Category: Author Interview
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Meet Doug McKittrick, Author of Rebirth of Angels
Are you a full-time or part-time writer and how does that affect your writing? I am a full-time writer. As to how it affects my writing, I have to say I feel a bit more pressure to produce. When I was a part-time writer, I could always blame the job for not writing. Now I…
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Chad Descoteaux, Author of Working-Class Superheroes
Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre? I’ve always felt that science fiction has the potential to say a lot without sounding preachy. You’re reading a story about a bunch of weird creatures or robots or whatever, but there is a message there too. And if people are offended by…
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Meet Shirley McLain, Author of Princess Adele’s Dragon
When and why did you begin writing? I began writing a few days after I retired of working over 32 years as a RN. I woke one morning with the thought in mind “I am going to write a book.” I got out of bed and started writing a young adult mystery called, The Tower,…
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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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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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