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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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Smashwords Annual Summer Sale
Hello, Readers! I’m excited to announce that all my novels will be discounted at Smashwords during their 18th Annual Summer/Winter Sale, starting in July! The sale, which lasts the entire month of July, is a great time to get my books, along with books from other talented indie authors, at bargain prices. My books are…
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Ana Ling Yuan, author of Between Grief and Grace
What inspires you to write? What really inspired me to write was nature and love. I felt like it deserved to be on paper so other people can fall in love with nature and understand the complexities of love. Why did you choose to write in your genre? I think I write best in romance…
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Kelly O’Hearn, author of Arcanum: Secrets of the Madonna
Why did you choose to write in your genre? My path to authorship is a little different than most writers. I was raised in New York City, and my first career was as a professional sommelier. So, the connection to my intuition began there. During a health crisis, I turned to several energy practices like…
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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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