Nina Munteanu

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How I Almost Didn’t Become a Writer, but Did!

June 28th, 2010 · No Comments

   
 

What’s Stopping You From Publishing Your Book?

Yes, I’m a successfully published author with acclaimed novels, short stories and essays published all over the world.  But I almost didn’t get there. What if I told you that I never read as a kid, I was the worst speller in my school and I used bad grammar? [...]

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The Writing Life

January 23rd, 2010 · 9 Comments

Hi there!
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 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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