Category: On Writing
Beware the Tall Grass: A Mother’s Love, A Soldier’s Courage, A Writer’s Journey
Beware the Tall Grass: A Mother’s Love, A Soldier’s Courage, A Writer’s Journey I’ll never forget where I was when I got the idea for my debut novel Beware the Tall Grass. I was in the car with my husband on the kind of long road trip that takes you away from all your distractions […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Diane Josefowicz
L’AIR DU TEMPS (1985) In 1985, the shooting of Mr. Marfeo disrupts the quiet suburban neighborhood of Maple Bay and prompts thirteen-year-old Zinnia Zompa to reorganize everything she knows about her parents―their preoccupations, obsessions, and above all, their battles with each other. As her understanding of the world grows, Zinnia sees how the violence she […]
Chapter excerpt from Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhbari
Just Another Epic Love Poem Best friendship blossoms into something more in this gorgeously written queer literary romance. For the past five years, Mitra Esfahani has known two constants: her best friend Bea Ortega and The Book—a dogeared notebook in which she and Bea have been exchanging poems since they were thirteen. The rules of […]
Excerpt: The Wedding Party by L. R. Jones
For a bride-to-be and her fiancé, secrets and lies make this a killer celebration in this psychological suspense. Carrie and Oliver. A couple completely in love and the hosts of a wedding to remember at Colorado’s legendary Stanley Hotel. This is Carrie’s fairy tale come true. Her fiancé, Oliver, is Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome; […]
We Certainly Need Doctors But …
We Certainly Need Doctors But … By Sandi Gold In 1986, five neurosurgeons told me I had less than a year to live. Since everything is energy – including me – and love is the highest form of energy there is, to keep myself from dying, I chose to use love. Following my diagnosis, I […]
Truth + Tall Tale = Falling Through the Night
Truth + Tall Tale = Falling Through the Night Featured first on https://lgbtqreads.com/ I’m pretty ordinary in most ways: middle class, awkward, bookish. I’m a mom and I live in a small city and I’m an omnivore. But some of my experiences have been a bit out of the ordinary: Giving up a child for […]
The Secret Life of a Publishing Company – Part III
The Secret Life of a Publishing Company – Part III Welcome to Part III of The Secret Life of a Publishing Company. Part I outlined the motivation for setting up Inkspot Publishing in the first place. Part II presented the blueprint for action, the steps required to bring a book to life. This third instalment […]
Falling Through the New World: Honoring the Immigrant’s Story
Falling Through the New World Honoring the Immigrant’s Story by Cynthia Reeves My novel in stories Falling Through the New World (Gold Wake Press 2024) arose out of a fascination with my personal history as the American granddaughter of Italian immigrants and the events that spurred that history—World War I and the Spanish Flu epidemic […]
Writing Across Worlds
Writing Across Worlds By Alix Christie When I got the call that summer’s day inviting me to visit McDonald Ranch, I whooped at the wheel of my rental car. I was on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana doing preliminary research for a novel about my ancestor’s brother, a Scottish fur trader for the […]
The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay, Excerpt
THE BERLIN LETTERS Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison. From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she’s expected […]
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