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Author Interview: Lindsay A. Franklin

Posted on August 21, 2019 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

Lindsay A. Franklin is a freelance editor and the best-selling author of The Weaver Trilogy. The first book in the series, The Story Peddler (Enclave Publishing, 2018), introduces readers to a world where storytellers weave their wares into crystallized sculptures…

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Author Interview: Zachry Wheeler

Posted on July 17, 2019 by KL Wagoner — 2 Comments

Zachry Wheeler is an award-winning author of two ongoing sci-fi series. His Max and the Multiverse books take a humorous look at a teenage gamer’s bizarre life shared with a band of quirky space jockeys. On the other side of…

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Author Interview: Meg Cowley

Posted on June 19, 2019 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

Bestselling fantasy author Meg Cowley credits her writing path to her parents for encouraging her creativity, JK Rowling for inspiring her, and a meeting with Christopher Paolini that led her to finish the novel that started her first series. Her…

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Author Interview: E.J. Wenstrom

Posted on April 17, 2019 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

Award-winning author E.J. Wenstrom didn’t considered herself creative enough to be a writer until a mentor encouraged her otherwise. Her Chronicles of the Third Realm War (City Owl Press) is described as “a peculiar mashup of Greek mythology, Judeo-Christian folklore,…

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Author Interview: ML Spencer

Posted on March 20, 2019 by KL Wagoner — 2 Comments

Author ML Spencer is a biology teacher by day and a writer by night. In 2011, she published the first book in her Rhenwars Saga, the award-winning Darkmage, and concluded the pentalogy with Darkfall in 2018. The series “is a…

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Author Interview: JA Andrews

Posted on November 21, 2018 by KL Wagoner — 3 Comments

Author JA Andrews juggles time, family life, and aphantasia to write epic fantasy stories in her Keeper Chronicles world where peace-keeping storytellers fight magic with magic. The series includes A Threat of Shadows, book one (2nd edition, 2018) and Pursuit…

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Author Interview: Nicki Huntsman Smith

Posted on October 17, 2018 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

Author Nicki Huntsman Smith is a longtime book lover who became hooked on post-apocalyptic fiction as a preteen. Troop of Shadows (2016), Beauty and Dread (2016), and Moving with the Sun (2018) are her first offerings in the Troop of…

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Author Interview: Steve Statham

Posted on September 19, 2018 by KL Wagoner — 2 Comments

Steve Statham is an editor, freelance writer, and photographer who has turned a lifelong love of speculative fiction into a second writing career. Along with short stories and two standalone novels, he has authored two sci-fi series. The first, his…

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Author Interview: Kerry Nietz

Posted on August 15, 2018 by KL Wagoner — 2 Comments

Former software engineer Kerry Nietz is an award-winning science fiction author of novels and short stories. He is best known for his Peril in Plain Space series (Amish Vampires in Space and Amish Zombies from Space) and his DarkTrench universe with…

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Author Interview: J.S. Morin

Posted on July 18, 2018 by KL Wagoner — 4 Comments

J.S. Morin, former engineer turned full-time science fiction/fantasy author, claims the title of “a creator of worlds and a destroyer of words.” He has loved exploring speculative fiction since childhood and now hopes his own stories will help influence a new…