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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.
On Writing Characters
Writing, like all art, is an act of creation and creation begins in the mind of the creator. My characters begin “life” as thoughts which I then expand upon bit by bit, layering personality and history onto them until I feel they are whole enough to have their own thoughts. It’s like a seed growing […]
How Hating My First Job Led to My Latest Book
Sara Bennett Wealer How Hating My First Job Led to My Latest Book My new young adult novel, GRAVE THINGS LIKE LOVE, takes place in a funeral home. Elaine, the main character, has grown up there, living on the top floors with her family, who run the business below. It’s a unique setting, and one […]
The Writing of Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine By Patricia Grayhall
The Writing of Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine By Patricia Grayhall February 2019 I take out the letters and journals in the file labeled Boston with shaky hands from the locked file cabinet in my closet. For forty years the letters from Dani lay unread because I couldn’t bear to look […]
The Inspiration behind One Last Gift
The Inspiration behind One Last Gift Like my debut novel, Always, in December, ONE LAST GIFT is a story that starts and ends at Christmas, though it spans the whole year. It’s also a story about grief, and about finding yourself in the wake of that grief. I sometimes get asked why I choose to […]
Lucy Banks: On Writing
Writing for me was always a hiding place. I grew up in a strange house with a turbulent family life, and writing was the one thing I could reliably turn to when I wanted to escape from the world. From an early age, I was fascinated with turning those troubling experiences into words. Somehow, by […]
Raquel V. Reyes, author of the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, interviews Alma Diaz, Miriam Quiñones’ BFF
Raquel V. Reyes, author of the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, interviews Alma Diaz, Miriam Quiñones’ BFF. About the book: CALYPSO, CORPSES, AND COOKING It’s time for a savory soirée—but something sinister is stewing—in Raquel V. Reyes’s second delightful Caribbean Kitchen mystery, perfectly delicious for fans of Mia P. Manansala. Fall festivities are underway in Coral […]
The Enduring Appeal of the Victorian Sensation Novel
The Enduring Appeal of the Victorian Sensation Novel By Mimi Matthews My new historical romance The Belle of Belgrave Square is my homage to Victorian sensation novels with a dash of fairytale sweetness. Filled with sinister secrets, locked rooms, and an ever-present sense of danger, it contains all the deliciously suspenseful romantic elements that kept […]
Why Women Readers Love Detective Parrott
Why Women Readers Love Detective Parrott by Saralyn Richard The past several decades have seen a big trend in detective fiction toward strong female protagonists, and, as a person who devours such books, I have to give a resounding hurrah. V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum and even going back to Miss Marple and Nancy Drew—I’ve […]
Writing SUMMONS TO BERLIN by JOANNE INTRATOR
Writing helps me manage my life but it always wasn’t so. I was born in NYC in 1946, to parents whose lives were wrecked by the Nazis. My father became morbidly ill when I was seven and two of my close relatives died around the same time. Money was very tight. I stepped into grownup […]
Reissuing Your Books: Helpful Tips
To quote the Jackson Five’s song “I Want You Back” circa 1970, (yes, I’m dating myself) that’s how I felt about my first two books. When you sign with a publisher, your contract will contain a term for the publication rights, meaning they hold the rights listed in the contract until that date. Depending […]
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