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Ursula Visser was born in Spring, in the most eastern part of the Netherlands, and she still lives there with her partner. She always had a vivid fantasy, from a young age on. She adores dragons, mystic creatures, and the magic realms of fantasy books. However, sci-fi books give her an interesting look into the future, and sometimes she wishes to be able to time travel, just to see what will happen in the future or live a day in the past centuries.

Writing is her passion. Her books are available in Dutch and English.Read More →

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A. A. Jeffery is an attorney and educator who splits time between Northern California and Mason County, Washington. Her background includes teaching students at all levels from kindergarten to college. She wrote for several years as a columnist in the Sunday Morning News in her hometown.

An Oakland, California, native, Jeffery began to write illustrated stories while she was a student at U.C. Berkeley and she continued to write after graduating from Vanderbilt University Law School. Jeffery enjoys learning foreign languages, playing piano, and spending time with family, friends, and a Chihuahua-pug.Read More →

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Cassandra Snow is a writer, tarot teacher & reader, and theatre artist living in Minneapolis, MN, where they live with two bossy cats and their favourite person who isn’t bossy at all. Cassandra penned the Queering the Tarot column at Little Red Tarot and TheColu.mn, which turned into the book, out now, from Weiser/Red Wheel books. Cassandra’s second book through Weiser, Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft From the Margins, will be out November 1st and can be pre-ordered through Indiebound, Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.

Cassandra’s next tarot class is Fat Tarot: A Tarot Class for Fat Tarot Lovers & Learners and is available online so anyone can take it! It’s through The Rose Academy of Burlesque in Minneapolis, MN. Cassandra publishes FREE tarot content on their Instagram and you can support those efforts through their Patreon.

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Author interview – Cassandra Snow

When did you start writing, and why?

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Stefan Calin, PhD is a Philosophy academic by day and explorer/adventurer by night. Having written numerous publications in the fields of general research into the history of philosophy, ancient greek philosophy, and continental philosophy, this is his first large-scale foray in the world of Literary Fiction.

He has published short stories and poetry in his native Romania since the age of eleven. His style mixes exciting writing, bodily exploration, transgressive fiction with a philosophical inquiry into the fundamentals of human nature and relationships.

You can always find more information on his current projects by visiting his website.

Author interview – Stefan Calin

Hi Stefan, thank you so much for your time! Tell us, when did you start writing, and why?

I started writing at a young age, probably around nine or ten years old. Back then, I felt I had so much to say and my first contacts with serious literature were so inspiring that the urge to write developed naturally. I started writing short stories and poetry that, however childish they were, provided me with a much-needed creative challenge.Read More →

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There is no right way. Everyone is different.

Michael Anderle

I’ve written about comparison and how dangerous comparisonitis can be before. However, I tend to look at comparison from the bottom up, from the perspectives of those who compare themselves to writers who are further ahead in their careers.

Here, I always stress the importance of being realistic, of knowing where you are right now, and how that impacts what you can and cannot do today.

I never really talked about the other side of the coin, about how those we look up to and in whose footsteps we want to follow compare ourselves to us. Do they have a full grasp of where they are right now compared to where they’ve been when telling us how it’s done? Are they aware of the privilege that comes with being further ahead when talking about writing or publishing to a group of people desperate to get to that place too?Read More →