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Authors Interviewing Characters: Echoes of Us by Joy Jordan-Lake

Authors Interviewing Characters: Echoes of Us by Joy Jordan-Lake

by Joy Jordan-Lake ECHOES OF US From the bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon comes the soaring story of an unlikely friendship of three men and one extraordinary woman and the legacy they built—if their own secrets don’t destroy it. In the midst of World War II, a Tennessee farm boy, a Jewish Cambridge student, and […]

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On Storytelling and the Tarot: A Personal Journey by Kris Waldherr

On Storytelling and the Tarot: A Personal Journey by Kris Waldherr

by Kris Waldherr One of my favorite literary touchstones is Dante’s Inferno. The story of the poet’s pilgrimage through the underworld has fed some of my creative projects as an illustrator and writer. The Inferno kicks off with one of the most famous sentences ever set on paper. To paraphrase roughly in English: “In the middle of the […]

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An Interview with Ex-Demon Huntress Hadley Caldwell

An Interview with Ex-Demon Huntress Hadley Caldwell

by Lenore Borja, author of the Mirror Realm Series THE LOST PORTAL For fans of Kendare Blake’s Goddess War series comes this second installment in a gripping YA fantasy series that follows a band of huntresses taking on a world of demons and gods. For years, Hadley Caldwell kept humanity safe by hunting demons. But […]

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Six Things You Can Do To Support The Authors In Your Life 

Six Things You Can Do To Support The Authors In Your Life 

By Andrea J. Stein, author of Typecast and Dear Eliza When babies are born, there are celebrations galore.  Showers are thrown.  Gifts are given.  Visits are paid. In many ways, books are authors’ babies. They take hours and hours (truthfully, years!) of work to create and cultivate, and then they face a big world full […]

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Creating the Writing Career You Want

Creating the Writing Career You Want

By Tiffany Yates Martin Four years ago, in April of 2020, my first book for authors released right as the world shut down in the acute initial panic of a global pandemic. The book, Intuitive Editing, felt like my life’s work, the culmination of my decades working in the publishing industry as an editor: a […]

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Lessons in Publishing by Marilyn Simon Rothstein

Lessons in Publishing by Marilyn Simon Rothstein

by Marilyn Simon Rothstein Getting published saves time. That’s because it’s no longer necessary to spend hours yearning to be published. Nine out of ten authors are “bestselling”. The rest are “award winning”. Almost every writer was once a lawyer.  Smile at this remark, “I’m constantly lending your new book to friends. Did I mention […]

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Losing Steam: the Pros and Cons of Launching Two Books back-to-back

Losing Steam: the Pros and Cons of Launching Two Books back-to-back

By Jennifer Lang Six months after signing a contract for my first book with a small, independent press, I held my breath, crossed all ten fingers, and submitted my second manuscript to them. After an OFFER OF PUBLICATION email arrived in my inbox a few months later, I was overcome by a mixture of joy […]

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From Shadow Artist to First-Time Author: the Surrealist Inspiration Behind my Novel Swimming with Tigers

From Shadow Artist to First-Time Author: the Surrealist Inspiration Behind my Novel Swimming with Tigers

By Kathy Hopewell Julia Cameron’s concept of the shadow artist in The Artist’s Way refers to someone who secretly desires to be creative but is found servicing artists instead, such as an assistant, critic or teacher. To be a shadow artist, in Julia Cameron’s opinion, can conceal an unacknowledged desire to be creative. It’s often […]

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On Writing Lookin’ For Love, by Susen Edwards

On Writing Lookin’ For Love, by Susen Edwards

By Susen Edwards, Author, Lookin’ for Love I knew better than to declare sobriety, but something had shifted in my soul. A nagging voice in the back of my mind told me I was only fooling myself, but a stronger voice told me I’d found my home. Back in my apartment, I piled my dance […]

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The Empress of Cooke County: What My Mother, a Doctor, and Pocahontas Have To Do With It All

The Empress of Cooke County: What My Mother, a Doctor, and Pocahontas Have To Do With It All

By Elizabeth Parman I had taken my mother to see her doctor and while we were waiting, we chatted about a story in our family that we are descendants of Pocahontas. My mother asked me if I knew Pocahontas was known as the Empress of Virginia. About that time Mom’s name was called, and I […]

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