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Elicia Johnson's avatar

šŸ‘‹šŸ» I found you through Voracious Readers Only, the first of the trilogy with Noesh. I enjoy how you allow history to inspire your writing! I write mostly fantasy inspired by nature and real places, but also blog about whatever I’m learning on my website. My first novel was a selkie fantasy and I’m working on a steampunk thriller.

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Emma Buenen's avatar

Hi Elicia, your novels sound very interesting! How is the writing going? Do you write under a pen name? Confession: your selkie novel intrigued me and I tried to find it 😊.

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Elicia Johnson's avatar

Oh! I’m pursuing traditional publishing with it, that’s why:) My only published books are kids books and ministry resources.🄰 The selkie book is on a good place. It needs a good line edit for sure and wouldn’t hurt to have some experiences eyes on it at the chapter level. If nothing comes of my submissions, I could self-publish in a less busy season when I could do it well.

I do write under a pen name at http://MrsDoraGraham.substack.com , but it’s way different from my norm. That’s where I write about what I’ve learned my family’s experiences in church ministry, but I do it through historical fiction to protect the people & places.

My steampunk novel is coming along well! I have a skeleton rough draft that I’m sending a few chapters at a time to some critique partners for feedback.:)

Are you focusing on the substack right now?

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Emma Buenen's avatar

They sound very interesting, Elicia! Yes, I'm focusing on Substack right now. How about you? Are you Substacking?

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Elicia Johnson's avatar

I am here and there. I still have a website that I'm not ready to give up, so I'm trying to figure out how this fits. (http://eliciajohnson.page) I'm kind of hoping substack can replace my newsletter I do through Mailchimp, but I haven't quite narrowed down how to replace the segments I use and everything. (I have a small farm that I send emails our for as well.) I also have that one I linked above that I add to occasionally.

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