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Authors Interviewing Characters: D.J. Green
Interview with Paula from No More Empty Spaces, D. J. Green’s debut novel, coming out on April 9, 2024. DJG: Hi Paula, Would you mind talking with me today? I think the world needs to hear a bit more from you. Paula: Sure, I’m happy to chat (chuckles), but I’m not sure about the world […]
On Writing EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT WIDOWHOOD I LEARNED FROM JESSICA FLETCHER
TYPING THROUGH TEARS By Christina Hamlett “So do you think you’ll keep writing?” There are a lot of mind-numbingly weird things people say when they are discomfited about expressing condolences to a widow. I learned this firsthand when my husband passed away from Stage 4 cancer last year. Along with “How does it feel to […]
Five Things Grief Taught me about Writing
Five Things Grief Taught me about Writing When grief hits you, it brings along with it a plethora of emotions. Someone, a well-intentioned person, said to me the other day, “Grief goes away in some time. You should write a book on happiness.” I smiled, “I am glad you have theoretical knowledge, not the practical […]
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 […]
Writing a Series, by Judith Keim
Writing a series… I’ve found that writing a series is both easier and harder than writing a stand-alone book. My longest series is ten books, my shortest, three books. With all series, the setting is very important, becoming like a character itself, an important piece of the glue that holds the books together. The reader […]
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 […]
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