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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Writing several chapters from the POV of female characters was kinda hard. I mean, I’m not a woman, so I’ll never be able to totally think as a woman would, right? But I loved the challenge of that.

B.T. Keaton – 23 March 2020 Continue reading →

I got the idea for the book from living as a twenty-something in the 21st century. I think so often youth is epitomized as this glorious, awe-inspiring, peak of your life, when in reality it is often filled with numerous experiences that you have to then carry with you for the rest of your life. It can be scary to consider just how many themes we pick up on when we’re younger translate into new one’s as we age.

Vanessa Frances – 17 March 2020 Continue reading →