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How Place Shapes Story
How Place Shapes Story Eudora Welty said, “One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.” She was onto something: where we live, the environments we navigate, inform who we are and how we understand the world. When writers create a fictional place, they create a force that likewise shapes their characters, whether it’s […]
‘Journey of the Self’ by Ruth Poniarski
‘Journey of the Self’ by Ruth Poniarski Originally, I wrote “Journey of the Self” as an autobiography, 420 pages. Then, an editor informed me that it was too long for an author who is not well-known and too drawn out. So, I condensed it to half the size, and I wrote about a specific time […]
How a childhood imaginary friend inspired the thriller You Look Beautiful Tonight
How a childhood imaginary friend inspired the thriller You Look Beautiful Tonight by L.R. Jones You Look Beautiful Tonight is a story rooted in insecurity and vulnerability as well as a sense of being overlooked and invisible. Things that we have all felt at some point in our lives. It’s also about obsession and addiction […]
A chat with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS; A chat with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni By Melissa Muldoon, author of “Dreaming Sophia — because dreaming is an art.” Seated comfortably in an upholstered chair with the name “Sophia Loren” displayed prominently on the back, the Italian diva flipped through the pages of her screenplay. When her co-star Marcello Mastroianni […]
What We Remember: Telling Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Story
What We Remember: Telling Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Story (Logan Steiner) At the end of my life, reflecting on my life experiences, what will my memory hold onto? I find that asking myself this question provides a dose of instant perspective—a way to sift the worries that matter out from a mental sandbox full of the […]
Shakespeare and me – Stories from Family History
Shakespeare and me – stories from family history Juliet Greenwood The advice when you are beginning as a writer is often to write what you know. So it felt strange to realise that it was only with my fifth published novel that I’ve actually done just that, drawing both on Shakespeare’s plays and my own […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Karen Heuler
“A sharp, lively, funny contemporary fantasy with the feel of an up-to-date, more adult version of L Frank Baum’s Ozbooks.” – The Guardian Eleanor and Stan (the man she changed into a cat) are exiled to Liberty (formerly Texas) to find a missing witch and pay for their transgressions (novice witches do not do transformation spells, […]
FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD: Excerpt
FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD Eighteen-year-old Sonya Hudson has been gripped by phobia since she was thirteen. What would make navigating the world so difficult for this budding visual artist? When the story opens, she lives with her mother and her sister in a suburb in New York in the late 1970s. The narrative carries us […]
Vin de Noix, the Drunken Poetry of Walnuts
….It was 1995. France beckoned, and a home I had long forgotten was found again. It was the beginning of how I thought of bread as a character. And the beginning of writing Tales of the Mistress… “When I said I’d like to drive past the Eiffel Tower I didn’t mean through the belly of Paris.” My husband, Rich, glared […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lydia Travers
Murder in the Scottish Hills When Maud McIntyre and her lady’s maid Daisy travel into the Scottish Highlands, the last thing they expect to find is a body on the train… Will these keen amateur sleuths stop a murderer in his tracks? Edinburgh, 1911: When Maud McIntyre receives a letter from a maid called Rose, […]
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