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Born and raised in Cajun country, Lee Stephen literally spent his youth “catching bullfrogs to eat and playing alligators in the bathtub.” Every little boy’s dream, in other words. But he does have a point when he says that it probably is “not the place most people expect to find sci-fi writers.” Yup, Crocodile Dundee, [...]
Novelist David Bishop was born in Washington, D.C., his father a Navy man posted there, and he supposes his early years probably didn’t differ much from many of his own readers’ lives. “We moved around. I got some education. Played some sports, and got some more education,” he says. He was even a financial analyst, [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. You want free, useful tools to help you with your wordpreneur duties and projects? Of course you do! Dropped the ball last week, getting too busy to do one of these WpTF installments (should have planned for it, I know). So let me see if I can make up [...]
When she was a child growing up in Chicago, Michelle Muto’s favorite stories had monsters and things that lurked in the dark. And she loved storytelling. So she frightened her classmates with stories of monsters and things that lurked in the dark. Which, of course, got her into a lot of trouble with her teachers. [...]
Tara West — best-selling author of the YA paranormal Whispers Series: Sophie’s Secret, Don’t Tell Mother, Krysta’s Curse and Visions of the Witch – is a former high school teacher in Texas who also coached the school’s writing team and ran its publications. She took a break to raise her baby girl, but doing well as [...]
From his nineteen years of experience in the security industry, Australian Luke Romyn must have some really interesting real-life stories to tell. He has, after all, worked in “Australia’s roughest pubs and clubs to protecting Mickey Mouse and the Disney crew from the overzealous jaws of tenacious toddlers.” He’s worked in the field internationally as [...]
After graduating from California State University Hayward with a BA in Philosophy, international bestselling author Susan Hatler found herself going through several “real” jobs in the legal and insurance fields. Then she figured out that her “real” job is “the job she makes real” (and why, she wonders, didn’t anyone tell her before). So now [...]
Part-time author Steven Konkoly, who gave us the Black Flagged series and The Jakarta Pandemic, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in English Literature from the U.S. Naval Academy. “I studied Shakespeare and Electrical Engineering during the same semester,” he recalls, “which should be illegal in the United States.” After graduation, he spent the next [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. You’re probably a Facebook user, like a few kajillion other folks. And maybe, like me, you’ve ended up using it as a notebook of sorts, recording your thoughts, observations, events, or whatevers in your Facebook statuses over time. Probably nothing planned. In my case, I found myself [...]
Good Cover Designs
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"Alchemy" by Mike Wood
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"The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming" by Masanobu Fukuoka
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"The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service" by Eiji Otsuka
