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Interview: C. Penticoff, Fantasy Author of “Weathering The Wicked”

C. PenticoffC. Penticoff, fantasy author and owner of A Novel Connection, started creating books the moment she could pick up a pen and write with it. Her first book, Weathering the Wicked, is one she started writing at the age of 12. After 14 years of throwing crumbled up pieces of paper in the trash and going back to the writing board, she finally had the masterpiece she had dreamed of publishing since middle school.

 

Aside from writing, her passion is running and growing her website, A Novel Connection, which offers readers free books in exchange for honest reviews.

 

When she isn’t writing, she is homeschooling her two young boys and daydreaming of worlds beyond our own.

 


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Interview – Katherine Dell, Author of Harmless, a YA Paranormal novel

Katherine Dell is a young adult fiction author fascinated by the supernatural and the stories that surround them, and has recently released her debut novel, Harmless. She began her writing endeavours in 2011 when she wanted to reinvent herself from her previous career as an event planner.

 

I’ve had the great pleasure to publish a guest post “Starting, Stalling, and Finding Another Gear” from her in November 2016 while she was writing this book, and she returns today to discuss its release and her journey as an Indie Author.

 

When she’s not writing, she can be found in cold hockey arenas sipping coffee, working on her tan at little league games, or trying to keep her dog out of her many gardens. She lives with her husband, two boys, and fur babies, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

 

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10 Author Tips for Making Friends with Indie Booksellers – by Sarah L. Johnson

Sarah L. JohnsonThis week, Sarah L. Johnson wrote a wonderful post filled with humor and invaluable information for Authors on how to approach Indie Booksellers. She shares insights she gained while working at an independent bookstore. This Guest Post is a must read for all Authors and Aspiring Authors.

 

About her: Sarah L. Johnson lives in Calgary with her family and two slightly bewildered cats. She runs marathons and writes fiction – literary, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. Like many writers, Sarah is possessed of an obscene appetite for books. While her reading tastes are broad, she has a special love dungeon in her heart for Vladimir Nabokov.

 

Sarah is the author of Suicide Stitch: Eleven Tales (EMP Publishing) and her forthcoming novel Infractus (Driven Press). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines including Room, Shock Totem, and the Bram Stoker nominated Dark Visions 1 (Grey Matter Press). She’s also the Events Manager at Owl’s Nest Books, Calgary’s oldest independent bookstore.

 

 

 


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Author Interview – Adam Dreece, Author of “The Man of Cloud 9”

Adam Dreece

 

Adam Dreece is an international best-selling young adult author. He kicked off his indie author career with his steampunk meets fairy tale series, The Yellow Hoods, which struck a chord with kids 9-15 and adults. After four books in the series, the former software architect of 20 years created two new worlds with his post-apocalyptic fantasy book The Wizard Killer – Season One, and his science fiction novel, The Man of Cloud 9. The first two novels in The Yellow Hoods series, as well as The Wizard Killer, have been finalists for Book of the Year awards from the Independent Author’s Network.

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Find out why you need beta readers before you hit the “Publish” button!

It is a given fact that as a writer, you spend lots of time with your manuscript such that it becomes so hard for you to see the content objectively. This is a major hiccup in self-editing. You may think that you have polished your manuscript only to find gross errors once the book is published.

 

Beta readers

 

Right? That’s a writer’s nightmare. So what can we do about it?

 

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