So I write as much as I can of the bit where I don’t know enough, then find an expert to fill in the gaps. If you start with the expert (I have discovered) you end up with far too much information and (as you are NOT an expert) it can be hard to know what to cut out.
Judi Moore – 30 April 2015 Continue reading
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Christopher Moore was the first author I read who really made me want to be a writer. He mixes humor and feeling in a way that tells a truly entertaining story and I strive to do something similar.
Katrina Monroe – 26 April 2015 Continue reading
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The close friendship that evolved between the two main, female characters was easy to write because I’ve had similar experiences as an expat when a new friend takes you under her wing.
Anne Louise O’Connell – 23 April 2015 Continue reading
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As with all my books, scenes just began appearing in my mind, so I wrote them down. After a while, I saw that these apparently diverse scenes did actually belong to one story.
Tahlia Newland – 19 April 2015 Continue reading
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Music is a huge part of my life. And there are myriad musical references in my work – most of which are too obscure for most readers to notice, I’ve dropped several during this interview. But when I am actually writing, I need silence.
Evangeline Jennings – 16 April 2015 Continue reading
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As for the initial idea: many years back, one of my brothers shared an interesting tale with me of a man who found an old story of his father’s about a woman who seemed to be the “one that got away.” This fellow was so intrigued by the idea of this mysterious woman from his father’s past (whose name and location were mentioned in the story), that he got her number via 411 and called her.
Lorraine Devon Wilke – 12 April 2015 Continue reading
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Writing is a very visual thing for me. So I am equally influenced by great movies as I am by great writing.
Austin Dragoon – 9 April 2015 Continue reading
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I feel the trick to writing stories is not to look elsewhere but within myself. Our lives have enough plots and subplots and complications to make great stories.
Ashay Abbhi – 5 April 2015 Continue reading
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I lived the life of Butch Black, so conveying and exaggerating actual events came as little challenge. I believe that’s what makes this book so hysterical: the fact that 90% of these things actual happen to the people working in retail.
J.B. Maynard – 4 April 2015 Continue reading
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Every time this girl kissed her boyfriend, she absorbed some of his life energy, which in turn weakened him. I had never heard of a succubus, but I loved the idea of a teenage girl who was in love, but couldn’t so much as kiss her boyfriend without harming him.
Angela V. Cook – 29 May 2015 Continue reading
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