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1. How did you get started writing? I wrote a bit here and there growing up, but it wasn’t until I had my babies that I started really writing. My husband really pushed me to discover what I loved and who I was outside of my role as a mother and a wife. He could…

1. How did you start designing covers? I’ve been into photography for decades, and so when lockdown hit in the UK and I couldn’t go out to take photos anymore, I decided that since I had a Photoshop and Lightroom subscription, I may as well start messing around with compositing, then, since I’m an author,…

1. How did you get started writing? As a last resort. I realized I had an overwhelming desire to create in college. Originally I thought I could achieve that in biology but we’re not there yet unless your happy with creating viruses. The day to day aspects of research didn’t scratch that itch so after…

1. How did you get started writing? My foray into storytelling started when I was five, making shadow puppets with my hand and a flashlight of dinosaurs going on adventures in some primordial world loosely based on the original The Legend of Zelda game. Even back then, I had a desire to make up my…

1. How did you get started writing? After I retired from the US Air Force, I spent about three years doing very little except reading–I needed the recovery time. It was a very stressful period. One day I was reading a “military” romance and it was really obvious the author had never spoken to a…

1. How did you get started writing? I was getting back into writing with a fantasy series and researching the indie scene. Then I discovered my brother James had been secretly writing an epic fantasy series. He didn’t seem to be about to actually push the button and publish though, so I persuaded him we…

1. How did you get started writing? I’ve always written. I don’t know how not to. Unless I’m really exhausted, after a while the urge to write just builds up like an itch and I’m good for nothing if I try to ignore it. When I was six I wrote a “book” based on a…

1. How did you get started writing? I know so many people say ‘I’ve just always written,’ but it really is true for me. When I was little I wrote to penpals all over the world at an early age, I did English for A-Level and an artsy fartsy BA that I’ve never used, in…

Ella J. Smyth answers our questions, shares wonderful pictures and talks about writing obsessions.

Fantasy author E.G. Bateman answers our questions.