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Affording a Book Tour with Family Priorities In Mind
By Judith F. Brenner Scheduling a multi-city book tour is tricky, and paying for one can be tricky as well. Authors can’t be in two places at once. Here’s how I combined family events and a book tour, while minimizing conflicts about costs or precious family time. Groans and cheers were in the mix. You […]
How True Crime Podcasts Inspired my Dual Timeline Mystery
How true crime podcasts inspired my dual timeline mystery The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell In December 2022, Chris Dawson, a former PE teacher and rugby league star was sentenced to 24 years in prison by the New South Wales Supreme Court in Australia for the murder of his wife decades earlier. Although Lynette’s body […]
Creativity is Quirky: My Meandering Way to A History of Silence
Creativity is Quirky: My Meandering Way to A History of Silence You never know what experience you have, what story you hear, what observation you make will end up in your first novel. In 1982, I took a job in Kuwait on a lark. I worked as a developmental editor helping Middle Eastern research scientists […]
Bridging the Imagination Gap: The Importance of Diverse Role Models for Girls
Bridging the Imagination Gap: The Importance of Diverse Role Models for Girls 8″What do you want to be when you grow up?” This is a question that we have all encountered during our childhood. As someone who has always had an inclination towards the arts and humanities, I struggled to provide a fitting response and […]
The Flash Novel: Flash Fiction Meets the Novel or Chocolate Meets Peanut Butter
The Flash Novel: Flash Fiction Meets the Novel or Chocolate Meets Peanut Butter For many years I was haunted by a story. I abandoned and revisited it endlessly. Each time I tried to write it kept bumping against the boundaries of the traditional novel: chapters, plot, back story, bulk, a finish line of 60,000 words. […]
Inspiration for my Cheese Shop Mystery series
Cheese. It’s classic. It’s comforting. It’s communal. It’s also having something of a Renaissance, in part thanks to social media. Who can resist watching a freshly melted Raclette scraped from its wheel and ooze onto crisped fingerling potatoes? Gatherings that once included a humble cheese platter now boast table-length charcuterie boards and elaborate cheese bars. […]
I Published a Book at Sixteen and Here’s How I Did It by Claire Fraise
I Published a Book at Sixteen and Here’s How I Did It by Claire Fraise, Author of Imperfect and the They Stay series When I was sixteen and I told people about my plan to publish my YA dystopian novel, I was met with many different reactions. That is so exciting! You must be so […]
How my Marketing Career Helped me to become an Author By Heidi McIntyre
How my marketing career helped me to become an author By Heidi McIntyre I had been a marketing consultant for twelve years when in 2013 I teamed up with a partner to start an agency specializing in fresh produce. Together, we brought in larger clients and not long after we began to hire staff. It […]
Don’t Forget to be Brave
Don’t Forget to be Brave Carmen Amato Scorpions loved our house in Central America. Tails curled with spiky malice and clad in brown armor, they made soft rustling sounds as they scuttled along the tile floor in search of shoes and draperies and other unexpected hiding places. Our housekeeper, whom I’ll call Doris, called my […]
Writing Action-Adventure for Women By Kerry Chaput
Writing Action-Adventure for Women By Kerry Chaput Unexpected female main characters have always held a particular fascination for me. I recently watched Enola Holmes with my daughters, and it fed my soul to see a young woman as a smart, resourceful fighter. and not a helpless creature incapable of saving others. Women can be fierce, […]
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