Ask the Author: Rhonda Chandler
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Rhonda Chandler
Thanks for your interest, Faith! The print book of The Fires of Autumn is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other stores. The ebook is available through Kindle, Kobo, and now online at Wal-Mart through Kobo. And many more places. But those are the main ones.
The Large Print Edition is on its way too! : )
The Large Print Edition is on its way too! : )
Rhonda Chandler
Inspiration really comes the minute you start moving your pen, if not before. Though that sounds unhelpful, if you practice it, you'll find that it's true. I used to have exercises or pictures or questions I'd ask myself to stir up inspiration. After years of this, inspiration is already there waiting for me. It often wakes me up in the morning. I guess that's proof of the saying, "what you feed, grows."
Rhonda Chandler
From a few stray sentences in a history book on medieval Europe. They wouldn't leave me alone. I kept asking them, "Why? Why would people do that?" And then my imagination provided faces and characters and struggles. It kept growing from there. I write more about it at the blog on my website. https://www.rhondachandler.com/blog/2...
Rhonda Chandler
The first books in two different series. One contemporary and one fantasy. The fantasy series has been growing in my mind for twenty-five years and is so exciting to work on! The contemporary story came out of the long healing process I had after I had a brain injury. The story is not about brain injury! But one of its themes looks at what enables people to heal from things in life. In this case, two unlikely friends. A college professor on sabbatical and a young man in his late twenties who is trying to find himself in life.
Rhonda Chandler
Being able to explore things, study things, draw attention to things that matter to people and life. And being able to use fictional story to do it.
Rhonda Chandler
I haven't really gotten writer's block yet. (An ENFP personality may account for that! : ) I get writer's doubt at times, but not writer's block. I think that what can often be called "block" is when a story that you're working on gets off track; it leaves its heart and soul behind somewhere and starts sounding a bit fake. Then it is necessary to follow your way back and find out where the story left itself behind and why.
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