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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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The Value of Literature…
Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it. James Baldwin
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Writing Prompt Contest Winner: Maria L. Berg
Premise: A family moves into an old Victorian house in a sleepy town where everybody knows everybody. The house has been vacant for the last five years, and nobody knows why the previous family left so suddenly. Prompt: Write a 500-word story, but write it from the perspective of the house, not the family. She…
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Luna St. Claire, Author of The Sleeping Serpent
When and why did you begin writing? I had a story in me that had been trying to escape for several years. I wasn’t ready to allow it to emerge until January 2013. I wrote unwaveringly for three years until publishing The Sleeping Serpent in October of 2015. When did you first consider yourself a…
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Indie Authors Find Creative Freedom, Short Stories Don’t Pay…
The Rise of Self-Publishing Lends Authors Creative Freedom (The Lamron) This is not to say that the process doesn’t have its drawbacks. Despite the concept’s increasing popularity and the rise of Internet and digital printing, many within the literary world hold self-published books at a distance. 10 People (Besides the Author) Who Bring a Book…
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