If Grief Is An Elephant

August 23, 2023

If Grief Is An Elephant

If grief is an elephant, imagine how a small child might begin to encounter it: large, unfamiliar, weighty, an unwieldy mass. You might hear…

October 20, 2022

On Creating The Vivid and Continuous Dream of Fiction

Illusions made use of the relationship between the imagination and deeply instinctual emotions like fear and desire. People saw what they wanted to see…

September 15, 2022

Meant to Be: Author Jo Knowles’ Mission to Help Young Readers Make Sense of Their Lives

We are talking to young adult Author Jo Knowles about her two recent books, Meant To Be (Candlewick Press, 2022) and Where The Heart…

August 5, 2022

Pen Names and Personas with Trish Esden

When we first reached out to author Trish Esden about interviewing her for AuthorPods, we wavered between which of her pen names we should…

June 13, 2022

For The Love of Purple: Engaging with Author Laurie Forest

I knew I needed to talk with Laurie Forest about the relationship she’s cultivated with her readers after I attended Phoenix Books’ “most interactive…

May 2, 2022

Melanie Finn wins The 2021 Vermont Book Award

The 2021 winners for The Vermont Book Award have been announced and AuthorPods is delighted to share that author Melanie Finn is among them…

April 1, 2022

Discover Their and Her Art

We are talking to author Jean Leibowitz who paints under the name of Jean Wiecha and who spent 35 years working as a scientist…

March 15, 2022

Books by Ukrainian Novelists

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, the non-stop influx of news has exposed how very little so many of us know about the country’s…

March 6, 2022

Dayna Lorentz: Community, Connection and Healing

Dayna Lorentz is an attorney in the Vermont judiciary system who once worked in the foster system. She’s also a mother, an animal lover,…

February 17, 2022

Meat, Cheese, and Human Connection

An Interview With Jeff Roberts Jeff Roberts begins our conversation by calling himself a jack of all trades but a master of none, a…