Ask the Author | UI creative writing student Reece A. Caven shares his independent publishing experience

The creative writing senior student has been writing the novel since his sophomore year, but the long editing, publishing, and writing process has finally paid off. Contributed by Reece Craven Reece A. Caven is a senior at the University of Iowa studying creative writing. Caven decided he wanted to pursue writing while attending basic training in the National Guard during his enrollment. Throughout his semesters at the UI, Caven chipped away at a passion project that became his debut fantasy epic novel, “The Liar and the Knight.” The book was independently published through IngramSpark and is now available on Amazon. This interview has been edited for length and clarification. The Daily Iowan: Did growing up in Iowa City influence your choice to pursue writing? Caven: Being in Iowa City cemented my decision to be a creative writing major for sure, but it wasn’t something I thought about when I was a kid. It was a happy coincidence that I grew up in Iowa City all my life, and only after I decided I wanted to be a writer did I find out that this is the place to do it. How did your creative writing workshop classes help shape the novel? I workshopped the first chapter in class, and then I worked pretty closely with my teachers on a couple of other chapters throughout writing. School helped me a lot with it. The workshop really helped with the action scenes, particularly. I gauged how they were reading, if they made sense, if they were easy to follow, whether or not the main character was likable. Without the workshop, I’m just sort of guessing. I might think the action scenes are fun and easy to follow, but the feedback from other people hones those aspects. I hired a professional editor on Reedsy. My editor was the person who told me to rewrite my first chapter and bring it to the workshop. I had the whole manuscript ready and then tweaked it through feedback in school. Do you find it easy to take feedback, whether it be from students or editors? […]

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