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Connecting Authors to Their Readers...
Connie Anderson and Andrea Sisco, Armchair Interviews™ hosts and interviewers have a long-time love of books, reading, talking about books, recommending good reads to others, etc. etc.
Both women are former television hosts who interviewed emerging and major authors.
This is a sampling of the authors both Connie Anderson (Author/Author) and Andrea Sisco (Book Talk) have interviewed:
- James Lee Burke
- Jan Karon
- Kinky Friedman
- Terry Brooks
- Michael Connelly
- Kathleen Eagle
- Lorna Landvik
- Laurence Shames
- Robert Crais
- Jon Hassler
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
Connie and Andrea met in 1976 when they were building their families through adoption. Friends since then, they have been involved in various events related to adoption, including working with Amerasians (American fathers/Asian mothers), running a national adoptive parent organization and publishing a bi-monthly magazine named OURS.
Connie:
Connie@ArmchairInterviews.com -- contact for contests, general information (not book review requests nor to be a reviewer)
Connie loves to read business, non-fiction, public affairs, how to, self-help, bios/autobiographies and general fiction. She also enjoys reading about the generational issues that affect everything we do, say and feel.
Connie has owned Words & Deeds, Inc., writing and editing for businesses since 1984. Her clients are small business owners for whom she immerses herself into their business so she can anticipate how they want to project the who, what and why of their business. www.WordsandDeedsInc.com
In the past several years, Connie has edited over 20 book manuscripts for self-published authors who wrote about their business hobby, work, special interests, passion, poetry, and even a couple novels. Recently a family hired Connie to write their father's biography, finished in time for his 90th birthday. What a fun experience to help this man relive the positive times of his life and then see it in print.
Connie lives with her husband of 40 years in Bloomington, Minnesota, just 10 minutes from the famous Mall of America. Their children are grown and off making them proud.
And Connie has no desire to ever write the great American novel ... but would love to have some of her humor columns published!
Andrea:
Andrea@ArmchairInterviews.com -- contact for book review requests. Andrea works with all the publicists, both at the publishers and independent.
Andrea takes delight in the written word. She loves the classics, mystery and Christian fiction in particular, but she reads a bit of science fiction/fantasy (particularly time travel), general fiction, and some non-fiction.
Andrea has had a varied career. She's worked as a model, flight attendant, probation officer and television host and has even appeared in a movie. She is currently finishing, with her writing partner, a Young Adult Fantasy (series) and sold her first novel (mystery) at the end of 2007 and it will be published in 2009.
Andrea and her husband Bob travel the world extensively. They reside in Minnesota during the summer months and Arizona during the winter. Between them, Andrea and her husband have twelve grown children (three adopted from Korea and one from Thailand) and fifteen grandchildren. Her grandchildren are the light and love of her life. They are truly God's gift and show us that humanity is worthwhile and oh so much fun.
Andrea doesn't care to write the great American novel either but would love to continue writing entertaining fiction.