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Authors Interviewing Characters: Sara Foster
WHEN SHE WAS GONE Was she taken … or did she run? The pulse-pounding new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of You Don’t Know Me Rose once walked away from her daughter. Now she may be the only one who can save her. Former London police officer Rose Campbell has been estranged from her daughter, […]
Bring Everyone In With You: A Strategy For Those Days When You Feel Like You’re Not
by Rachel Stone Most days, I’m am author. The odd day, like today, I’m a speaker who tells people how I came to be an author in hopes of inspiring them to make space for their passions. But lately, I’ve felt unjustified in calling myself either. My current manuscript has me totally stuck. My last […]
Unraveling the Knots: A Sister’s Relentless Fight for Justice in the Murder of Rebecca Zahau: Excerpt
Unraveling the Knots: A Sister’s Relentless Fight for Justice in the Murder of Rebecca Zahau Convinced that Rebecca Zahau’s death was not a suicide, her sister vowed to unravel the truth—no matter the cost. Unraveling the Knots is the gripping true story of Rebecca Zahau, a vibrant woman whose tragic death in 2011 ignited her family’s […]
Writer’s Block and the Refrigerator
What is the spark that ignites your creativity? What sets your imagination on fire, sending you to your laptop or notebook to record those thoughts before they fly away? What keeps you moving forward? This is the best part of writing, letting the words fly across the page as your characters take shape and you […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lisa F. Rosenberg
Fine, I’m a Terrible Person Fine, I’m a Terrible Person is a funny, heart wrenching adult mother daughter story. It begins when 73-year-old, worn out, former beauty, Aurora Hmans Feldenburg, a hapless, perpetually broke, eccentric, divorcee living in the wealthy enclave of Marin County in Northern California, is wakened by a phone call informing her […]
With Great Risk Comes…..Additional Risks
by Savannah Hendricks When I set out to write my latest book, Sun City, 85373, I’d toyed around with the idea of the main character being a social worker. For the last thirteen years, it has been my day job, and as such, makes writing a story with a realistic career much easier because I […]
A Compass for Stormy Seas by Dessy Levinson
By Dessy Levinson Here are two truths and a lie: Our nervous system floods our minds in ways that become overwhelming. Our brain can parse overwhelm and clear it if we focus more on what is troubling us. There’s a way of navigating overwhelm that—over time—can steer you toward becoming your most caring and creative […]
Embracing the What Ifs: The Fear That Fuels My Writing
by Amanda Speights I first fell in love with books when I read Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell in Mrs. Arter’s fourth-grade class. The idea of becoming an author, though, didn’t occur to me as something I could—or even wanted—to do, until my teen years. My late husband believed in my writing […]
The Inspiration for Gitel’s Freedom
BY IRIS MITLIN LAV My mother’s name in the Yiddish language was Itta Gitel. Many Americans who are Jewish have an English name that they use every day – in my mother’s case it was Anne Gertrude – and a name in the Hebrew or Yiddish language used for ceremonial purposes. Those names were often […]
The Self-Care Phenomenon of Female Friendships and Chosen Family
By Jess Ames Throughout our lifetime, friends of every season will come and go, fade and grow. Some will float away on the wind, while others will take root in our lives and become the backdrop to all our most important moments. Weddings… and everything that comes after. Births. Deaths. Divorce. Anniversaries. Birthdays. New jobs. […]
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