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Katrina Sardis

What lead you to write? A: For me, writing became an emotional release as a child. I discovered writing as a way to speak without verbalizing all that I felt. Writing was my therapy, a way to cope with emotional turmoil. What is your preferred genre to write? A:...

Mary Schmidt

What lead you to write? I have written bits and pieces since grade school. I hung up my registered nurse hat in January of 2013, and I found myself with time on my hands. My youngest son, Sam, had a cancer battle and passed at age five in 1990....

Theresa Snyder

What lead you to write? My mother was a strong influence on my initiation into writing. I was bullied in school far before it was recognized and dealt with socially as it is today. She gave me a journal and encouraged me to write down my feelings. Then we...

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

What lead you to write? My parents always felt I had a talent for writing, but I didn’t have the confidence until I had a strong intuition to try writing my first book about my childhood experiences on our family’s riding school. What is your preferred genre to write?...

Aidan McNally

What lead you to write? I had some very tough experiences in my life that were unbelievable to me as I looked back over my life. Even though I was “that soldier” who had lived the experiences, I still had a hard time coming to terms with them. I...

Ginger Elinburg

What lead you to write? I needed a place to escape and writing gave me that place. Was there a particular person that influenced you to pursue writing? No. I’ve been writing in some form, poetry and short horror in the beginning, since I was in middle school. What...

Darío Aguilar Peregrina

Hi, everyone. I’m, Darío Aguilar Peregrina, a Mexican author who likes to tell many stories about my culture, Action, Darkness, Mature Themes, Natural Disasters, Sports, Fantasy, Tech, etc. What lead you to write? I started writing after watching movies like Spider-Man,The Day After Tomorrow, Batman Begins, Harry Potter and...

Nina Romano

1.What lead you to write? I’ve always written. When I was young, I wrote mostly poetry and as I grew it just became a part of me—a poet. I love stories and story-tellers. As a child, I sat around the kitchen table and listened to my grandmother, mother and...

Genevive Chamblee

What lead you to write? I’m a southerner. Storytelling is in my blood. Was there a particular person that influenced you to pursue writing? There are so many, but the person who stands out is a college creative writing professor. I was a graduate student and had taken CW...

Donan Berg

What lead you to write? Confluence of a mother who wrote and a University of Minnesota Journalism degree where the espoused mantra was to write the great American novel. What is your preferred genre to write? Mystery heads the list, however, romance is a close second. What is your...