My first close reading of David and Bathsheba left me with so many questions. The debate as to whether their coupling was consensual felt incredibly modern and #metoo. What was more striking to me, however, was that Bathsheba did not have a voice in the story. I was inspired to give her one.
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg – 2 April 2024 Continue reading
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I struggled with the excavation of many painful memories. Painful, but essential in order to resolve my trauma.
Tracy Mayo – 30 March 2024 Continue reading
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As our tagline says, “A true story about a pretend world,” Closet of Dreams IS the make-believe world Mark and I invented and lived-out in that magical closet—years and years of adventures.
Mark Ukra & Tara Mesalik MacMahon – 27 March 2024 Continue reading
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I have a deep love for fantasy worlds, especially their lore. Creating universes from scratch, from the first spark of the cosmos that gave birth to dragons to the world’s end, fascinates me. I’m enthralled by the politics, language, and the diverse beings that inhabit different parts of these worlds.
Erik Julkin – 24 March 2024 Continue reading
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The spark was my high school chemistry teacher who taught our class about the orbital properties of large elements, and that superheavy elements might exist and have unique properties. Others have had this idea with the hope of superconductivity, but I went to time travel. From there I imagined scoops of the past naturally jumping forward hundreds or millions of years via lightning strikes, and why no one had noticed.
Sean Ryan – 9 March 2024 Continue reading
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Since I was a little, I’ve been prone to escapism. I was perfectly happy being left alone to make up movies in my head. As I got older, the cast of characters grew with me and became more complex. They developed backstories. They could deal with the issues and traumas I sometimes confronted in reality.
A.D. Metcalfe – 2 March 2024 Continue reading
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The only fictional characters in the story were those that play a supportive role. All the primary characters were real.
Glenn Hileman – 27 February 2024 Continue reading
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I decided to take advantage of the long weekends, and developed a goal to visit 13 countries in 13 weeks. Each weekend I would travel to a new country, recording everything that happened in my travel journal. Little did I know about ten years later, that journal would be used to kick off my first book!
Autumn Carolynn – 24 February 2024 Continue reading
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The way I write means I try to put myself into the place of my characters and putting myself into such a dark headspace is challenging, to say the least.
Joseph P Macolino – 20 February 2024 Continue reading
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I went this way because of past history and I knew that it would be a free and quick way to get my book out for sale on Amazon.
Christiopher Hearn – 20 February 2024 Continue reading
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