Tag: Fiction
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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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Sathyaraj Natarajan, author of Looped
What inspires you to write? Life, mostly. The people around me, my own experiences, and the big questions about time, love, and second chances. Losing my mother pushed me toward poetry, and my visual work with large LED shows for live events keeps feeding my imagination — I tend to think in images and scenes.…
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Divine Onyejiuwa, author of Marbiee and the Ugly Duckling
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I think I first started considering myself a writer when my passion for acting began turning into something more. I had always loved creating scenes in my head, especially after watching movies, and I would imagine characters, conversations, and entire moments playing out in my mind. Eventually,…
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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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Brenna Kasey, author of Voidwalker
Why did you choose to write in your genre? I’ve always written fantasy. As a kid, I grew up with Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z. Indiana Jones and Han Solo were my first-ever crushes (and obviously Harrison Ford is real cute too!) World of Warcraft became popular during my adolescence, and Halo too (I…
