The Realms of a Fantastical Mind

Today's author interview with the Blog Ring of Power is Elizabeth Hull. Welcome to the Realm. To find the rest of the interview, don't forget to stop by my co hosts Sandra and T.W.'s blogs: Section 1 with Sandra Section 3 + 4 with T.W. Elizabeth Hull, writing under the by line of C.N.Lesley, lives in Alberta with her husband and cats. Her three daughters live close by. When she isn’t writing, Elizabeth likes to read and to paint watercolors. She is also a keen gardener (despite the very short summers) and now has a mature shade garden. Once a worker in the communications sector, mostly concentrating on local news and events, she now writes full time, and fusses over her cats. She was senior managing editor of FlashMe Magazine and now is assistant flash fiction editor for Abyss and Apex.  LINKS http://cnlesley.com/ http://www.abyssapexzine.com/ Section #2: The Writing Life BRoP: What is your writing process? Do you follow a regular routine? Do yo...

I would like to welcome Blog Ring of Power's very own T.W. Fendley. She's releasing a new book and we got to pick her brain. You can find the other half of this interview on Sandra's blog. Author Bio – T.W. Fendley is an award-winning author of historical fantasy and science fiction for adults and young adults. She began writing fiction full-time in 2007 after working twenty-five years in journalism and corporate communications. In October 2011, L&L Dreamspell LLC published her debut historical fantasy novel for adults,  Zero Time . Her young adult contemporary fantasy novel,  The Labyrinth of Time , will be released in November 2014. Her short stories are available on Kindle and Audible. Teresa fell in love with ancient American cultures while researching story ideas at the 1997 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Since then, she’s trekked to archeological sites in the Yucatan, Peru and American Southwest. She serves on the ...

 Here's a real treat for everyone. One of our hosts has let us pick her brain! She has a new book coming out tomorrow, though you can grab the pre-order today! I'm doing the first half of the interview and the rest is on T.W. Fendley's Blog 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. Other published works by Sandra include Twinned Universes and several science fiction and fantasy short stories. She is a founding member of Broad Universe, which promotes science fiction, fantasy, and horror written by women. Her undergraduate degree is in molecular ...

Joyce Alton, the group leader for AQC 's Speculative Fiction forum, has her first book coming out in September. Trefury is the first of a  trilogy .  Check it out.  An ancient legend is remade. Meet the oddest, most-likely-to-fail partnership the planet Niyhel has ever known. He's cunning, intelligent, and dangerous. She's slow to trust, reckless, and loyal. And both of them have their own ideas about how to do things. Thssk, a six-thousand-year old norhendra, has unwittingly caused the near extinction of his kind. Then he abandoned his handler , momentarily forgetting that she was an astral. She curses him as he flees the battlefield: the next handler he chooses will avenge her. Hunted by his past, it takes a divine summons and a volcanic eruption to rekindle Thssk's competitive spirit after a long hibernation. Racing against his enemies to rescue a boy from another planet ? —he's the only one capable of pulling it off. But there's a catc...

I'm a wife, mother, author, reader, although not always in that order. I write young adult urban fantasies, science/fiction, paranormal, and young adult and new adult contemporary romances. Reading was one of my earliest passions, writing soon followed. I began writing seriously during college where I graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in accounting. Why I chose a career that frowns on creativity remains a mystery. Red Bull or Monster Khaos are my coffee of choice. I’m addicted to Reese’s peanut butter cups and peanut butter M&Ms and eat way too many while I write (I’m currently trying to kick this habit). I have an abnormal obsession with hoodies and can’t write without one. I hate to cook, but love to watch cooking shows. I’m a hopeful romantic; I love a swoon-worthy ending that will give me butterflies for days. And books that keep me thinking of them long after I’ve finished the last page. I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, but now live in a sleepy suburb...

Welcome to another post of Blog Ring of Power's Year in Review! Today we have Ellen Larson up to bat. The three months since my guest entry on the Blog Ring of Power have been rewarding ones. The pre-press reviews for In Retrospect are in, and they are very generous. Publishers Weekly, the big guy on reviewing campus, gave me a starred review, saying "[A] carefully crafted whodunit . . . shifting timelines clearly notated in chapter headings and technological/theoretical discussions that readers can skim or chew over with equal enjoyment should make this speculative fiction mystery accessible to all closed-room murder fans." Three other major reviewers followed: "Cleverly structured mix of science fiction and mystery" -Booklist; "Twisty plot" -Kirkus; "Gripping" -RT Book Reviews. Maybe the biggest thrill was seeing the book trailer for In Retrospect featured for three days on Baker & Taylor's front page in their...