by Jocelyn Rish | Feb 28, 2015 | Imported from AYAP
What was your inspiration for writing STONE IN THE SKY? STONE IN THE SKY is the sequel to TIN STAR which was very loosely inspired by the film Casablanca. For Stone, I wanted it to have a western kind of True grit / gold rush of 1849 feel. So look to any...
by Jocelyn Rish | Feb 28, 2015 | Imported from AYAP
What was your inspiration for writing THE THIRD TWIN? When I was a kid, we had a family story about two identical twin cousins who made up a triplet in college to date boys that they wouldn’t date as themselves. I took that basic story and threw in a murder...
by Jocelyn Rish | Feb 28, 2015 | Imported from AYAP
What was your inspiration for writing QUAKE? The PULSE series is a direct response to three stories I loved growing up: Star Wars, Spiderman, and Lord of the Rings. All three of those stories helped inspire PULSE, TREMOR, and QUAKE. The Force (from Star Wars) finds...
by Jocelyn Rish | Feb 28, 2015 | Imported from AYAP
What was your inspiration for writing MARK OF THE THIEF? MARK OF THE THIEF started with two facts I stumbled upon. The first was that Emperor Julius Caesar used to claim he was a literal descendent of the Goddess Venus. He did this to make himself seem more powerful...
by S.P. Sipal | Feb 27, 2015 | Imported from AYAP
Welcome to our monthly Ask a Pub Pro feature where a publishing professional answers readers and writers’ questions regarding the stories they love or their work in progress. This month, Stephanie Diaz, author of the Extraction series, joins us to answer...
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