Sherry Peters

Biography

Author Sherry Peters lives in Winnipeg, where she spends her days working at St John's College at the University of Manitoba, and her evenings and weekends writing. Her first short story, "The Greatest Honor" (Aoife's Kiss, September 2007), went on to be featured in their best-of anthology "Wondrous Web Worlds Vol. 8". Since then, her two novels, "Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf" and it's sequle "Mabel the Mafioso Dwarf" have been nominated for the Aurora Award for best YA novel, and "Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf" won the 2014 Writer's Digest self-published e-book award in the YA category.

Sherry graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2005 and earned her M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2009. During her time in both these programs, she he developed many techniques to detect and silence her inner saboteur.

Smashwords Interview

Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
The first story I ever wrote was about the hijacking of the Space Shuttle. Both were big in the news when I was a kid. Terrorists hijacked planes back then, and the Space Shuttle was fairly new and looked like a plane, so I wondered what would happen if the Space Shuttle was hijacked. I think, though, that's where my political imaginings ended, because I believe the story ended with the Space Shuttle landing in my back yard and I got to go into space in it. A bit of wish fulfillment there :)
What is your writing process?
I'm more of what they call a pantser than a plotter, but I always need to have a strong character with a strong story, an opening scene, and the climactic moment or ending in mind before I write. Without it, I meander endlessly. I do take the time to outline some basic plot moments at various times during the writing process, usually when i reach the half-way point. But I have more recently started plotting from the beginning, figuring out the goals, motivations, and conflicts for the characters, what makes their story interesting and unique, and why they are the ones most impacted. Then I write the very rough draft which I like to call draft 0, and then I edit it to death.
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Where to find Sherry Peters online

Books

Mabel the Notorious Dwarf
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 79,280. Language: English. Published: August 8, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
Will Mabel finally find a way to live her life of infamy on her own terms? It’s been three years since her tango with the Dwarven and Elven Mafias, and Mabel Goldenaxe has been busy. Her movie making career has soared, she has the support of her friends, and has even found love. She’s the dwarf who has it all—or does she?
The Ballad of Mabel Goldenaxe: The Complete Series
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 242,850. Language: English. Published: August 8, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic, Fiction » Fantasy » General
Join Mabel Goldenaxe as she navigates family secrets, tangles with the elven mafia, battles to own her notoriety, and find her place in society.
Blueprint for Writing Success
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 36,030. Language: English. Published: July 15, 2015 . Categories: Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Creativity, Nonfiction » Publishing » Self-publishing
There is no magical trick to writing. Writing itself isn’t hard. Persisting at it, completing a story, pursuing a career as a writer is. The distractions and self-doubt get in our way. It doesn’t have to be that way. We are the architects of our own success. Our writing lives are our masterpiece designs. This book is a template, a starting point, for you to build the writing life you want.
Mabel the Mafioso Dwarf
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 75,940. Language: English. Published: June 2, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
New family, new friends, a run in with the mafia . . . and Mabel thought dating was hard!
Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 88,200. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic
Mabel Goldenaxe just doesn’t fit in with the other girl dwarves—and she likes it that way. Dealing with her overbearing family, jealous friends, and deep family secrets, Mabel will have to summon all her strength to conquer her fears and become her own dwarf—lovelorn or otherwise.
Silencing Your Inner Saboteur 2nd Edition
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 29,100. Language: English. Published: July 31, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Motivation & inspiration, Nonfiction » Self-improvement » Creativity
All writers experience times when we don’t feel like writing, or have difficulty getting words on the page. We give these situations the umbrella name of writer’s block and blame our censor, critic, or editor. Silencing Your Inner Saboteur explores these issues and situations to discover that it is really a saboteur behind it all, preventing writers from achieving their dreams.

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