Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Van Hoang
About THE MONSTROUS MISSES MAI A determined young woman in 1950s Los Angeles walks a darker city than she ever imagined in a spellbinding novel about the power to make dreams come true―whatever the sacrifice. Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959―though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese […]
Wise Words: Quotes to Help the Writer
Wise Words: Quotes to Help the Writer For me, one of the hardest parts of the writing life is the fact that one does it on one’s own. I can discuss plot with friends or family: I can meet fellow writers and share thoughts on characters or dialogue or structure. But neither lessens the fact […]
EXCERPT from Farm Family: A Solo Mom’s Memoir of Finding Home, Happiness and Alpacas
Farm Family: A Solo Mom’s Memoir of Finding Home, Happiness, and Alpacas The story of a single mom’s pursuit of a dream to start an alpaca farm in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. At thirty-seven, Jane Lee Rankin receives news that upends her life: she’s pregnant. Lee is a cancer survivor eighteen months in […]
Natural Healing
Natural Healing November 1974. Formal instruction in Transcendental Meditation. I breathed deeply and absorbed the pungent incense and the dusky wood smoke from a recent fire. Quiet breaths and the vibration of my mantra. Thoughts came and went. My newborn son swaddled in white cotton. . .The endless stream of tears. . .Swirling the pastel […]
On Writing Elizabeth’s Mountain
Emotion-heavy women’s fiction is the genre that captures me the most. It is the one that stays with me long after I have finished a book, which is why I write in the genre I most like to read. Living all those experiences of longing, pain, or misfortune, the characters who overcome difficulties and hardships […]
The Lost Words of Helen Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann’s Translator
The Lost Words of Helen Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann’s Translator By Jo Salas, author Mrs. Lowe-Porter, available now In 1942 the German novelist Thomas Mann wrote to his long-time translator, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter: “Your story which I return to you with sincere thanks is a very lovable, heartwarming piece of work of a delicate cello sound […]
Authors Interviewing characters: JN Welsh
Authors Interviewing characters: JN Welsh About IN TUNE A tour manager determined to revitalize her career. The client she can’t stop thinking about. Workplace romance hits the road in this enemies-to-lovers romance from JN Welsh. Luke Anderson needs a manager—fast. His last one quit, leaving his tour and his future in jeopardy. Now instead of […]
JUST WRITE by Deborah Driggs
JUST WRITE Writing has changed my life. It is not an easy task: it requires me to be vulnerable, open, and honest and to share my journey in the hopes it might provide help for someone out there going through a similar challenge. Sometimes I write just to have a good laugh about something I […]
Except from Soul of the Mountain, by Leah Chyten
Except from Soul of the Mountain, by Leah Chyten Leah Chyten has been a philosopher since youth. Before attending college, she homesteaded in Maine, where she raised animals, vegetables, and children, and compiled a collection of songs, poetry, short stories and a novel. Her second novel was inspired by the painful complexities of the state […]
Moo of Writing: a Guide for Creative Writers
Moo of Writing: a Guide for Creative Writers By Nan Lundeen Today we need a lightness of being. We need Wordsworth’s daffodils and the wisdom of Mary Oliver’s dog Percy whose bottom line on how to live her life after she asks his advice is “trust.” When three a.m. thoughts rummage around in my mind […]
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