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HAPPY IS AS HAPPY DOES: The Slow Pivot From HEAs to HFNs
HAPPY IS AS HAPPY DOES: The Slow Pivot From HEAs to HFNs By Christina Hamlett Romance novels have long been a squillion dollar business for the American publishing industry. In fact, their sales account for over a third of mass market trade paperbacks. Boy Meets Girl. Boy Loses Girl. Boy Gets Girl Back. It’s a […]
Where do you get your Ideas from? By Tríona Walsh
Where do you get your ideas from? Like many writers and would-be writers, I’m voracious in my consumption of anything writing related. Interviews, podcasts, blogposts, anywhere writers talk about their writing and writing lives, I’m there. An article like this, for instance, would be just the thing! During this obsessive deep-dive, I’ve noticed there is […]
Crossing Fifty-One: Not Quite a Memoir: Excerpt
Crossing Fifty-One: Not Quite a Memoir by Debbie Russell Three Generations of Family Secrets and Midlife Crises All Set the Stage for One Dream to Come True. A week before Christmas 1951, Dr. Ralph Russell risked everything to voluntarily enter a locked federal drug-treatment facility known as a “narcotic farm.” Sixty-five years later, Dr. Russell’s […]
Second Acts, by Jill Piscitello
Second Acts, by Jill Piscitello Most authors will tell you they’ve loved writing since they were children. I’m no exception. But pursuing a career as an author always seemed impractical. Somewhere around the age of twenty, I caught the tiniest glimmer that publishing a book was possible. Another college semester had ended, and I was […]
Magazine or a Journal, What’s the Difference? by Alicia Blando, MD
Magazine or a Journal. What’s the Difference? by Alicia Blando, MD My parents emigrated from the Philippines to pursue a better life for their children. It wasn’t hard to become fluent in the English language since American television shows were popular in the islands. All throughout grade school and high school, my father would take […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tracey Buchanan
While writing Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace, which takes place in the early 1950s, I got to know the book’s main character, Mrs. Minerva Place, very well. After all, we spent many hours over the course of several years together. But no matter how well you think you know somebody, with a person […]
Ten Lessons about Writing Memoir that I Learned from Reading Memoirs
Ten Lessons about Writing Memoir that I Learned from Reading Memoirs Dian Seidel Memoirs never appealed to me much…until I accidentally started writing one. When a writing coach told me my short essays could be the basis for a memoir, I figured I’d better educate myself about the genre. So I read lots of memoirs, […]
Character Interview: A HUNDRED DAYS TILL TOMORROW by L.S Case
Character Interview: A HUNDRED DAYS TILL TOMORROW by L.S. Case About A HUNDRED DAYS TILL TOMORROW “Lovelorn and ever hopeful romantics will find this poetic page-turner a delicious escape from any cares – present or past. Like the magical sea glass on the shores of Cobblers Hill, each chapter of Miranda’s journey gleams with light […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: India Hill Brown
We are delighted to feature this Authors Interviewing Characters piece by INDIA HILL BROWN! About the book: RHYTHM AND MUSE Cinderella meets Cyrano in this pitch-perfect YA rom-com that is a celebration of Black joy, first crushes, and putting your heart on the line for love. Darren Johnson lives in his head. There, he can pine for his […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Elizabeth Buchan
We are delighted to feature Elizabeth Buchan who interviewed her character Nina Lawrence from Two Women in Rome! About the book: TWO WOMEN IN ROME In the Eternal City, no secret stays hidden forever… Lottie Archer arrives in Rome excited to begin her new job as an archivist. When she discovers a valuable fifteenth-century painting, […]
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