Category: Author Interview
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Mark Gray, author of The Day I Disappeared
When and why did you begin writing? I’ve always dabbled with writing and it was always of interest to me, but I pursued other things in college and got started in another field of work so I wasn’t really making it a priority. About six years ago, I was newly married and getting established as…
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Lloyd Goulbourne, author of When a Unicorn Crosses the Rubicon
When and why did you begin writing? I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. I started with the first two books my mother gave me which was an Anthology of Shakespeare and Big Bird’s Day at the Farm. I used to copy the lines from Shakespeare and then I would slowly start…
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Joe Cosentino, author of Rag Doll
When and why did you begin writing? My mother says I told lots of tall tales as a kid, so she’s not surprised I’m a writer today. Actually, I have always been a storyteller. I remember starring in a Nativity play in my cousin’s garage with my sister and older cousin wrapping sheets around us…
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Sarah Buhrman, author of Too Wyrd
What is the biggest thing that people THINK they know about your subject/genre that isn’t so? If I tell people I write fantasy, they think my story is about dragons, unicorns, mages or barbarians. If I’m more specific and say I write Urban Fantasy, they assume it’s about vampires… or at least werewolves. And if…
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A.C. Efverman, Author of Game
Tell us something unique about you. I’m a Swedish author and I moved to Australia twenty years ago: as I never could stand the long, cold and dark winters in my home country. I now write a crime fiction series set in my adopted hometown Sydney – and I write my novels in both English…
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Manfred, author of Magic Mirabelle and the Riddle of Night Opium
When and why did you begin writing? I began writing when I was a teenager, just after I finished high school. I was inspired by fantasy novels and books with elfish and fairy lore like George Macdonald and Tolkien, as well as Romantic poetry like Blake and Keats, who also wrote heaps about fairies and…
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Itzcuintli, Author of Running With Hummingbirds
When and why did you begin writing? I began writing for publication earlier this year (2016) after being laid off from my boring desk job and finding it extremely difficult to continue in my first career. In my personal life, I’d written short stories or poems that I shared with family or friends, but it’s…
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Angela Auten, Author of Aidan
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing when I was 12 years old. I just had an idea and I needed to write it out. I was really into reading when I was younger also. I thought writing would be fun. I found it as a way to express myself. I had…
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The Catalysis Trilogy by Denis McClean
All possible futures are being constantly re-worked to produce the one that we will all experience and share tomorrow. The main ingredients of tomorrow are probably identifiable today, but most of these were made yesterday or last year or like ourselves, even further back. How far back must we go in history in order to…
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S.W. Anderson, Author of Love By Design
Do you write full-time or part-time? I am a part-time writer, who juggles a wife, a herd of critters, building a career and working a second job, so finding time to write can be a challenge. Mostly, I am a night owl, so as often as possible, I stay up and write into the wee…
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