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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.
Fall from “Greatness”: My Experience of Anxiety & Panic Attacks, and Why I wrote Generation Panic
When I was in my 20’s, on the surface it seemed like I had it all together. A successful career as a Director managing three teams, earning good money, great family and friends and engaged to be married. However, behind the scenes I was really struggling. I was incredibly ambitious and driven, yet the reality […]
One Courageous Step at a Time
One Courageous Step at a Time It was my first winter in the Cape. I’d arrived nine months previously, to endless blue skies and a long summer on the beach. A rented cottage on the Peninsula had been my bolt-hole. There, I’d rested and recovered from the burn-out I’d pushed myself into in London. It […]
What Does It Mean to be a Poet?
By Katerina Canyon Recently, I was saddened by the death of the poet Khet Thi. His poetry spoke out against the military junta in Myanmar, and he died for it. My guess is Khet Thi was very afraid when he learned his life was at risk. He could have taken back his words and possibly […]
It’s All In Your Mind…Literally!
By F.J. Beerling This is just the beginning. There is also a middle and an end to this story, to any story. My story begins with being different, struggling to find my vocation, knowing there was something out there that would work for me, but not knowing what. One day I announced to a dear […]
An Interview with Rachel Lorimer, a pivotal character in The Patient Man, by Joy Ellis
An Interview with Rachel Lorimer, a pivotal character in The Patient Man, by Joy Ellis The Patient Man is the sixth in the popular Jackman & Evans series, where detectives DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans are pitted against their arch nemesis, psychopath Alistair Ashcroft in a lethal game of cat-and-mouse. But are the […]
Nancy Allen: On Writing and Researching Grace
How does a woman carry this searing, painful memory? First kisses, the first boyfriend, and sex the first time were all good memories for Catherine. What if all that was erased by the violence, this loss of control over her body? Nancy Allen: On Writing and Researching Grace When I first started writing, Grace was Catherine’s story. […]
Discovering Nuggests Of Wisdom
By Carole Bumpus While finishing the manuscript for my latest book, A September to Remember: Searching for Culinary Pleasures at the Italian Table, I stumbled over a precious gem within one of my interviews—an interview conducted twenty years prior. My initial goal for writing a culinary/travel memoir series was to bring readers a sense of […]
The Freedom to Change Genre as a Self-Published Author
By Irene Wittig Traditional publishers like an author to stick to the genre that has been successful for them. Self-publishing provides an author the freedom to write in any genre they wish. However, anything you self-publish or is traditionally published under your name will be forever on Amazon, whether you like it or not. The […]
Karina Kennedy interviews Marina Taylor from A Not So Lonely Planet: Italy
Karina Kennedy makes her debut onto the contemporary romance scene with A Not So Lonely Planet: Italy, following the comical and romantic misadventures of Marina Taylor, a globetrotting travel blogger from Key West. Karina Kennedy interviews Marina Taylor from A Not So Lonely Planet: Italy KK: Marina, I’m a well-traveled romantic myself and I love […]
On Writing The Hive
Dear Reader, Political and personal struggles are rifting our hometowns, our communities, and our families. They are occurring on the dirt road I grew up on in rural Missouri near the banks of the Mississippi River and near the campus where I teach in Washington, D.C. In my new novel, The Hive, The Fehler family endures […]
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