Category: On Writing
My Breasts Don’t Smile…? Writing—and Writing as—Opposite Genders
My Breasts Don’t Smile…? Writing—and Writing as—Opposite Genders In the 1997 movie As Good as It Gets, Jack Nicholson’s famous-author character is asked by a giddy, nearly trembling female fan, “How do you write women so well?” Turning toward her and advancing slowly into her personal space, he responds, “I think of a man, and […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sarah Beth Durst
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sarah Beth Durst About THE LIES AMONG US A haunting novel about sisterhood and grief, where difficult truths must contend with the corrosive power of unchecked lies. After her mother dies, Hannah doesn’t know how to exist without her. Literally. In fact, Hannah’s not even certain that she does exist. No one […]
Target and Trajectory by Joan Schweighardt
Signpost #1 Since we don’t drive yet, we walk everywhere. We meet in parks, or in front of the candy store, and we walk all over town. We walk along the edge of the highway when necessary; we cut through backyards when it can save time. There is no complication or weather event that can […]
The Older Wiser Writer: The Virtues of a Looong Path to Publication
By Beth Uznis Johnson Who remembers 2012? Major news that year: the shooting death of a Black teenager named Trayvon Martin, a hurricane named Sandy that flooded the East Coast, and a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that took the lives of 18 schoolchildren and 9 adults. It was the literary year of Gone […]
The Female Perspective in Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction) By Vanessa Lee
The Female Perspective in Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction) By Vanessa Lee I personally only heard of the genre “Cli-Fi” (Climate Fiction) recently, and ironically it was after I wrote my debut novel, High Rise, which, as I have since found out, sits squarely inside it. High Rise as my chosen title has a double meaning; it […]
BEWARE THE TALL GRASS, by Ellen Birkett Morris EXCERPT
We are delighted to feature this excerpt from BEWARE THE TALL GRASS by Ellen Birkett Morris! BEWARE THE TALL GRASS Beware the Tall Grass weaves the stories of the Sloans, a modern family grappling with their young son Charlie’s troubling memories of a past life as a soldier in Vietnam, and Thomas Boone, a young man […]
On Writing Lost in Ibiza
On Writing Lost in Ibiza I have always had a complex relationship with writing. Philip Roth put it very succinctly. “Writing isn’t hard work, it’s a nightmare.” Lost in Ibiza is my 3rd novel and it took me many years to complete. My husband, a television producer, strongly advised me not to discuss the inordinate […]
Make Mine a Marquess by Tina Gabrielle – Chapter Excerpt
MAKE MINE A MARQUESS He lost everything. Now he’s come to take it all back—along with her—in this entrancing romance that’s ideal for fans of Sophie Jordan and Eloisa James Everyone thought that the Marquess of Landon was lost at sea. Instead, Robert Kirkian defied all the odds and survived. Now he’s returned to London to […]
What Happens Next? By Sarah (S.E.) Reichert
What Happens Next? by Sarah (S.E.) Reichert When asked how my last year had gone, I had to pause and think about it. I’d accomplished strange and long-awaited things. So much had been packed in, that I could scarcely separate the months. “It was a whirlwind,” I said. “I’m not exactly sure what happened, but […]
Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Home Front: Working in Air Raid Precautions by Susanna Bavin
Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Home Front: Working in Air Raid Precautions by Susanna Bavin ‘Put that light out!’ Most of us instantly associate those words with life on the home front during the Second World War. Many of us probably picture Warden Hodges from Dad’s Army. Yes, the ARP wardens did patrol the […]
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