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Writer's Wednesday: Meet Amy Rose Davis When I heard that Fantasy-Faction needed writers for its growing community, I thought about it for approximately a nanosecond before I responded to the opportunity. Write for a community of fantasy addicts? Are you kidding? Aside from selling millions of books and singlehandedly achieving world peace, that’s a dream come true! But wait—fantasy readers are uber-intelligent. They want street cred. They want to know the people they read know what they’re talking about. I’ll come clean: I’m not the most well-read fantasy reader out there. I’ve read a lot, and I have opinions, but I haven’t read everything. I read a lot of different genres. I read classics. It may be stereotypical, but I love Jane Austen. I even read non-fiction, and I love business books. Seth Godin is awesome. So you might be wondering who I am and what kind of authority I have to write a writing column for fantasy readers and writers? Well, I’ll give you the skinny. Fantasy is my first love. I’ve read science fiction, thrillers, mysteries, romances, and classics, and I always come back to fantasy. Don’t get me wrong—I appreciate those other genres for what they have to offer, and I love a good narrative no matter what clothes it wears. But I always come back to fantasy. I wrote my first fantasy novel in the early 90s. It’s horrible, and it shall never see the light of day. I wrote my second fantasy novel a few years later. It’s slightly less horrible, and it may see the light of day in a highly revised version at some point in the future. I’ve written several short stories over the years, but I never had the patience for submission and querying. I tucked my stories away and went about my business, working in marketing and administrative positions and always dreaming of eventually returning to fiction writing.
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At some point, my dreams changed, and then I had kids and decided that it would be wiser to work as a commercial copywriter. I could feed my writing addiction, earn money faster and more reliably than through fiction writing, and work from home. I worked as a commercial copywriter for several years before the recession hit in 2008. When my projects came to an end and my clients took a lot of work in-house, I decided it was time to dive back into fiction writing. I started my novel Ravenmarked in 2009. In the meantime, the publishing world went completely topsy turvy, and all of a sudden self-publishing started to look a lot more viable than it ever did in the past. In December 2010, I uploaded my first selfpublished ebook, a dark fantasy novella called Silver Thaw, and at the end of January 2011, I uploaded Ravenmarked. So, all of this brings me back to my introduction. I’m so excited to be joining the FantasyFaction team as a weekly contributor with a Wednesday writing article. I don’t have everything figured out, and I’m still working on craft myself, but I’ll share what I know and what I’ve learned. It’s my hope that we’ll all be better writers by sharing thoughts on theme, craft, genre, tropes, and grammar. I look forward to getting to know you, Fantasy-Faction community! We’ll kick things off next week by revisiting the hero character. See you then!
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