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Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Hollyland
Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Leavy, author of Hollyland “. . . Leavy weaves a lot of excitement, charm, and romance into this concise and highly engrossing novel . . . I would not hesitate to recommend Hollyland to fans of romance and women’s fiction everywhere; you will not be disappointed.” —Readers’ Favorite, 5-star review “… a spellbinding […]
CHARACTER REDEMPTION ARCS
CHARACTER REDEMPTION ARCS In fiction books, redemption arcs are tied to a character—the protagonist, antagonist, or even a secondary character—and vary by the author’s intention, genre, plot, and characters. The dictionary defines redemption as “An act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake.” In the definition, the word “act” implies action. Choices create […]
How One Special Dinner Went From Meal to Memoir
Leslie Karst—Justice is Served: A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for RBG It may seem odd, but even though I’d been tapped to personally host an intimate dinner party for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her charming and witty tax law professor husband Marty, it never occurred to me at the […]
READING WITH ROCHELLE WEINSTEIN: MARCH
Hello Readers & Friends, Spring has sprung, and I hope everyone had a great month of reading. Can you say March Madness?! Yeah, the headlines can be depressing at times, so it’s always good to have a fabulous book nearby. With books you can escape and lose yourself in another world. Like I did! I […]
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Publishing By: Jenna Podjasek, MD
Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Publishing By: Jenna Podjasek, MD I’m a busy Allergist/Immunologist, wife, mom, and voracious reader, but the release of my debut medical thriller, Particles in the Air, thrust me (unprepared) into the publishing world. Read on for some high-value, practical advice I learned the hard way. You CANNOT take […]
Inspiration for The Secret Sister
The Secret Sister – Liz Trenow — The story of the Bevin Boys and the contribution of these so-called ‘forgotten conscripts’ to World War Two is little known and barely recognised. In fact I probably would not have known about them myself, had I not been fortunate enough to meet Ivor Singer – the father […]
On Writing Beautiful Trauma By Rebecca Fogg
On Writing Beautiful Trauma By Rebecca Fogg In 2006, my right hand was partially amputated when the toilet exploded in my Brooklyn apartment, as I stood brushing my teeth before bed. With great difficulty I stopped the bleeding and called an ambulance, and surgeons at Bellevue Hospital “replanted” my hand the next day. On the […]
Exploding Family Land-Mines
Exploding family land-mines Czeslaw Milosz, the great poet, said, “When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” Gary Shteyngart added, “If the family isn’t finished, then the writer is.” When I set out to write Our Lying Kin, it was intended specifically to be the second book in what is becoming […]
If You Don’t Write It, Who Will?
There is terror in the proverb, “If you don’t tell the story, who will?” and it haunted me. I had done something very few people had done. In 1980 I left a full college ride to join the circus and become a trapeze artist. The stories had become a staple at dinner parties and chamber […]
“Denuding” Myself: A Path to Authenticity as a Woman
“Denuding” Myself A Path to Authenticity as a Woman You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. —William Faulkner I have been involved in writing/editing/publishing all my life. Also, I love a wide scope, being a dual national, US/Belgian. To write my memoir about my New York City days, I got the strong […]
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