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Why the Romance Genre is Raising the Bar for Modern Relationships
How does romance fiction reflect the changing expectations around communication, masculinity, and emotional safety? Romance has maintained a poor reputation over the years across every medium. Books, movies, TV shows—life in general, I’d argue. Why? Because it’s painful. Love hurts. It’s obsessive and toxic and one-sided. It doesn’t let you sleep. It doesn’t let you […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Pamela Kelley
NANTUCKET SECOND CHANCES From USA Today and WSJ bestselling author Pamela Kelley, comes a new beach read filled with family, friendship, romance and second chances. Nantucket Second Chances is “Warm, witty, and atmospheric… This is the perfect summer read.” ― Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author She doesn’t have a job–but she does have a […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Grace Helena Walz
PRETTY AS A PEACH A rising star in Southern fiction, Grace Helena Walz returns with Pretty as a Peach, another story full of charm, sass, wit, and characters you’ll want as friends. A group of life-long friends. A secretive MLM cosmetics company. Some opportunities cost more than they’re worth. Delilah Thomas has a stellar track record […]
Not Every Book Easily Finds its Spot on a Bookstore Shelf by Janet Roberts
It began when I checked the wrong box on the Novel-in-a-Year application to The Story Studio in Chicago. I’d written and self-published two books by then, both women’s fiction with domestic suspense, instinctively mixing genres with little understanding of the craft of writing. Sales were minimal. The class seemed like a good way to improve […]
Edith Netter: On Writing
How to tell a story that’s intimate and true when the people you want to write about didn’t talk about themselves, left no diaries or letters, and are no longer alive? This was my challenge when I wrote “The House at Schumannstrasse 7”, about my grandmother who escaped two countries during two world wars and […]
My Writing Path by Marina Evans
Authors are artists. Some people may disagree with that statement, but in my opinion, authors painstakingly sketch, sculpt, paint, and carve the written word. And as we whittle, hone, and polish our work into near-perfect sentences, a novel emerges. Once we are finally able to step back and admire what we’ve created, it’s incredibly worth […]
Turning Personal History into Fiction By Dr Sue Woolfe
People often ask whether my novels are autobiographical. The simple answer is no. The events are imagined. The characters are invented. Yet every novel I’ve written has begun with something emotionally true, a question that refused to leave me until I had explored it through fiction. My latest novel, The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Dara Levan
I’m Dara Levan, author of Shaken to the Core, and I am excited to introduce two characters who will offer a glimpse of into this uplifting, heartfelt story. Here’s a bit about the book: When life is cut short, what do we do with the time we have left? Joy Stern, a free-spirited photographer, thought she […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Savanth
Interview with Rachel Bickerton Rachel Bickerton is the central character in ASK HIM, the first novel in the Sandbox Trilogy by Julie Savanth. A compelling blend of psychological mystery and speculative fiction, ASK HIM explores every parent’s worst nightmare: the unexplained disappearance of her thirteen-year-old son Matthew Bickerton (Matt). As the search for answers unfolds, […]
Why I Wrote The Deadly Tea by Rachel Dacus
At age twelve I wrote my first novel. After reading too many Nancy Drew books, I felt confident I could write a mystery, and I knew it was my destiny to be a novelist. The Prisoner of the Locked Room – all 100 pages! – featured not one girl detective, but two, twin girls. But […]
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