Category: On Writing
My Writing Process by Susan Plunket
Until this summer what I knew about writing I learned mostly from a lifetime of reading – Jane Austen, Stefan Zweig, Virginia Woolf, others. I love stories. My process was to sit most mornings before work and write, without censoring, until I had a first draft. Then, using intuition, hard thinking, and listening for the […]
Kimberly Brock: Authors Interviewing Characters
THE FABLED EARTH Sometimes the truth is found in a folktale. 1932 Cumberland Island off the coast of Southern Georgia is a strange place to encounter the opulence of the Gilded Age, but the last vestiges of the famed philanthropic Carnegie family still take up brief seasonal residence in their grand mansions there. This year’s […]
THE DEMON by Victory Witherkeigh, Excerpt
Face your inner demons with Victory Witherkeigh’s thrilling YA about a demon who possesses a teen girl and faces her toughest challenge yet: freshman year of college. The Demon (Oct 1, 2024) follows a girl possessed by a demon who is abandoned by her master and punished with a mortal life. Continuing the threads of […]
On Writing Caught in a RIPtide by Judy Condie
By Judy Condie Last year I lost my dog, my dear mum and my husband all in the space of six months. I felt a real need to get away and learn to be alone, reset my life and come back stronger, with a new purpose. Australia was the obvious place to start as my […]
She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy by Jody Gelb: Excerpt
She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy “Jody Gelb has written a book so rare and elegant and beautiful that I don’t even know how to categorize it: Essay? Poetry? Memoir? I think I might just call it a ‘monument.’ What a stunning work of art, of truth, and of love.” […]
On Writing The Guardians of Earth by Oriane Livingston
by Oriane Livingston The Guardians of Earth, Oona and the Luminous Beings is a middle grade fantasy novel celebrating the beauty of the natural world. It is a love letter to Earth filled with epic adventures beyond imagination, bringing children and teenagers closer to the magic of Nature. It tells the story of Oona, an […]
Inspiration from a Million Places, Moments, and People
By Karen Hawkins The question readers ask the most often is “Where do you get your book ideas?” That’s a simple question with a complicated, sort of hard-to-explain answer. But here I go. To be honest, I get my inspiration from a variety of places, moments, and people. You see, it just takes a little, […]
HOW A DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS LEAD TO A WRITING COUPLE’S LEGACY PROJECT
Finding Inspiration When Life Hands You Lemons by Marcy McCreary My husband Lew McCreary is a brilliant writer. He is the author of two critically-acclaimed published novels, Mount’s Mistake and The Minus Man, a novel that Anne Rice proclaimed “deliciously satisfying” and “deeply memorable” in the New York Times Book Review. John Banville compared my […]
The Process Of Writing My Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall
by Linda Murphy Marshall – author of Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir Several years ago, when I first read Joan Didion’s quote about the writing process, I realized that her thoughts reflected how my writing process unfolds: “I don’t know what I think until I write about it.” I might think I have a clear-cut vision […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Crystal King Interviews Salvador Dalí
From Crystal King, the bestselling author of Feast of Sorrow and The Chef’s Secret, comes a new gothic mythological romance, In the Garden of Monsters, a retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone, inspired by Salvador Dalí’s 1948 visit to the Sacro Bosco Mannerist statue garden. Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. […]
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