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  • Artist Info: <br />
    Name: Madding<br />
    Age:24<br />
    Location: Texas<br />
    Genre(s): Sci-fi, fantasy, YA, poetry, etc<br />
    Why those Genres? I'm diverse. I like world building though, so sci-fi and fantasy appeal to me in those ways. It's nice to be able to manipulate the surroundings and culture to most impact my characters and plot.<br />
    Writing Experience: BA in Writing, Copy Editor at a magazine, published a few articles, self published poetry<br />
    Currently Project: YA novel...almost done editing!<br />
    Most Potent Form of Inspiration: Reading, experiencing cool things<br />
    Favorite Music for Writing: Any track of 10 songs I can put on repeat for hours<br />
    Favorite Author(s) and Why: Tanith Lee---BEST sci-fi and fantasy author ever. So poignant and unique, love it! Gail Carson Levine---she can say everything in such a simple way, it reminds me to not be so wordy. Jane Austen---come on, I'm a hopeless romantic really. Tamora Pierce---epic, strong female leads, amazing world. Lois McMaster Bujold---worldbuilding and character development so strong and deep you can just live off of it.<br />
    Favorite Character (from a book): I have to choose? Can't I have one from each of the authors I mentioned? Ok, let's go with Alanna the Lioness<br />
    I Write Books That Make People Feel: Touched, confused, sad, happy, like laughing<br />
    My favorite piece of writing: A scene from my zombie nano novel from last year<br />
    I hate it when stories: Leave out important details or skip over scenes that the reader needed to see. Also the reverse, when the writer leads the reader through countless boring side tracks that have nothing to do with anything.<br />
    Publishers Will Love My Work Because: I write strong female leads, am good at worldbuilding, and have a poetic style that does wonder with language.<br />
    My goal(s) as a writer: Publish a book of poems, a fantasy series, a sci fi novel, own my own children's publishing firm, start up and own my own poetry magazine, get invited to speak at Bookpeople, my favorite book store ever, have an interview with Conan O'Brien.<br />
    POV?: 3rd person. I like to control everything.<br />
    Novels, Short Stories or Poetry: Novels and Poetry.<br />
    Fan-Fiction or Original works: Both, but mostly original work right now.<br />
    Writing Ratings: All.<br />
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