Tag: interview

• november leaves

  

  November has been a wild ride of a month! Between NaNoWriMo, events, and writing meet-ups, it’s been hard to keep up with everything. Here’s what I’ve been up to, plus a special holiday offer! For NaNoWriMo, I was experimenting with writing a fantasy novel for a change of pace. I’ve never been great at keeping…

  Brittni Brinn

  November 28, 2022

  events, the patch project, Uncategorized, writing

  author, books, brittni brinn, creativity, fiction, holiday offer, interview, local, nanowrimo, novel, pagination, post-apocalyptic, sci fi, the patch project, the patch project series, writing

• from Adventure Worlds

  

  Welcome to the humans behind Adventure Worlds Press, Ben Van Dongen and Christian Laforet! I’m going to be asking them some questions about publishing and how the new edition of The Patch Project came to be! Ben Van Dongen is the author of The Thinking Machine, The Neon Heart, and Broadcast Wasteland and co-authored the…

  Brittni Brinn

  November 17, 2020

  events, the patch project

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• first draft complete

  

  After four months of research, interviews, writing, and editing, I am happy to announce that the first draft of my novel project is complete! Finishing a draft is kind of arbitrary. I mean, I could’ve kept working on the manuscript for weeks, months, years, and still not have declared it complete. Luckily, I had deadlines…

  Brittni Brinn

  July 30, 2019

  writing

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• interviews

  

  A couple weeks ago, I put out a call for people interested in discussing topics around body and gender. The response was immediate and more than I could have hoped for. I was actually pretty nervous about this part of my novel project (Phase Two: Conduct Interviews), but it’s six interviews in now, and I…

  Brittni Brinn

  May 21, 2019

  writing

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• turn out well

  

  It’s been a full week of events, editing, and interviews! Friday, I was happy to be a part of the “Amazing Adventures in Strange Lands” reading at Biblioasis. I got to meet Elly Blake, a best-selling YA author who also happens to be super nice! Christian Laforet and Ben Van Dongen, the superstar organizers of…

  Brittni Brinn

  February 20, 2019

  events, writing

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• the third thursday, featuring Sharon Ledwith and Lost and Found

  

  Welcome to week three of our blog tour! Four local authors have joined forces to share their stories and answer questions about their writing process. This week, I asked YA author Sharon Ledwith some questions about her newest book, Lost and Found! About Lost and Found “The Fairy Falls Animal Shelter is in trouble. Money trouble. It’s…

  Brittni Brinn

  August 2, 2018

  guest post, reading, review, writing

  animal shelter, animals, author, blog tour, books, fairy falls, fiction, genre fiction, interview, local author, lost and found, mirror world publishing, psychic, q and a, sharon ledwith, teen, windsor, writer, writing, writing inspiration, YA fiction