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How Dear Missing Friend Came to Be by Susan McGuirk
Like so many of us, I found myself researching family history a few years back. It was strictly for fun, and I did not have a grand plan of how it would all play out. It wasn’t until I came upon an advertisement looking for a long lost relative that things began to change. I […]
How Unburned Came to Be by Sarah Oelschig
Unburned: A Slightly Messy, Mostly Honest Guide to Life After Burnout, by Sarah Oelschig Unburned didn’t begin with a plan. It began with a piano. In the middle of 2022, I was deep in what I now know was burnout, though I didn’t have a name for it yet. As an HR leader, my job was to […]
How Losing my Son in a Shopping Centre Inspired me to Write a Children’s Book By Gul Salih
There are moments in life that divide your world into a before and an after. For me, one of those moments happened in a busy shopping centre and lasted only a few minutes, yet it felt like a lifetime. I was shopping with my son and my mum. At one point, my son wanted to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Shalini Abeysekara
From Shalini, the USA TODAY bestselling author who marries magic with murder mysteries, comes a pulse-pounding legal thriller romantasy in a world inspired by Ancient Rome about a young woman seeking vengeance against the man who attempted to kill her four years prior by pushing her off a tower, and engaging in a game of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emma R. Schofield
The Nature of Shadow A coming of age story about resilience and power from the genre of literary high fantasy. Anhame, the Hall under the six-point star, is the only place Lia can learn how to use her terrifying powers. But to take the oath, and to pass through the trials, she must conceal the […]
Interview With Rowena Carenen
Rowena (Rowe) Carenen is the author of the collections In the Meantime, First Drafts from the Brewery, and her latest, Body of Work, We’re delighted to feature this interview with her! Tell us about your beginning, where are you from? I was born in Morganton, NC, but have moved all over the South. My home […]
On Writing CLEAN SLATE by Brianna Labuskes
Following the massive success of the Dr. Gretchen White and Raisa Susanto series, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brianna Labuskes returns with her most chilling investigation yet. CLEAN SLATE is the first installment in the Olive Hunt series and introduces readers to a gritty new protagonist, a crime scene cleaner who finds herself […]
A Sentimental Hoarder and Her Accidental Memoir By Erin O’Malley
Progress doesn’t happen in a straight line—and neither did writing my book. It started with a letter. Back in 2014, a new Lusitano website advertised a launching competition. The grand prize: a week at a Portuguese hacienda called Herdade Pero Viegas, with daily riding lessons from working equitation pro Nuno Jose Avelar. To enter, you […]
Why We Wrote Miss You Already
Miss You Already began with a conversation neither of us expected to have. When Staci received a stage four lung cancer diagnosis, everything changed. We found ourselves trying to hold fear, hope, uncertainty, love, and everyday life all at once. We were not only confronting what might happen in the future. We were grieving even the […]
Translating Letters While Keeping the Correspondent’s Voice Intact
Ruth Zelig on writing Letters from Brazil, Reflections on Migration and Friendship In order to write my epistolary memoir Letters from Brazil, Reflections on Migration and Friendship, I needed to translate 100 letters I received from a friend in Brazil, written in Portuguese, and mailed over the course of twenty years. I saved that correspondence […]
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