Tag: indie author
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Author Interveiw: Sci-fi indie author C. D. Tavnor
I recently had the chance to talk to indie author C. D. Travenor about his novel First of Their Kind. This book tells the story of the first Synthetic Intelligence (SI) and their journey as they learn to navigate the world. I want to jump right in with a question that I was curious about…
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The added weight of being a mom perusing a creative goal
Being a mom, whether you work or stay home, is hard, but there is a special kind of guilt that gets added to the pile when you’re also pressuring creative endeavors. I started to take my writing seriously when my oldest was 2 and I started to feel like my identity was slipping away. My…
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Review: Between Two Minds: Awakening by D. C. Wright-Hammer
Between Two Minds: Awakening by D. C. Wright-Hammer is an amazing sci-fi thriller. It tells the story of a paraplegic named Ryan as he undergoes the process of a mind migration to get a new body. This concept alone had me hooked from the very beginning. There are so many interesting implications that come from…
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Author Interview with D.C. Wright-Hammer, author of Between Two Minds
I’m so excited to bring you my first Indie Author Interview of 2020 and I could think of no one better to kick us off than D.C. Wright-Hammer, author of Between Two Minds. If you haven’t read this book yet you absolutely need to pick it up as soon as possible. In fact, I originally…
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What’s to come in 2020
Welcome to 2020! Have you recovered from the holiday season yet? Things are starting to get back to normal around my house, which I’m grateful for. I have a lot of awesome stuff planned for the year and I’m ready to jump back into it after taking December off from writing. What awesome things do…
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Review: Darkwind; Starchaser Saga Book 1 by R. Dugan
Every once in great while you run across a book that stops you in your tracks and makes you think, wow there is something really special about this book. Darkwind, by Renee Dugan, is that book. It is the story about a bookish princess named Cistine who overhears her parents discussing trouble brewing on their…
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Crystal and Flint is 1!
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Crystal and Flint’s publication. It’s a crazy feeling knowing that my work has been out in the world for that long, something I had dreamed about and worked at for years. There are still moments when I’m working on The Journey Mission Series where it feels like these…
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Author Interview: Renee Dugan
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Renee Dugan author of The Chaos Circus and Darkwind, the first book of the Starchaser Saga. I first met Renee about three years ago on the NaNo forums, where we eventually joined the same cabin for a session of CampNano where we quickly realized that we didn’t want…
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Crystal and Flint Deleted Scenes
I love watching deleted scenes from movies. Those little moments that didn’t make the final cut, but can still give insight in the characters and stories. Just like in movies there are a lot of scenes that get cut when writing book. There’s lots of reasons why a scene gets cut. It might not move…
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“That’s how it should always be.”
A few weeks ago I had the chance to sit down and talk to one of my readers. She’s the young teen daughter of a friend of mine from school. She was staying with her grandmother in our old neighborhood and I went over to give her a copy of Family Binds and I was…
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