This week, eBookEnvy.com interviews Jacobo Schifter, author of Hitler in America and Love And Lust: American Men In Costa Rica.

eBookEnvy: Tell us a little about you, your writing, your passions.

Jacobo Schifter: I like writing and writing saved my life when I was a kid. I was born Jewish and Gay in a Catholic, homophobic society and I could not have my own voice as whatever I wanted to say was forbidden. When I left Costa Rica to pursue my University education in the States, I found myself in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle against the Viet Nam War, and the emergence of the feminist and gay movements. I don´t know how, but I got involved in all of them. This was enough to make some changes in my head!!! But coming out of the closet as a writer was even more difficult. My first books were historical books and “conventional”. The subjects I loved were forbidden subjects in Costa Rica. I could not write about them and [ more ]

This the first in a series of interviews with our publishing authors on Free-eBooks.net.

Today we talk with Peter Ward, author of Time Rep.

eBookEnvy: Tell us a little about you, your writing, your passions.

Peter Ward: Well, I live in London with my girlfriend and a very small cat. My passion is making people laugh, and I had a huge amount of fun coming up with the cast of characters in Time Rep and watching what happened when they found themselves trying to save the world. For anyone who has read Time Rep, my influences are probably quite obvious – Douglas Adams is my absolute hero, although I can’t help but feel that comparing me to him is like comparing a leftover Chinese takeaway with a stubbed-out cigarette in it to a seven-course Michelin-starred meal.