Category: On Writing
Do Women Grieve Differently from Men? An Author’s Perspective
By Lisa C. Taylor When I worked in the field of counseling, I encountered both parents and children who were grieving. During the eight years it took me to complete The Shape of What Remains, I immersed myself in research about the grieving process. I do not claim to be an expert but what I […]
Anna Hebra Flaster Interviews her Younger Self
In Ana Hebra Flaster‘s powerful debut memoir, Flaster chronicles her family’s refugee journey from a Cuban barrio to a New Hampshire mill town, capturing the resilience, love, and complex identity of immigrant life in the U.S. Featured on NPR and PBS, and a finalist for major literary prizes, Flaster’s memoir reveals how the strong-willed women in her family wove stories of their Cuban […]
A Memoir from a Grieving Therapist by Sally McQuillen
by Sally McQuillen I began writing to my son Christopher twenty-one days after he died at the age of twenty-one in an accident. I wrote to connect with him. I wrote to let him know how I was feeling after he left his beautiful body and went somewhere I wasn’t yet sure existed. Most of […]
Searching for Clarity in a Puzzling Gray Space
By Kathleen Somers For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved to write and had often fantasized about writing a book, though I never expected that I would one day do it. I have a drawer full of binders with children’s stories I had started over the years, bits and pieces of potential novels, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sara Foster
WHEN SHE WAS GONE Was she taken … or did she run? The pulse-pounding new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of You Don’t Know Me Rose once walked away from her daughter. Now she may be the only one who can save her. Former London police officer Rose Campbell has been estranged from her daughter, […]
March: Reading With Rochelle Weinstein
Hello Readers & Friends, March. One of those looooooong months. And unbearably long when you’re under the weather fighting Covid FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. Yep. The good news: I had plenty of time to catch up on some memorable shows (The Pitt, The Life List, Adolescence, Long Bright River) and of course there were […]
With Great Risk Comes…..Additional Risks
by Savannah Hendricks When I set out to write my latest book, Sun City, 85373, I’d toyed around with the idea of the main character being a social worker. For the last thirteen years, it has been my day job, and as such, makes writing a story with a realistic career much easier because I […]
Paulette Kennedy: Authors Interviewing Characters
The Life and Loves of an American Artist: An Interview with Marguerite Thorne By Paulette Kennedy, author of THE ARTIST OF BLACKBERRY GRANGE (Lake Union; May 1, 2025) The Artist of Blackberry Grange: A Novel For a young caregiver in the Ozarks, an old house holds haunting memories in a ghostly novel about family secrets, sacrifice, […]
Embracing the What Ifs: The Fear That Fuels My Writing
by Amanda Speights I first fell in love with books when I read Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell in Mrs. Arter’s fourth-grade class. The idea of becoming an author, though, didn’t occur to me as something I could—or even wanted—to do, until my teen years. My late husband believed in my writing […]
The Inspiration for Gitel’s Freedom
BY IRIS MITLIN LAV My mother’s name in the Yiddish language was Itta Gitel. Many Americans who are Jewish have an English name that they use every day – in my mother’s case it was Anne Gertrude – and a name in the Hebrew or Yiddish language used for ceremonial purposes. Those names were often […]
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