WIP Blog

  • Getting to Know Eva Leppard

    Getting to Know Eva Leppard

    By Bruce Buchanan Eva Leppard comes to Wild Ink from the Australian state of Tasmania—“About as close to Antarctica as you can get without having to build an igloo,” she likes to say. She brings with her a creativity honed by Douglas Adams and BBC television, a willingness to look at age-old questions in new… Read more

  • UP A TREE IN THE ZONE WITH YOUR CHARACTER

    UP A TREE IN THE ZONE WITH YOUR CHARACTER

    How important is the relationship between a writer and their character? What is the Zone? If you’re a writer, have you been there? If you’re a reader, have you? They are first-cousin related. Let’s go! Read more

  • An Interview with Christopher DeWitt

    An Interview with Christopher DeWitt

    I’ve been a fan of Louis L’Amour paperback westerns since my dad introduced them to me when I was a kid. There was a rather throw-away line in one of them referencing this character John Murrell and how he wanted to set up his own empire within the American south. The idea intrigued me right… Read more

  • Talking with William J. Connell

    Talking with William J. Connell

    by Abigail Wild and William J. Connell What sparked the idea for your current Wild Ink book? My current book is “Masks of Death.” The idea for it came from people who read drafts of my upcoming book, “Race with the Black Death.” People liked “Race” but had questions about the protagonists and the events… Read more

  • A Chat with A.J. Hooks

    A Chat with A.J. Hooks

    When I first sat down with AJ Hooks to talk about Eugenesis: Inception, I felt that spark you get when a writer knows exactly what world they are building and is bold enough to follow it wherever it goes. His debut sweeps you into the life of Maria Guevara, a brilliant genetic engineer who finds… Read more

  • A Conversation with Riley Kilmore

    A Conversation with Riley Kilmore

    While a wide variety of hats have topped Riley Kilmore’s head across the years, the only one you’ll see these days is that of an author. Kilmore has worked as a police officer, as an EMT and firefighter, has driven a forklift in a flooring factory, and even served as the Administrative Assistant to the… Read more