Author Archive: Barbara Conrey

The Best Character I Never Wrote—Unless You Count the Prologue and Epilogue
Her name was Kate, and she was eleven. She had a best friend named Emma, a father who was (still is, actually) a renowned oncologist, and a mother who vied with Florence Henderson (of the Brady Bunch) for Mother of the Year. Kate was dead from the moment I created her. She had long blond […]

My Path to Publication: A Long and Winding Road
I was probably eight when I discovered I could lose myself in words, and from there it wasn’t long till I hunkered down in my bedroom and devoured every novel my mother owned because I’d already torn through every age-appropriate book available to me. She eventually opened a Book-of-the-Month Club account just so she could […]
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