Ask the Author: Emily A. Weedon
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Emily A. Weedon
Write the thing that keeps you awake at night, the thing you LOVE and wish existed for you to read. Do it because you can't NOT do it. Get a professional to help you edit it. Don't rely on family or friends. As soon as you finish one thing, get going with your next thing. Try shorts if long format is too daunting. ATTEND readings! ATTEND book launches. SUPPORT authors, and learn from how they approach craft, promotion, criticism.
Emily A. Weedon
Eris by Larry Gaudet, Smoke by Nicola Winstanley, We Were The Bullfighters by Marianne K MillerRoadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Emily A. Weedon
Things that have inspired me to write: a lost stuffed animal, war in the headlines, pregnancy cravings, being stuck in life, unrequited love, the colour of someone's eyes, human evolution, plants "talking" via pheromones, riding the streetcar, a shitty job, mean bosses, injustices large and small, looking at strangers, being an outsider, waiting rooms, love, hate, jealousy, fear, anxiety. Nothing is exempt.
Emily A. Weedon
I have multiple projects going almost all the time. I also try to be cool with it: no one exclusively outputs, all the time. It's not healthy. There are seasons for everything. Being busy all the time means I usually sit down with a lot to write, and almost never fret about finding words.
Emily A. Weedon
What ever became of my half brother who was adopted in the UK.
Emily A. Weedon
I am working on two new novels - one is a literary novel about 2 brothers locked in a rivalry, the other is the second book in a series which crosses horror and thriller and which delves into archeology, sci-fi and powerful women with a secret society...
Emily A. Weedon
I was struggling with domestic load, thinking about how bad women still have it... on a museum tour at a Palace in Austria the tour guide talked about how the stoves that kept the place warm were fed by servants using hallways behind the walls. A secret network of hallways allowed servants to work unseen. That sense of invisible work for women galvanized my idea, and set me working on the world of Autokrator.
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