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And Still
By Ruthie Marlenée When the prequel to And Still Her Voice, failed to launch in 2020, because of Covid, I wanted to give up writing. I wanted to curl up and cry. “I’ll give you something to cry about,” I could hear Mom say. So, I dried my tears, laced up my bootstraps and tried […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Martha Engber
SCATTERED LIGHT Second book in the Mary Donahue Chronicles, and sequel to the award-winning YA novel, WINTER LIGHT. When 36-year-old attorney Mary Donahue of Chicago meets the surprising man of her dreams, she discovers that to love is to risk learning who you really are and what happened to you. SCATTERED LIGHT is the sequel […]
The Memory Gardener: Finding Inspiration in My Own Backyard by Meg Donohue
Meg Donohue Readers often ask what inspires the novels I write, wondering where and when and how the first seed for each story was planted. I’m delighted to report that with regards to my latest novel, The Memory Gardener, I can answer for the first time that the seed of inspiration was, quite literally, a […]
Some Dreams Must Be Set Free: The Inspiration and Unusual Journey Behind Night Born
By Theresa Cheung For more than two decades my professional life has been devoted to dreams, interpreting them, decoding them, researching them, and writing about them. Many readers know me as the author of The Dream Dictionary A–Z, the internationally bestselling guide that began life as The Element Encyclopaedia of 20,000 Dreams (HarperCollins) and now […]
Writing “I Am Shakti” rekindled my Feminine Power
By Maya Tiwari I Am Shakti is the bold and powerful manifesto our world needs now more than ever. Spiritual teacher, humanitarian, and Ayurvedic matriarch Maya Tiwari introduces a new perspective of the universal feminine power, Shakti, that every woman can reclaim to generate health, harmony, and prosperity in life. Writing “I Am Shakti” rekindled my Feminine Power As with all of my previous […]
Why Your Next Best Marketing Move Might Be . . . a Friend
By Carmen Amato “We’re going analog,” he said. “Analog?” I echoed. I was speaking to David Bruns, who with J.R. Olson co-writes the military-espionage Command and Control series. He explained that they’re skipping a digital-first playbook. Instead they’re leaning into an analog marketing strategy built around thematic speaking engagements, such as with veterans’ groups. It’s […]
My Year of Really Bad Dates: A Memoir by Rachel Lithgow, EXCERPT
My Year of Really Bad Dates: A Memoir For anyone who’s ever gone on terrible date, a vulnerable memoir that explores dating in midlife after divorce, with bad dates—from terrible one-night stands to promising matches who ultimately disappoint—anchoring the theme of every chapter. After two life-shaking events—losing her father and divorcing the man she’s spent […]
Lights in Cold Rooms: A Psychologist Reflects on Family, Aging, Love & Loss
By Joan Cusack Handler When I first started writing Lights in Cold Rooms and for a few years into it, I did not have plans for its future other than that it is/was a record of my depression and my efforts to bring myself to wellness during COVID when mandatory quarantine precluded working with a […]
207 West End Avenue by Randie K. Berman: Excerpt
207 WEST END AVENUE 207 West End Avenue” follows the journey of a young female attorney, Samantha Ross, as she navigates the highest highs and lowest lows of being made the youngest woman to ever make partner at Epstein and Littleton, a prestigious, male-dominated Park Avenue law firm. The reader experiences Sam’s legal brilliance and […]
When is it Time to Change Genre? Writing for The Market. Or Not.
By Sharon Maas Novelists write because we have stories to tell, and from the very beginning, I knew what my stories were going to be about. I’d grown up in Guyana, in the heyday of the colonial era, when it was still British Guiana, and that’s where I’d take my readers. Back to the post-colonial […]
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