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Author Spotlight: Debbie Manber Kupfer

Today's author spotlight is also a new release! The third book in her urban fantasy series, Umbrae, just released last week! Go check it out.Q) Hi there and thanks for joining me today! First off, tell us about yourself. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?A) Thank you for having me. It’s really great to be here. I grew up in London, lived in Israel for a while, and today make my home in St. Louis, MO. Not 100% sure how that all happened.I have several hats. When I’m not writing fi...

Top 10 Pieces of Advice for New Authors

It’s been almost a year since I published my first book. In that time, I’ve published three more and helped several other indie authors get their first books out. I don’t think that qualifies me for expert status yet. It does, however, provide me with some unique insight.I look back all the time and think about all the writing advice I was given when I first started out. It was hard to sort through it and decide what was worth listening to. In the end, I wound up tossing most of it. No one ca...

New Release Alert

Step into the Shadows of Umbrae ...Miri’s world at P.A.W.S. in St. Louis is falling apart. First, Danny is accused of stealing her opapa’s charm. But before he can defend himself, he mysteriously disappears. Miri seeks Josh for help and advice, but he too has gone missing. Then Lilith has a vision – Miri dragged away by wolves. Miri needs answers, answers that she feels sure are hidden in the blank pages of the book of Argentum. With the help of Lilith, she travels to the ancient city of Safe...

Our Time is Precious

Writing is very hard, time consuming work. It’s not as hard as rocket science, but it takes a lot of brain power. Once you get warmed up and the words finally start to flow, it feels like that’s when everything around you falls apart. The phone rings. You get that important e-mail you’ve been waiting on. Twenty people on Facebook decide to send you private messages and that cute guy from down the hall is finally knocking on your door in nothing but a towel because he locked himself out and ne...

Feature Friday: Age of Order

Today's Feature Friday is a new dystopian novel. I'm currently reading through this and, so far, it's amazing!  Age of Order is now a bestseller on Amazon. If you're looking for a great new young adult dystopia, go pick up Age of Order by Julian North and read my interview with himhere.In a world where all people are not created equal, Daniela Machado is offered the rarest commodity: hope.For a girl from plague-infested Bronx City, the opportunity to attend the elite Tuck School in Manhattan...

How to Support an Author Friend

Let’s say you have this author friend and you’d really like to help her out, but you’re not sure what you can do or where to start. Well then, my friend, this post is for you. Yes, even if you have absolutely zero dollars to your name, no free time, and don’t read in the genre they write, YOU CAN HELP. Here’s how.The first thing you should do is buy their books. That’s the #1 thing all authors want you to do. When you buy our books, feel free to post selfies with them all over social media. T...

Author Spotlight: Kayla Hoyet

Today's Author Spotlight is on Kayla Hoyet, another dystopan author and writer of The Spheres Cycle.Q) Hi there and thanks for joining me today! First off, tell us about yourself. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?A) Thank you for inviting me!I think I'm a little boring when I'm not writing, to be honest. I like to read, I’m learning computer programming, and I have a service dog I occasionally try to teach a new trick or two. I am a bit of a home-body, so I love just staying hom...

Friday Feature: Tough

Normally, I'd feature a dystopian novel but, with valentine's day coming up, I thought you could use a little love. Today's Friday Feature is a romance novel by author Mary Crawford titled Tough.Savannah Lyons has her secrets. She buried them in the past long ago, and she’d like to leave them there. She never talks about her past with anyone—especially wickedly handsome restaurant owners like the guy next door.Casey Moore has met women with moves and instincts like hers before but not since h...

The Power of Support

In July of 2015, I quit my job to write full time. I hadn’t published any books, nor had I gotten any kind of advance or windfall inheritance that allowed me to do so. In fact, we were arguably the most broke we’d ever been. We lived in a dump of a rental with two pots, a pan, a washer and dryer, a couple of camping chairs and two air mattresses. Aside from the clothes we’d managed to salvage from a recent bedbug infestation (thanks to slum lord landlords, such was our situation), that was al...

Author Spotlight: Julian North

Today's author spotlight is with Julian North. North's first book, Age of Order, actually releases today! If you're a fan of The Hunger Games or Divergent, it looks like this one is right up your alley! Today, however, we're going to get to know the author a little better.Q) Hi there and thanks for joining me today! First off, tell us about yourself. What do you like to do when you’re not writing?A)  I’m the father of two young children, so that’s how I spend virtually all my time when I’m no...