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Allen Eskens Personal site Allen Eskens is a writer whose first novel was The Life We Bury , with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Minnesota. In 2015 he was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. His grand goal is to give readers novels that challenge their creative thinking with magnificent twists but also respect them with intellectual honesty and appreciation. The art of writing is one very few (if any) can claim to have mastered completely, with even the titans of literature looking at it as a lifelong learning process. Today, we have the fantastic opportunity of looking a bit deeper into that process with reputed author Allen Eskens. He is responsible for writing the highly-acclaimed novels The Life We Bury and The Guise of Another , and is currently getting ready to release his next effort, The Heavens May Fall .Here are the words of wisdom he had to share with the rest of the world: Q: To start at the...

Personal site Glen Craney is an American author, novelist, journalist and lawyer with degrees from Hanover College, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has taken to writing novels with more of a historical penchant, such as The Virgin of the Wind Rose and The Fire and the Light. Good day to all our fantastic readers! We've recently had the opportunity to conduct an E-mail interview with Glen Craney author of The Spider and the Stone as well as The Yanks are Starving , both of them received with exceptional critical acclaim. And so, taking our change, we picked his brain a bit in regards to his relation with literature, and here are his (very detailed) answers, hopefully you'll enjoy and learn from them as much as we did! Q: As is known in the biographical elements made public, in addition to being an author you are also a journalist and a lawyer. When and how did you decide to turn...

Personal site Bob van Laerhoven is a Flemish author whose 30+ novels have been published in Belgium, France, Canada and The Netherlands. His 2007 novel Baudelaire's Revenge was the winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for the best crime novel of the year. There are some basic rules known authors recommend to all aspiring writers out there, but for the most part every one of them has his or her own unique method of doing things. Good authors are the ones who have managed to develop a system that works for them, and there is no insight greater than the one their personal experience can provide. Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present an email interview we conducted with famous Belgian author Bob Van Laerhoven, discussing his opinions and philosophies as a writer, as well as his best-known, sensational novel, Baudelaire's Revenge . See the world of literature through his experienced eyes, and enjoy! Q: Where you already a writer in your school years? How good/bad...

Jacob Whaler Jacob Whaler is the author of the science-fiction series Stones and has taken to writing after spending much of his life gazing down financial documents. A writer at heart, he moved away from the megalopolises he lived in for something quieter, living the author's dream. Greetings to everyone, today we are taking a little detour from book reviews in favour of hearing the opinions straight out of an author: Jacob Whaler. In our email interview we asked him a few questions about his book series, Stones, as well as a few additional enquires as to his relation to literature in general. Without further ado, the interview: Do you favor any one of the books over the others? J.W. - I have to say that I love all of them. I spent the most time working on Stones #1, since it was my first novel ever to be published. All four of them just sort of poured out of me over a two year period. How did you initially come up with the principal idea that gave birth to th...

Bernice Fischer Personal site Bernice Fischer is an author hailing from South Africa who was virtually born into the world of literature and has recently published her first novel, Jeff Madison and the Shimmers of Drakemere , a work largely acclaimed as brilliant and promising. When most aspiring authors think of writing their first book they are extremely focused on the writing itself. How should they get started, develop characters, create the setting, describe appearances... and so on and so forth. While learning about the process of writing is certainly important in the creation of a novel (after all, very few of us can make an enthralling story with instincts alone), there is much more to it. As a matter of fact, what comes after you've finished writing will take up a lot more time and effort than you imagined. Though book editors aren't exactly heralded as heroes by most readers, they play a role equally important to the author's in shaping t...

Jacob Whaler Jacob Whaler is the author of the science-fiction series Stones and has taken to writing after spending much of his life gazing down financial documents. A writer at heart, he moved away from the megalopolises he lived in for something quieter, living the author's dream. Greetings dear readers, a couple of days ago I got in touch with Jacob Whaler ( jacobwhaler.com ), author of the Stones series, in order to discuss writing. More precisely, I asked him if he had any words of wisdom to share for aspiring writers who don't know where to start... and he gave me some of the best advice I've ever received on the topic. I decided it would be a crime to keep his insight away from the world, and so I am sharing it here today: Jack Whaler says: Thanks for reading my blog post and reminding me that I need to do more of them! Yeah, for me it's all about getting my hands on the keyboard. Inspiration seems to strike when my fingers are moving. I ra...