Category: Author Interview
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Brenna Kasey, author of Voidwalker
Why did you choose to write in your genre? I’ve always written fantasy. As a kid, I grew up with Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z. Indiana Jones and Han Solo were my first-ever crushes (and obviously Harrison Ford is real cute too!) World of Warcraft became popular during my adolescence, and Halo too (I…
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R.A. Hewitt, author of The Universe Without Noise
Why did you choose to write in your genre? Science fiction lets me take something that already exists and move it one or two steps forward until its consequences become impossible to ignore. I am interested in technology, but even more in the incentives, assumptions, and compromises built around it. A near-future setting keeps those…
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Malik A. Ahmed, author of Eyes of Fire
What inspires you to write? My inspiration comes from the deep mysteries of human nature and survival under immense pressure. My debut novel was inspired by a haunting dream where my protagonist, Victoria Stevens, visited me crying, with her mouth completely and smoothly sealed by her own skin rather than stitched with thread. That image…
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Janette DeFelice, author of The Last Pirouette
What inspires you to write? Writing helps me sort out my thoughts. It’s as simple as that. For me, there’s not some grand inspiration that transports me magically to my laptop to start putting words on a page. It’s not like that at all. My writing is oftentimes borne out of frustration. Frustration that there’s…
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Erin Tunney, author of Beast Heart Series
What inspires you to write? The inspiration usually happens when I have a “What if” moment. A simple thought from what I see and hear around me. I even had a few dreams that I thought would be great novels! Actually, one of the books I’m currently writing is based on one! Why did you…
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Debadrita Sarkar, author of Awakening of Soul
What inspires you to write? Mother Nature’s beautiful sights, life’s lessons, mythology, history, human rights, social rights, etc. When did you first consider yourself a writer? Though I started writing during the late lockdown days at the age of 12, I started considering myself a writer at the age of 14 when I determined to…
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Ana Ling Yuan, author of Between Grief and Grace
What inspires you to write? What really inspired me to write was nature and love. I felt like it deserved to be on paper so other people can fall in love with nature and understand the complexities of love. Why did you choose to write in your genre? I think I write best in romance…
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Kelly O’Hearn, author of Arcanum: Secrets of the Madonna
Why did you choose to write in your genre? My path to authorship is a little different than most writers. I was raised in New York City, and my first career was as a professional sommelier. So, the connection to my intuition began there. During a health crisis, I turned to several energy practices like…
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Valencia G. Wallace, author of The Other Auntie
What inspires you to write? Life, I write from real-life experiences, just from unexpected perspectives. We see people in different situations every day and make quick judgments about them. What interests me is flipping that. Asking “what if?” and giving that person a backstory or a different angle. I see a story in everything. That’s…
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Dylan Cody, author of How to Build a Champion
What inspires you to write? I create ‘swipe files’. And I fill these files – which have different writing purposes – with anything I encounter: posters, photos, and paintings; advertisement headlines; unique phrases in the body copy of a newspaper or magazine article or essay, which causes me to pause, and to think, “Now that’s…
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