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10 Questions with Writer Frederick Lee Brooke (@frederickbrooke)

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This Author Spotlight features novelist Frederick Lee Brooke, author of ZOMBIE CANDY. Born and raised in the Chicago area, Frederick Lee Brooke graduated from Amherst College and studied writing at the University of Montana. He has worked as an English teacher, language school manager and small business owner. Having lived in Germany, France and Switzerland, he has also travelled extensively in Tuscany, the setting of part of Zombie Candy . The first book in the Annie Ogden series, Doing Max Vinyl, appeared in 2011 to wide acclaim.   1. How did you get into writing? Through reading -- I always loved reading so much, and then I started writing my own stories. On long car rides my sister and I would write stories and then read each other's work. Our parents were happy if we were quiet, I guess. 2. What do you like best (or least) about writing? The Turkish author of Snow and My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk, said that to write fiction is to take a jo

10 Questions with Fantasy Writer Chris A. Jackson (@ChrisAJackson1)

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This Author Spotlight features Fantasy author Chris A. Jackson.  Chris has six independently published novels of fantasy: A Soul for Tsing Deathmask (Florida Writers Association, 2005, Second Place Novel of the Year)  Weapon of Flesh (USA Book News Best Books Awards 2005, First Place) and The Cornerstones Trilogy:   Zellohar Nekdukarr and Jundag co-authored with Anne L. McMillen-Jackson.  The first two of Chris's Scimitar Seas novels, Scimitar Moon , published by Dragon Moon Press, have won sequential ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Medals in Fantasy, and made the finalist lists for the USA Book News Best Books awards.  Chris also has three audiobooks of science fiction-satire, Cheese Runners , Cheese Rustlers and Cheese Lords available for download at www.jaxbooks.com . 1. How did you get into writing? My first attempt at authoring a novel came about from game-mastering a role playing game campaign.  The game lasted two years, and