Rachel A. Brune

Author: RachelABrune

  • #WriteFridays? Let’s do this!

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    When I was living in Texas, I joined a writers’ group that, once a month, picked an exercise from the book Naming the World and created an excerpt to be turned in for a critique. While at first I was skeptical of this group — I mean, spending extra time writing stuff that isn’t my novel?…

  • A Conversation with Claire Plaisted…

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    A few weeks ago, I was answering a series of questions someone had sent me for an interview. One of the questions stood out in my mind — what have I, as an independent author, learned about publishing? It took me a while to answer that particular question, but the gist that I’ve come to…

  • Thinking about place: Home.

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    (I’m currently working on a project that is a little different than my normal interviews. About a week ago, I sat down with two fellow authors in Raleigh, NC, and had an extended conversation about place — what it is, and how it figures in our writing. This week, I’m back in NJ, and the…

  • Coming Soon…

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    This Monday, I will be interviewing author Claire Plaisted of Plaisted Publishing House on her journey to become an independent author. Stop by and check it out! Claire Plaisted was born and raised in England with two loving parents and siblings.  They were a motorbiking family and loved history and cooking. In the mid-1980s, Claire…

  • Cover Reveal: The Crosstown Kid

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    COVER REVEAL The Crosstown Kid by Richard Weir   About The Crosstown Kid: In the low-income part of a Florida town, kids get flushed into the gangland sewer every day. So when beat cop Rob spots a kid training on a track—trying, in other words, to actually be something—he’s intrigued. Against the advice of his…

  • A Conversation with Markie Madden…

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    Recently, I was perusing a fellow author’s selection of titles, when I happened upon one that was quite different than her other offerings. It was while on author Markie Madden’s publishing Web site, Metamorph Publishing, that I spied a title that differed from her other offerings of romance and supernatural suspense. Her book, My Butterfly…

  • Coming soon…

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    Heads up! This coming Monday, I will be hosting an interview here with author Markie Madden, in which we will discuss writing memoir. She will talk about her book, My Butterfly Cancer, which details her struggle with and victory over cancer, as well as give some tips and ideas for writing in the genre of…

  • Getting over the ringtone…

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    This is an odd confession for a journalist to make, even a freelance one (which means that currently only half the projects I’m working on actually pay me), but I hate talking on the phone. Currently, I’m procrastinating from picking up my otherwise innocuous brick of a smartphone, finding a number in my “recently dialed”…

  • A Conversation with J. Lawrence…

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    A few weeks ago, I opened my email to find a notification that author J. Lawrence would be the featured author of the week in one of my Goodreads groups. As is usual when the moderator posts who is the featured author for that week, I clicked on his author information, including his Goodreads page, Twitter…

  • A Conversation with Hildur Enóla…

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    A few months ago, I posted that I had a few interviews upcoming with authors who were bilingual, which I found absolutely fascinating. (And I’m also a little jealous…if I tried to write even a haiku in German or Russian, it would be a tremendous effort…and I’m not sure it would be successful…) One of…