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Authors Interviewing Characters: Court Stevens
TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD “This is a writer that understands people down to the bones. Her characters are fallible and hopeful, flawed and loving, and so real they have stayed with me.” –Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author “A knockout.” —Booklist Starred Review This is a story of the rich and the very poor. This is a […]
There Will Be A Quiz
By Kate Woodworth “Remember mud football on the quad?” our Trinity College (Hartford) reunion chair, Henry Bruce wrote last fall when trying to drum up enthusiasm for our 50th. “The Sha-Na-Na concert?” Nope. In my four years of college, I attended zero sporting events. I don’t know what mud football is and have no desire […]
Writing about War and the Homefront by Anne Vines
by Anne Vines In my early days of writing fiction, I did not set out to write about war. But perhaps because I was born a few years after World War Two ended, it was a fascination in my reading and film watching, so I should have expected it to well up sometime into my […]
The Many Incarnations of the Girl in a Red Silk Sari
By Sharon Maas Of all my sixteen novels, Girl in a Red Silk Sari has the most tumultuous history: a twenty-something year backstory that has seen it jumping from publisher to publisher, from incarnation to incarnation, from title to title; almost as if searching for an identity of its own. A final identity, now found. […]
News From the Arctic Circle
By Claudia Hinz It is one my favorite emails in my inbox even though I can’t bring myself to read the whole letter: News from the Arctic Circle. The subject line alone sends a chill up my spine. The frozen nostril zing of a wild adventure on the top of the world. A place I […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lori Roy
THE FINAL EPISODE When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father…and herself. Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will finally turn eleven. She hopes to gain […]
From Damsel to Warrior: How Disney Princesses Shaped My Memoir
Once upon a time, women were taught to wait. Wait for Prince Charming, for the shoe to fit, for the happily ever after. But what happens when you realize life doesn’t come with a fairy godmother to wave her wand and grant your dreams? You grab a sword, get on a white horse, and get […]
On Writing my Hybrid Memoir
By Amy Mackin Author of Henry’s Classroom: A Special Education in American Motherhood My son, Henry, was diagnosed with developmental delays at 16-months old. That determination was an inflection point that started me on a journey to understand America’s special education laws and systems. As I learned about and sought access to the federal, state, […]
Taking the Waters by Ann H. Gabhart
When I began thinking about a Kentucky setting and interesting background history for my story, The Pursuit of Elena Bradford, I decided to let my characters “take the waters” at one of the over seventy mineral springs health resorts in Kentucky in the 1800s. I settled on Graham Springs because of its national reputation at […]
Q&A with Karen Fang, author of BACKGROUND ARTIST: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong
The following is a Q&A with Karen Fang, author of BACKGROUND ARTIST: The Life and Work of Tyrus Wong (Rutgers University Press). Karen is a film scholar and cultural critic who writes for museums and film festivals around the world. She is a professor of English at the University of Houston, and her previous books […]
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