Enter a wondrous universe…the latest volume of Sword and Sorceress, featuring stories
from new and seasoned authors. Herein you will find tales of fantasy with
strong female characters, with some version of either martial skill or magic.
Not all the protagonists will be human, and sometimes the magic will take
highly original forms, but the emotional satisfaction in each story and in the
anthology as a whole, remains true to the original vision. The release date will
be November 2, 2018.
Kindle: https://amzn.to/2NitlHH
Deborah J. Ross: How
does your writing process work?
Jennifer Linnea: I
have a day job, so I write for a few hours every morning before work. Sometimes
I write in coffee shops, alone or with other writers, but most of the time I
write in my home office. It’s a tiny room decorated with images from
stories that have inspired me throughout my life – Jim Henson’s Labyrinth and Dark
Crystal, R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt novels, and Star Wars, to name a
few. I also keep a shelf with my favorite speculative fiction
novels, and another with books about writing. Everything else is
pretty loose: some days I compose on a computer, other times I write
longhand; sometimes I start with a writing exercise or journalling, sometimes
I jump right in. But there’s always tea. Lots of tea in iron
teapots and gaiwans and mugs with tigers on them. And once in a while, if I’m
trying to finish a project, I set aside an entire day. Days spent writing are
some of my favorite days.
DJR: What advice
would you give an aspiring writer?
JL: Find people
who can critique your work, and whose work you can critique. If the critiques
all say the same thing – listen! Then rewrite. It will make your writing
better, and help you self-correct in time. As a beginning writer, I
thought a story had to be working in the first draft or it was a failure,
but that’s not true. Rewriting critiqued manuscripts and helping other writers
improve theirs was how I went from aspiring writer to published
writer. (Incidentally, “The Secret Army” was critiqued by about six
people and then rewritten into the draft I submitted to Sword and Sorceress.)
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