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Authors Interviewing Characters: Janice Deal
THE BLUE DOOR How much responsibility and guilt can a mother bear for a child who has done wrong? This is the question that haunts Flo when her daughter Teddy plans to visit after a long separation. The prospect of seeing Teddy brings back painful memories of Teddy’s troubled past–a young teen imprisoned for committing […]
Why was Agatha Christie almost expelled from the Detection Club?
By Kelly Oliver My new mystery series set in the late 1920’s and1930’s features the original London Detection Club, including founding members Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Gilbert Chesterton. The first in the series, The Case of the Christie Conspiracy just came out. The Detection Club is the stuff of literary legend—a gathering of the […]
Reviews: An Intergenerational Rant by Rachel Stone
Before I published a book, I understood reviews were important in much the same way I once understood, intellectually, that childbirth was uncomfortable. Now (as I scour my bookshelves, retroactively posting reviews of every title I’ve ever enjoyed, while calling up moms with kids older than mine to apologize), I understand. Reviews are important to authors […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol Plum-Ucci
INSANE POSSIBILITIES by Carol Plum-Ucci Carol Plum-Ucci is the award-winning author of INSANE POSSIBILITIES, an intense psychological thriller and family drama. INSANE POSSIBILITIES introduces Toby Kellerman, an 18 year old facing a tough recovery after surviving a push down a well. Stuck in a hospital bed, he tries to unravel an even tougher mystery — […]
Lucille Guarino: Writing Lunch Tales: Suellen
I am excited to share the news of my new novel, Lunch Tales: Suellen. The way this story came about is quite different from my previous novel, Elizabeth’s Mountain, which was sparked by a dream. Lunch Tales: Suellen is drawn from my personal experience in working at a major New Jersey law firm for several years where I met a lot of […]
Historical Fiction: In Search of Little-Known Stories
By Julie Hartley In October 2022 I came across an article about the SS City of Benares, a requisitioned cruise liner that set out from England in September 1940 carrying evacuees to safety in Canada. The ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat in stormy weather, far from land. Dozens of children died as the […]
One Step, One Story Leads to Another
By Julie Ryan McGue At age 48, I was sent for a breast biopsy. That singular event has been life-altering. First, it led to a five-year search for my birth parents, and then to a late-in-life writing career, one comprised of publishing nonfiction books, essays, blogs, and a regular column. Such is life. One step […]
DG Rampton: On Writing
Australia’s Queen of Regency Romance DG Rampton took Ten Years to Write her First Book but Now she’s an Amazon bestseller with over 100,000 downloads. By D. G. Rampton People often ask me how I became an author and I have the sense that they expect me to say it was some pre-planned career goal […]
The Perfect Rom-Com, by Melissa Ferguson, Excerpt
THE PERFECT ROM-COM, Melissa Ferguson “Melissa Ferguson delivers yet another sparkling, laugh-out-loud romance!” –RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times bestselling author She’s written dozens of smash-hit romance novels. Too bad no one knows it. Aspiring author Bryony Page attends her first writers conference bursting with optimism and ready to sell her manuscript with long-shot dreams of raising awareness for […]
What Really Matters? by Meredith Murray
Nothing in life is guaranteed. As adults, we often learn this lesson painfully and without warning. As children, we hear and place trust in a seemingly linear path to success, as instructed by the adults in our lives (i.e., parents, teachers, guidance counselors, coaches). Get good grades in school, take on leadership roles in extracurricular […]
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