Category: Author Interview
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Nita J. Kulkarni, author of The Hawa Mahal Murders
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing when I was ten years old, with a diary. I wrote a diary for about 15 years and this wasn’t a chronology of events. I wrote about my thoughts and feelings, poems and character sketches of people I knew. I also wrote short stories, novellas,…
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Tim Starnes, author of Agony: Suffering Yesterday, Entertaining Today
What is the biggest thing that people THINK they know about nonfiction that isn’t so? The walking public believes, or at least I think so, that nonfiction has to be boring – and sadly, it usually is, but the reality is that it doesn’t have to be. There are too many people out there who…
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TK Lawyer, author of The Guardian League
When and why did you begin writing? Almost five years ago, unhappy and craving something different than my boring, mundane day job and not seeing myself working at my day job for another thirty plus years and being any happier, I literally screamed in my kitchen for something more. I shouted that I wanted something…
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Kirby Michael Wright, author of The Queen of Moloka’i
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I didn’t think of myself as a writer until I swept the awards at San Francisco State University. I was denied admission into the MFA Program before this unprecedented achievement, with the majority of tenured professors voting against me. So, I waltzed into the Creative Writing office…
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Wesley Butler, author of Passage to Portrainia
When and why did you begin writing? Drawing inspiration from childhood books, movies and video games, I would challenge myself to create rich new worlds, complete with their own societies, governments, etc. For the longest time, mainly in my early childhood, I would draw out these places by hand, and spend hours sketching mountain terrain,…
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Ian Nathaniel Cohen, author of The Brotherhood of the Black Flag
What have you written so far? So far, I’ve completed and published one novel: The Brotherhood of the Black Flag, a historical thriller set in the Golden Age of Piracy. I also write a movie review blog called the INCspotlight (a pun on my initials), formerly for the website Channel Awesome. As of March 2018,…
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Sandra Ann Miller, author of Temporary
When did you first consider yourself a writer? That’s a hard one. I always wrote, but being a “writer” was such a lofty title, I was hesitant to use it in reference to myself. When I worked in Hollywood, there were so many people claiming to be writers, you sort of had to back it…
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Sonya Jesus, author of Knights
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing in high school. Mostly poetry at first and short stories. I wrote my first length novel while I was writing my master’s thesis in microbiology. I never published it, but the Knights Series started while I was writing my Ph.D. thesis. It’s a way to…
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Meet Mia Mae Lynne, author of The Man Who Needs You
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing the Chronicles of Fate series in 2008. It is a multicultural romance series based in and around metro Atlanta, Georgia. Life events happened and the books were put away until 2015 when the first release was published. The series was renamed to Southern Men Don’t…
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Kerry Postle, author of The Artist’s Muse
When and why did you begin writing? I’ve always written, mainly articles, but it wasn’t until 2015 that I decided to write my first novel, The Artist’s Muse. I’ve always admired anyone who has finished a novel, as I have started and abandoned so many over the years and recognize the commitment it takes to…
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