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.
Maria Espinosa is an award-winning novelist. She was born on the East Coast but has lived in California most of her adult life. For the past eight
Carolyn Porter is a graphic designer, type designer, and author of ‘Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate’ (Skyhorse, 2017). Carolyn lives in
Theresa Kaminski holds a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of a trilogy of nonfiction history books on American
Christina Lane is the author of three books, including the recent Phantom Lady: HollywoodProducer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock, which Molly Haskell has
Christina Clancy is the author of the forthcoming novel The Second Home, out June 2020, St. Martin’s Press. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New
Byron Lane’s debut novel is called A STAR IS BORED, about a celebrity assistant struggling to manage his eccentric and hilarious movie star boss, inspired in part
Award-winning author Laurie Wallmark has written picture book biographies of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in fields ranging from computer science to mathematics to
GRETCHEN ANTHONY is the author of Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners, which was a Midwestern Connections Pick and a best books pick by Amazon, BookBub, PopSugar, and
Steven Rowley is the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016 and The Editor, named by NPR and Esquire Magazine
Dallas Woodburn is the author of the short story collection Woman, Running Late, in a Dress and the novel The Best Week That Never Happened. A former