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Welcome to the Official Website of the Northwest Independent Writers Association, NIWA (pronounced: n-eye-wha). Feel free to browse our website often to stay up-to-date on our New Releases, Author Appearances as well as our Featured Author and Reviews. Check out our Blog for writing tips and our Catalog for your next read.
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Kennedy J. quinn
I'm looking at your book book, The Unwitting Journeys of the Witty Miss Livingstone: Journey Key, from where did you draw your inspiration for this book?
I've always loved time travel and trains. When I moved to Snoq ualmie Valley, WA a decade ago, the train museum and restored depot caught my imagination. A fusing of the history of this place with a steampunk story was a natural, and Miss Livingstone emerged when I dressed for author, Jeffrey Cook's Dawn of Steam: First Light release party. Once she was conceived, I couldn't hold her back. I'm thoroughly enjoying writing her 5 book story. ~~Read More~~ 
Previously Interviewed Authors:
Ann Simas Donald McEwing Steven C. Schneider Sonja S. Mongar Kennedy J. Quinn |
Featured review
Outlaws and Worse, Jonathan Eaton's followup to A Good Man for an Outlaw, is everything we hope for in a sequel and much more. While continuing the story of Deputy Hayes, the pharmacist Fowler, and the outlaw Mathew Mulkey, it weaves a new tale with outrageous characters. It's a story both droll and dark, told in chapters that deceptively head out into strange and unexpected territory, only to come gliding back to the main narrative like a flock of vultures circling in the Texas sky, awaiting the call to dinner.
Make no mistake--Eaton is serving us another helping of "Western noir," dark as a cup of black coffee, but sweetened with a cream of Coenesque humor. The characters are deliciously weird, their personal stories, funny and shocking. The novel is well-edited and the writing is crisp and clear. My only quibble is that one minor character in a short chapter speaks in a phonetically-rendered dialect, which I found somewhat difficult. But no harm done. The book remains a solid five stars. I highly recommend it. |
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