Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laura Picklesimer
About Kill for Love: Kill for Love is a satirical thriller about Tiffany, a privileged Los Angeles sorority sister who is struggling to keep her sadistic impulses—and haunting nightmares of fire and destruction—at bay. After a frat party hookup devolves into a bloody affair, Tiffany realizes something within her has awoken: the insatiable desire to […]
The Inspiration for Trouble The Living
When my mother was little, her grandmother told her that she kept her sister’s finger in a teapot above the stove. It was an exaggeration that my mother, the youngest of eight, believed. The truth was somewhat less gory: what lived in the teapot was not her great aunt’s finger, but her engagement ring, blown […]
THE FIFTH CHAMBER by Anne Gudger: Exclusive Excerpt
THE FIFTH CHAMBER, Anne Gudger Annie is pregnant with her first child and married to the love of her life. Then on one fateful night, her husband dies in an accident and Annie is left alone. Now Annie must navigate the trials of single motherhood, mourning, and learning to love again. Crafted with lightning bolts […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: August Lineup
Hello Readers & Friends, It’s getting HOT in HERE! We’re back from North Carolina, and it’s as steamy as ever in Miami. Hope you’re all staying cool indoors with some fabulous reads. Here are the books I read (and listened) to this month. Congratulations to all the authors, and make sure you add these to […]
Under the Java Moon, Heather B. Moore
Q&A between author Heather B. Moore and Marie (Rita) Vischer Elliott, the woman whose life is fictionalized in Moore’s upcoming historical novel Under the Java Moon: A Novel of World War II. — Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during […]
Writing my Bi-Cultural Girlhood Memoir of Growing up in the Middle East: Dancing Into the Light
Writing my bi-cultural girlhood memoir of growing up in the Middle East: Dancing Into the Light I was once asked why I didn’t write a bi-cultural memoir, since my fiction involved exotic settings in the Middle East and colorful characters I had known intimately growing up. My response was that I still felt too young […]
How I Birthed My Memoir
By Liz Kinchen How I Birthed My Memoir I began writing my memoir twenty years ago, but I didn’t know that then. I have always kept journals, even as a young person, so at age 45, when my therapist suggested I intentionally write about my childhood to help me remember some of the murkier details, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Bethany Turner
She’s a sunny morning-show host. He’s a cynical ex-reporter. They’re destined to hate each other . . . Aren’t they? Brynn Cornell has to be stuck in a nightmare. Just last week, she was riding high as cohost of the popular morning show Sunup. She’s America’s Ray of Sunshine—the girl-next-door beauty who drives up TV ratings […]
Who Am I? Who are You?
Who Am I? Who are You? Often called a dreamer, one who tests as INFP on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Test (MBTI) is idealistic, highly imaginative, creative, and compassionate, but tends to be disorganized. Yup, that’s me, to a T. Based on the work of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a mother-daughter duo […]
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