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R.V. Reyes, Author of Jeweler’s Mark
When and why did you begin writing? I have been writing since I was a kid. There is a photo of me receiving a creative writing award in my elementary school yearbook. For me, writing is instinct. I am a better person when I’m keeping a writing schedule. For some folks, it is meditation or…
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Arundhati Roy, Science Fiction and Entrepreneurship…
His mom banned science fiction, now he’s an award-winning publisher (Des Moines Register) Lars is 43 and makes his living writing about time travelers and vampire slayers, but his life itself is perhaps a greater flight of fantasy. He was once a small-town Iowa boy who went off to the big cities, New York and Los…
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Lily Iona Mackenzie, Author of Fling!
When and why did you begin writing? I don’t think I had any choice. Writing is as necessary to me as eating, and if I don’t write each day, I become irritable and unpleasant to live with. Ask my husband! When I was 13, I started a diary, but I was afraid someone would see…
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Matters Of Convenience by Roy L. Pickering
Marshall yearns for Audrey but she sees a future with James. When her personal and professional plans veer off course, their relationships are shuffled. Can it work out with Marshall after he provides support at a critical juncture? Or is it doomed to fail when paths cross with James, secrets are revealed, and commitments are…
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Sleight by Tom Twitchel
Benjamin Brown, a seventeen-year-old, successfully escaped from a kidnapper using his supernatural gifts. His sometime girlfriend, Justine, wasn’t quite as lucky. When she shows up at his door, looking like death warmed over, Benjamin isn’t sure what to to do. Fearing that she is hiding something that threatens both of them, he searches for answers,…
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Writers and Reading…
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
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Lynn McCain, Author of Neither Light Nor Dark
When did you first consider yourself a writer? Well, I have always loved to write. I still remember the first poem that I wrote in the second grade, and I have continued to write poetry to this day. Do you have a special time to write, or how is your day structured to accommodate your…
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Amber Schunk Clubb, Author of Roliath: The Eidelon Series
When and why did you begin writing? Writing is something I’ve loved to do since I was a young child. From poetry to short stories I was always finding unique ways to put my imagination into words. What started out as something to do in my free time quickly became a passion as I got older.…
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Life is But a Dream by Jennifer Provenza
Angela is a narcoleptic. Or at least, that’s what she tells people. The truth is . . . somewhat more complicated. Angela has two lives, existing in parallel universes. When she sleeps in one life, she is awake in her other life. In one reality she is single and successful in New York City. In…
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The Rising (Supernaturals Book 1) by Ryan Troske
Ethan is just an ordinary teenage boy—infatuated with sports music and, of course, girls. Or so he thinks. Heading home on a rainy night from an amateur guitar gig, he finds his life turned completely upside down—literally. His car spins and flips out of control after what he believes to be a small animal jumps…
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