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Authors Interviewing Characters: Kelli Estes
By Kelli Estes In the magnificent Scottish Highlands, two devoted mothers separated by centuries discover a haunting connection in a gripping novel by the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk. Struggling with the tragic end of her marriage, Keaka Denney is on a bittersweet adventure in Scotland with her son, Colin. She’s joining […]
Writing a Book While Pregnant (and in the Fourth Trimester)
By Sheila Vijeyarasa Some books take time to percolate. Mine arrived like a bolt of lightning, then poured out in a steady, determined trickle over two trimesters of pregnancy and the first three months of my son’s life. Yes, I wrote my second book while growing a human, birthing that human, and learning how to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Court Stevens
TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD “This is a writer that understands people down to the bones. Her characters are fallible and hopeful, flawed and loving, and so real they have stayed with me.” –Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author “A knockout.” —Booklist Starred Review This is a story of the rich and the very poor. This is a […]
There Will Be A Quiz
By Kate Woodworth “Remember mud football on the quad?” our Trinity College (Hartford) reunion chair, Henry Bruce wrote last fall when trying to drum up enthusiasm for our 50th. “The Sha-Na-Na concert?” Nope. In my four years of college, I attended zero sporting events. I don’t know what mud football is and have no desire […]
Writing about War and the Homefront by Anne Vines
by Anne Vines In my early days of writing fiction, I did not set out to write about war. But perhaps because I was born a few years after World War Two ended, it was a fascination in my reading and film watching, so I should have expected it to well up sometime into my […]
The Many Incarnations of the Girl in a Red Silk Sari
By Sharon Maas Of all my sixteen novels, Girl in a Red Silk Sari has the most tumultuous history: a twenty-something year backstory that has seen it jumping from publisher to publisher, from incarnation to incarnation, from title to title; almost as if searching for an identity of its own. A final identity, now found. […]
News From the Arctic Circle
By Claudia Hinz It is one my favorite emails in my inbox even though I can’t bring myself to read the whole letter: News from the Arctic Circle. The subject line alone sends a chill up my spine. The frozen nostril zing of a wild adventure on the top of the world. A place I […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lori Roy
THE FINAL EPISODE When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father…and herself. Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will finally turn eleven. She hopes to gain […]
From Damsel to Warrior: How Disney Princesses Shaped My Memoir
Once upon a time, women were taught to wait. Wait for Prince Charming, for the shoe to fit, for the happily ever after. But what happens when you realize life doesn’t come with a fairy godmother to wave her wand and grant your dreams? You grab a sword, get on a white horse, and get […]
On Writing my Hybrid Memoir
By Amy Mackin Author of Henry’s Classroom: A Special Education in American Motherhood My son, Henry, was diagnosed with developmental delays at 16-months old. That determination was an inflection point that started me on a journey to understand America’s special education laws and systems. As I learned about and sought access to the federal, state, […]
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