Join us as we talk to some of our talented staff about their creative endeavors.

AJ Irving books:

Dance Like a Leaf

The Wishing Flower

The Bi Book - coming soon!

Alesha Adamson books:

The Dark King and the Eternal Dance

The Wolf’s Golden Deception

Blake Casselman books:

Devil’s Triangle

Weird Wasatch

Heroic: Tales of the Extraordinary

Blake Casselman films:

Kiss the Devil in the Dark

Adopting Trouble

White Wings

Flight from Shadow

Doppelganger

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Limbo

Jared Anjewierdan books:

The Black Chronicles

1 The Long Black

2 Black Holiday

3 Running Black

4 Black Salvage

5 Battles in the Black

6 Homecoming in Black

Clockwork Justice Series

1 Penny Dreadful and the Clockwork Copper

Planetary Anthology Series: Saturn

Armored Heart

Keepers of the Wind

Jessica Williams

Etsy shop: JessicaSketches

Mary Jensen books:

Lifelines: a Poetry Anthology

Chiaroscuro

Tales of Tessagonia Series

1 The Blazing Princess

2 Mirror

3 The Princess Test

Timestamps:

0:00:00 - Intro0:00:25 - AJ Irving0:01:52 - Discovering a passion for picture books0:02:41 - Creative Process0:04:46 - Marketing0:05:48 - Getting published0:07:15 - Forthcoming book0:07:56 - Waiting is the Hardest Part0:08:42 - Reader Reactions 0:10:07 - Alesha Adamson0:12:46 - Accidental Author0:16:51 - Writing by Hand0:19:41 - Did you Get a Developmental Edit?0:22:21 - Self Marketing0:24:11 - Future Plans0:24:47 - Seeing Your Art Out There0:25:45 - Doing All The Things on Your Own0:26:39 - Making Connections0:27:53 - Don't Let Your Struggles Hold You Back 0:28:50 - Blake Casselman0:30:14 - Screenwriting0:32:43 - Comics Spark a Love for Reading0:39:11 - Learn Screenwriting from a Library Book0:41:08 - Selling a Screenplay0:48:22 - Marketing Independent Film0:50:54 - Indie Horror in Post-Production 0:53:49 - Jared Anjewierden0:56:53 - First Story I Remember Writing0:57:39 - Let the Character Do What They're Gonna Do0:58:54 - Publishing Template1:00:01 - Marketing1:01:10 - Future Works1:03:32 - Commas and Spelling and Endings1:05:39 - A Book Isn't a Book Until It's Read 1:07:20 - Jessica Williams1:08:41 - Sketching Things Out1:09:50 - Funny Things on the Internet1:10:40 - Design to Product1:12:06 - Favorite Fruit1:12:48 - Marketing Online and IRL1:13:29 - Ideas for Miles1:14:22 - Ideas That Don't Work Out1:15:02 - Make Someone Smile 1:15:58 - Mary Jensen1:17:01 - Something and an Author1:17:41 - Different Sources of Inspiration1:18:34 - Learning to Self Publish1:19:33 - Social Media Marketing1:20:08 - Ten More Books1:20:57 - Chiaroscuro1:21:59 - Finding My Audience1:22:31 - The Act of Creation1:23:01 - Outro