Category: On Writing
How I Help Young People with Anxiety in my Book: Vanishings
By Catharina Steel Children struggle with anxiety the same as adults, and it’s beneficial if they are taught how to manage this, possibly working with a specialist to figure out what tools work best for them, and in which scenarios. Young people aren’t necessarily equipped to manage stressful events when they happen, and this can […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tori Eldridge Interviews Ranger Makalani Pahukula
Kaua‘i Storm Returning to Kaua‘i, park ranger Makalani finds her family divided and their way of life at risk in this culturally-rich and emotional adventure by the bestselling author of the Lily Wong series. After ten years away as a national park ranger in Oregon, Makalani Pahukula has come back to Kaua‘i for her grandmother’s […]
Pondering My Aviation Memoir After Three Fatal Plane Crashes
By Shirley M. Phillips One of the hardest tasks for me in finishing my memoir How Not to Fly an Airplane was choosing a title and cover. Although I suspect this is a challenge for many authors, for me it was compounded by the fact that my debut memoir is about my forty years of flying airplanes and teaching others how to fly. Although I […]
What Home Means
by Janet Clare I have recently been made aware that the title of my new novel, True Home seems to have struck a chord with many for whom the words hold very different meanings, most of which have nothing to do with, and are far beyond, the story of my novel. In my city of […]
Wild Women Write Poetry
Julia Thacker I was in the airport again, running for the gate to catch the first thing smoking – flying – from Boston to Dayton, Ohio. My father had fallen again, had been rushed by ambulance from his assisted living facility to hospital. Our troubled past hardly mattered. He was helpless. I was next of […]
Mining My Own Experiences to Create a Cult
By Alexandria Faulkenbury As an author about to publish my debut novel, I’m often asked about the inspiration for the story. And at this point in the roller coaster that is publishing a book, I have a standard answer: I’ve always been interested in cults, so I wanted to write about one. But that’s only […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Elizabeth Harlan
Becoming Carly Klein What if 15 year old Carly Klein could become a different person? What if instead of being a rebellious and unhappy student failing out of her uptight, private girls’ school in Manhattan, she could pose as a Barnard College sophomore and become the girlfriend of her psychiatrist mother’s blind patient, Daniel, a […]
How a Box Became a Novel
By Melora Fern I didn’t plan to write a novel. My immediate goal was to help my dad get the collections of stuff my mom had hauled from Hawaii cleaned out from under their bed. We had just moved her to assisted living now that her Alzheimer’s had advanced. In the six years since they […]
Amal Hdhili Interviews The Red Heels
Amal Hdhili interviews The Red Heels from the short story “Heaven and Heel” in *Whispers from the Wardrobe* *Whispers from the Wardrobe* is a collection of fictional stories whispered through fabric, where each garment or accessory carries the echoes of the woman who wore it. The wardrobe becomes a narrator—silent, patient, and always watching—observing the […]
The Inspiration for My Debut Novel and Its Connection to My Life Perspective
The Inspiration for My Debut Novel and Its Connection to My Life Perspective The inspiration for my debut novel, Out of the Crash, emerged from my sideline view of what happened in my hometown after a pair of tragic bicycle accidents. The facts surrounding each incident shared some similarities but essentially differed. The nuts and […]
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