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Authors Interviewing Characters: R. K. Harrington interviews the Marquess of Rochester
Kindred Schemes “An entertaining period love story, nicely balancing breathless lust with social satire and high-mindedness.” -Kirkus Reviews Kindred Schemes takes place in 1809, and follows Lady Alaina through her first season in London. Displeased with her start in society, she decides to set her sights on the most eligible bachelor of the season, the […]
The Transition from Wildlife Biology to Debut Novelist
by Laura Frost In my closet sits a box of adorable, misspelled stories written in the haphazard hand of six-year-old Laura. Although hidden away for decades, storytelling has always lived within me; it just took a twisty road that included hawks, sparrows, and wildflowers to find my way back to it. As a kid, I […]
Power, Fear and Survival: how Six Mile Store Centres Female Characters at the Heart of a Crime Thriller
by A.M. Belsey Crime fiction is all too often filled with characters who exist as extreme versions of themselves. Police detectives are supernaturally perceptive, able to piece together the most opaque clues to find a killer in moments, while victims, especially female victims, are often portrayed as broken, helpless, totally without agency. But I didn’t […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Mary Kendall
The Redux of Sam Murdoch Sam Murdoch fractured his life into bits and is in dire need of a redux. While stuck in a midlife meltdown with a broken marriage, angry offspring and a crumbling career, Sam stumbles upon a long-buried family secret: the grandfather he idolized once shot a man. Desperate for an escape […]
I Spent Four Years Married to a Monster – and Then Wrote a Novel About it
Patricia Gordon Stevens is a counsellor who endured domestic violence and stalking before fleeing the family home. She cautions friends to pick up on signs that others missed in her case. By Patricia Gordon Stevens I wrote Madness In Memphis out of necessity. I spent too long married to a man who made me afraid, […]
Speak Up to Breathe Freely
By Kate Woodworth It’s 1988, and I’m in the back seat of the car, my mother at the wheel, one of my sisters beside her. I’ve just been picked up at Boston’s Logan Airport after flying in from Salt Lake City, where I’ve been living for about ten years. We talk this and that until […]
Past is Present: The Inspiration for The Meaning of Fear
By Laura Hulthen Thomas Sometimes a novel is what happens when you just can’t let things go. My inspiration for The Meaning of Fear came from the same impulse the novel’s main characters battle against–a failure to leave the past in the past. A few years back, I published a short story collection about characters […]
The Magical Experience of Writing Romance Novels about Healing
By Patricia Leavy The Celestial Bodies Romances are a love letter to love itself—love in all forms—romance, friendship, country, work, art, and most importantly, learning to love ourselves. Tess Lee and Jack Miller’s love story is the heart of these novels. Tess Lee is a world-famous novelist. Her inspirational books explore people’s innermost struggles and […]
The Land as Character by Victoria Tatum
By Victoria Tatum My mother instilled in all six of her children a love of reading. She recommended books and had shelves of them for us to draw from. After she died I thought of that source of books as gone, but it wasn’t. Since then my brother Tim, my sister Shelley, and I have […]
The Inspiration Behind Recipe for Joy
This book was born from grief…but, also, from deep love. For years, I drove from New York to Cleveland to take care of my mom, going with her to treatments, cooking for her, doing whatever I could to make the battle she was fighting easier. But what my husband, John, did for us in January […]
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