By Leah Cutter Welcome to the Island Sampler! Why do I call this the Island Sampler? Like many writers, I write all over the map. I primarily write fantasy, but I write many different flavors of fantasy. I’m best known for my historic fantasy (Paper Mage, the first book I sold to a New York publisher), but I also
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Mark Lefebvre, Director of Kobo Writing Life, interviews Young Adult Fantasy and Chicklit author, Katie Cross as she shares strategies about how she was able to keep writing, with even more productivity, in her transition from full time author to full time Mom. In the chat, Katie and Mark discuss: Her lifelong passion of writing and her recent passion of
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By Todd Fahnestock The Value of Collecting Quotes I collect quotes. The habit started back in college when I was sleeping on a rough-cut wooden loft I got for free because its owner was headed home for the summer and didn’t want to store it. Every time my friends came over, they’d tease me about the fact that I hadn’t
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In a slight twist to the normal format of this podcast, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, who is interested in getting involved in podcasting, interviews Mark Lefebvre, Joanna Penn and J, Daniel Sawyer about podcasting for authors in front of a live audience. The discussion took place as part of a week-long Publishing Master Class workshop that Rusch and her husband, Dean
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Kobo Writing Life is a platform used by indie authors and independent publishers. These publishers, who typically comprise of smaller teams, are nimble and quick, experiment, provide key titles to niche markets, and bring new voices and books into the world in exciting and bold new ways. This guest post from Rebecca Laffar-Smith, Publisher at Aulexic , (books for early
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