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Thoughts on Writing and the Creative Process: How I am inspired by Italy and its Inspiring Women
Thoughts on writing and the creative process: How I am inspired by Italy and its inspiring women. Ciao a tutti! I am Melissa. In Italy, they call me “matta,” which means crazy — but in a good way! You may be wondering what sparked my madness for Italy and set me down a path to […]
The Journey from Dream to Book
A fictional imagination of one of the most innovative designers of his time debut novel “Magician of Light” (She Writes Press, May 17, 2022) by J Fremont, is an in depth exploration of René Lalique’s adolescent years in Paris, his journey from student to leading glass manufacturer, and his real-life romance with Lucinda Haliburton. This […]
WHAT DID THEY SAY? SECRETS IN TRANSLATION
WHAT DID THEY SAY? SECRETS IN TRANSLATION By Margo Sorenson Not everyone writes a book that uses a lot of foreign language phrases, especially Italian. French? Sure. Spanish? Of course. But, Italian? Who speaks that? And why write about a seventeen-year-old who speaks Italian, but is American? Where can that plot go? As a woman […]
Jessica Payne: How I Got My Agent
How I Got My Agent We’ve all heard of the writer who queries five agents and within a week gets an offer—we all dream we might be that rare exception. Well, I quickly realized I would not be. Like many other authors, I soon realized what a long and emotional process querying could be. My […]
Avoiding Claustrophobia on the Page: Letting Some air into a First-Person Narrative
I’d like to say that I deliberately chose first-person narration for my new novel In the Lonely Backwater, that this was a craft decision made with writerly forethought. After all, the book is both a psychological exploration and a mystery, in which clues are unfolded and the reader moves toward knowledge step by step alongside […]
Writing my “pandemic novel” By Kim Hooper
By Kim Hooper In those early months of the pandemic, it made no sense to write. There were more limitations on my time than ever before. It was ridiculous to even consider. And, yet, I felt I had to write, a screaming ache within, a primal need to escape into a world of my own […]
On Writing You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s
Laura L. Engel – You’ll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s. If you had told me years ago that at the age of seventy-three years old, I would be publishing a memoir about the worst year of my life I probably wouldn’t have believed you. For my entire adult life, […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Maggie Anton Interviews Hannah Covey Eisin
Award-winning author Maggie Anton (Rashi’s Daughters) has a new novel out this May. THE CHOICE: A Novel of Love, Faith and The Talmud, (Banot Press Trade Paperback Original; May 17, 2022; $16.99) is a wonderful combination of historical fiction, romance and the most intimate subjects in Jewish law and learning. When Hannah Eisen, a successful journalist, […]
Eat the Damn Fruit
There’s a joke in my family that when you want caution, you’ll call one of my other siblings. But when you want permission, you’ll call me. My mother calls routinely with questions about a bag of lettuce that has yesterday’s date on it, a dented box of crackers, and recently, a jar of maraschino cherries […]
Writing A Travel Book During A Worldwide Travel Ban
Writing A Travel Book During A Worldwide Travel Ban It took a worldwide travel ban and a virtual lockdown for me to finally write my travel book, Jalan-Jalan: A Journey of Wanderlust and Motherhood. I had wanted to write a travel book for as long as I had been traveling, but I never found the […]
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