Novelist Spotlight

In the spotlight is professor Graeme Yorston, the creator and host of the YouTube channel Insane History, on which he profiles many novelists, poets, writers and artists in general. So many of the celebrated lives of writers and artists have been affected by mental health issues. Graeme Yorston, through the Insane History channel, explores this fascinating and sometimes dark world. Yorston brings his 30 years of clinical experience as a neuropsychiatrist and his lifetime passion for history and the arts to present a wide range of biographical and historical documentaries. 

Access Graeme Yorston’s Insane History channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@professorgraemeyorston 

Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol. Check out his novels here: https://snip.ly/yz18no 
 
Write to Mike Consol at novelistspotlight@gmail.com

In the spotlight is novelist Tanaz Bhathena, an award-winning Zoroastrian author of contemporary and fantasy fiction. Her young adult books include Hunted by the Sky and The Beauty of the Moment, both of which won literary awards. Her acclaimed debut, A Girl Like That, was named a Best Book of the Year by numerous outlets including The Globe and Mail, Seventeen and The Times of India. Her debut adult fantasy novel is titled Witch Daughter and was published this fall. Born in India and raised in Saudi Arabia and Canada, Tanaz Bhathena lives in Southern Ontario with her family. 

Learn more about Tanaz Bhathena here: https://tanazbhathena.com

Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol. Check out his novels here: https://snip.ly/yz18no

Write to Mike Consol at novelistspotlight@gmail.com

In the spotlight in the late novelist and poet Charles Bukowski, as remembered by with David Calonne and Howard Sounes. Calonne is a lecturer with the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. Sounes is an author, and his books include the title Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life.

Charles Bukowski was a German American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his adopted city of Los Angeles. Bukowski’s work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, as well as his relationships with alcohol, women, and the drudgery of work.
 
Learn more about Charles Bukowski here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski
 
Learn more about David Calonne here:
https://www.emich.edu/english/faculty/d-calonne.php
 
Learn more about Howard Sounes here:
https://www.howardsounes.com/
 
Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol. Check out his novels here: https://snip.ly/yz18no

Write to Mike Consol at novelistspotlight@gmail.com

In the spotlight is Mark Farrington, who recently retired after nearly 40 years of teaching writing, the past 25 of them teaching writing programs at Johns Hopkins University. Consider his accolades:

His short fiction has won the Editor’s Choice Award in the Raymond Carver Fiction Contest 

He was awarded an Individual Artists Grant from the Virginia Commission on the Arts 

Four times he was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award in the Johns Hopkins MA in Writing Program 

He won the Outstanding Service Award from the Northern Virginia Writing Project 

And the Outstanding Alumni Award from the English department at George Mason University 

Farrington has just published his first novel, titled Loss of Life. The novel tells the story of 41-year-old Matthew Winton who awakens in a Virginia hospital after a car accident and has no memory of his life after the age of thirteen. 

Learn more about Mark Farrington and his writing instruction here: https://www.markfarrington.net

Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol. Check out his novels here: https://snip.ly/yz18no

Write to Mike Consol at novelistspotlight@gmail.com

In the spotlight is Kate McKean, literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her master’s degree in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi, and her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, and Catapult. She recently published her first book. The title is Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life. She also writes the Agents & Books newsletter at agentsandbooks.com.  
 
Learn more about Kate McKean here: https://www.katemckean.com/ 
 
McKean’s book, Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life, can be purchased here: https://snip.ly/nccjn7 
 
Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol. Check out his novels here: https://snip.ly/yz18no  
   
Write to Mike Consol at novelistspotlight@gmail.com