Author Spotlight: R. A. Smith

BY CANDACE J. THOMAS Tell us a bit about yourself! Give us your background in 30 seconds. How did you get started writing? I’ve had a mind for exciting other worlds for a long time now, and I think I’ve been wanting to tell good stories for as long as I’ve been sucked...

Editor’s Notes: Come Again?

BY JESSICA SHEN Using foreign languages can be a great way to add depth to your characters and your story. It can inject flavor, give a taste of authenticity, and even add some mystery and mysticism. However, it’s important to ensure that your translations are not...

Featured Friday: Genesis

BY BEN IRELAND This is the story of where Kingdom City came from. I don’t think it’s the right way—perhaps not even the ideal way—for a story to come about, but it’s the way it happened. I didn’t have a character, fully formed, walk into my...

Editor’s Notes: The Deep End

BY MCKENNA GARDNER The role of editors. Today, I liken the different roles editors fill to underwater exploration. Content editors are the ones that get inside their steel, circular contraptions and take a dive all the way to the bottom of the ocean, taking in the...

Editor’s Notes: Writing Warm-ups

BY ELIZABETH GILLILAND For people who claim to love to write, we writers sure are good at finding ways to get out of it, aren’t we? No sooner do we sit down then it suddenly becomes imperative to check our email. Or put away the dishes. Or rearrange the furniture. And...

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