Category: On Writing
Leslie Gray Streeter: On Writing
By Leslie Gray Streeter The story of Dawn Roberts, the writer heart of FAMILY & OTHER CALAMITIES, goes back more than three decades and several major plot changes. She’s been everything from a college student in a garage band finding her voice, the former back-up singer in a 90s R&B group who is getting back […]
May: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, April showers bring May flowers. Was that true in your neck of the words? We didn’t have much rain here in Miami, but the heat is on. Full blast. And as I sit at my writing desk preparing this column, surrounded by my hydrangea and stacks of books, I can’t help […]
The N8 Self: You are more than your Mind, Body, & Emotions, by Jules Kuroda: Excerpt
The N8 Self: You are more than your Mind, Body, & Emotions Loneliness is a situation that we create. The N8 Self invites the reader into holistic connection beyond just the mind, body, and heart and into the aspect of self we don’t talk much about, the human spirit. This powerful part of our human experience […]
Running Took me Far -but Poetry Took me Back to Myself
In September 2024, I was approaching Creswell Crags on foot. I was 45 miles into my first 100-mile ultramarathon, and I felt defeated, alone, and scared. I just wanted to go home. Up until that point, the longest distance I had run was 42 miles. I felt strong until I passed that threshold. But the […]
What Triggers Stories?
By Laura Treacy Bentley Irish poet, Michael Longley, said: “I don’t know where poems come from, but I want to go there.” I, too, want to find this magical place, and I feel the inspiration for stories as well as poetry is all around us. We just need to look for it. My trips to […]
STILL MESMERIZED BY THE TUDORS? MAYBE IT’S THE WOMEN
By Martha Jean Johnson The Tudors are trending, which is saying something for an English family that ruled five hundred years ago. Today, their lives fascinate all kinds of writers—in publishing, theater, film, and TV. And audiences are responding enthusiastically. For example: Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, and Elizabeth Fremantle have crafted a slew of popular […]
The Marmite on the Bookshelf
(or, how to use a good/bad review) By Stephanie Bretherton Don’t buy my book. Seriously, there’s a 50-50 chance, at least, that you will hate it. Does that sound like the worst kind of marketing? It’s inspired by a hugely successful advertising campaign in the UK many years ago, out of which a popular expression […]
May-December Affairs, Gay-Straight Friendships, and Just a Touch of ESP
By Diane Wald I’ve never thought of myself as a writer who revisits particular themes, but recently I received a postcard from an old friend that caused me to reconsider. “I love your new novel,” she said. “It gave me a whole new perspective on your older man/younger woman theme.” Huh. And then I realized: […]
On Writing Intersections by Karen F. Uhlmann
Years ago, I fainted, for no apparent reason, at a holiday party. One minute I was standing. and the next, I was on the floor. It was embarrassing and worrying. The next day, I was checked out by my internist, and there was nothing wrong with me. The fainting was a mystery, and there was […]
Interview with Lorraine Devon Wilke
We’re delighted to feature this interview with Lorraine Devon Wilke, whose novel CHICK SINGER came out April this year! Tell us about your beginning, where are you from? Originally from the Midwest, I was born in Chicago, grew up in small towns in northern Illinois, and am the third oldest of eleven kids in a […]
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