generating manner!!
Hi Margaret S Goldthorp, thank you for agreeing to this interview.
Oltobooks : Tell us a little about yourself and your background?
Margaret S Goldthorp : I am a retired property manager, living in Hampshire, UK
Oltobooks : What are your ambitions for your writing career?
Margaret S Goldthorp : To market my novels more widely and continue writing.
Oltobooks : When did you decide to become a writer?
Margaret S Goldthorp : At a very early age, but I only had the time to write novels following retirement.
