What inspired you to start writing? My father, Cotton Smith. By profession, he was an advertising creative director, a brilliant writer. I always wanted to do that. In fact, my parents used to laugh that, as a kid, I might...
How did you get started with writing? I've wanted to write, going as far back as when I was in junior high, but never seemed to have the motivation or time to actually give it a serious try. However, years...
What inspired you to start writing? At the earliest stages, the inspiration came from my teachers in school. I had memorable teachers in the third grade and in the eighth grade who inspired us to read and write. The eighth-grade...
What inspired you to start writing? I was born in Chicago, and I spent my first years of life on the South Side. When I was five, my family moved to an eight-hundred-square-foot, two-bedroom house that sat between two suburban...
What inspired you to start writing? I’ve often wondered if stories choose their writers instead of the other way around. For me, writing never felt like a hobby. It felt like a calling. The first time I seriously considered becoming...
Since the seventies, I have been an illustrator in both advertising and publishing. With a great many paperback and hardback book covers for Westerns, as well as many other genres. Probably the best known is the Edge and Steele Western...
What is your latest book about? It’s the story of a tough mom on the Kansas/Missouri border who’s raising her four wayward boys during the Civil War, and her fight to protect them against Bushwackers, involvement with the war itself,...
We asked Peter Brandvold about his latest Western series, where he gets his inspiration from, and what makes stories truly special. Check out the full interview below! ----- You've written quite a few Western series now under Wolfpack Publishing. How...
We recently sat down and asked Rough Edges Press author January Bain some questions about her most recent thriller series, her favorite part of being an author, and more. Check out the full interview below! ----- Why did you decide...
