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Writer, publisher, slave of cats: Barbara Friend Ish is Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, and Wild-Eyed Visionary for Mercury Retrograde Press, which publishes Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Interstitial novels and novellas: a small press dedicated to unconventional authors and works that might undeservedly slip through the cracks at bigger houses. After earning a Bachelor's in English from Rice University, Barbara divided her time between working with small groups of entrepreneurs who didn't know any better than to start their own companies and swimming against the current of the publishing industry, eventually co-founding Be Mused, an author services company devoted to helping authors and small publishers develop books. She founded Mercury Retro...more


This week, as part of Week 3 of theThe Shadow of the SunRead-Along, nrlymrtl posed me this question:


As we get to know Ellion more and more, we definitely are not spared from his private thoughts, including his romantic thoughts. In making your main character the opposite sex of yourself, what came easy and what came hard? How did you overcome obstacles of those nature?


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Danielle Parker Barbara, looking at your list of interesting books here, I can't help but recommend another I think you'd find interesting (and one of my all-time favorite authors): David Lewis-Williams.

Try his wonderful "Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realms of the Gods" and "The Mind in the Cave". Both wonderfully readable books--not dry at all. And thought-provoking.

- Danielle


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Chris Stevenson Howdy, friend in the South. Nice reading list, Barb. We should all support the industry by purchasing books like this. I wish I was on your reading list!

Chris


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