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Authors Interviewing Characters: Patricia Gibney
Patricia Gibney interviews detective Lottie Parker, of The Guilty Girl About THE GUILTY GIRL An Utterly Gripping and Unputdownable Serial Killer Thriller Something whistling through the door behind her caused her to turn. A shadow spread across the opening. She clasped a hand to her mouth, stilling the fear that was rising. The menacing shadow […]
Writing Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
IVY LODGE by Linda Murphy Marshall (June 14, She Writes Press) is an unforgettable memoir that explores patriarchal households, family dynamics, and writing your own story despite your past. Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery began as a 10-page essay from a workshop I attended: “Writing About Nowhere.” The assignment was to write about a […]
A Note for the Writer Who is in Despair Because she isn’t Currently Writing
A note for the writer who is in despair because she isn’t currently writing In summer of 2020, my husband and I took a week off and drove up to New England. This was our first time traveling during the pandemic. Let me rephrase; we did see our bubble pod outside of NYC prior to […]
SEX BOLTS & CHICKEN LOOP
SEX BOLTS & CHICKEN LOOP On being bold at 50 My husband picked up furniture building when he was 50. Over the course of six months, he made two tables so beautiful that people offered to buy them for considerable sums. What should I build next? he asks me. I scan my saved images of […]
Rebecca A. Ward, LMFT: My Publishing Journey
Rebecca A. Ward, LMFT: My Publishing Journey At the persistent urging of friends and family, I started writing my book, The Paper Tiger Syndrome: How to Liberate Yourself from the Illusion of Fear, at the start of the COVID lockdown in March 2020. As a licensed therapist and trauma warrior, I felt compelled to share […]
Writing Mummy Noir
‘I wanted to write the ultimate horror story: What if my child vanished? What if this happened to me as a mum?’ By Amanda Cassidy Kidnapped kids, Machiavellian mummys, babies switched at birth, twisted toddlers…Why do women, many mothers themselves, want to write about the deeply sinister when it comes to parenthood? As an author of a […]
From Your Friend, Carey Dean Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row: Excerpt
Lisa’s newest book, From Your Friend, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row (2022), is a memoir/biography. In 1995, when Lisa visited Nebraska’s death row with other death penalty abolitionists, she became acquainted with one of the inmates. For the next 23 years, through visits, phone calls, and letters, a remarkable, platonic friendship flourished between […]
Meredith Schor: My Publishing Journey
With seven published books already under my belt, my debut novel was released on June 7th. I can sense the confusion. Like the author who releases her debut adult romance after publishing several young adult novels or a multi-published author’s debut under a pen name, As Seen on TV is my trade paperback debut—in other […]
Representation in Writing – Author’s Dilemma, Author’s Responsibility
Representation in writing – author’s dilemma, author’s responsibility There is maybe no hotter topic right now for writers than the question of representation. Writers everywhere are debating whether writing characters out of one’s own ethnicity or gender might be considered wrong. The answer isn’t so simple. My latest novel, The Fervor (GP Putnam’s Sons) marks […]
Fear Not if Your Novel is Really a Short Story
Fear Not if Your Novel is Really a Short Story by D.Z. Stone It took multiple novel drafts written in various writing groups over twenty-five years for me to finally realize that what I’d been working on all this time was a short story. I discovered this all quite accidentally, after a seemingly innocuous Facebook […]
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