IndieView with Francesco Paola, author of Left on Rancho

After a twenty-year career in tech, I spent two years working for a (legal) California cannabis company. I’d drive to the factory every day from Los Angeles, cross the Cajon pass into the Mojave Desert, and pass by multiple cannabis grow, extraction, and manufacturing facilities that were interspersed between private, County, and State prisons. 

Francesco Paola – 14 February 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Elizabeth A Tucker, author of The Pale Flesh of Wood

My target readers are folks who are not afraid to examine the harder aspects in life and enjoy lyrical prose. While there is nothing like a good quick, satisfying beach read while on vacation, that is neither a characterization of my book, my writing style, nor my target audience. 

Elizabeth A. Tucker – 11 February 2025 Continue reading

IndieView with Barbara Southard, author of Unruly Human Hearts

Elizabeth has often been depicted as a weak character, a woman who changed her story, but my own vision of Elizabeth is of a strong woman who had to overcome what must have seemed like insuperable challenges in an epoch in which women were expected to conform to a very strict code of conduct. 

Barbara Southard – 28 January 2025 Continue reading