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Robin Merle Interviews Tina from A Dangerous Friendship

Robin Merle Interviews Tina from A Dangerous Friendship

A DANGEROUS FRIENDSHIP Desperate to redefine herself after a failed marriage, Tina feels herself come alive when she’s around Spike, a beautiful, seemingly invulnerable woman.  It’s the 1980s in New York City, and Tina latches on to Spike as someone who can save her from mediocrity and show her how to be the kind of […]

October 28, 2025 | By | Reply More
How “Searching For Silky” Came To Be

How “Searching For Silky” Came To Be

By Nancy Taylor “Searching For Silky” began when I told my mother about a certain cat I had met at my workplace. I was very excited about this particular little animal, which was unexpected since I don’t actually like cats. I find them to be inscrutable and aloof. My mother said I should write a book about […]

October 28, 2025 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Characters: Andrea Simon

Authors Interviewing Characters: Andrea Simon

By Andrea Simon DID YOU HAVE THE LIFE YOU WANTED Did You Have the Life You Wanted? spans the generations from 1968 to 2019, highlighting the late 1960s to 1970s when diverse female friends come of age against the turbulent backdrop of racially charged school strikes, the Stonewall Inn and Attica uprisings, and the nascent feminist movement. […]

October 27, 2025 | By | Reply More
Inspired By, Not About

Inspired By, Not About

By Barbara Viniar “…She opened the bag of chocolate kisses her mother had insisted on buying her…and somehow life did feel a little easier.”   That must be where I get it from, I thought as I wrote yet another scene in which Fannie indulges her sweet tooth. And then I had to laugh at myself. […]

October 27, 2025 | By | Reply More
Meditations from a Walmart Parking Lot

Meditations from a Walmart Parking Lot

By Sarah May I wake to the sound of an engine revving, bass thumping. Groggy light streams in around the shades from the window at the foot of the bed. The jostling of shopping carts comes next, metal scraping against metal. Just another morning at a Walmart parking lot. After I make my coffee and […]

October 25, 2025 | By | Reply More
Why I Didn’t Grieve My Sister’s Death 

Why I Didn’t Grieve My Sister’s Death 

By Mary Garden When my sister died, I didn’t cry. I didn’t feel heartbroken. I felt relief. It was August 2023. My sister Anna had just passed away. Instead of overwhelming sadness, I felt a quiet calm ‒ even a sense of safety. Grief isn’t always what people expect. Sometimes it’s mixed with anger, exhaustion, […]

October 24, 2025 | By | Reply More
The Louvre Heist: When Life Imitates Art

The Louvre Heist: When Life Imitates Art

By Mailan Doquang There’s something uncanny about watching life echo art, more so when the reflection hits close to home. On 19 October 2025, just after 9:30 a.m., a brazen heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris proved that the line between fiction and reality is thinner than we like to think. The thieves struck the […]

October 23, 2025 | By | Reply More
Framing Fear — Finding Horror in the Everyday

Framing Fear — Finding Horror in the Everyday

by Melissa Leanne Owen As I sit at my desk writing this article, rain hammers against the windowpane. Outside, the wind is picking up. Trees sway, becoming more animated — as though trying to escape from the gathering darkness, chained by their own roots, unable to break free. That’s where I find my inspiration. In […]

October 23, 2025 | By | Reply More
On Writing Sophia Starr and a Dog to Love

On Writing Sophia Starr and a Dog to Love

It was around this time last year when I sat down toying with the idea of writing a book! I didn’t really have any idea how to start or even any notion of what the journey might entail. My family and I had been hosting various dogs to come and stay with us for their […]

October 23, 2025 | By | Reply More
Trilina Pucci Interviews her Character Goldie, from her Book ONE KILLER NIGHT

Trilina Pucci Interviews her Character Goldie, from her Book ONE KILLER NIGHT

ONE KILLER NIGHT “Whip smart and hilarious! Pucci is well on her way to literary domination.” ―Abby Jimenez, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer. USA Today bestselling author Trilina Pucci cranks up the heat in this sexy slasher filled with dark family secrets, classic horror tropes, and banter as sharp as a deranged killer’s […]

October 22, 2025 | By | Reply More