Category: On Writing
On Writing Caught in a RIPtide by Judy Condie
By Judy Condie Last year I lost my dog, my dear mum and my husband all in the space of six months. I felt a real need to get away and learn to be alone, reset my life and come back stronger, with a new purpose. Australia was the obvious place to start as my […]
She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy by Jody Gelb: Excerpt
She May Be Lying Down but She May Be Very Happy “Jody Gelb has written a book so rare and elegant and beautiful that I don’t even know how to categorize it: Essay? Poetry? Memoir? I think I might just call it a ‘monument.’ What a stunning work of art, of truth, and of love.” […]
On Writing The Guardians of Earth by Oriane Livingston
by Oriane Livingston The Guardians of Earth, Oona and the Luminous Beings is a middle grade fantasy novel celebrating the beauty of the natural world. It is a love letter to Earth filled with epic adventures beyond imagination, bringing children and teenagers closer to the magic of Nature. It tells the story of Oona, an […]
Inspiration from a Million Places, Moments, and People
By Karen Hawkins The question readers ask the most often is “Where do you get your book ideas?” That’s a simple question with a complicated, sort of hard-to-explain answer. But here I go. To be honest, I get my inspiration from a variety of places, moments, and people. You see, it just takes a little, […]
HOW A DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS LEAD TO A WRITING COUPLE’S LEGACY PROJECT
Finding Inspiration When Life Hands You Lemons by Marcy McCreary My husband Lew McCreary is a brilliant writer. He is the author of two critically-acclaimed published novels, Mount’s Mistake and The Minus Man, a novel that Anne Rice proclaimed “deliciously satisfying” and “deeply memorable” in the New York Times Book Review. John Banville compared my […]
The Process Of Writing My Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall
by Linda Murphy Marshall – author of Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir Several years ago, when I first read Joan Didion’s quote about the writing process, I realized that her thoughts reflected how my writing process unfolds: “I don’t know what I think until I write about it.” I might think I have a clear-cut vision […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Crystal King Interviews Salvador Dalí
From Crystal King, the bestselling author of Feast of Sorrow and The Chef’s Secret, comes a new gothic mythological romance, In the Garden of Monsters, a retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone, inspired by Salvador Dalí’s 1948 visit to the Sacro Bosco Mannerist statue garden. Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. […]
An Exorcism: Writing Our Way Into, Through, and Out of Trauma by Bridey Thelen-Heidel
By Bridey Thelen-Heidel When friends ask what writing my memoir was like, I’ve described it as an exorcism. But a “good” exorcism—not a Linda-Blair-head-spinning-barf-spewing one. Hers was arguably THE BEST, but mine was pretty legit. Just ask my husband whose lap I curled in after vomiting up another story from childhood that had been swimming […]
Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived by Karen DeBonis, Excerpt
Editorial Review “Exquisite vulnerability. DeBonis’s grounded perspective on personal growth helps readers see their own limitations with compassion.” Rain Taxi Review Summary: Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived is a memoir about the collision of medical gaslighting and a mother’s people-pleasing, shattering her expectations of motherhood and threatening the survival […]
Inspiration for Elephant Touch by Susan R. Greenway
My debut middle grade novel, Elephant Touch, was initially inspired by one amazing moment in Thailand. My husband and I were visiting friends in Thailand and went to an elephant show. While we were waiting to be admitted to the arena, we watched some elephants bathe in a river. Behind us was a corral of […]
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