Tag: fiction
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Introducing Brett Armstrong
Brett Armstrong has been exploring other worlds as a writer since age nine. Years later, he still writes, but now invites others along on his excursions. He’s shown readers haunting, deep historical fiction (Destitutio Quod Remissio), scary-real dystopian sci-fi (Tomorrow’s Edge series), and layered, sweeping epic fantasy (Quest of Fire). Every story is a journey…
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A Morning at Character Cafe with Morgan from Not Again
Well, if it isn’t our college town’s lacrosse star, Morgan Ricci! I saw the game the other day. You played incredibly well! Thank you, Amy. But, I couldn’t have made those goals if my teammates weren’t awesome at passing the ball to me. Aren’t you a sweetheart! My brothers are both sporty guys. They were…
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The Walshwick Papers — The Ivy Series — No. 4
Ivy in now in London and residing in the home of Charles Spurgeon. If you should need a refresher before beginning the fourth serial edition of Ivy’s tale, read the links below in order. Then, scroll below the links to read of Ivy’s time in London in the 1880s. Ivy and Mrs. Spurgeon As the…
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A Morning at Character Cafe with Faith from Rocky Mountain Journey
Good morning, Faith. Welcome to Character Cafe! I am so excited to have you here today since your novel contains one of my favorite tropes — woman disguised as man. Tell us why you had to become “Frank” for a time. My sisters and I made a promise to my father that we’d return a…
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Mornings at Character Cafe — Welcome, Eliza Ellis!
Good morning, Eliza! It’s so good to have you here in Character Cafe. Oh my goodness, from the first page of your story, I felt like we had so much in common. Like you, I spent a large portion of my childhood exploring forests and allocating names to boulders. My brothers and I had a…
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A Morning at Character Cafe — with FBI Agent Tiberius Granger
Good morning… Or should I say “Creepy morning…” since we have a Jessica R. Patch character in the house. Hey! Just because I am an agent from the Strange Crimes Unit, doesn’t mean that this morning has to be creepy. Though, I guess since we’re in the middle of a case involving dead girls covered…
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Character Cafe Welcomes Tempia of Overflow with Hope
Welcome to Character Cafe, Tempia. It’s nice to meet you, but I have to be honest…This is a hard interview for me because there are far too many real-life couples stuck with toxic relationships. How did you get trapped? How did you end up with Quince — when it seemed so obvious that Cory was…
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A Novel Museum — Voices in the Sanitorium
A Glimpse of the Voices in the Sanitorium Mini-Museum Though the 2009 components of my novel are fictional, as far as characters and some of the settings, the diary excerpts from 1931 are based on actual characters I “met” through interviews with relatives, photographs donated to me, trips to local historical societies, and hours reading…