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Aya and the Alphas by Berneta L. Haynes and Lornett B. Vestal
When a young girl, Aya Wright, develops extraordinary abilities and becomes a target of the world’s most powerful fader, Eve must protect her. But at what price? In the twenty-five years since she exposed the existence of faders, Eve Cooper has survived the collapse of her country and the loss of her closest friends. Now…
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Valencia G. Wallace, author of The Other Auntie
What inspires you to write? Life, I write from real-life experiences, just from unexpected perspectives. We see people in different situations every day and make quick judgments about them. What interests me is flipping that. Asking “what if?” and giving that person a backstory or a different angle. I see a story in everything. That’s…
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Dylan Cody, author of How to Build a Champion
What inspires you to write? I create ‘swipe files’. And I fill these files – which have different writing purposes – with anything I encounter: posters, photos, and paintings; advertisement headlines; unique phrases in the body copy of a newspaper or magazine article or essay, which causes me to pause, and to think, “Now that’s…
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D. Elaine, author of Kaleidoscope Within
Tell us something unique about you. Something unique….mmmmm. Well, Elaine is my middle name that has been carried through my family like a vintage jewel being passed down, carrying many stories with it. Almost every female in my lineage carries Elaine as their middle name, including my daughters. Elaine is an old name derived from…
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Ernst Jeudy, author of Zombie Lover
Why did you choose to write in your genre? I chose to blend romance, supernatural intrigue, and intercultural fiction because my life has been a bridge between worlds: Haiti, Canada, USA, and other countries that I have visited, journalism and law, disaster and rebuilding. Romance allows me to explore deep human emotion, while the supernatural,…
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Ali Ashhar, author of Mirror of Emotions
What inspires you to write? I feel my inspiration comes from the way I perceive the world. Being an introvert and inquisitive soul, I am always seeking answers in solitude through my art. I love exploring unanswered experiences and try to decode them through my writing. When did you first consider yourself a writer? I…
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Jennifer Sklias-Gahan, author of The House in the Middle of the Street
What inspires you to write? I’m curious how and why people make choices in their life under the variety of circumstances life offers us. I wonder how much our choices have to do with us as individuals or from where we come from. I like to explore unseen forces in our lives as well. I write…
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Ellenmorris Tiegerman, author of Past Lives Denied
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I started writing over 20 years ago when I was an assistant professor at a local university. I agree to write a textbook on language disorders in children with a number of professional colleagues. The content of the book and the chapters that I wrote were research-based…
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Mohamed Nabil, author of Global Justice
Are you a full-time or part-time writer, and how does that affect your writing? I am a freelance marketing consultant and an author, so I rarely have time to write books. My first novel, The Bachelors of Egypt, was published in 2017. I published Enlightened Populism: Reflections on the News Cycle of a Pandemic back…
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Laura Frost, author of Seeking Sasha
What are some day jobs you have held, and how have they influenced your writing? I move around a lot as an adult, which means picking up whatever jobs I find in each new community. Although I’m a trained wildlife biologist who has spent time doing field research, I have also been a substitute teacher,…
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Haala Humayun, author of The Rebel Queens of Tilsim
What inspires you to write? I think the moment I first considered myself a writer wasn’t when I published a book, or when someone called me an author — it happened long before that. It was quiet, almost sacred, like a realization that sneaks into your heart before your mind is willing to accept it.…
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