Featured Interview With Bronwyn Kienapple
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m a Canadian writer and a former publishing professional. I quit my job to travel the world and write full time! However, I was born and raised in a tiny village of fifty people by the seaside in Nova Scotia. I moved to Toronto to go to university. I started to travel and met my future husband in Mexico City, where I’m currently living. Unfortunately, I don’t have any pets right now because I travel so frequently but I’m a huge cat lover.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve loved books ever since I can remember! Both my parents were journalists and they bought me books by the box. I loved fantasy-type classics like the Narnia series, The Phantom Tollbooth, and the Secret Garden. I wrote for the yearbook and literary arts journal in high school and began my first novel when I was about twenty, though I didn’t start writing fiction full-time until I was thirty.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I love both high-brow and low-brow fiction. So I adore the Russian classics and Victorian authors like Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. I also love Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series and Jean M. Auel’s books. I love good YA, contemporary fiction, memoirs, and romances with strong heroines. I recently really enjoyed You Before Me by Jojo Moyes and The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. All of these authors inspire my writing in various ways. I try not to read too narrowly so new authors have a chance to surprise me!
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I self-published my first two novellas in the Disappeared series this year. It’s historical fiction with a fantasy twist, think Jane Austen meets Narnia. It took me about four months to write, edit, and format those books! I was so fortunate to find a great professional cover designer and editor to help me make the books the best they could be. It’s been a fascinating process to learn, from start to finish, how to publish a book. I’m now learning about marketing and thinking about writing a new series!
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