Episode 43: Author Answers with CK Donnelly

Today, in our Author Answers mini-podcast, we have CK Donnelly with us talking about how early she shares her work and what that process looks like for her.

While other kids read comic books under the covers with a flashlight at bedtime, C.K. DONNELLY wrote fan fiction and fantasy stories.

She used her love of writing to pursue a career in journalism and was honored with several press awards for business and economic reporting. She has also held careers in healthcare, and currently runs her own freelance writing and marketing support firm.

She no longer writes under the covers by flashlight. Usually.

CK Donnelly resides right here in Arizona and we had the pleasure of connecting with her through a mutual in-real-life friend. We also had the honor of receiving an ARC copy of CK’s new book, Trine Rising, which we are currently reading and thoroughly enjoying so far.

We love this quick look into another author’s process of sharing their work and we hope you will too.

Thanks so much for joining us, CK Donnelly!

Into the woods,

Fable & The Verbivore

Notes:

CK talks about her upcoming book, Trine Rising, which is scheduled to release on August 26th. Here’s a short synopsis of the story:

Sixteen-summer-old Mirana Pinal is one of the few to have ever possessed all three magical powers of the Aspects—Defending, Seeing, and Healing. She has terrifying visions, however, that if she wields her powers, her homeland of Kinderra will be destroyed—through her. Desperate to keep her dark fate from unfolding, she tells no one about her destructive destiny but her beloved Teague Beltran, a young apprentice herbsman born without powers. When Mirana receives alarming premonitions of an enemy attack on Kinderra, she is forced to reveal to her people that she is a Trine to warn them of the impending assault. As the Kinderrans fight to hold armies of a cunning and ruthless enemy warlord at bay, Mirana must decide if using her powers will aid her people—or will bring them more peril.

Music from: https://filmmusic.io
’Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)