ForeWord Magazine Author Pages
As the only trade magazine that exclusively reviews independent titles, we feel that providing a marketplace for independent publishers and their authors is crucial. One of the best ways for publishers to market their books is by getting authors to talk about themselves and their writing, and the internet is the ideal medium for reaching a global audience.
For that reason, we have invited authors whose books have been reviewed on the pages of ForeWord magazine to fill out a questionnaire or submit an essay. New authors will be added periodically, so check back in the future to read more. And by all means, write to us or your favorite author!
Selected quotes from Author pages
Yale Strom --
"The story "The Wedding That Saved A Town" came from my ethnographic research I had been doing in Poland in the 1980s among the remnant Jewish communities. I had a particular interest in klezmer music - Yiddish instrumental folk music - and was searching for lost melodies and songs. One day I was in the town of Ropczyse in a home of an old Jewish man who had played klezmer before the war. He told me about this story of playing for an orphan bride and groom in a cemetery to help break the plague of cholera. At first I did not believe it but when I read about it in several sources then I realized it was true." Gina M. Bennett --
"I’ve worked with students at my children’s elementary school on writing and am so impressed by their creativity. What they often lack is confidence. It’s difficult when you are still learning the basics of grammar and punctuation to feel confident about telling your story. If I had one piece of advice for a young writer I would say that the grammar and punctuation you can learn, creating and believing in your story comes from within, so if you focus on that, the rest will fall into place. " Ann Wroe --
"Over the past 20 years I’ve written five non-fiction books, including three biographies---of Pontius Pilate, Perkin Warbeck and the poet Shelley---but they’ve all been done in my spare time, evenings, weekends and holidays. I write in a little blue-and-white shed at the end of the garden, like a beach hut. Our house is full of boys, a dog and an untidy husband, so this is the nearest thing to a study I have. It’s hidden behind the bushes, where no one can see me, and it’s my favourite place in the world. I write with black biro on an A4 pad; no computers allowed. They’re for my work writing, and pen and paper keep me aware of writing as a craft, something physical and tactile. Even in winter I hunker down in my shed, with a noisy old fan-heater, and listen to the squirrels thundering over the roof and the foxes barking. But in fact this wild place is only four miles from Trafalgar Square." |