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And here we've come to fantasy - my favorite genre - and the last day of Indie e-Con. Let me just say, but this week has been INTENSE. We're also representing the new genre Kingdom Fiction  today. Kingdom Fiction is basically a blur between Historical Fiction and Fantasy - but the opposite of Historical Fantasy. While Historical Fantasy inserts magic into historical fiction, Kingdom Fiction is a fictional world that feels like our world. No weird races, no magic ... but also no Europe, Asia, America, Africa, ect. New world with its own history, but still abbiding by our own rules of physics. Don't forget, we have a word war going down - so be keeping track of your writing! The person who leaves the most comments across ALL of the Indie e-Con posts will win a special prize package. If you leave a review on the book of any Indie e-Con author THIS WEEK on your blog or on Goodreads,  you can enter it towards another giveaway. Sharing the posts via social media (Twitter,...

 I read a lot of contemporary as a kid. Mostly school fiction. And then the stuff that Rod and Staff put out. Erika Mathews is here today to talk about writing children's contemporary. She has a lovely little story in the genre that she had hoped to have out by now, but, unfortunately, both her illustrator and editor fell through. Anywho, it's an adorable story that reminds me a lot of the Potters books by the Sarah Maxwell, and you guys are in for a treat when it does  release. Erika Mathews Christian/Kingdom Fiction/Contemporary Author of Promise's Prayer Website ~ Blog ~ Amazon ~ Goodreads ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~ Instagram ~ Pinterest ~ YouTube ~ Newsletter   All of us book-lovers discovered our passion for reading somewhere in our lives. For some of us, it was from the first moments of picking up books; for others, that love developed later in our lives. Yet one element is crucial to fostering that love of reading: excellent, captivating books: som...

And welcome to today. And I do mean today, as we are dealing with contemporary, the genre of the here and now. Don't forget, we have a word war going down - so be keeping track of your writing! The person who leaves the most comments across ALL of the Indie e-Con posts will win a special prize package. If you leave a review on the book of any Indie e-Con author THIS WEEK on your blog or on Goodreads,  you can enter it towards another giveaway. Sharing the posts via social media (Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, ect.) gives you a chance to enter for MORE prizes! Don't forget to  vote in the Book Awards ! I have a couple authors here to put in their word, and then we'll plunge into all the lovely articles! Why do you write Contemporary? Angie Thomson: I write contemporary because it’s the setting that fit the story I believe the Lord gave me! As corny as that sounds, it’s true; the story came to me as a contemporary, so that’s the way it was written. I’ve never...