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Lela Markham

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Lela Markham is the pen name of an Alaskan novelist who was raised in a home built of books. Alaska is a grand adventure like none other with a culture that embraces summer adventure and winter artistic pursuits.

Lela has been a journalist, worked in the mental health field, and currently works for the State of Alaska, but her avocation has always been storyteller.

She's writing-publishing three series. Daermad Cycle (The Willow Branch, Mirklin Wood, and Fount of Wraiths) begins an exploration of the world of Daermad where a fractured kingdom leaves two races vulnerable to destruction by a third and opens the opportunity to mend old wounds.

Transformation Project (now 10 books published) focuses on a small Midwestern town coping in the afterm
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Lela Markham I rarely get writer's block because I always have multiple projects going, so I don't get bored or panicked if ideas don't flow right away. Sometime j…moreI rarely get writer's block because I always have multiple projects going, so I don't get bored or panicked if ideas don't flow right away. Sometime just hammering out a stream of consciousness paragraph will break things loose. Or go for a hike, throw the ball for the dog, watch a movie, read someone else's book. Writer's block is mainly the product of freaking yourself out by staring at a blank sheet of paper (computer screen). Make it not blank and the terror goes away.(less)
Lela Markham Read everything you can get your hands on. Write every day. Find a group of other writers to be beta readers and get involved. Go do something else fr…moreRead everything you can get your hands on. Write every day. Find a group of other writers to be beta readers and get involved. Go do something else from time to time. If you've never lived, it's hard to have anything interesting to write about.(less)
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"Gathering In" (Book 5 of Transformation Project) is now available. The entire series is on discount for the launch and some books are free today.

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