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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 […]
Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy EXCERPT
About Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy: Jacinda Ardern was swept to office in 2017 on a wave of popular enthusiasm dubbed ‘Jacindamania’. In less than three months, she rose from deputy leader of the opposition to New Zealand’s highest office. Her victory seemed heroic. Few in politics would have believed it possible; fewer still would have […]
Real Life & Fiction by Hilary Hauck
When I was writing my debut historical novel, From Ashes to Song, I was intentional about borrowing from real life to create fiction. The deeper I went into the process, the more fascinated I became by the symbiotic relationship between fiction and real life. Though I have less (or no) control over what happens when […]
Review Envy: How Many Amazon Reviews Do You Have?
Densie Webb All published authors experience some degree of author envy. Any author who says “not me!” is either covering up their real feelings or they’re in serious denial. The topic of author envy has been written about confessionally by any number of authors—even accomplished authors who would seem to have no reason to be […]
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