1. Please tell us about your new YA novel – Virtual Age A- Virtual Age takes place in a distant future. Our world is no longer able to support life so, in preparation for this, indoor cities were built where air and water is purified. The technology of virtual reality...
As many of you know, I commit to a blog schedule at the end of each year for the coming year. My blog has in the past morphed into a writer's blog as opposed to a reader's blog and so I want 2020 to be different by still continuing to support my writing community as...
Today I am highlighting some of the incredible authors published by Dream Write Publishing of Sherwood Park, who are launching new books at this event. It will be the 12th annual Words in the Park and with over 100 titles, this publishing company has continued to...
This week's question is: How do you prepare for an author reading? I have a reading with several other authors this Saturday for Bookstore Romance Day, so have prepared a gift basket, gathered not only the book I will be reading from but also most of my other...
-What inspired your latest novel? Before Remaining Aileen was, Remaining Aileen the novel, she was an idea I had for a screenplay. A few years back, around 2014 I had this super vivid vision of a young mom, who was on a plane that was falling from the sky. All hope is...
Today's post is more personal as I am a multi-genre author. I would welcome your comments on how you brand, promote and market when writing multi-genres. The definition of ‘writer’ is 1. a person who has written a particular text. 2. a person who writes books,...
Does writing energize or exhaust you? It energizes me the same way climbing a small mountain might energize you. You’re exhausted by the effort but feel good about what you’ve done, so you have enough left in the tank to climb down – and do it over again the...
Bizarro fiction is a contemporary literary genre, which aims to be both strange and entertaining, containing hefty doses of absurdism, satire, and the grotesque along with pop-surrealism and genre-fiction staples, thus creating subversive, weird, and entertaining...
Speculative fiction Speculative fiction is included in a broad category, which includes science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories (which may have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories that contain fantastic elements. It can...