Tag: authors
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Meet Derrick McCartney, author of McMinnville
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I began writing a journal when I was in high school and made my first attempt at a novel in my early twenties. It never got off the ground. Over the decades, I turned to nonfiction and wrote four books on North Korea and the Kim family. […]
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Conversation Highlights from the August #AuthorIndieSpeak
On Thursday, August 25, 2022, Cendrine Marrouat and I hosted our second #AuthorIndieSpeak chat on Twitter, where we invited indie authors to meet and discuss random things related to writing and publishing. We had a robust conversation with indie authors around the United States, Canada, and Britain! We discussed all manner of things, including how […]
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Conversation Highlights from #AuthorIndieSpeak
On Thursday, July 28, 2022, Cendrine Marrouat and I hosted our first #AuthorIndieSpeak chat on Twitter, where we invited indie authors to meet and discuss random things related to writing and publishing. We had a robust conversation with a few indie authors about all manner of things, from how the weather affects our writing to […]
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TikTok Readers Stealing from Authors, Amazon’s Shady E-Book Return Policy, and more…
Finally, a Novel That Gets the Internet Right (Wired) The Novelist takes place over a single morning, following an unnamed writer as he faffs around on social media while his girlfriend sleeps in their apartment; he occasionally fiddles with novels in progress in Google Docs. That’s it. The first 16 pages describe the protagonist looking at Twitter in […]
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On Choosing to Indie Publish
By way of background… When I wrote my first novel, I was around eleven years old. I wrote it in a paper notebook that has been long lost in the nearly twenty years since then, but I remember the central plot involved bunnies and a princess. By the time I was twelve or thirteen, my […]
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A.J. Navab, author of Daybreak
What inspires you to write? What inspired me to write my current novel, Daybreak, was actually music. I was listening to a song called “Gravity of Love” by Enigma a few years back and the scenes of my novel just started playing in my head. Music often does that to me and I just start […]
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Raymond Maher, author of The Second Five
What inspires you to write? The challenge of telling what I hope is an exciting and engaging story inspires me. I see myself as a storyteller. Growing up listening to the radio, I pictured in my mind the people and stories I heard on the radio. My world was full of stories from the radio, […]
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4 Ways to Support Indie Authors!
Being a writer is not for the faint of heart. From actually writing a novel, short story collection, or book of poetry, and editing it to completion, to having the courage to share it with the world…it’s hard work! But the hardest part is marketing, getting your work in front of more readers. In fact, […]
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Meet Lotte Jean Elliott, author of The Monsters Club
What inspires you to write? I only started writing a few years ago. Literature has been a part of my life, in a bigger way, since I was about fifteen, but it wasn’t till I got a rather bad illness that, whilst in recovery, I took up writing. It became a huge therapy for me […]
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A Letter from the Editor: Looking Ahead at 2022
Dear Readers, I hope you are enjoying the content here at Waking Writer. Our readership has grown so much from when I started this site in 2016. Last year was a busy year here at Waking Writer as author interview requests poured in, and I even launched an 8-episode short story serial called Harmony Project. […]
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