The Realms of a Fantastical Mind

Welcome to another Friday Blog Ring of Power Interview. Sit back, relax and check out Bonnie Milani. BIO Bonnie has taken what might be called the sandwich approach to writing. She started writing early, winning state-wide writing contests in grammar school, publishing an environmental fairy tale under the aegis of the NJ Board of Education in college.   After earning her M.A. in Communication at Stanford, Bonnie freelanced feature articles for East Coast newspapers and regional magazines, from  Mankind  and  Peninsula  to  Science  Digest as well as how to articles for the late & much lamented fanzine  Speculations . She stopped writing completely after marriage while building a pair of businesses with her husband. It was only with the successive deaths of each member of her family that she reclaimed her love of story-telling.  Home World  is the result. Today, Bonnie lives with her husband of thirty-six years in Los A...

It's Friday!!! I've got my coffee, my critiques and edits to work on for today.  Now I just need my hug-me jacket.  I've got someone here today that can provide! Everyone jump for joy and pass them around. Don't worry, they come in all colors! Welcome T.J. Loveless to the Blog Ring of Power. T.J. can often be found surrounded by the wonderful chaos of life, writing, editing and laughing at the antics of family. Section #1: About You BRoP:  When and why did you begin writing? T.J.  In the fourth grade, we had an assignment to write a one page story. I don’t remember what I wrote, or even the accompanying illustration I turned in. What I do remember is my teacher, Mrs. Hunter, refused to return the story and said I had all the makings of a writer. I dabbled for years. In 2010, my beloved grandmother’s last words were to never give it up, to keep pushing, to be myself and not the person everyone else kept saying I should be. It was then that I realized Na...

Welcome to another Blog Ring of Power Friday!   Up on deck is Aaron Dennis. I had fun with his innitials.  I mean, think about it, AD, tehehe. Yeah, it's Friday, E.M. has gone loony.  Oh wait, I've always been there. It's just a typical day then.  Okay, back on track. As always, check out the other BRoP hosts to see the entirety of is interview.  Part 1 @ Terri - May 29th Part 2 @ T.W. - May 30th Part 3 *waves* - May 31st Part 4 @ Sandra - June 3rd Part 5 @ Dean - June 4th I’m Aaron Dennis, creator of the Lokians science fiction series. I’ll let you guess how old I am. I’ve only been writing since early 2011, and published since August 2012, but I came out like a bat from hell. Not out like out , but like out of nowhere…At any rate, everything you need to know about me is available on my website www.dennisauthor.com   Like Lokians on facebook or baby leopards will loose their spots. * * Disclaimer, Aaron is literally nuts *  (S...

It's the best day ever in the Blog Ring of Power! Why, you may ask? Because it's time to interview our very own Sandra Ulbrich Almazan. Don't forget to look over the other parts of the interview. Part 1 @ Dean - Tuesday, April 23rd Part 2 @ Terri - Wednesday, April 24th Part 3 @ Teresa - Thursday, April 25th Part 4 Right here! - Friday, April 26th About the Author Sandra Ulbrich Almazan started reading at the age of three and only stops when absolutely required to. Although she hasn’t been writing quite that long, she did compose a very simple play in German during middle school. Her science fiction novella Move Over Ms. L. (an early version of Lyon’s Legacy ) earned an Honorable Mention in the 2001 UPC Science Fiction Awards, and her short story “A Reptile at the Reunion” was published in the anthology Firestorm of Dragons.   She is a founding member of BroadUniverse and a long-time member of the Online Writing Workshop for Fantasy, Science Fi...

Hey look, Friday is here!  Everyone's in a great mood because the weekend is right next door! So to make things even better let's check out another author as we gaze at her under the Blog Ring of Power microscope. Mwhahahaha.  I mean, The Blog Ring of Power would like to welcome Kristi Petersen Schoonover. Her Pushcart-nominated psychological horror novel  Bad Apple  has been called “deeply disturbing in the best way possible,” by  SciFi Saturday Night . Her short fiction has appeared in  Carpe Articulum, The Adirondack Review, Barbaric Yawp, The Illuminata, Morpheus Tales, New Witch Magazine, Toasted Cheese, The Smoking Poet, The Battered Suitcase,  and a host of others, including several anthologies. Kristi is the recipient of three Norman Mailer Writers Colony Winter Residencies and is an editor for  Read Short Fiction  ( www.readshortfiction.com ). She lives in the Connecticut woods with her housemate, Charles, three cats–...