Author Archive: Eldonna Edwards
10 Things Writing About a 1970s Commune Taught Me about World-Building
“Write what you know.” Every writer has heard this advice more times than we can count. My debut novel This I Know is steeped in my upbringing as a preacher’s daughter in the 1960s Midwest. I understood my characters because they were in my DNA. I was familiar with the rural West Michigan setting because […]
How Publishing My Memoir Helped Me Write a Novel That Sold
I have a grinning photograph from the day my first paperback copies of LOST IN TRANSPLANTATION arrived, taken inside my car. I was so excited I didn’t even wait to get home to open the box. I ran back into our tiny post office and waved my book around, exclaiming “My book is here!” to […]
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