Rebecca Maye Holiday, author of Necromancy Cottage
Are you a full-time or part-time writer and how does that affect your writing? I suppose that I’d consider myself a part-time writer. I’m a university student (I’ll be graduating this December), and before university, I studied Library Information Technology at a provincial community college, so writing has often been…
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Mauro Martone, author of The Orcadian File
What inspires you to write? I think inspiration comes firstly from within and having stories to tell. Additionally, I have always been inspired by other writers. When did you first consider yourself a writer? Well, I never call myself that. A storyteller perhaps. Why did you choose to write in…
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New Twitter Chat for Indie Authors!
Dear Readers, If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I have been vocal about Amazon’s shady rule allowing customers to return read ebooks for full refunds. Indie authors on Twitter have been speaking out about the financial harm they’ve experienced because of the pernicious return policy. I ended…
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From the Editor: Launching a Monthly Newsletter!
Dear Readers, Thanks for your continued readership and support of Waking Writer! I truly love running this site and meeting so many awesome writers. To reward some of my readers, I’m creating a monthly newsletter, called Berneta’s Reading Misfits, and giving the next three subscribers a free e-book copy of…
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Bethany Nicholls, author of Waning
Are you a full-time or part-time writer and how does that affect your writing? As of now, I’m a part-time writer, though I hold out hope that this could change sometime in the future. One of the things I really struggle with is time. Between work, housework, family commitments, and…
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In the News: Romance Novels, Thor, Queer Sci-Fi and more…
Imagining More: Women Writing Worlds in Crisis (Literary Hub) Like all speculative writers, I was also asking myself: “What if?” What if I toyed with reality? What if I altered our actual timeline, flooding the coastlines in 2017 and sending my characters into one of the submerged cities? What if…
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