Category: On Writing
A Midlife Writer’s Journey: From Crisis to Clarity
By Carolyn McBride The winter of my life came in January 2021. Although I lived in the endless summer of sunny Florida, we were well into the pandemic by then, what seemed like an endless lockdown, and I was working from home in a bedroom right above my then-husband’s office. My department manager pulled me […]
#GOALS By Kristin Owens
By Kristin Owens My debut novel launched last month. I admit, I’ve had conflicting emotions about it: happiness, acute anxiety, along with a fair amount of nostalgia for the good ol’ days when I was blissfully uninformed. But my ultimate goal is in sight; I can almost see it materialize … soon very soon (rubs hands […]
On Writing and Reading Despicable Rich Guys
By Melinda Copp Nothing has challenged me as a reader and writer like the prevalence of rich guys in romance novels. Wealth is common in genre romance because that’s part of the fantasy of being taken care of. If he’s rich, then you don’t have to worry about paying rent or putting food on the […]
Interview with Dr. Dawn Filos: Author of TALES OF A PET VET: STORIES FROM THE CLINIC AND HOUSE CALLS
Dr. Dawn Filos grew up in New Jersey in a family of eccentric animal lovers, preparing her for a lifelong career spent with like-minded pet people. She was a veterinarian in Pennsylvania for over thirty years. Her Memoir, TALES OF A PET VET: STORIES FROM THE CLINIC AND HOUSE CALLS is out now. We are […]
Jessica Strawser: Authors Interviewing Characters
CATCH YOU LATER If Lark and Mikki didn’t have each other, they’d have nothing in this miserable town. So the lifelong best friends stick together, working night shift at the highway travel stop, going nowhere fast. Until the ordinary Wednesday that a good-looking stranger stops in on his all-night drive to a destination beach wedding, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Stephanie Vasquez
ALL OUR WARS For fans of Katie Gutierrez’s More Than You’ll Ever Know and Netflix’s Narcos comes a high-stakes thriller about the daughter of a high-ranking Mexican cartel leader dragged back to the life she fought hard to escape. Twelve years have passed since Sofia De Luna’s mother was murdered. Sofia now leads a quiet life in Chicago, far […]
Erica Miner: On Writing
In 2010, an article on npr.org posited the theory that rabid fans of grisly online series should consider opera as an alternative to feed their bloodlust. To wit, violent shows such as Game of Thrones don’t hold a candle to the operatic carnage in Bartok’s Bluebeard Castle, Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, […]
How I Used My Mixed-Race Identity to Inform My Debut Historical Novel, Sleeping in the Sun
by Joanne Howard In my debut novel, Sleeping in the Sun, I delve into the complexities of identity and belonging through the lens of an American missionary family in 1930s India. Set against the backdrop of the waning years of the British Raj, the novel explores the unique outsider position of the Hintons, an American […]
EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL of Maddie Rose Andry’s MORTAL END
Why a Cherry Blossom Tree? By Maddie Rose Andry, author of Mortal End What does a cherry blossom tree have to do with vampires you ask? Back in 2008 the moment I glimpsed the arthritic and ancient cherry tree at the Owen Rose Garden in Eugene Oregon something in my heart cracked. With each step […]
Cornelia Spelman Interviews Her Younger Self
SOLACE by Cornelia Spelman is told with “compelling frankness and consistent intimacy” (Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Everything Comes Next and Voices in the Air). It asks: how do we become the person we are? A portrait of the emotional legacies and psychological landscapes that shaped the author’s life, SOLACE unfurls in a series of […]
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