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CHRISTMAS AT REEDY FALLS by Elizabeth Sumner Wafler: Excerpt

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 […]

October 29, 2024 | By | Reply More
From Daydreams to Reality

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 […]

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Putting Down the Self-Care Potato Chips and Reaching for Something that Satisfies 

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 […]

October 29, 2024 | By | Reply More
Transitioning from Writer to Editor: What Gives You the Right?

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 […]

October 27, 2024 | By | Reply More
From Architecture to Thrillers: The Surprising Links between Academic Writing and Commercial Fiction

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 […]

October 27, 2024 | By | Reply More
A Midlife Writer’s Journey: From Crisis to Clarity

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 […]

October 25, 2024 | By | Reply More
#GOALS  By Kristin Owens

#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 […]

October 25, 2024 | By | Reply More
Our “Unmet Mentors”

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 […]

October 24, 2024 | By | Reply More
On Writing and Reading Despicable Rich Guys

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 […]

October 24, 2024 | By | Reply More
Interview with Dr. Dawn Filos: Author of TALES OF A PET VET: STORIES FROM THE CLINIC AND HOUSE CALLS

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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