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MoA&A Interview #16: Morgan Keyes

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features fellow WRW member Morgan Keyes. Her beautiful coming-of-age fantasy novel, Darkbeast, releases this August from Margaret K. McElderry Books. Welcome, Morgan! **************** Author or Artist? Author Who are your professional role models? Tamora Pierce, for writing smart, strong girls…

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MoA&A Interview #15: Traci Wilkes

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features mixed media artist Traci Wilkes–sister of esteemed Waterworld Mermaid author Avery Flynn. (I know a little bit about having an artistic sister… ) Talent definitely runs in the family! If you like what you see here, be sure to…

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MoA&A Interview #14: Saladin Ahmed

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features Nebula and Campbell Award finalist Saladin Ahmed, author of the very fantastic adventure novel Throne of the Crescent Moon. I highly recommend it. I’m honored to have him on the website today — welcome, Saladin! **************** Author or Artist?…

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Enchanted Wins 2012 Gelett Burgess Award!

More on this later because I have GOT to finish writing Chapter 10 today…but SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! I didn’t even know non-picture books could win this! (For the record, the cutoff date for publication was May 31st, so The Wonderland Alphabet: Alice’s Adventures Through the ABCs and What She Found There isn’t eligible until next year.) From the website: The Gelett…

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MoA&A Interview #13: Jeff Carlson

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features SF writer, Bionic Man, and Knight in Shining Armor Jeff Carlson. Once upon a time he saved a scared princess who found herself in a strange place and surrounded by cultists…and for that rescue, she will be forever grateful….

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MoA&A Interview #12: Caren Gussoff

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features fellow SF writer cutie Caren Gussoff. Welcome, Caren! **************** Author or Artist? Author Who are your professional role models? Octavia E. Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Lucille Ball What’s your favorite writing/sketching weather? Rain, of course (I live in Seattle). Set…

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Post-Apocalyptic Disaster Area

Today I am a-blogging over at The Waterworld Mermaids about the ultimate sacrifice a writer must make when he/she is trying to write a novel on deadline: HOUSEWORK. The house is going to look like hell, and you’re going to have to let it. Among other things. Read my bit of insanity here. (I have taken a picture of…

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MoA&A Interview #11: Adam Selzer

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features one of my personal new favorite authors and Twitter BFFs: Adam Selzer. I fell in love with Adam after reading (& reviewing) his book Extraordinary*: *The True Story of My Fairygodparent, Who Almost Killed Me, and Certainly Never Made…

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V.I.P. TODAY

I should really mention that there is a VERY IMPORTANT PAPERBACK out today. AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First is now available in paperback for the very first time anywhere! I’m so very honored, because 1.) you have to be a Very Important picture book for your publisher to release you into paperback and 2.) this is the very…

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MoA&A Interview #10: Carlene Love Flores

Hello, everyone! Welcome to July, and the Month of Artist and Author Interviews here on the website! Today’s interview features one of the sweetest women in the romance genre: fellow Waterworld Mermaid Carlene Love Flores. Hanging out with Carlene is like getting a sugar injection from Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory–and she knows a thing or two about music, which…

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