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kbmakansi

Member Since:03/13/2011
Preferred Genres:Historical Fantasy, General Mystery, Gothic Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense, Historical Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Techno Thriller, Political Thriller, Environmental Thriller, Cyberpunk, Postapocalyptic/Dystopian

Short Bio:

KBMakansi, co-founder of Blank Slate Press, enjoys reading, singing, playing guitar, traveling, and politics. Her WIP, The Oracles of Delphi, is set in 340 BCE.

About kbmakansi's Reading & Writing

I'm an eclectic reader whose tastes range from Homer to Nora Roberts. While I love a beautifully constructed sentence, I really love sentences that surprise me. I want characters that make me care, whether I like them or not, and a story that keeps me awake to find out what happens next. Complex writing or writing that is beautiful for its own sake, while lovely, sometimes gives me the sense the author is trying too hard and often impedes rather than advances the story. In my own writing, I try to attend to sentence rhythm and always read my work aloud. I strive to expose the internal inconsistencies in a character's motivations and lay bare the human frailties and blind spots with which we all are afflicted. My biggest weakness is that I tend to add too much back story and detail-easy to do in historical fiction. Balancing what I know about my characters backgrounds and motivations, the time period, and the setting against what the reader needs to know is my biggest challenge.
Favorite Writers:
Dostoevsky
Jane Austin
Alexandre Dumas
Umberto Eco
Mary Renault
Favorite Books:
The Lord of the Rings
Catch 22
The Name of the Rose
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Count of Monte Cristo
Twitter: @readwritenow

kbmakansi's Books


  • The Oracles of Delphi

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Bloodstone Reviewed 1 draft on 7/12/2011
The Archer and His Son Reviewed 1 draft on 4/28/2011 (No longer available for review)
 
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