Hello, friends! I’m so excited today to share my recent interview with successful indie author Allison Maruska. Allison writes YA urban fantasy and adult mystery/ suspense stories. Her debut novel, The Fourth Descendent, has been on Amazon bestseller lists since shortly after its release in February of 2015. Since then she has released a YA urban fantasy, a YA trilogy, and most recently a standalone sequel to her debut novel. So, without further ado, here’s Allison:

When did you decide you wanted to be a writer? Why?

I think on some level I always wanted to be a writer. I’d write unnecessarily long answers to questions in school assignments, for example. I won an essay contest in sixth grade. But officially, I didn’t decide to write novels until I figured out a story for characters that had been floating around in my head. That was about five years ago…