Today we are thrilled to share our latest author interview! In this episode, Fable and the Verbivore have the chance to speak with author and fellow Phoenician Erica Wynters.

Erica is a romantic suspense and humourous romantic mystery writer as well as an active member within the Instagram writing community, where we first connected with her. Bethany (Fable) and Laura (the Verbivore) greatly enjoy Erica’s clear and crisp writing style, as well as her great use of the desert setting to add dimension and interest to the world of her stories.  

The fourth and final novella in her romantic suspense In the Desert series, Hunted in the Desert, released on August 27th. These stories follow the inquiries and romantic escapade of FBI profiler Dr. Alex Briggs as she works to solve crimes while simultaneously struggling to deal with past trauma from a close incounter with a serial killer.

In this episode, Erica talks about some of the writing tricks and tips she has learned over the years. She dives into the importance and complexity behind categorizing a book appropriately when querying agents. She also gives some great advice and examples for finding your writing community and building relationships with other creatives so that you can learn from their experience and share what you’ve learned. Towards the end of our conversation, she gives a great reminder that we all write in our own unique way and to treat trying different writing ideas and methods as an experiment to test what works best for you and your writing.

We’ve found Erica to be such an encouragind individual and greatly appreciate her honesty in sharing the experiences she has while navigating the writing and querying process. We highly recommend checking out her work and connecting with her on her Instagram account @ericawynters and on her website at ericawynters.com.

We hope you enjoy this episode! Keep reading, writing, and putting your voice out there!

Into the woods,

Fable & The Verbivore

Notes:

The Verbivore references Erica’s Thesaurus Fun videos located in her instagram stories which covers some amusing synonyms during her word searches on Thesaurus.com. Fable references WordHippo.com as an additional resource for finding synonyms and the Verbivore sometimes uses Google Definition for her initial word searches.

Erica references the Embers Igniting Editors (@embersignitingediting) group from Intagram who she’s worked with to edit some of her books.

Books Mentioned:

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

• The Long Winter (Little House on the Prairie Book 6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Hunted in the Desert (Series Novella 4) by Erica Wynters

• Death in the Desert (Series Novella 1) by Erica Wynters

• Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer

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