Stephen Brayton's Blog – July 2011 Archive (5)

Around the Globe with YVONNE EVE WALUS

With Iowa enduring a July heat wave, I so want to get in my transporter and go to someplace cool to interview this week's author. However, the controls are jammed and I'm stuck. So this week's questions are asked and answered hrough a series of instant messages. Where is my author? I'll let her tell you.

1. Who is Yvonne Eve Walus and what makes you the most fascinating person in your city?

Hi! I’m writing this on my laptop at one of Auckland’s boat clubs. The sun… Continue

Added by Stephen Brayton on July 29, 2011 at 8:31pm — No Comments

Arond the Globe with OPHELIA JULIEN

Finally, we get a little rain try to cool off things around here, but I'm off to the land of cheese with this week's featured author. She gives me directions and soon we're basking in chairs a stone's throw away from Green Bay (the water, not the town) sipping cool refreshments.

1. Who is Ophelia Julien and what makes you the most fascinating person in your city?

I'm still trying to figure out who I am myself! At the moment, I'm a writer/student/grandmother raising a… Continue

Added by Stephen Brayton on July 23, 2011 at 12:36am — No Comments

Around the Globe with MARGOT JUSTES

Up early on this Friday morning, knew the day would be another hot one, so I dash to my transporter to meet this week's author Margot Justes. Where? Well, I'll let her tell you as an introduction/answer to my first question.

1. Who is Margot Justes and what makes you the most fascinating person in your city?

I’m an author, and while researching my next novel, I found myself in the middle of the Sahara desert surrounded by nomads who cannot speak English. You came to… Continue

Added by Stephen Brayton on July 15, 2011 at 7:48pm — No Comments

Around the Globe with MARTIN BARTLOFF

This week's featured author had no specific destination in mind for our interview, so seeing he was from Germany, I kindly asked him if he'd mind if we visited several places of interest in the old…

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Added by Stephen Brayton on July 9, 2011 at 12:59am — No Comments

Around the Globe with JO ANNE ALLEN

On this very hot (but sunny) day in Iowa, I quickly get into my air conditioned transporter, set the controls for Grand Junction, Colorado, to pick up this week's author, Jo Anne Allen. Then we do a short skip over to Vail. I haven't been here in over three decades. Oh, the memories...breaking the car key off in the ignition (Dad and I couldn't lock the door the entire trip); tennis; white water rafting (Dad fell out of the the boat); and a very weird memory of the longest lasting strawberry… Continue

Added by Stephen Brayton on July 2, 2011 at 2:18am — No Comments