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CAROL J. CHUMNEY: ON WRITING
CAROL J. CHUMNEY: ON WRITING Author of The Arena: One Woman’s Story Over the years, my dreams were of public service. Serving as a Tennessee state legislator and Memphis City Councilwoman, I achieved that dream in some respects. I never dreamed of writing a book. Yet, during an election for higher office in 2012, a […]
HOW TO WRITE UNLIKEABLE CHARACTERS YOUR READERS WILL LOVE
HOW TO WRITE UNLIKEABLE CHARACTERS YOUR READERS WILL LOVE When I wrote my first novel at the age of twenty-three, I really thought I had the whole writing thing nailed. Oh the naivety! You can imagine the shock I felt then, when an editorial company told me in no uncertain terms that my book was […]
EXCERPT: Sonata For A Damaged Heart: A Young Mother’s Journey of Survival After a Near Fatal Heart Attack
This excerpt is from Wakisha (Kisha) Stewart’s, Sonata For A Damaged Heart: A Young Mother’s Journey of Survival After a Near Fatal Heart Attack. Reprinted with permission from the publisher. “Doctor?” I ask. He nods. “Push four milligrams of IV morphine sulfate, stat,” he orders the nurse. “Plus five micrograms nitro continuous.” “Am I having […]
The Neighbor Wager Inspiration by Crystal Kaswell
The Neighbor Wager Inspiration by Crystal Kaswell I’ve never been one of those authors who lacked ideas. Most of the time, I have far too many, not too few. Everything I watch, everywhere I go, every conversation I have is a possible source of inspiration. So I don’t take any one source too seriously. I […]
Rue Matthiessen: On Writing Castles and Ruins
Castles & Ruins was inspired by a summer I spent in Galway, Ireland, with my husband and son. I had lived in Galway forty-one years before, when I was seven years old, in the summer of 1965. My mother, poet Deborah Love and father, writer Peter Matthiessen, had chosen Ireland as a long term getaway […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Paulette Kennedy
THE DEVIL AND MRS. DAVENPORT The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors of 1950s America in a gripping novel about a woman under pressure―from the living and the dead. The first day of autumn brought the fever, and with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has […]
How “The Radiant Life Project” Was Born
How “The Radiant Life Project” Was Born By Kate King The Radiant Life Project was born from a decades-long series of events that ultimately crash landed me directly in the depths of the most profound burnout I’d ever experienced. All of my life I’ve been known as a busy worker bee with ambitious drive and […]
On Writing In Your Mind – The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono
I have been a passionate fan of music, since seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, when I was six years old. After a brief career as a writer for publications, I immersed myself in writing about the music that I love. I started writing a blog in 2002 (madelinex.com). It’s […]
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II
The Secret Life of A Publishing Company Part II In my first post, I outlined why Jurcell Virginia and I set up Inkspot Publishing www.inkspotpublishing.com, and I promised a blueprint for setting up a publishing company. The steps are not sequential, and if you decide to go ahead, you will find yourself engaged in all […]
Alice McIlroy: On Writing Genre-Blending Fiction
Alice McIlroy: On writing genre-blending fiction It’s funny stumbling upon my debut novel in the crime section of bookshops, which is where it tends to be. Each time, finding it being stocked is a unique thrill. There is nothing quite like walking into a shop and finding it on the shelves: the sheer joy of […]
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