Tag: books

Denise Unland

What lead you to write? An asthmatic childhood that kept me inside reading a wide variety of books and a vivid imagination that conjured up my own stories. Was there a particular person that influenced you to pursue writing? Not exactly. But a sixth-grade teacher (who used to post...

Chad Harp

What lead you to write? When I was in college, I wrote an article about Margaret Corbin that appeared in The Washington Post on Memorial Day 1991. That success led me to write a few more historical perspectives, many of which ultimately appeared in newspapers and magazines across the...

Chrystal Stevens

What lead you to write? I had always been an avid reader and loved various genres of books. Sometimes I would read a book and not like how it turned out or I would say I would have had this character do this or that. So, I decided to...

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....

Ana Rubio-Serrano

What lead you to write? My family. First, my grandmother, Anne always read books for kids to my brother and me. And she didn’t just read them, but played the roles of every single character: In a sweet voice, she spoke like the grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood....

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?...

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...

Louise Sorensen

What led you to write? Hi Aaron. I’m a visual person, and sketched and painted all my life. Until early January, 1998. We had an ice storm that coated everything in an inch and a half of ice and took out the power for five million people. For us...

Rob Bliss

What lead you to write? Extreme boredom as a child, and many deaths in the family. I escaped into books more than into anything else, so it was natural for me to eventually want to write books of my own. Was there a particular person that influenced you to...

Soulla Christodoulou

What lead you to write? Hi Aaron and thank you for having me! I guess I’ve always been a writer but taking my writing to the next level with a view of writing a book, well that all came to fruition in January 2015, when I joined a Creative...