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You’ve landed on the website of Nina Munteanu, internationally published Canadian SF author and ecologist. Nina is living her dream of the writing life! She is currently putting the finishing touches on her next science fiction novel. And if you’re lucky, you might catch her at one of her writing workshops where she coaches great [...]
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The Writing Life
January 23rd, 2010 · 9 Comments
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The Novelist–He said, She said: Using Dialogue
July 12th, 2008 · 6 Comments
One of the most important devices to spice up narrative and increase pace is the use of dialogue. There’s a reason for this: we read dialogue more quickly; it’s written in more fluid, conversational English; it tends to create more white space on a page with less dense text, more pleasing to the reader’s eye. [...]
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Darwin’s Paradox: Book Signing at Chapters
November 20th, 2007 · 28 Comments
Yesterday’s book signing at Chapters in Richmond, B.C. was incredibly fun and truly a blast! A second only to that kraglet swimsuit competition on Rigel 9. Despite the fact that I’d sold and published two books prior to “Darwin’s Paradox”, this was my first big bookstore signing! And I was jazzed. I knew ahead of [...]
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Darwin’s Paradox by Nina Munteanu
November 2nd, 2007 · 12 Comments
Well, it’s Friday again and time for my Friday Feature. First of all, a little sharing…Folks, my book, Darwin’s Paradox will be arriving at bookstores all over the world on November 15th, less than two weeks from now and I can tell you that I am unabashedly excited by it. Besides Amazon (e.g., in the [...]
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Angel’s Promises by Nina Munteanu
October 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments
I’m heading off this weekend to Vcon, Vancouver’s SF & F convention…You know the deal…drinking, talking, laughing, sharing, drinking some more, slurring, theorizing, imagining, arguing, drinking yet some more, slurring some more…Well, then there are all those aliens “coming in peace” or whatever it is they’re saying (I’m usually too happily inebriated to understand their [...]
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