Category: How To and Tips
How One Woman Overcame Pandemics, Mental Illness, Sexism, War, and Napoleon to Build a Champagne Empire
How One Woman Overcame Pandemics, Mental Illness, Sexism, War, and Napoleon to Build a Champagne Empire By Rebecca Rosenberg For centuries, women have faced the devastation of pandemics and roadblocks of sexist laws. Yet, one of them, the audacious and determined Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, found a way to build a champagne empire despite the hardships. In 1805, […]
Zero to Twenty: My Publishing Journey
Zero to Twenty It’s wonderful to have a dream. Unless, as happened to me, the dream becomes so precious you’re afraid to try make it come true in case it crashes to the ground and smashes into a million sad disappointed pieces. I’d wanted to write for so many years – started now and then, […]
My Roller Coaster Journey to Finding an Agent
By Sara Brunsvold Like many aspiring authors, I have dreamed of being a writer since childhood. In 2012, I began to seriously pursue authorhood, investing time and money into honing my skills and learning the industry, all with an eye toward building a sustainable career. A literary agent was a partner I saw as important […]
Writing What I Wish I Knew: Surviving and Thriving After an Abusive Relationship
My name is Dr. Amelia Kelley and I am a trauma-informed therapist and advocate for survivors of domestic violence and other forms of relationship trauma. With over fifteen years of experience as a therapist, I have been witness to stories from clients who overcome incredible trauma and various forms of abuse. Their stories have become […]
Unfinished Business
Cai Emmons on writing, life and living with ALS I am working as diligently as I can on a new novel, but novels cannot be rushed, and at the end of every work day, as I lay down the unfinished manuscript, a thought haunts me. What if I don’t have time to finish this novel […]
THE ART & CRAFTINESS OF CRITIQUE
THE ART & CRAFTINESS OF CRITIQUE By Lorraine Devon Wilke “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism” ― Norman Vincent Peale Criticism. Getting it. Giving it. […]
Writing Serious Nonfiction Accessibly
Sydney Halpern, author of Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis (Yale University Press, November 2021), reflects on how to present complex historical material to multiple audiences. When I began working on Dangerous Medicine, one of my goals was to turn thorny subject matter into a book valuable to scholars while also of […]
A hell of an inspiration by Cristina Loggia
A hell of an inspiration by Cristina Loggia My paternal grandfather, Guido: he served in the Italian army during the Second World War and told me stories about the conflict. Like my maternal grandfather, Renzo. Stories that happened to them and to people around them. Some of these stories were quite dramatic –both of them […]
On Writing Divine Vintage
The book of my heart, Divine Vintage, evolved from an homage to the beauty of vintage fashion to encompass gratitude to the Indiana county I call home. I set my debut novel in a semi-fictionalized version of our largest town, Michigan City, which borders majestic Lake Michigan. Write what you know, to the purest degree. […]
A Funny Thing Happened While Writing This Story!
A Funny Thing Happened While Writing This Story! Have you grown up in the shroud of family mysteries, like me, and never expected to see the proverbial light? Or, if by chance you fall into the category as my husband who can trace his heritage back to the pre-American Revolutionary days, you might still be […]
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