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Dutch by birth and serial emigrant, Barbara currently lives with her husband and daughter in a tiny village in Galicia, Spain, as basic and simple as can be. W Barbara's website.
The Responsibility of Looking
The Responsibility of Looking Kerri Schlottman The first time I saw Mary Ellen Mark’s famous 1990 photograph Amanda and her Cousin Amy, I was immediately drawn to it. Somewhere in the photo albums at my mom’s house in Southeast Detroit there was a similar photo of my sister and I, equally defiant though less provocative. […]
Reading with Rochelle Weinstein: January
Hello Readers & Friends, January was a fabulous month for books. Clearly, I had my own thriller fest—so many great ones to choose from! But here’s a question. Have you ever set a book down? Whether it be the subject matter or your mood, sometimes we call it quits. It’s typically 50-100 pages for me. […]
When a Humor Author Tackles Divorce
When a Humor Author Tackles Divorce By: Dawn Dais Over the course of my 15+ year writing career I’ve written books that have skewed mostly humorous. I trained for a marathon and wrote a book about what happens when a couch potato puts on running shoes (The Nonrunner’s Marathon Guide for Women). I did the […]
How My Grandmother Inspired My Writing
As a child, my grandmother, who I lovingly called Nana, lived at the end of our long gravel road. On Saturdays and Wednesdays, like clockwork, she would come to my house and walk me to the library. As a child, that trip seemed very long but in all actuality, it was five minutes from home. […]
Isabelle Steiger: Growing up in the Woods
Until I was eight years old, my brother’s and my idea of after-school excitement was a trip to the arcade. That summer, our parents moved us from Manhattan to about an hour upstate—“the suburbs,” I told my friends back in New York, because I didn’t have a firm grasp of what the suburbs were, other […]
A letter from Artemisia Gentileschi to the Author
“Eternally Artemisia. Some loves, like some women are timeless.” A novel by Melissa Muldoon. A letter from Artemisia Gentileschi to the author. Cara Melissa, I wanted to thank you for the novel you have published about me. As you were writing it, I’m sure you felt my presence by your side. I was always there […]
Endings
Endings I write words on scraps of paper and keep them in a basket on my desk—words that perform soft magic. Some might glow, or give me a thump in my chest, but most act as prompts to get things going when I’m stuck writing. I dump the words on top of my keyboard: celestial, […]
Inspiration: What’s your Muse?
Inspiration: what’s your muse? Inspiration is a word much bandied about by writers. There’s a good reason for this. We want to feel inspired to write, because then the words flow, snatched from the ether in alluring combinations. We feel like real writers. We feel, well, inspired! But here’s a little secret. Sometimes it doesn’t […]
Translating Elena Ferrante
Some readers focus on a single author for an indefinite period of time; so was Ann Goldstein (a versatile translator and former editor at New Yorker) when she started translating Elena Ferrante, and so was I when I started reading her. I came across The Lost Daughter in a small town bookshop near my house […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emma Barry, Chick Magnet
Authors Interviewing Characters: Emma Barry, Chick Magnet In CHICK MAGNET, social media influencer and backyard chicken keeper Nicole Jones (better known by her fans as Chick Nic) recovers from an explosive break up from a YouTuber by moving to small town. There, she’ll meet and fall for the grumpy veterinarian across the street who’s been […]
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