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We Certainly Need Doctors But …
We Certainly Need Doctors But … By Sandi Gold In 1986, five neurosurgeons told me I had less than a year to live. Since everything is energy – including me – and love is the highest form of energy there is, to keep myself from dying, I chose to use love. Following my diagnosis, I […]
Truth + Tall Tale = Falling Through the Night
Truth + Tall Tale = Falling Through the Night Featured first on https://lgbtqreads.com/ I’m pretty ordinary in most ways: middle class, awkward, bookish. I’m a mom and I live in a small city and I’m an omnivore. But some of my experiences have been a bit out of the ordinary: Giving up a child for […]
The Secret Life of a Publishing Company – Part III
The Secret Life of a Publishing Company – Part III Welcome to Part III of The Secret Life of a Publishing Company. Part I outlined the motivation for setting up Inkspot Publishing in the first place. Part II presented the blueprint for action, the steps required to bring a book to life. This third instalment […]
How To Approach Researching Historical Fiction
How To Approach Researching Historical Fiction “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” When I first embarked on my debut novel THE TOWER, I wasn’t thinking of L. P. Hartley’s famous opening line of The Go-Between. But when I reflected on my first early stages of research and writing, I realised […]
Falling Through the New World: Honoring the Immigrant’s Story
Falling Through the New World Honoring the Immigrant’s Story by Cynthia Reeves My novel in stories Falling Through the New World (Gold Wake Press 2024) arose out of a fascination with my personal history as the American granddaughter of Italian immigrants and the events that spurred that history—World War I and the Spanish Flu epidemic […]
Writing Across Worlds
Writing Across Worlds By Alix Christie When I got the call that summer’s day inviting me to visit McDonald Ranch, I whooped at the wheel of my rental car. I was on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana doing preliminary research for a novel about my ancestor’s brother, a Scottish fur trader for the […]
The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay, Excerpt
THE BERLIN LETTERS Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison. From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she’s expected […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Karen Green
YELLOW BIRDS Set just before the digital revolution, Kait is a young woman searching for identity and community among the cast-outs, cast-offs, and other “misfit toys” who refer to themselves as the Yellow Birds and follow a band called the Open Road from town to town. Just as Kait believes she has found her place […]
Postpartum Anxiety Inspired my Debut Thriller
Postpartum anxiety inspired my debut thriller Brianne Sommerville My debut thriller If I Lose Her follows a first-time mom as she struggles to adapt to motherhood, and I don’t believe I could have written the story if I hadn’t grappled with postpartum mental health issues. The first time I learned about postpartum depression (PPD) and […]
How Dreams & Visions Can Guide Your Writing: An Interview With Anna Quinn, Author of Angeline
How Dreams & Visions Can Guide Your Writing: An Interview With Anna Quinn, Author of Angeline By Nicole Pyles Featured first on www.wow-womenonwriting.com Every writer has a special way of developing their characters, revealing the setting, and understanding what is to come from a story. Whatever method you personally use, you will be fascinated by […]
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