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The Easy Life in Kamusari EXCERPT
From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan’s mountain way of life. We are delighted to feature this excerpt! The Easy Life in Kamusari Yuki Hirano, is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against […]
On Writing A Memoir by Sandra CH Smith
Good grief…write a memoir? Unwrap all the little boxes and let the dark secrets out? Let them all know who I really am or was? You’ve gotta be kidding! No way, Jose! Well, that’s what I thought when someone suggested I write a book about the seven years I spent sailing alone in the Pacific. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Joy Castro
From International Latino Book Award and Nebraska Book Award-winning author Joy Castro, comes FLIGHT RISK (11/1), a heartbreaking, suspenseful, and ultimately triumphant novel split between Appalachia and Chicago. Drawing on her own personal experiences, memoirist and Willa Cather Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Castro crafts the wrenching story of Isabel Morales. Isabel is a successful […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laurel Schmidt
Laurel Schmidt, author of How To Be Dead: A Love Story, interviews the main character, Frances Beacon. How to Be Dead — A Love Story by Laurel Schmidt explores what it means to be fully alive — even in the afterlife. A tale told with humor, heart, and intelligence, it celebrates the power of memory and […]
What’s a 60-Something Feminist Doing Writing a Book about Dating Men?
What’s a 60-something feminist doing writing a book about dating men? My debut memoir is about wildly, unabashedly dating men in my late fifties and finding my forever partner. I feel like I’m letting down my younger feminist self. What other women are writing All around me (literally – my book is one of dozens […]
Unstuck: Writing the Beginning Over and Over
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. Every writer gets stuck at one time or another. Being stuck can trigger feelings of anxiety and self-doubt (to name […]
Sarah Patt: On Writing
I feel incredibly fortunate to have a job I absolutely love! I am a one-on-one tutorial teacher in a private school for children with a language-based learning disability. I help them in reading, writing, and spelling. My campus which is in a quaint seaside town thirty miles north of Boston, Massachusetts enrolls students in the […]
Plotting Tips for New Novelists
When I started writing seven years ago, there were so many aspects of creating a novel that I learned by trial and error. In my opinion, nothing compares to early readers who give it to you straight about how your characters are coming off on the page, whether your premise is sound, if your descriptions […]
15 Fall Must-Reads
There is nothing better than curling up with a good book as the weather gets colder for the fall season. In case you haven’t already curated your own reading list, we’ve gathered 15 of the best books for you to binge-read this fall that will make you forget about all your responsibilities. This list is […]
Getting to know Jen Shaw, the Protagonist of On The Edge
The opening scene of On The Edge – a lighthouse in a storm with an unconscious and dreaming young woman hanging from its top – came to me one night when I stopped to watch one of the lighthouses that litter the dangerous stretch of coast where I live. The lighthouse came first but Jen […]
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