Recently, I had a guest post on Tales of Today and Yesterday by an new author, Claire Banschbach.  She agreed to do a writer’s question and answer for me, which means we get to see a little bit of what it’s like to be a newly published author.

Enjoy.

Writer’s Q&A

Michael Gunter:  What exactly made you want to start writing, initially?

Claire:I’ve been devouring books since I learned to read. Even as a young kid I liked to try and write stories. Most were really short and not very good. But then the LOTR movies came out. I started reading the books and loved everything about them. That’s when I first started coming up with ideas for my own story. It took several years, much daydreaming, and probably trying to avoid homework before I started writing it down. Long story short, I wanted to create my own…