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Nnedi Okorafor, Political Thrillers in the Trump Era, and more…
I write political thrillers. The Trump era keeps spoiling my books. (Vox) When truth is stranger than fiction, fiction becomes more than entertainment. In the age of Trump, and other moments of crisis, the stories we watch and read become far more vital than simple genre diversions. That’s a lot of pressure to put…
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Blossom’s Wine Bar by Frida R.
In the memoir-like chapbook, “Blossom’s Wine Bar” Frida R. snatches her audience’s hearts and drags them down the unpaved roads of her messy, ever-changing alcohol soaked world. With fair amounts of wit and grit, “Blossom’s Wine Bar” is a collection of stoems (poems that read like short stories) and personal essays where she pulls readers…
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David Russell, author of Self’s Blossom
When and why did you begin writing? My first poem was triggered by acute personal tensions; through writing it, I got some sense of control over those tensions. When did you first consider yourself a writer? From my early 20s, though it took a long time for my opinion to be vindicated. Why did you…
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Henniker Secrets (Sam and Martha Mystery Book 2) by Steven P. Marini
A ghostly legend is brought back to life when Martha’s brother, Bart, buys the old Ocean Born Mary house with his partner Auggie. It is a conflicted friendship. A woman named Teresa shows up, bearing a shocking resemblance to a picture of Mary’s ghost. She deals herself in on the action, winning over Bart. Her…
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An Author Arrested for Murder, Science Fiction in China, and more…
He was writing a book about a murderous author. Now he’s accused of four murders. (The Sacramento Bee) A Chinese crime writer working on a novel about a serial-killing author may have based the book’s storyline on his own life. Liu Yongbiao, an award-winning Chinese crime novelist, was arrested early Friday morning for allegedly bludgeoning four…
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The Hope of the Nation – Guest Post by Jesse Teller
On October 5th my fifth book Song will be released. The cast is led by a wizard named Rayph Ivoryfist. Many and varied are the shades of his personality, and wild and rampant are his powers. He is scary to write for many reasons. How do I challenge a character this powerful? How do I…
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William C. Tracy, author of Tuning the Symphony
When and why did you begin writing? My first story was in third grade, where Mario, Link, and Zelda had to stop an evil wizard. Sadly, I never finished it. As a teenager, I wrote a narrative/humorous diary of a few family vacations. Then I started on a novel, which was terrible, put it down,…
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The Guard of Mending Keep – An Excerpt from Jesse Teller’s Song
The serving boy’s face was stained green with disgust and horror. He looked about to be sick, about to flee, about to weep. Rayph saw the trembling lip and the panic in the eyes, and he knew what the boy was carrying. It was small, maybe a little over a foot wide, spherical, and covered…
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Trump is Ruining Book Sales, Ava Duvernay Producing Afrofuturism Adaptation…
Detroit author self-publishes high suspense, urban romance novels set in the city (WXYZ Detroit) Sylvia’s own story reads a bit like a novel. It begins when she was a little girl, who had a penchant for lying. Her mom wouldn’t stand for it. “She would make me write down my lie and come back and…
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Phillip Vega, author of Last Exit to Montauk
What made you decide to sit down and actually start writing this book? Sitting down and writing a book was never on my radar. It just happened. In the latter part of a rainy August 2015 afternoon, after putting away the groceries, my wife turned in for a nap with the pups, so I sat…
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