Hi, Book Smugglers! We’re super excited about giving you the chance to get to know two fantastic authors this week, Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis. They are the cofounders of Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal and will be publishing their second issue at the end of the year. The submission period closes soon!

While you start brainstorming something to submit, take a look at what David has to say about being an author.

What inspired you to write a book?

I mostly get my own inspiration from life experiences, music, literature and films. For my debut poetry book that I published three years ago (Life, Sex & Death), I was inspired to write it because I had many poems that I wanted to make into a collection. I didn’t want people to have to trawl through my blog for all of my poems, so it made perfect sense to…