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Remembering 9/11 By Caroline Bock, Author of The Other Beautiful People
This year, tomorrow, 9/11, falls on a Friday. For me, 9/11 will always be a Tuesday. Twenty-five years ago, I woke up early after a sleepless night. I had a big day. Bravo cable network was holding a press conference at a swanky hotel downtown for our first reality series – The It Factor, and […]
I Set Myself a Deadline of my Own Menopause…
…when I set out to write a book on aging and menopause in Japan. So, every time I got my period I felt like I got an extension. After finishing the book, I missed my periods for several months in a row, and thought I had just easily transitioned into menopause. Not quite. About 6 […]
I’ve Launched Products for 27 Years. My Own Book Broke Every Rule By Pandora Villaseñor
The spreadsheet headers were crisp. The follow-up formulas were locked. The list of contacts was promising. I selected the elevator pitch for my memoir in the Notes app and copied it. Yet my thumb hovered over the DM. I couldn’t make myself paste. I closed the social app. Twenty-seven years of sales, business development, and […]
Building with Memories: How Writing Down My Father’s Stories Became a Bridge to History by Donna Hills Patrick
For much of my professional life I worked in construction and space management. My work was about understanding how pieces fit together—to how take an idea, develop a plan, solve problems, and bring it all together into something that could stand on its own. I learned that building anything worthwhile takes time, and it takes […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Melissa Payne
IN THIS LIFE OR ANOTHER On the brink of death, a man comes to terms with the life he lived versus the one he never pursued in an emotionally rich novel of parallel lives, redemption, and finding purpose. On the eve of his sixtieth birthday, mechanic Rusty Wilson takes a bullet to save the patrons […]
Believe Your Story Matters: Seven Lessons from Writing a Memoir by Ebony Walden
A few days ago, I was sitting on my couch, typing away on my laptop, when I heard four heavy thumps. I looked out the window and saw the UPS man leaving. On my porch sat four boxes of my new book. I lifted one of the thirty-pound boxes, carried it inside, and opened it […]
Calling All Lumberjills: How I Found the Women Who Inspired My Novels by Joanna Foat
At seventeen, Eileen Worsell left her job in a glass bottle factory in the hustle and bustle of Hackney, London, and volunteered for war work. She was sent to a Women’s Timber Corps training camp in a quiet, rural village in Suffolk. She began learning a job that few people in the 1940s believed a […]
How I Learned to Write the Story Only I Could Tell
When I committed myself ten years ago to write my memoir, The Mould Maker, about my relationship with my transgender father. I had to figure out how to set up a sustainable practice for, what was to me, a mammoth task. For most accomplished writers I know and have read about, the common advice is […]
From Family Silence to Storytelling: Huey Choi on Loss, Identity, Food, and Who Stole My Pork Belly?
Every family has a story, and sometimes, telling that story means confronting the parts of the past that have remained unspoken. In Who Stole My Pork Belly?, author Huey Choi opens the door to a deeply personal journey shaped by family, loss, identity, resilience, and healing. Rooted in Choi’s Korean heritage, food becomes more than […]
My Book, My Teenager by Megan Williams
(Some answers to the question of what it is like to have a book out in the world). “It must be incredible to have One Bad Mother published,” people say. “What an accomplishment.” “Mmmm.” I want to tell them that it much like having teenagers. And that I don’t always love it. In many of […]
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