Interview with author Janice Spina

A special ‘thank you’ to my wonderful host, Rhonda Patton, for featuring me on her lovely blog. It was a pleasure to spend time with her and her readers.

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Thank you so much for the opportunity to be featured on your lovely blog/website, Rhonda.

What would you say is your most interesting writing quirk?

I guess it would have to be that I don’t do an outline before I begin to write. I let my fingers do the typing. As long as I have a title, I can write a story with the help of my muse (my characters) who tell me where the story is going. They don’t tell me though how the story will end until it does. They pop up out of nowhere. I never know how many characters there will be. They push and shove their way into the tale.

This has happened in my newest fantasy series. There myriad characters are increasing with each volume making this into an epic series.

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About jjspina

Janice is a multi-award-winning author with 50 books: 23 children's books for PS-Gr 4, 12 middle-grade/preteen, four young adult books, all written by Janice Spina, and nine novels, and two short story collections written by J.E. Spina. She is also a writer of poetry, blogger, avid reader, reviewer, copy editor and supporter of her fellow authors. Janice has always loved writing and started young writing poetry, then stories. Her books have received 50 Book Awards and a few finalists awards, and many 5-star reviews from Readers’ Favorite Book Awards and on Amazon. All Janice's books are available on Amazon.com in paperback, eBook and audiobook formates, B&N and other online book sites. Her hobbies are crocheting, sewing, walking to keep fit, hula hooping, tap dancing, going to dinner with her husband, and spending time with family and friends. Janice loves to hear from readers and appreciates reviews. Sign up on her blog http://jemsbooks.blog for updates of her books. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband who is her illustrator and cover creator and two tanks of fish.
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8 Responses to Interview with author Janice Spina

  1. Heading over to check out your interview.

  2. Darlene's avatar Darlene says:

    I love how you let your fingers do the writing. I tend to write the same. I wish I could do an outline first but it just doesn’t work for me.

  3. Wonderful, Janice, I’m going over to read.

  4. Author Jan Sikes's avatar Jan Sikes says:

    Congrats, Janice. Heading Over!

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