I have guilty pleasures like anyone else, but my “jam” is definitely non-fiction, diversity (both in content and authors), books set in a destination, horror, morbid topics (i.e. books about death), historical fiction, books written by female authors, books that have a “deeper” message about hot topic issues (i.e. abortion, race, etc), and so on.
Ashley Hubbard – 10 May 2020 Continue reading
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I had been looking for a way to write a sort of road trip-like story about a boy and his dog, and I thought using a robot and his dog could be a great way to explore artificial intelligence and how memories can be interpreted as well as explore the bonds between humans and animals, and humans and semi-inanimate objects.
Joey Rodriguez – 7 May 2020 Continue reading
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I still feel very strongly that most people who pick up a book of fiction want to be swept away into a story, whether it’s romance, adventure or even horror. It’s the same reason why we go see a movie or play a videogame. We want the experience.
Petra van der Ploeg – 4 May 2020 Continue reading
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I think any character is made up by a collage of qualities collected from real people you know, or from yourself.
Kayla Eason – 1 May 2020 Continue reading
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After an agent gave me some excellent, succinct advice about “raising the stakes,” I realized I had to take the plunge and make the difficult decision to cut several chapters and characters, even though I loved them.
Jill Caugherty – 21 April 2020 Continue reading
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The love story between my two main characters was so much fun to write—the characters seemed so real to me almost from the first page, and the chemistry between them was palpable on the page. It almost felt like I got to just sit back and watch them interact with each other.
Dallas Woodburn – 21 April 2020 Continue reading
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I had three friends who each committed suicide and each one came to me in a dream and asked me to tell their story.
Dennis Smith – 15 April 2020 Continue reading
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A wildlife rehabilitator friend told me a funny story about all the hoops she had to jump through in order to get a wild bird from one location to another. I repeated the story to my agent, and he said, “If I were a movie producer, I’d be all over that. Why don’t you write it as a novel?”
Suzie Gilbert – 09 April 2020 Continue reading
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I used to hang out with my young niece in the afternoons, long before I started a family of my own. She was the one who asked me one day if I knew what ‘I Forget’ looked like, and told me that it was a question mark over someone’s head, in a cloud.
Victoria Simpson – 3 April 2020 Continue reading
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Historical accuracy was very important to me, so getting locations and timelines of major events, even word choice, was something I had to spend quite a bit of time on.
Robert Gomez – 29 March 2020 Continue reading
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