Tag: authors
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Jordi Gaxiola, author of The Silence on the Line
Why did you choose to write in your genre? I’m interested in what fear does to our attention. An ordinary detail can take on a different meaning when we’re alone, tired, or convinced that something doesn’t quite fit. Psychological suspense allows me to explore that shift in perception and its consequences. In The Silence on…
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Sebastian Howarth, author of The Synthetic Hunger
Can you share a little bit about your latest book? Sure! The Synthetic Hunger is an adult sci-fi space opera that follows Lorian Vance and his mismatched crew of sometimes-space-pirates, sometimes-legitimate-couriers as they adventure across the galaxy trying to solve a mystery that threatens all the settled worlds. The story is set in a universe…
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Surya Prakash Shrivastava, author of Crow: The Luck of Charm
What inspires you to write? For me, writing is a deeply personal and spontaneous process. I am inspired by my own emotions and thoughts. Whenever I feel something strongly within, I have this intense urge to put it into words, and I just write it down. It’s my way of expressing what’s inside my heart.…
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Lori O’Dea, author of Little Cavendish
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I started thinking of myself as a writer as a kid. My first writing was poetry. I subscribed to a magazine called Daisy that published poetry, so I’d submit to that. In middle school, a poet-in-residence taught writing workshops at my school. She encouraged my use of…
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CG Fewston, author of Cowboy
What advice would you give to aspiring authors? Well, certainly I would recommend Joseph Campbell and all of his works, including The Masks of God. And also, John Gardner’s works in regards to his books on the writing craft. And I would advise younger writers to discover those as quickly as possible. For Joseph Campbell’s…
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Guus Kooij, author of The Cloaked Saviour
What inspires you to write? I am most interested in the point where large systems become personal. Politics, institutions, inequality, and social change can sound abstract until you put ordinary people inside them and ask what they are willing to accept, what they are willing to risk, and what happens when everyone assumes somebody else…
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Kerim Tapkan, author of P.X: No Man’s Space
Can you share a little bit about your latest book? P.X: No Man’s Space begins when Kai Carson, a naval architect in Seattle, receives contact from someone who knows far more about Earth and Kai’s family than he should. What first looks like a private mystery opens onto a hidden human history and a struggle…
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Chip Jacobs, author of Later Days
What inspires you to write? Ever since high school, I’ve had this fire-in-the-belly to tell stories in a world I find endlessly fascinating. I also get motivated learning about an injustice—someone screwed over, someone glossed over by history—then exposing it to restore some balance. What day jobs have you held, and how have they influenced…
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Katherine A. Sherbrooke, author of This Much is True
What have you written so far? So far, I’ve published a family memoir and four novels. Two of my novels are contemporary fiction: Fill the Sky, and my latest, This Much is True, while two are historical novels, including The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly, which was chosen as Pop Sugar’s #1 historical novel of…
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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…
