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CHRISTMAS AT REEDY FALLS by Elizabeth Sumner Wafler: Excerpt
We are delighted to feature this excerpt from Christmas At Reedy Falls by Elizabeth Sumner Wafler! CHRISTMAS AT REEDY FALLS Perfect for fans of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver and Always in December by Emily Stone, Christmas at Reedy Falls is an opposites-attract, wholesome Christmas romance that will leave readers believing in the magic of the holiday—and […]
From Daydreams to Reality
By Andrée Jannette It started with a persistent tremor. My right hand, my dominant hand, that I used for everything, I could no longer use for anything. I lost my ability to write out my name. I couldn’t hold a pen or brush. I saw a number of doctors to try and figure out what […]
Putting Down the Self-Care Potato Chips and Reaching for Something that Satisfies
“Amber, you seem like someone who knows how to use your voice. You just don’t know how to be heard.” This sentence, spoken by my therapist, stopped me in my tracks. I was thirty years old and had devoted my life to speaking. I was a Speech and Debate Champion in high school. I’d traveled […]
Transitioning from Writer to Editor: What Gives You the Right?
By Lisa Diane Kastner As the powerhouse founder of Running Wild Press, Lisa Diane Kastner has been featured in Forbes and has claimed a spot on multiple “Best of” lists. In her acquisition editorial endeavors, she has identified talent like Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) and Tori Eldridge (Dance Among […]
From Architecture to Thrillers: The Surprising Links between Academic Writing and Commercial Fiction
By Mailan Doquang I’m an architectural historian by training. I’ve spent my career researching, writing about, and teaching the history of medieval French architecture, of buildings like Notre-Dame of Paris. In 2018, nearly a decade after completing my doctoral degree, I published The Lithic Garden: Nature and the Transformation of the Medieval Church (Oxford University […]
A Midlife Writer’s Journey: From Crisis to Clarity
By Carolyn McBride The winter of my life came in January 2021. Although I lived in the endless summer of sunny Florida, we were well into the pandemic by then, what seemed like an endless lockdown, and I was working from home in a bedroom right above my then-husband’s office. My department manager pulled me […]
#GOALS By Kristin Owens
By Kristin Owens My debut novel launched last month. I admit, I’ve had conflicting emotions about it: happiness, acute anxiety, along with a fair amount of nostalgia for the good ol’ days when I was blissfully uninformed. But my ultimate goal is in sight; I can almost see it materialize … soon very soon (rubs hands […]
Our “Unmet Mentors”
By Catherine Browder I was 29 and teaching in Japan when I decided to write fiction. I had always had the desire to write but was deflated by that notion many women of my generation had: I don’t have anything to say. Besides, Life had intervened: marriage, teaching jobs, commutes, dinner preps and vacuuming. Then […]
On Writing and Reading Despicable Rich Guys
By Melinda Copp Nothing has challenged me as a reader and writer like the prevalence of rich guys in romance novels. Wealth is common in genre romance because that’s part of the fantasy of being taken care of. If he’s rich, then you don’t have to worry about paying rent or putting food on the […]
Interview with Dr. Dawn Filos: Author of TALES OF A PET VET: STORIES FROM THE CLINIC AND HOUSE CALLS
Dr. Dawn Filos grew up in New Jersey in a family of eccentric animal lovers, preparing her for a lifelong career spent with like-minded pet people. She was a veterinarian in Pennsylvania for over thirty years. Her Memoir, TALES OF A PET VET: STORIES FROM THE CLINIC AND HOUSE CALLS is out now. We are […]
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