Author interviews almost always focus on questions regarding an author’s latest publication (and that’s great because it’s how readers discover new books!) but sometimes it’s fun to ask authors to talk about their lives beyond the book they’ve just written. Authors Answer poses 20 standing questions and asks authors to pick FIVE that they want to write about.
I began Authors Answer in 2020 as a stand alone blog. In 2025 I moved the project into a Substack newsletter. All of the posts that appeared on the original blog are available below. [You can also scroll through the original posts by date.]
Are you an author? Visit the Questions page to pick five of the twenty questions you’d like to answer and have shared in the Authors Answer Substack Newsletter.
Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of eight novels including THE ANCESTOR and THE MENTOR, currently in development as a film off his original script, and the YA
Jacqueline Friedland is the author of the award-winning novels Trouble the Water and That’s Not a Thing. Her newest release, He Gets That From Me, comes out September
Codi Schneider is the author of COLD SNAP: A Viking Cat Mystery (SparkPress). She was raised in the snowy mountains of Colorado on a steady diet of books. She is
Linda C. Wisniewski is a former librarian who shares an empty nest with her retired scientist husband in Doylestown, PA. Linda teaches memoir workshops and produces webinars for
Barbara O’Neal is the bestselling author of fourteen novels of women’s fiction, including The Lost Girls of Devon, When We Believed in Mermaids, The Art of Inheriting Secrets, and How to Bake
Mary Margaret lives in Olds, Alberta with three cats, two kids, and one dog. Her debut novel Time After Time: Backward, and its follow up Time After Time:
Born a missionary kid in Kobe, Japan, and homeschooled on the American Great Plains as part of an evangelical community, Jaye Viner straddles many worlds and too many
Gail Reitano grew up in the southern New Jersey Pine Barrens. She graduated from Rutgers University and lived in London for twelve years before moving to the San Francisco
Samantha Specks is a licensed independent clinical social worker. Dovetails in Tall Grass is Samantha’s debut novel. Currently, she is writing Dovetails of a River, which is set
Susan Frances Morris is the author of THE SENSITIVE ONE: A Memoir (She Writes Press). She was raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, the second-oldest of seven siblings with two sets of twins. She was