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Unstuck: Feedback That Stops You Cold By Martha Conway
This blog series, Unstuck, explores some of the ways fiction writers find themselves stuck and offers tips from successful writers for getting unstuck. Unstuck is a six-month series published the first Monday of the month. Read the previous installments: WRITING THE BEGINNING OVER AND OVER UNSTUCK STUCK IN THE SQUISHY MIDDLE “Here’s what I would do instead …” […]
Integrating my Author and Therapist Selves
Integrating my Author and Therapist Selves Lisa Williamson Rosenberg My father took my aspirations of being a novelist seriously from the start. His advice? “Get your first four chapters in, get your advance, and get to work.” Which was the way of the publishing world when he was chief art director of Viking Press back […]
Bobbie Jean Huff: On Writing
Bobbie Jean Huff There are a host of challenges that face every writer, and as a debut novelist I faced some difficult ones with The Ones We Keep, published by Sourcebooks in January 2022. The book is about a woman, Olivia, who after one of her children has died, decides to walk away from her […]
2022 Winter Must-Reads
Let’s be honest, winter is the one time of year where we all want to be trapped inside, and there’s no better way to enjoy that then to dive into a good book. If you can’t decide what’s next on your TBR we’ve put together a list of some of this cozy-season’s most intriguing reads. […]
Writing When Hurt, Writing To Heal
It could have been the ideal conditions for writing non-stop: no running of errands with necessities delivered to the door, no interruption by visitors, no annoying events, simply solitude at home. For me and many others, however, the COVID pandemic shutdown didn’t work out that way. It was like a bad first draft which stumbles […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sally Hanan
My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hanan (Fire Drinkers Publishing, hardback £20, paperback £11.99) is an Irish tale of love, loss and redemption. Sally Hanan’s sublime debut mixes the prose of Sue Monk Kidd with the dialogue of Maeve Binchy. With captivating warmth, she pulls us in to explore how it felt to live in […]
Cai Emmons: Time Out of Time
This piece first appeared on Medium Cai Emmons, on Time and the first anniversary of her ALS diagnosis When I was teaching college-age and graduate fiction writers, I liked to use an exercise called “Braiding Time” to encourage the students to think about the interior lives of their characters and getting closer to understanding their […]
WHAT INSPIRED THE BOOK BIBLE? by Susan Shapiro
Susan B. Shapiro is an award-winning Manhattan writing professor and The New York Times bestselling author of 10 books, including the acclaimed memoirs FIVE MEN WHO BROKE MY HEART, LIGHTING UP and ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR WORD, the coauthored nonfiction books UNHOOKED and THE BOSNIA LIST, and the novel WHAT’S NEVER SAID. Her books […]
Why I Write Funny Mysteries
By Kelly Oliver Using Humor is Serious Business When I was in graduate school (a million years ago), a guy invited me over to his place for a dinner date and served Chardonnay and Captain Crunch cereal. To be fair, he was living on a grad student stipend and had to economize, and Captain Crunch […]
Interview with Emilya Naymark
A story that will keep you guessing until the very end, Emilya Naymark has given us another “captivating story that leads to an emotional but satisfying bittersweet ending.” Behind the Lie (Crooked Lane Books, Feb. 8, 2022) starts with a missing person, but also reveals the desperately true decisions women make for the sake of […]
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