An eventyr is Old Norse word meaning either "adventure," "fairytale" or "something exceptionally great."
This word encompasses what we do and, by natural extension, who we are.
Who:
Megan Bodenschatz
My first book was an alphabet/numbers book, made on the back of my dad's work papers with markers and a lot of Sesame Street stickers. Though well received I faced immediate production problems, mainly owing to the fact that I couldn't actually form words with said letters.
After years of writing in the margins of class notes and on Korean chat forums I'm finally buckling down to write my first novel, a young adult fantasy featuring a girl named Alex.
April on Megan: How can I not love someone who enjoyed Star Trek: Enterprise as much as I did?
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April French
Contributor: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Write" and "Notes From the Trenches"
In spite of my name I am, in fact, not French. I was first inspired to write when I was 10 years old, after watching The Nightmare Before Christmas four times in one day. Generally, what I write falls into the dark speculative fiction category, both fantasy and science fiction, but can best be described as "weird." However, I will read just about anything that includes words on pages. At any given moment in time, I'm usually working on a large handful of novels and a small handful of everything else (short stories, comic scripts, etc). If I were Native American, my condescending stereotypical name would be "Bites Off More Than She Can Chew." I enjoy pizza, medieval and Victorian history, antique typewriters, and baking things into pies. Dislikes include a sense of entitlement and automatic flush toilets.
Nathan on April: I think April French sparkles in direct sunlight.
Megan on April: Let's face it; not many other people will get excited about touching movable type and seeing a partially unwrapped mummy. We'd better stay friends for a while.
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Nathan James Norman
Contributor: "Writing Religiously" and "Books I Wish I'd Written"
I’m a mismatched patchwork of a man. I simultaneously exist as both as a speculative fiction writer and a pastor. I might be mistaken, but I am unaware of any pastors who preach on Sunday morning, then come home and pen horror-themed science fiction in the afternoon. I must be a preacher, though, because I’m in seminary . . . and I must be a science fiction author because I’m owned by two cats, Duncan and Daisy. (Duncan being named after the Macleod of the same name and Daisy named after . . . well, the flower). I draw inspiration from everything that catches my eye or keeps me awake at night. I dream in color, drink way too much Diet Coke and lament the apparent end of the band Joy Electric.
April on Nathan: On my suggestion, Nathan once wrote a sermon about bacon.
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Diana Caporaso
April on Diana: This love for Harry Potter must not go unrewarded!
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Wyatt Matthew
April on Wyatt: He's ferocious. Grr!
