Archive for the ‘Indie Author Series’ Category

This week’s Featured Indie Author is speculative fiction author, Kristina Meister. Her work is tinged with horror, science, and mythology and crosses boundaries to make us think.

This week I interview the author of Cleanse Fire, SWAT meets The Lord of the Rings, by Anastasia V. Pergakis. Comment to participate in her giveaway! Details below. Enjoy!

Welcome to the Fantasy Indie Author Interview series, where I feature interviews with independent author-publishers in the fantasy/speculative fiction realm. This week I interview the lovely and magical Fantasy author & illustrator, Vonnie Winslow Crist. Enjoy!

Welcome to Indie Author Mondays, where I feature articles and interviews about the exciting field of independent author publishing. This week I feature an author interview with Cheryl Shireman; she’s spunky, she’s independent and she’s full of vim and vigor. I’m inspired just interviewing her. Enjoy!

Welcome to our Monday series of interviews with indie fantasy authors. This week I feature a Q&A with author and editor, Ralph Scott, about his unique novel, Conversations With A Dead Girl.
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1.    What got you into writing this book in the first place?
Easter Sunday, 2009, I was on working sabbatical in Hermosa Beach, California, more than 400 miles [...]

Welcome to the weekly Indie Fantasy Author Spotlight. Today we feature in interview with fantasy author, Jeri Cafesin, author of the collection of tales, Fractured Fairy Tales of the Twilight Zone.
What can you tell us about Fractured Fairy Tales of the Twilight Zone?
So, when I was a kid I used to watch this cartoon [...]

Welcome to the weekly Indie Fantasy Author Spotlight. Today we feature American Gothic author, Vanessa Cavendish, author of the work-in-progress, Earthworm Soup. Vanessa, thanks for agreeing to be a featured Author for my Fantasy Indie Author Monday series.
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Sure! A bit about me: I write American Gothic. I could say Country Horror or Rural Fantasy or [...]

Welcome to Indie Author Monday. Today we feature an interview with fantasy artist and author Ren Black. I love her chutzpah and guts! I for one look forward to reading her fantasy novel. Enjoy!
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Ren Black lives in Texas with her Husband. They have four wonderful children, four computers, two pianos and about two thousand books.  [...]

Welcome to Indie Author Monday. Today we feature a guest post by author. D. T. Gray how how to use the Internet to market our work
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Writing is a passion for most of us. It is a way of expressing ourselves and ideas as much as it is a way for us to entertain and inspire. [...]

Welcome to the weekly Indie Fantasy Author Spotlight. Today we feature Tom Barczak, author of Awakening Evarun. Thanks for stopping by, Tom! I enjoyed your interview! Yes, write on!
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Beth: What got you into writing this book in the first place?
Tom: Awakening Evarun is a six-part illustrated fantasy serial novel of which the first two parts [...]

Welcome to the weekly Indie Fantasy Author Spotlight. Today we feature LeAnna Shields, who is the author The Alestrion Chronicles: Slaves Redeemed.
I had fun interviewing her!
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Beth: What got you into writing this book in the first place?
LeAnna: I got into writing The Alestrion Chronicles: Slaves Redeemed when the vision of the main character Aria came to mind. [...]

Welcome to my weekly series of interviews with independently published fantasy authors. This week I interviewed Matt Posner about America’s greatest magic school. Enjoy!
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1. What got you into writing this book in the first place?
I was working at a yeshiva high school in Long Island, which caused me to get very immersed in the culture of [...]

Welcome to my weekly series of interviews with independently published fantasy authors. This week I interviewed James C. Wallace II who shares with us his lifelong love affair with Oz.

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1. What got you into writing this book in the first place?
As a child of the 60s, my parents taught me to read from the fourteen original [...]

We writers know our story circles around three things: plot, setting, and character. I’d like to talk about character. I know you have heard a dozen different ways to create characters, but how about one more time, only with a different take on them.

Just a quick shout out to all the cool online communities I’m part of that support my life as an indie author:

Shewrites.com: If you do join — yes, it’s free — connect with me! I just attended a cool live chat with other YA authors.
“Hosted by Ning, She Writes nurtures a growing community of women [...]