There are small pieces of other people I love or admire sprinkled across different characters, but the most fun thing about creating characters is watching them take on lives of their own that you didn’t plan for and certainly never imagined.
Kate Keridan – 10 October 2024 Continue reading
Texas is the wintering home for the only wild flock of the endangered Whooping Crane and a big attraction for birders in the Gulf area. Coincidentally, I learned that the Whooping Crane mates for life. I thought this was the perfect Crane to “star” in my romance.
Diane Owens Prettyman – 10 October 2024 Continue reading
The idea for The Mirror Realm was spawned from my husband discovering a hidden closet behind a mirror in our old apartment. It made me wonder: what if every mirror in the world led to a secret, hidden realm? Hence the Mirror Realm was born.
Lenore Borja – 8 October 2024 Continue reading
I had published 3 suspense novels dealing with military/political espionage. An editor suggested I try to expand into something a little more serious, literary. The immigration problems in our country attracted me.
Jospeh Bauer – 5 October 2024 Continue reading
I’d also love for readers of all genders, and especially other generations, to feel curious about the differences in how we were raised, or what we might have been facing culturally at the time of our coming-of-age—and how we might have more in common than we think.
Jenna Tico – 5 October 2024 Continue reading
I love these characters. Even the nefarious ones. So fleshing out the storyline and bringing them together came easily.
Lisa Diane Kastner – 3 October 2024 Continue reading
My target reader is anyone who is concerned about humanity’s evolutionary journey and the predicament we currently find ourselves in, where the state of the world geopolitically does not accurately reflect our emotional and psychological maturity. Emotional and spiritual intelligence certainly do not rule global affairs. We need to do better at managing global resources and international peace.
Adrian Emery – 1 October 2024 Continue reading
The Others and The Council Trilogy are also a way of dealing with my unease over the polarization of politics in this country and how moderates have been robbed of their voice. I gave them magical powers to help get things back on track!
Evette Davis – 29 September 2024 Continue reading
I had loved the book, Watership Down, and had always wanted to write my own story that had animal protagonists.
A.T. Balsara – 29 September 2024 Continue reading
Once I gave myself permission to open my mouth, the stories came faster than I could type. I’d read that writing memories longhand accesses detail and emotion far better than typing, so I wrote and doodled and drew lines between places we moved and the bad guys who came with us.
Bridey Thelen-Heidel Continue reading