Author Interviews

Author Interviews: Tamara Hart Heiner, Ann Best, and G.M. Browning

Tamara Hart Heiner Perilous (WiDo Publishing, 2010)

Jaci Rivera has plans for her sophomore year: go to regionals with the track team, make the honor roll, and eat too much pizza with her best friends, Callie and Sara. Her biggest concern is Amanda, the pushy girl who moved in a few months ago.

What she doesn't plan for is catching a robber red-handed, or being kidnapped. The desperate thief drags her and her friends 2,000 miles across the Canadian border. They escape from his lair, only to find that he has spies and agents watching their path home, waiting to intercept them and take them back.

Then Jaci finds something out about her family. Something which irrevocably connects her to their kidnapper, and makes her question their chances of escape.

Tamara Hart Heiner interview

Ann Best In the Mirror Alone (WiDo Publishing, 2010)

In the Mirror Alone is a semi-autobiographical novel about a family in crisis. It begins in December of 1972 when Christine’s husband, a BYU instructor, confesses that he’s been having affairs with men and might lose his teaching position at the university.

Stunned and frightened, she begins to wonder how much she really loves him as she struggles to keep her marriage and family together.

Ann Best interview

G.M. Browning Cerulean Isle (WiDo Publishing, 2011)

“There are things in this world that others claim to be pure fantasy. To this I yell, nay! All stories, no matter how unbelievable, have a point of origin. There is a place out there named Cerulean Isle, the greatest of all Merfolk islands.” So ends the mysterious journal of a jailed pirate. This hastily inked memoir inspires the most wondrous and dangerous voyage of a lifetime.

In this high-seas adventure, friends Jacob and Grant must face their enemy, the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean, Captain Jean L’Ollon. When their ship is wrecked in the shallows of a blue, crystalline island, they wonder if this could be the fabled Cerulean Isle, home of the Merfolk? What secrets lurk in the mysterious waters of the Caribbean?

G.M. Browning interview

W. Everett Prusso, Lisa Dayley,and David J. West

W. Everett Prusso The Pirate Slayers, Book One: Ghost Waves (WiDo Publishing, 2009)

In the winter of 1846, 238 pioneers leave New York City for a voyage that would take them twenty-six thousand miles around South America to Honolulu, and to their final destination, San Francisco. On a warm, sultry, moonless night, off the coast of Brazil, four teenage passengers inadvertently fall overboard. Thomas, Elizabeth, Nicole and their Australian sailor friend, Matthew, find themselves stranded in dangerous waters. The Caribbean Sea and South Pacific are the backdrops for this adventure that pits the foursome in desperate contests with pirates, profiteers and scoundrels as they swash-buckle their way to California.

W. Everett Prusso interview

Lisa Dayley The Frozen Trail (WiDo Publishing, 2010)

Based on a true story, the The Frozen Trail details Emma Girdlestone's 1856 trek across the United States with the Willie Handcart Company to Utah. It tells of a remarkable woman who endured a voyage across the ocean, dust storms and blizzards to join her fellow Latter-Day Saints in Zion, the land of milk and honey - "where it was warm."

Lisa Dayley interview

David J. West Heroes of the Fallen (WiDo Publishing, 2010)

Heroes of the Fallen is a chronicle that dramatizes the tragic end of a great civilization. After a golden age of peace, lasting almost three hundred years, war is coming to Zarahemla. Men beat their plowshares into swords or call vainly to pagan gods for answers, all the while forgetting that which could deliver them.
    Stand alongside daring heroes with swords bared against sinister villains, never knowing which will fall--Captain Amaron and his Ten Scouts, Zelph the White Lamanite, or Anathoth the Lamanite General, agonizingly loyal to the despised King of Tullan-- all must face the chillingly evil Gadianton Master Akish-Antum and his numerous followers.
    Witness the plans of mighty kings and lowly thieves. See the dreams of Bethia, a prophet’s daughter, as she runs away from home seeking independence, only to find confusion and wickedness in a land at war.
    Heroes of the Fallen is full of tragedy and triumph. It echoes universal themes of mankind: fear and courage, faith versus doubt, hunger for power and love, and sacrifice for the greater good.
    Intensely researched, Heroes of the Fallen, is a literary work of art, presenting revolutionary viewpoints in a cross-genre's ancient American landscape.

David J. West interview

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