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This issue features interviews with best-selling and award winning novelists. Bob Van Laerhoven, winner of the 2007 Knack Hercule Poirot Prize, for his mystery novel, Baudelaire's Revenge, talks about his horses, literary fiction, and about the boundaries of obscenity. John Michael Cummings, winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young People for his novel, The Night Freed John Brown, discusses reasons for writing young adult fiction, selling the first novel to Penguin, and other curious topics. Bestselling visionary author of The Transhumanist Wager, Zoltán Istvan, chats about the adventures he had working for National Geographic, and the philosophy behind his unique novel. The issue also includes a review of The Pizza Underground, a comedy rock band of which Mack Culkin is a minor band member. The issue is illustrated with photographs from a New York City photographer, Jeremy Freedman. The academic essays are from three widely published professors, David Comfort, Diane Todd Bucci, and Jeffrey P. Beck, the latter is also the Dean of the Graduate College at Kean University. Fiction pieces include a short story from the Editor, Anna Faktorovich, "My Life as a Werewolf," and stories from the Florida professor Luis Martínez-Fernández, and Tom Tolnay, the publisher of Birch Brook Press. The poets are all also very established professors, editors and writers, and include: Kika Dorsey, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, KV Wilt, and Michael Zucaro.
The summer when these pieces came in was a dramatic one for me and for Anaphora, as I moved from Tucson, Arizona to the Greater Atlanta, Georgia area. The move was more dramatic than I expected it to be because I ran into a string of rental fraud. This issue is also coming out later than any of my prior summer issues because of this rocky move, as I've had to publish a couple of contracted novels, and do various other projects ahead of finalizing this issue to recuperate from the cost of this migration. My first serious historical novel, The Romances of George Sand, is coming out in a couple of weeks, but I had to finish this issue before doing final publicity and readings scheduling for it. I'm delighted that so many great novelists participated in interviews with me for this issue, and I hope that more...