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My writing has also improved drastically over the past year, in that I’ve been publishing something once a month and therefore getting a truly massive amount of practice.Ħ. How many unpublished and half-finished books do you have? Will you tell us about them? I have deadlines, and the book now pays my bills. Publishing The Letter Mage has definitely transitioned writing from a hobby to a career. I miss them from the bottom of my heart.ĥ. How did publishing your first book change your process of writing? But I definitely plan on returning to the East Coast someday-my family and I have always been close. It was a great choice, career-wise! I’ve had the luck to join some incredible endeavors, my books are doing well, and I’ve made some amazing friends. Being closer to the university opened up a lot of doors for me professionally: this is a small area, and a lot of big names travel through it pretty regularly. A few years ago, I moved from Washington, DC to Iowa City. It’s actually something I’ve already given up: living close to family. This is less of a problem in The Letter Mage, but in another of my works-in-progress I’m definitely walking a fine line between research and writing.Ĥ. What one thing would you give up to become a better writer? I get mired down in technical details and worldbuilding far too easily. Lining that up with inspiration is near-impossible. Between running The Writers’ Rooms, working as an editor and teacher, and marketing, actually sitting down to write can be something I need to schedule. I’m actually currently in the process of planning a small-town book tour in the Midwest! If you know a small-town library that allows sales and is currently looking for more LGBT diversity, send me an email or message me on social media.ģ. What is the most difficult part of your artistic process?įinding time to be an artist. I love personal appearances, such as cons and signings, but those are expensive and harder to come by. I’m fairly active on Twitter and Instagram, but nowhere near active enough to build a new following from those crowds.

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I’m introverted and a little asocial: all the free marketing these days involves social media, and that’s just not something I mesh well with. Marketing is by far the hardest part of turning this into a career. The Third Quarto was just released last month.Ģ. What personal challenges do you face as a writer? A new installment comes out monthly, and every four installments I put out a collection.

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“Book” is a bit of a misnomer, though: The Letter Mage is actually a serial on Patreon. It’s about a kid who lives in a contentious lunar university, and while trying to get the departments to stop throwing rockets at each other he accidentally turns into a supervillain.

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The Letter Mage is a series I’ve been describing as “Gay Hogwarts in space with a little His Dark Materials thrown in for good measure”. My most recent work is the third book in The Letter Mage series. Her work has received many accolades, including an Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest Annual Contest 2017.ġ. Will you tell us about your most recent published work? Penn is one of two Directors of The Writers' Rooms, an editor for hire, an amateur linguist, and a Taurus. She likes dogs, long walks on the beach, and socialized medicine. She has been bitten by a shark, she watched the final shuttle launch from the fire escape outside Launch Control, and she has been a certified diver since age twelve. Her work is both a love letter to and an intense criticism of the academic world. She also managed to fail Algebra II with a passing grade, which she's a little proud of.

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The daughter of a photographer and a Scuba diver, she spent her teenage years in the field: Penn has worked with Smithsonian archaeologists, NASA software engineers, volcanologists, and photographers.