Interviewing authors

I've just finished reading Alan Spence's The Pure Land, which I thought was fantastic. I'm trying to arrange an interview with him (well timed, as the paperback is just about to be published). While reading the book I realised we were missing a biography page for Spence, so I fixed that today. Usually, we interview authors by email for speed and simplicity, but sometimes I think that face-to-face works better. I'd love to know how Alan Spence researched 19th century Nagasaki, the Japanese Samurai code, the life of Thomas Glover. I'd like to ask about how much of the story is fiction - without saying, bluntly, "how much did you make up"?

We have interviews with Janet Paisley and Brian Whittingham planned too, so hopefully you'll see them on the site later in the summer.

This month we featured three author interviews - Allan Guthrie spoke to Ray Banks, and we interviewed Mark McKay and Joan Lingard. We like featuring author interviews on BooksfromScotland.com, so who would you like to see interviewed in the future? I think we are particularly short on children's authors, and I think there's scope for more non-fiction author interviews too.

We are also toying with the idea of audio interviews - something that textualities.net, another great books & literature site, does a lot of . We need to sort out the technology - and we also need to know if that's something BooksfromScotland.com readers want. Drop me a line - editor@booksfromscotland.com - and let me know.