Author Interview When did you know you wanted to be an author? I was young the first time I felt the thrill of telling a story from my imagination. In the fourth grade, I won a short story contest for children writers. After that, I was hooked. What inspired you to write “Hunted”? The inspiration started with […]
I’m interviewing Michael Okon today, author of YA book “Monsterland”. Welcome to my blog! Author Interview When did you know you wanted to be an author? I’ve been writing since kindergarten but I started taking it seriously when I was 15. Then I got really into writing screenplays in college. Then I started taking those screenplays and turning them […]
Today I’m interviewing Maxime Trencavel, author of “The Matriarch Matrix”. Welcome to my blog! Author Interview When did you know you wanted to be an author? In primary school at age 8. We were assigned to write a fiction story. I loved Horatio Hornblower stories, so I started writing my own version. Epic length of course, which meant it was […]
About the Book Title: Monsterland Author: Michael Okon Genre: YA Welcome to Monsterland—the scariest place on Earth. The last couple years of high school have not been fun for Wyatt Baldwin. His parents divorce, then his dad mysteriously dies. He’s not exactly comfortable with his new stepfather, Carter White, either. An on-going debate with his best friends Howard Drucker and […]
Writing The Adventures of Marisol Holmes, I had to do a lot of research, not just into the different species of shifters that would appear in the book, but also on other rather mysterious topics. One of those topics was ciphers. The Jefferson disk, or wheel cipher as the inventor, Thomas Jefferson named it in 1795, is also known as […]
Today’s post is a little different. Rather than sharing trivia with you about the shifters appearing in The Adventures of Marisol Holmes, I wanted to touch upon a more difficult subject. Writing tough scenes. Sometimes, scenes are tough because you struggle while writing them. Action scenes are often like that. You need to visualize what the characters are doing, the […]
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