Publisher and author, Neil Marr worked as a  journalist for over 35 years before he and his son, Alex, set up BeWrite (a non-commercial writers’ website which offered free professional editorial services and optional online showcasing).

After three years, they transformed the website into BeWrite Books publishing house and have gone on to release over 120 paperback titles.

Neil Marr is the author of Bullycide: Death at Playtime (Success Unlimited, 2001), a groundbreaking book which exposed the epidemic of bully-related child suicides in the UK. The book received rave reviews around the world and sparked countless campaigns and Bullycide-dedicated websites, official studies, several follow up books and government and education authority action to combat school bullying in several countries.

Related resources:

• BeWrite Books, website
• BeWrite Books, blog

Interviews

• [Interview: Part 1 of 2] Neil Marr, Conversations with Writers, November 5, 2009
• [Interview: Part 2 of 2] Neil Marr, Conversations with Writers, November 10, 2009

Canadian authors, Dave and Lillian Brummet have written and published two “how-to” books, Purple Snowflake Marketing: How to make your book stand out in a crowd and Trash Talk: Learn how you can impact the planet as well as Towards Understanding (PublishAmerica, 2005)  a collection of 120 poems on society, the environment and overcoming trauma.

In addition to writing, the Brummets host two online radio programmes, Conscious Discussions talk radio show  and Authors Read radio program.

Related resources:

• Authors’ website
• Authors’ blog

Interviews

• [Interview: Part 1 of 2] Dave and Lillian Brummet, Conversations with Writers, October 19, 2009
• [Interview: Part 2 of 2] Dave and Lillian Brummet, Conversations with Writers, October 22, 2009

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Ulysses Chuka Kibuuka was born in1953 at Karera, Bugongi-Sheema, western Uganda. He attended St Peter’s College, Tororo and the Aga Khan School, Masaka. In 1986 Kibuuka was with the NRA guerrillas that ousted the Milton Obote regime and he still serves in the armed forces.

He has written and published three books: a thriller, For the Fairest (Fountain Publishers, 1991); a collection of short stories, Pale Souls Abroad (Fountain Publishers, 2004); and a novel, Saints and Scarecrows (Fountain Publishers, 2007).

His first novel, For the Fairest, won the 1993 Uganda Publishers and Booksellers Association (UPABA) Award for best fiction and was reviewed by The New Vision and Radio Uganda, among others.

Related Resources:

Author’s page, African Books Collective

Interviews

[Interview] Ulysses Chuka Kibuuka, Conversations with Writers, October 28, 2009

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Poet and novelist Gisela Hoyle was born in Barkly-West, in the Northern Cape of South Africa.

She attended Kimberley Girls High School and graduated with an M.A in English from Rhodes University.

She taught at Rhodes University and then at various schools in South Africa.

Currently, she lives and works in the UK .

The White Kudu (Picnic Publishing, 2010) is her first novel.

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Interview
[Interview] Gisela Hoyle, author of ‘The White Kudu’ Conversations with Writers, October 3, 2009

South African author, Jason Blacker was born in Cape Town but grew up in Johannesburg. He moved to Vancouver, Canada when he was 18 years old and currently lives in Calgary.

He spent some time at art college before getting a degree in English Literature. He has worked, among other things, as a police officer, a privacy analyst, a school bus driver and a Starbucks Store Manager.

His first novel, Black Dog Bleeding (Lulu, 2008) explores South Africa’s apartheid era and the personal cost paid by individuals who found the policy abhorrent and resisted it.

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Interview
[Interview] Jason Blacker, author of ‘Black Dog Bleeding’, Conversations with Writers, September 30, 2009