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Interview with Segilola Salami, Author of Yetunde
When and why did you begin writing? I started 2015 and it sort of just happened. I didn’t set out to start writing. When did you first consider yourself a writer? The first story I every wrote was when I was in secondary school, but I never thought of myself as a writer until last…
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Interview with Assaph Mehr, Author of Murder In Absentia
When and why did you begin writing? I started to write only recently. I had my nose in a book since I was a child, and whilst seeing my name in print was on my bucket-list, I never thought to actually go and do something about it. I had the idea for a fantasy detective…
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P. R. Garcia, Author of Europa
When and why did you begin writing? I’ve always been able to write. In grade school, I wrote several plays. In high school, I dabbled in poetry. But it wasn’t until I turned 61 that I really got the urge to try to write a novel. I knew that many people aspire to write one…
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Nicola Bagala, Author of The Elynx Saga
When and why did you begin writing? I always had the writing bug. I loved writing essays in school, and I distinctly remember several attempts at writing novels and short stories throughout my childhood and teenage. Most of those attempts didn’t really amount to anything, of course, because I was too young and inexperienced, but…
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A.L. Butcher, Author of The Kitchen Imps and Other Dark Tales
Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre? I write what I enjoy reading. I love fantasy and mythic tales, and I’ve written adventures for several role-playing games (fantasy, sci-fi, and horror), and so it was not a big step to adapt this to the novels. Fantasy is such a versatile…
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Meet Julie Anderson, author of Reconquista
When and why did you begin writing? I wrote my first ‘novel’ while I was still at school. It was a couple of hundred pages of drivel, an appalling rip-off of lots of ‘school stories’ I had read at that point. My English teacher waded through it and was encouraging (while suggesting that I might…
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The Memoirs of ‘I’ by Yolanda De Iuliis
To make one think is to change a generation, to build one thought is to grow a better world. In The Memoirs of ‘I’, De Iuliis covers the years 2014 to 2015, providing a daily encounter with her writings, visions, dreams and thoughts, allowing you to see the world from a different perspective. Philosophical and…
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Writing Prompt Contest Winner: Stevie O’Connor
The prompt: When Jean saw the man in the black business suit, she stopped, held her breath and prayed that he would not look up from his cell phone. Not wasting another moment, she hurried and ducked out of sight behind the garbage dumpster. Jean hadn’t opened her letters for weeks now, she didn’t…
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Meet Ian Hughes, Author of Zeki and the Space Cadets
When did you first consider yourself a writer? It was back in the summer of 2012 that I decided to look at becoming a writer. I knew I had lots of ideas, and my ideas were a little wacky. I thought, “What the hell,” and took the plunge. Then, in December of 2012, my father…
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Meet Sci-Fi Author, Kelly B. Johnson
When and why did you begin writing? [Smiles.] When I think about it, I began writing in the 7th grade, when my best friend (at the time) and I wrote, illustrated and made a book for a class project. Two Men and Two Planes it was called. As we were the artists of our class…
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