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This was the basis for how magic works in my world. To make something happen you have to be able to imagine it with such clarity and focus that it comes in to being. I then imagined a world where this creativity was banned, or at least tightly controlled. Those two ideas fed everything else in the novel. 

Luke Brady – 19 May 2018 Continue reading →

I wanted the novel to be historically accurate, however, it developed into a fictionalized version of what happened, how I felt, who I met, and remains in every way true to those components.

Alfred Cool – 11 May 2018 Continue reading →

I was standing in my dorm elevator panicking because I needed a story for my fiction workshop the next day and the one I slaved over for a week felt way too personal to share with a group of mostly strangers. I banged out this story in about two hours and, ironically, I think today it’s far more personal than that other story ever was. 

Melanie Moyer – 11 May 2018 Continue reading →

My first novel that went through my agent and publisher will have taken two years to come out this winter. I didn’t want to wait that long for this title to come out, I felt I could do a good job on my own so I went for it.

Paul McCracken – 6 May 2018 Continue reading →

The time period is so contentious and so well studied – not to mention written about – that I could not afford to be anything else but a world-class expert in the field.

Hunter Dennis – 2 May 2018 Continue reading →

Empower You is geared towards readers who struggle with negative thinking, setting goals and sticking to them. Or, if you just feel stuck in life and feel like there’s something more you should be doing with your life, then Empower You is the book for you.

Kezia Arterberry – 27 April 2018 Continue reading →

It’s better for all concerned that I give my characters the playground and watch how they play. It’s their world. I just take dictation.

Thomm Quackenbush – 23 April 2018 Continue reading →

I’m just a simple guy who has a great story. I felt compelled to tell that story because I knew it would give people faith, hope and courage to overcome adversity in their own lives. To be honest, I can’t hold a candle to most writers. The story in me made me write. Not the writer in me.

Robert Crown – 19 April 2018 Continue reading →

But I wanted to tell a story with this book, so I had to let go of certain poems that I loved in order to create an arc where the reader experiences a transformation from grief to joy.

Ann Campanella – 14 April 2018 Continue reading →