Category: Author Interview
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Meet Fantasy Author, Chantal Gadoury
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I never had a moment of thinking “Yes, I am a writer.” I’ve just always been one. As a child, I made up stories. When I got older, I started writing a journal. I made story books for my sister with coloring books. I wrote daily in…
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Author Interview: Clifton Barnhart
Can you share with readers a little about your latest book? On July 7th, 2012, Jesse Burke passed away. He was my dearest friend. Jesse and responsibility is the fictionalization of our time together. In 2011, I quit drinking, which made me very sick. I knew Jesse in China as a roommate, bar buddy and…
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Stevie O’Connor, Author of In a Mirror City
Stevie O’Connor, science fiction author and recent winner of Waking Writer’s Writing Prompt Contest, sat down to discuss writing and her latest novel. When and why did you begin writing? As a young child, I started writing ghost stories, and the teachers would read them out to the class. Then, I won the Edward Burne-Jones…
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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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