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  • October 19, 2016

    Charles Freedom Long, Author of Dancing with the Dead

    Charles Freedom Long, Author of Dancing with the Dead

    How do you think you’ve evolved creatively? I began writing poetry in grammar school. By the time I entered college, I had notebooks filled with poems. I took every literature class I could and became enamored of modern English literature, especially e.e. cummings, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Merton, and the novelists William…

  • October 18, 2016

    My Intoxicated Ink by Anahit Arustamyan

    My Intoxicated Ink by Anahit Arustamyan

    My Intoxicated Ink is a collection of Anahit Arustamyan’s best poems. The book is rich in metaphors, allegorical expressions, deep thoughts and romantic feelings. Buy your copy and follow the author, Anahit Arustamyan, on Twitter and Facebook! Amazon Book Link | Twitter | Goodreads |Facebook | Author Site ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anahit Arustamyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia on…

  • October 17, 2016

    June the Prune and Lady Bird – Cancer Stinks! by Gracie Bradford

    June the Prune and Lady Bird – Cancer Stinks! by Gracie Bradford

    What goes through a person’s mind when isolated in a hospital room away from friends, relatives, and trustworthy pets? June is a 10-year-old feisty girl who goes through unusual life’s challenges in the midst of unimaginable encounters with adults and her imaginary friends Chemo, Rad, Ed, Captain Jeff and Doctor Treehouse. Her dog, Lady Bird,…

  • October 15, 2016

    On Writing for Children…

    On Writing for Children…

    You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. Madeleine L’Engle

  • October 14, 2016

    R.V. Reyes, Author of Jeweler’s Mark

    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…

  • October 13, 2016

    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…

  • October 12, 2016

    Lily Iona Mackenzie, Author of Fling!

    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…

  • October 11, 2016

    Matters Of Convenience by Roy L. Pickering

    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…

  • October 10, 2016

    Sleight by Tom Twitchel

    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,…

  • October 8, 2016

    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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