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How Writing About the End of the World Helped Me Find Hope
Erin Swan On April 21, 2014, I sat in the sunny window of a Brooklyn coffee shop and wrote the beginning of a story about a girl named Bea. The next day, I finished the draft. Usually, I toil and tinker, hem and haw, but this story emerged in a giddy rush. A few days […]
The Survivors Who Inspired my Debut Novel
The Survivors Who Inspired my Debut Novel By: Nora Murphy While attending law school, I participated in two clinics through which I studied the issues facing survivors of intimate partner violence—also referred to domestic abuse or domestic violence. After graduating, I worked as a judicial law clerk for two years, before entering private practice—experiences which […]
How my Journalism Career Inspired My Fiction By Michelle Hillen Klump
How my journalism career inspired by fiction By Michelle Hillen Klump Sometime between fourth and fifth grade, when I realized I didn’t have the stomach to be a doctor or a veterinarian, I set my sights on what I considered to be the next best career – a writer. I loved books. As a child, […]
HOT PANTS IN HOLLYWOOD: SEX, SECRETS & SITCOMS BY SUSAN SILVER
When I was on my book tour, discussing my show biz Memoir, Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets & Sitcoms, I always opened by saying….”The title was describing my wardrobe…not my behavior.” To those younger readers, who stlll are not sure what “hotpants” are…they were shorts often worn with boots and turtleneck sweaters by those of us […]
Writing Memoir: Sex Bomb
Sex Bomb It’s May 2020, I’m stuck at home – like the rest of the country. I’m a comedian and my industry that relies entirely on live audiences and venues, has ground to a halt. I’m single, I live on my own and don’t own any pets. I’m on Twitter, a lot, as it’s my […]
How to Achieve Longevity in your Writing Career
By Carmel Harrington At the end of May, A Mother’s Heart will be published in the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada. And while every book publication is special, this one feels extra. Because it’s my tenth novel to be published in my tenth year as a published author. Double the double-digit celebrations. If I had a euro for […]
Claire McGowan: Writing THE VANISHING TRIANGLE
Having been a novelist for all of my writing life – more than ten years now – it never occurred to me I would write anything non-fiction. That seemed like a world for other people, academics and journalists. Like most novelists, I’ve written the odd article to promote my work, but always felt much more […]
Writing and the Art of the Gimmick by Susan Speranza
by Susan Speranza One recent Sunday afternoon, while doing my weekend errands I turned the car radio to NPR, just in time to hear a report about a university (somewhere in the Midwest) that forces its faculty to justify the existence of their programs, their courses, and their jobs by putting them through a “lifeboat” […]
On Writing, by Niamh Hargan
Remember back in March and April 2020, when we were all in our houses, and people were making banana bread? Maybe lunging along with Joe Wicks, or downloading Duo Lingo? I didn’t do anything of note during that time. And, by July, I was full of regret. If only I’d started back in March, I […]
The Inspiration for Blink of an Eye: The Joy of Revisiting a Misspent Youth by Louisa Scarr
The Inspiration for Blink of an Eye: The Joy of Revisiting a Misspent Youth Louisa Scarr How well do you remember your university years? Those first months away – the majority of your belongings still at home, reaching out with trepidation to these strange new people you have been thrust together with. Learning how to […]
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