I’ve always enjoyed hearing the stories of other writers or clicking on the special features on movies and finding out the story behind the story.
So here’s an inside peek at some of the stuff behind what makes a good book, a look at the journeys writers take.
If you’re thinking about becoming an author yourself, you might find that writers aren’t living in a Hemingway writing bubble–they’re just regular people who decided to step up and do something extraordinary.
Author of Poggibonsi, The Navigators, Savvy Stories, An Angel on Her Shoulder, Night of the Colonoscopy, A Quick Trip to Buy Mart, Santa Maybe, and 35 Amazing Recipes Your Mother Would Be Proud Of
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Author of The Edge of Nowhere
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Author of The Rise of Aredor, The Wildcat of Breton, and Adela’s Curse
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Author of Wildly Human
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Author of Ashes, 1000 Words, and Magic’s Stealing
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Author of Sun Dragon, The Cult of Me, Conversations in the Abyss, The Last True Demon, Faust 2.0, and Elite Legacy
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Author of The Last Ereph and Other Stories, The Destiny Engine, and Moore Hollow
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Author of Making Friends with the Crocodile
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Author of the Mud, Rocks, and Trees series
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Author of Bully-proof
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Author of Death of a Bride and Groom
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Author of Wicked Game, How to Write a Short Story, Get Published, and Make Money, and editor of To Hull and Back–series of short story anthologies
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Tina FriscoAuthor of Plateau, Gabby and the Quads, and Vampyrie
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Author of A Portal in Time and Dancing to an Irish Reel
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Author of Behind the Lights and She Hopped Over the Wall
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Author of Mission Improbable, Death Switch, and Dawn Falcon
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Co-author of The Art of Losing
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Author of Travelers, Colors Like Memories, Chemistry of Fate, Surrender the Sky, and An Absence of Light
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Contributing author to Slices of Life Anthology and Palpable Beginnings Anthology
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Author of Stone and a Hard Place and The Forgotten
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Author of Superstellar, The Girl in the Woods, and Jingleballs
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Author of Normalish, Mr. Katz Is a Zombie, Finding a Man for Sylvia, and Let Me Get This Off My Chest: A Breast Cancer Survivor Over-Shares
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Author of The Fourth Descendant
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Author of The Redeemers
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Author of Building a Midshipman, To Catch a Sub, and Twenty-Four Days
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Author of Ireland: Magical, Mythical, Mystical, and Scotland: Stunning, Strange and Secret, and Legacy of Hunger
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Author of What Boys Are Made Of and Suiko and the Puzzle Box
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Author of The Rowanwood Curse
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Author of The Sorcerer’s Garden, The Melding of Aeris, The Bone Wall, Sunwielder, Myths of the Mirror, Eye of Fire, Eye of Blind, Eye of Sun
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Author of Before the Storm, The Deepest Ocean, The Farthest Shore, The Highest Tide, The Coldest Sea, Marked by You, Secret Water, Silent Water, The Beast Prince, Christmas Yet To Come, Christmas Past
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Author of V Chronicles and Bleeding Heart
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Author of Deceived
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Author of The Beauty Thief
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Author of A Thing of Beauty
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Author of the Wycaan Master series (five books and counting) and Unwanted Heroes
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Author of Dog Bone Soup, Pure Trash, Amazing Matilda, and The Tanagram Zoo and Word Puzzles, Too.
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Author of Rise of the Sidenah and Loreena’s Gift.
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Author of Lithium and Once Upon a Unicorn.
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Author of The Thin Line, Dark and Deep, Promises to Keep, Before I Sleep, and The Bear’s Wife.
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Author of The Genie Hunt
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Author of The Five Step Plan
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Author of Abendau’s Heir, Sunset Over Abendau, and Inish Carraig
Cathleen Townsend 