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Inspiration Behind AMONG THIEVES
Since the deal announcement for my debut novel went out a little over a year ago, I have legitimately lost count of how many times I have been asked what inspired me to write AMONG THIEVES. The super fun thing is that every time someone asks me this question, I suddenly forget every single word […]
Heeding the Call of a Mentor From the Past
By Robin Clifford Wood In 2008 when I began working on Rachel Field’s biography, I was 47 years old, just the age Rachel had reached when she died suddenly in 1942. I didn’t recognize the confluence of our ages back then, but now I believe the timing was no coincidence. Rachel Field was a renowned […]
ISABEL COSTELLO – (Writing) Each Book Is A Different Story
ISABEL COSTELLO – (Writing) each book is a different story I have written three novels over twelve years: one which got me an agent (as yet unpublished); my debut Paris Mon Amour (2016) and my new novel, Scent. Each has been a unique experience and part of a learning curve which will never end. I […]
On Writing and Early Motherhood
On Writing and Early Motherhood ‘You’ll never have time to read.’ The first time I heard it, it sounded strange, remote from my life. The second, third times, it began to sink in. And there were more. ‘You’ll find it a challenge just to get through the day.’ ‘You’ll develop “mummy brain.”’ If you’ve ever […]
Authors Interviewing Characters : Loren Stephens
Loren Stephens is a published essayist, short story writer and president of two ghostwriting companies, Write Wisdom and Bright Star Memoirs, which she founded to help her client/authors write their memoirs, self-help books and novels. ALL SORROWS CAN BE BORNE published on May 11, 2021 by Rare Bird Books will be her first novel penned under her own name. […]
Art For the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives
By Whitney Otto I always knew that I would never write a traditional memoir or autobiography. I felt my life wasn’t eventful enough in any sort of significant way, which can be good in the real world, but can be something of a liability in the memoir world. Also, my favorite memoirs/autobiographies run along less […]
Finding The Words As A #WRITERMOM
Finding the words as a #writermom By Casey Dembowski #writermom It’s one of my favorite hashtags and something I’m always quick to point out—I’m a writer mom. I’ve been a writer nearly my whole life, but being a writer mom is something different. The two roles are often at odds with each other. If I’m […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Ryan McGue
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Ryan McGue Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging is not just another tale of an adoptee’s desire for personal history. This is a real-life story of twin sisters–adopted at birth and raised together–who face the daunting task of locating and connecting with birth relatives because one of […]
The Sentence
I, who love words so much, am surprised to find myself newly enchanted with the sentence as a unit of language. Sentences in all their delicious variety, some with many clauses, dipping in and out, amplifying a theme before it brings itself, sharply, to a halt. Or long sentences that make you think, having to […]
Call Yourself A Writer by Anne Leigh Parrish
I recently took part in a virtual author event with two other women writers. Let me say how much I have come to appreciate the magic of Zoom video conferencing, aside from not having a paid account which meant getting dumped off the call after forty minutes. No problem, everyone, including the audience, was able […]
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