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My favorite bit of reader feedback was being asked if we had goosebumps when writing a certain set of scenes mid-novel. I love actually frightening readers with what we’re doing.

Amanda K. King – 19 April 2019 Continue reading →

Writers need to note that the way they interact with the world and describe it may not always be the case for their readers. And — reviewers are not some almighty being. Yes, they may influence but they don’t command people to read this book or that book. A review is a review. Bad or not, it gets the poet’s name out there.

Berry’s Poetry Book Reviews – 16 Apris 2019 Continue reading →

I loved the idea that anything was possible in these worlds. Animals could talk, children could fly and inanimate objects could have feelings. 

A Mon – 13 April 2019 Continue reading →

I think I wanted to have the ideal writer life where you can just focus on the writing and nothing else, but that doesn’t seem to exist all that much nowadays. In the end, I really appreciate having full and final say for what’s going into the book. I think that’s invaluable.

Matthew O. William – 30 March 2019 Continue reading →

There are no areas where I’ve struggled; it’s all fiction, inspired by real-life events.

Bonnie Mill Lemke – 18 March 2019 Continue reading →

I once heard that we only see people we’ve met in our dreams. In that way, we never see a face we haven’t seen in our dreams and that which we imagine in our sleep is a story comprised of people we’ve seen before. I like to think the same is true about writing; we only write about characters we’ve met.

J.D. Bowens – 12 March 2019 Continue reading →

My writing process is let the story tell itself. As soon as I start a story, it seems to take on its own life, and the characters lead the story. 

Brenda Rae Schoolcraft – 27 February 2019 Continue reading →

I had such a problem reading too much as a teen that now, when people ask, and they ask often, they all often receive completely different answers. I might leave one person thinking I read one set of books and another one thinking I read a completely different type.

James Bayers – 21 February 2019

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It started with a flash fiction piece I wrote about a group of kitchen slaves plotting to poison their captors so they can escape. Even though it had taken me maybe ten minutes to write that story, it crawled under my skin and stayed. Then I read a couple of Malcolm Nance books positing that Russia is behind a calculated cyber-warfare and disinformation campaign to take down democracy in Europe and America. The “what if” part of my brain started churning. 

Laurie Boris – 15 February 2019 Continue reading →