Rachel A. Brune

Category: Conversations

  • Saturday Spotlight: Markie Madden’s Fang and Claw

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    Earlier this year, I sat down for a Conversation with Markie Madden, in which we talked about her book, My Butterfly Cancer, and some of what it takes to set up a publishing house. Fast forward a few months (okay, more than a few), and she has just released Fang and Claw, the first of…

  • Fayetteville ComicCon Rundown

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    What do a group of nerdy people do for fun on the weekend? Well, if that weekend was this past weekend, and the first Fayetteville ComicCon was happening–we were over there. It was a super fun event, and I am already looking forward to next year and plotting who of my writer friends/Con vendors/artists I…

  • Saturday Spotlight: Jeffrey Cook & Katherine Perkins

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    Jeffrey Cook is an intrepid imaginer of worlds, a steampunk Shakespearean par excellence, and kind of a fun Facebook friend. If you have been at a Con in the Pacific Northwest, you may have caught a glimpse of him or his works. But since not all of us are so geographically advantageously situated, I have…

  • A Conversation with Sandra Boutwell-Falcone

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    I met Sandra Boutwell-Falcone, an independent author, through one of my Facebook groups wherein we writers like to mingle and talk shop. I invited her on my blog, but before posting the interview, I picked up a copy of her book Marabella: Discovering Magics. I enjoyed it quite a lot, and am going to be keeping an…

  • Breaking before you shine … Guest Post by C.M. Wilson

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    “It’s okay to be a glow stick. Sometimes you have to break before you shine.” –        Anonymous I’ve had a lot of people give me a weird look when I recite that quote. I guess it’s hard to understand it unless you’ve lived it. Or maybe, because I’m shining now, they don’t understand how broken…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…