For all that is good and holy in the world, what possessed you to become an author? I absolutely love telling stories. It has always been the most natural thing to me, to write down my thoughts and create. I can’t even imagine my life without a WIP in it. How did you conceive the…
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Meet the IWOTY Finalist: Stephanie Reisner
How did you conceive the idea for your latest novel? My work in metaphysics brings some really bizarre emails to my inbox. In recent years I’ve received several threatening emails, allegedly from various secret societies/Satanic cults, that promise everything from curses to bodily harm. So naturally, when I received the most recent one last summer,…
Cutting a Trail Through the Jungle of Great Adventure Novels
Adventure novels, at least the really good ones like Peter Heller’s The River, take up a permanent home in our imagination. They rise up from a literary jungle of suspense, following a path cut by the best adventure books of all time. Early childhood friends helped to beat down this well-trodden path: Twain’s Huck Finn,…
Say, Mack, what’s your secret?
There is a restaurant in Manitou Springs, CO, Adam’s Mountain Café, that has the best chicken salad ever. Just plain ol’ chicken salad, but with its one or two secret ingredients—wow. Fantasy and sci-fi author David Farland tells a story about an author he met at a writers conference. She admitted to him that she felt…
In the Beginning…
“How did you reach people in the beginning?” People ask me that more than any other question. Here’s the answer. Market Analysis 1. I made a determination that I wanted to write and to see if I could find an audience. 2. I looked at my interests and skill set. I decided that I was…