While my characters are fictitious, they carry the hopes, ambitions, and worries of all teens. After teaching for nearly 25 years, my students are all part of the characters. And in a small part, so am I.
Cheryl Carpinello – 4 March 2023 Continue reading
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After so many ups and downs, mental and emotional struggles, delays, it seems surreal that a project that played a key part in my desire to become an author is finally done and available to the world.
Imania Margria – 27 February 2023 Continue reading
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My target reader are individuals who are on a spiritual and mental health journey. Individuals that may be struggling to balance the two and could use some guidance and insight on how to do so.
Khiana Gray Wyatt-Locus – 22 February 2023 Continue reading
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I have a disorder where I mostly experience nightmares, including night terrors, and at the time they had become frequent again. There’s a chunk of the book that deals with this in a creative way, but there were moments when I had to push through some of my worst fears to get to the end of the book. I just leaned into it instead of avoiding it, and I poured all of that anxiety into the writing.
Shane Blackheart – 17 February 2023 Continue reading
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I had watched a video of the president of the United States at a rally, where he compared immigrants to venomous snakes that should be crushed underfoot. I’m an immigrant, and I was horrified. For years, hearing politicians say terrible things about us, especially when they don’t understand our immigration system, had been heartbreaking.
Roxana Arama – 12 February 2023 Continue reading
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… the thriller is the entertainment part which I probably carried from a lifetime of movies, comic collecting, and great film school training, but the heart of the tale is about love.
A.E.S. O’Neill – 24 January 2023 Continue reading
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I wanted to write a book that’s page-turning fun. With characters you love and others you’d avoid like the plague. But at the same time, I wanted to engage with the social, political, and economic issues of our lives…. And so, walking around D.C., I created Jen Lu to embody all the above.
Michael Kaufman – 23 December 2022 Continue reading
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The characters are deeply influenced by the people I’m surrounded by though. The main character, Eiliyah, resembles my mother’s personality.
Umme Pritam – 17 December 2022 Continue reading
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Many years ago I requested information about Project Blue Book from the United States Air Force. At the time, I read articles and books about UFOs. Although I had wanted to try to write a thriller about the federal government’s investigation into the subject, I put it off for decades …
Bentley Turner – 16 December 2022 Continue reading
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I hope I’m a reminder to those who are immigrants, orphans, lonely and seeking refuge while living in challenging times that some of us who live in darkness do so to sit beside you and spin tales to pass the time — a beacon to show you’re not alone.
Victory Witherkeigh – 6 December 2022 Continue reading
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