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Tad Williams is the only author that I can think of that directly influenced me. I read his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy in high school. Any fan of fantasy who hasn’t read it needs to – it’s the series that showed and convinced George R.R. Martin that writing Game of Thrones and the intricate world it is set in was possible.

Henrik Rohdin – 7 December 2014 Continue reading →

As every reader knows, there are books, and then there are Books. Books for me, the ones with a capital B, include Half of a Yellow Sun (amazing plot, amazing love story, amazing message), Lolita (a very difficult book to read, written in the most beautiful prose; Nabokov was a master of his adopted language), and The Lover (the unforgettable, lasts-a-lifetime teenage angst of first love).

Sarah Lane – 30 November 2014 Continue reading →

I self-published my first book Sugar Hill: Where The Sun Rose Over Harlem. I had started it decades before, but by 2012, self-publishing was no longer a joke and it was time to bring that project to fruition.

Terry Baker Mulligan – 27 November 2014 Continue reading →

The book started as a memoir and galloped off to become a suspense/thriller. To keep the pace ripping right along I had to remove ten thousand words of backstory.

Russ Hall – 23 November 2014 Continue reading →

Like most, my house survived the hurricane but was badly damaged by the flood caused by the failure of the federal levee; I didn’t lose any friends or family, but I knew people who did. And of course, the devastation of our precious, beautiful city and neighborhoods tore apart every New Orleanean, even those whose families and houses survived intact.

Shauna Roberts – 20 November 2014 Continue reading →

Does your brain try to sabotage your sleep time and keep you awake thinking about all the things that need to get done the next day? (Or that you should have done today? Or that you wish you’d done differently today?)

Rebecca Chastain – 16 November 2014 Continue reading →