The research I did in the late nineteenth century in Melbourne gave me pieces that allowed me to build the story around some actual events and locations.
Michael G. Colburn – 16 December 2025 Continue reading
The research I did in the late nineteenth century in Melbourne gave me pieces that allowed me to build the story around some actual events and locations.
Michael G. Colburn – 16 December 2025 Continue reading
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The spark for the Realm Chronicles series came from an image of a female fairy hunched in a meadow. She looked afraid or anxious and questions began swirling in my head.
Tricia Copeland – 11 December 2025 – Tricia Copeland Continue reading
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I’ve long been fascinated by how secret power structures operate, and how technology collides with morality. The idea crystallized when I lived abroad and experienced firsthand what it means to live inside different political systems.
M.B. Courtenay – 9 December 2025 Continue reading
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Making sex and love making scenes realistic but not gratuitous is a delicate balance and knowing my children will be reading it always is in the back of my mind!
Richard Kirshenbaum – 2 December 2025 Continue reading
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I struggled only with the expressing of tensions since these were times within my own school career that were not dear to my heart and personality. I have always attempted to dismiss tension with humor and that is what I continue to encourage with my writing.
Cheryl Babirad – 30 November 2025 Continue reading
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My target reader is someone who loves emotional, character-driven romance—readers who enjoy slow burn connection, cultural contrast, and the feeling of discovering a new world through someone’s eyes.
Irina Angelova – 27 November 2025 Continue reading
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The narrator is a combination of several adolescent boys with whom I’ve worked. Their stories of hardship kind of built up in my head over the years, and I knew I wanted to give them a voice.
Glenn Erick Miller – 24 November 2025 Continue reading
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The emotional scenes between Cost and his daughter were the hardest to write. They hit close to home, and I wanted to get the balance of honesty and depth just right.
Carlo J. Emanuele – 22 November 2025 Continue reading
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I struggled during parts of the book that revealed issues that I was not proud of.
Joan Cusack Handler, PhD – 20 November 2025 Continue reading
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It felt like another planet. I wondered: what if this was another planet? How would all these elements come together in a story? Eventually, this other planet became the Earth of the far future and I had to ask myself, what went wrong?
Colin Brush – 18 November 2025 Continue reading
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