Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brittney Morris, author of The Jump
Authors Interviewing Characters: Brittney Morris, author of The Jump THE JUMP From the acclaimed author of SLAY and The Cost of Knowing comes an action-driven, high-octane “thrill ride” (Kirkus Reviews) about a group of working-class teens in Seattle who join a dangerous scavenger hunt with a prize that can save their families and community. Influence is power. Power creates […]
The Resilience of Writers, and Other Lessons I Took from Jane Austen to Write My Debut Novel
The Resilience of Writers, and Other Lessons I Took from Jane Austen to Write My Debut Novel Jane Austen has been an enormous influence on my imagination ever since the BBC broadcast the first episode of its adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in 1995. The next day, I asked my English teacher about Austen, he […]
HOW TO WRITE UNLIKEABLE CHARACTERS YOUR READERS WILL LOVE
HOW TO WRITE UNLIKEABLE CHARACTERS YOUR READERS WILL LOVE When I wrote my first novel at the age of twenty-three, I really thought I had the whole writing thing nailed. Oh the naivety! You can imagine the shock I felt then, when an editorial company told me in no uncertain terms that my book was […]
EXCERPT: Sonata For A Damaged Heart: A Young Mother’s Journey of Survival After a Near Fatal Heart Attack
This excerpt is from Wakisha (Kisha) Stewart’s, Sonata For A Damaged Heart: A Young Mother’s Journey of Survival After a Near Fatal Heart Attack. Reprinted with permission from the publisher. “Doctor?” I ask. He nods. “Push four milligrams of IV morphine sulfate, stat,” he orders the nurse. “Plus five micrograms nitro continuous.” “Am I having […]
The Neighbor Wager Inspiration by Crystal Kaswell
The Neighbor Wager Inspiration by Crystal Kaswell I’ve never been one of those authors who lacked ideas. Most of the time, I have far too many, not too few. Everything I watch, everywhere I go, every conversation I have is a possible source of inspiration. So I don’t take any one source too seriously. I […]
Rue Matthiessen: On Writing Castles and Ruins
Castles & Ruins was inspired by a summer I spent in Galway, Ireland, with my husband and son. I had lived in Galway forty-one years before, when I was seven years old, in the summer of 1965. My mother, poet Deborah Love and father, writer Peter Matthiessen, had chosen Ireland as a long term getaway […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Paulette Kennedy
THE DEVIL AND MRS. DAVENPORT The bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors of 1950s America in a gripping novel about a woman under pressure―from the living and the dead. The first day of autumn brought the fever, and with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has […]
How “The Radiant Life Project” Was Born
How “The Radiant Life Project” Was Born By Kate King The Radiant Life Project was born from a decades-long series of events that ultimately crash landed me directly in the depths of the most profound burnout I’d ever experienced. All of my life I’ve been known as a busy worker bee with ambitious drive and […]
On Writing In Your Mind – The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono
I have been a passionate fan of music, since seeing the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, when I was six years old. After a brief career as a writer for publications, I immersed myself in writing about the music that I love. I started writing a blog in 2002 (madelinex.com). It’s […]
Alice McIlroy: On Writing Genre-Blending Fiction
Alice McIlroy: On writing genre-blending fiction It’s funny stumbling upon my debut novel in the crime section of bookshops, which is where it tends to be. Each time, finding it being stocked is a unique thrill. There is nothing quite like walking into a shop and finding it on the shelves: the sheer joy of […]
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