Category: On Writing
Today is Global Holistic Wealth Day! On Starting A Global Movement By Keisha Blair, Mother of Holistic Wealth
Today is Global Holistic Wealth Day! On Starting A Global Movement By Keisha Blair, Mother of Holistic Wealth By Keisha Blair There have been some poignant moments on my journey to building a global movement for holistic wealth – a journey that has already impacted the lives of over 50 million people. The journey started […]
What Writing about My Scientist Father’s Death Taught Me about Faith
I wrote my novel, The Saddest Girl on the Beach, in the aftermath of my dad’s death. In the book, much like in my life, the protagonist’s journey is one of finding her way back to herself, of figuring out who she is, in a world without her dad. Along my journey of writing and […]
Migration, Botany, History and Identity: The Seeds of Inspiration for a Book about Gardens and Gardening from an Émigré’s Perspective
Migration, Botany, History and Identity: The Seeds of Inspiration for a Book about Gardens and Gardening from an Émigré’s Perspective By Mariam Pirbhai Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023) is a book of creative nonfiction written through the lens of nature writing and memoir. It concerns the space of […]
Reviews: The Great Divide
Reviews: The Great Divide Q. How many reviewers does it take to change a lightbulb? A. None – their job is to stand back and critique the way you did it – and they’ll be split down the middle as to whether you did it perfectly or whether you were hopeless. An old variation on […]
Writing About Women In Sickness and In Health By Nora Gold
Writing About Women In Sickness and In Health By Nora Gold Since the publication on March 1st of my new book, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (two novellas), many people have asked me why I chose to write one of the novellas about sickness. I point out to them that this […]
Interview with Nancy Burke
Apprentice House Press will release Nancy Burke’s first collection of short stories, Death Cleaning and Other Units of Measure, on May 1, 2024. This is Burke’s fourth book and first short fiction collection. Interview with author, Nancy Burke What inspired this collection? In August 2021, I read Hilma Wolitzer’s collection, Today a Woman Went Mad […]
My Writing Journey by Lena Gregory
My Writing Journey by Lena Gregory I suppose you could say my writing journey began when I was in the fifth grade and wrote a story using my vocabulary words about a couple of girls getting lost in the woods. To this day, I can remember the only place I lost points—using petrified to mean […]
Virtuous Women
Virtuous Women was born from my desire to transform my home into a haven of peace and comfort. My career as a parish pastor had just gone down in flames, in part because the congregation and the church hierarchy had forced me to choose between my ministry and my family. I chose my family and […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rosey Lee Interviews Martha Gardin of THE GARDINS OF EDIN
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rosey Lee Interviews Martha Gardin of THE GARDINS OF EDIN About THE GARDINS OF EDIN: When the bonds in their family begin to fray, four women fight to preserve their legacy, heal their wounds, and move forward together in this heartwarming contemporary debut novel with loose parallels to beloved women from the […]
The Accidental Memoirist Lisa Braxton
The Accidental Memoirist Lisa Braxton I became fascinated with memoirs when I was a teenager. I voraciously read the first-person stories of Hollywood royalty, like Elizabeth Taylor, Sydney Poitier, Paul Newman, and Sammy Davis Jr. I enjoyed learning about their lives on and off the big screen, what motivated them to pursue acting, the training […]
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