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Authors Interviewing Characters: Kathleen M. Willett
Anything For a Friend Author/Character Interview ANYTHING FOR A FRIEND For two old friends with so much to hide, playing catch-up is a dangerous game in a propulsive novel of suspense by the author of Mother of All Secrets. Writer Carrie Colts hopes a move to Montauk will be a rejuvenating change of pace for […]
Inspiration for Happy AF by Beth Romero
Inspiration for Happy AF by Beth Romero Many people ask me what inspired Happy AF: Simple Strategies to Get Unstuck, Bounce Back, and Live Your Best Life. As the title attests, it is a comprehensive guidebook for happiness. I always respond that I didn’t set out to write a book, but rather the book set […]
Come Away With Me, Julie Maloney
COME AWAY WITH ME By Julie Maloney The first time I led an international writer’s retreat, the person who invited me ended up in hospice a month before we both were to fly to Greece. Due to her illness—of which I knew nothing—she had left most details unattended. In desperation, she called to ask me […]
Inspiration behind writing Gaslighting Recovery for Women by Dr. Amelia Kelley
Inspiration behind writing Gaslighting Recovery for Women by Dr. Amelia Kelley My name is Dr. Amelia Kelley and I am a trauma-informed therapist and advocate for survivors of domestic violence and other forms of relationship trauma. With 20 years of experience as a therapist, I have seen first-hand the impact that gaslighting and other forms […]
Behind the Scenes: Writing Martha’s Story By Jodi Decker
Behind the Scenes: Writing Martha’s Story By Jodi Decker Sometimes the source of a story idea is in your DNA—literally. When my daughter and I embarked on writing Poems From the Asylum, about our great-grandmother and grandmother Martha Gruening Nasch, respectively, it sent us on a writing journey through genealogy, family history, and historical research […]
Saying Good-Bye by Jeannee Sacken
I love to read series. As a kid, I read The Bobbsey Twins and Laura Ingalls Wilder, then Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames. As an adult, I’m always up for the newest Lady Darby or Lady Emily historical mystery, a Kate Burkholder thriller, or one of Suzanne Brockmann’s Troubleshooter books. Truth be told, I’ve got […]
THE WAYS OF WATER by Teresa H. Janssen: Excerpt
THE WAYS OF WATER As Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana train engineer and Texas seamstress, journeys with her itinerant family through the deserts of the boom-and-bust American West and revolutionary Mexico, she learns that in her life, two things are constant: water is precious, and her role in her family is to save […]
Connection Through the Narcissistic Parent
Connection Through the Narcissistic Parent Trying to describe what it’s like to grow up with a narcissistic parent is uniquely frustrating. If I say that my parent was abusive, people immediately assume that I’m talking about physical abuse and when I correct them, they often cannot understand that a person who doesn’t use their fists […]
The Often Lonely Process of Writing NEVER ALONE, a Solitary Arctic Survival Journey
Woniya Thibeault wasn’t looking for an adventure of such magnitude, but when the opportunity to participate in Alone® Season 6 fell into her lap, she couldn’t say no. Never Alone is the story of that journey. The often lonely process of writing, Never Alone, a Solitary Arctic Survival Journey By Woniya Thibeault I knew from early on in […]
Inspiration of Ndima Ndima
Inspiration of Ndima Ndima Auckland has been my home for more than a decade, but I’m always homesick for the country I left. Though I grew up in Harare, my soul belongs where I was born, Mutare. No matter how many times I cook traditional meals or have dinner with close friends that speak the same […]
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