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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: Finding Your Muse
October 8th, 2007 · 8 Comments
O Muses, O high genius, aid me now!O memory that engraved the things I saw,Here shall your worth be manifest to all!—Dante Alighieri, Canto II of the Inferno
As a published author of over a dozen short stories and three novels (with more coming!) I often get asked how and where I draw my inspiration from. [...]
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Virtually Yours by Nina Munteanu
August 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments
I’m heading off to Calgary to that wonderful SF & F convention. I’ll be gone for a week and may not get to my blog (you know, between giving panels and workshops, I’ll be doing important things like sitting in the bar with Captain Jean-Luc Picard–he owes me some chocolates– or Boba Fett…). So, in [...]
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What Type of Writer Should You Be?
August 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Are you a poet who sees the beauty of the world around you? Or a potential romance writer? Perhaps you have the makings of a screen writer stirring inside you just waiting to get out. Thanks to Melanie at “A Quiet Symphony” I found this quiz site that lets you figure out what kind [...]
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"The Cypol" nominated for Ecata Reviewer’s Choice Award
April 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Time for a COMMERCIAL Break…
My SF sensual romantic thriller, “The Cypol” published by eXtasy Books in October 2006, was nominated for the 2006 Ecata Reviewer’s Choice Award. Here’s part of the review: “…The Cypol is a different type of romance…The ending is poignant yet appropriate. Ready for something different yet rewarding? The [...]
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