Category: On Writing
On Writing EAT THE CUPCAKE NOT THE CAKE
I love food; I eat carbs; I don’t fear fat; I drink wine; I don’t count calories; I don’t count steps; and I don’t belong to a gym. I realize this is a unique introduction to a book dedicated to achieving a healthy weight. My latest book, “Eat the Cupcake, Not the Cake” is not […]
Excerpt from Give Yourself Permission by Cortney McDermott
Excerpt from Give Yourself Permission by Cortney McDermott This book is not about getting somewhere, because you’re already there. It’s not about becoming someone, because you already are that someone. It’s not about having or doing, because the having and doing will happen through you once you awaken to the truth of who and what […]
What inspired The Beach Party
What inspired The Beach Party Have you ever done something really terrible and got away with it? Something that, years later, still fills you with utter dread in case someone finds out about it? This was the thought that first sparked my idea for The Beach Party. Most people have something hidden in their past […]
From Hospital Receptionist to Gangland Crime Writer
My life has been hectic lately. I work for the NHS. Mainly as a receptionist, but also as a gopher and a big part of the clinical admin team. I sort your referrals with the hospital and your Covid vaccines. And I’m a Gandland Crime Writer. I started writing late in life, I had just […]
My Brush with Mortality—3 Realizations that Inspired my Novel
My Brush with Mortality—3 Realizations that Inspired my Novel During the pandemic, a series of poor health reports resulted in three surgeries (two planned and one life-saving emergency surgery that led to a nine-day recovery stint in the hospital). Nothing makes you reevaluate your life like facing your mortality. Alone at night in that hospital […]
The Golden Rule by Nancy Joie Wilkie
“The Golden Rule” (by Nancy Joie Wilkie, Faraway and Forever—More Stories) The third story in Faraway and Forever … “Half The Sky” … is about a teenage girl just prior to her eighteenth birthday … and who has been estranged from her parents for her entire life … and she doesn’t know why. After believing […]
An Interview with Roberta S. Kuriloff
An Interview with Roberta S. Kuriloff As a child living in an orphanage, Roberta S. Kuriloff dreamed of being Superman’s daughter flying above Earth to save the world’s disenfranchised children or being the Pied Piper leading the other kids back to their family homes. At 39, she set out to build a home of her […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Suzanne Trauth
In What Remains of Love, Kate Whitman, a French professor living in New Jersey, has just lost her beloved father, Daniel Whitman, to illness. At the reading of his will, she discovers that he has left $250,000 to Emilie Renault, an artist living in the south of France, whom he apparently knew during his military […]
A Daring Performance: Caitlin Hicks
Caitlin Hicks is an international playwright, acclaimed performer and prize-winning author in British Columbia, Canada. In this piece, she shares what happened when she performed her play SIX PALM TREES in front of her family. Everyone was there including my mother’s sister, Aunt Cecile, who hadn’t died yet. All my siblings and a number of […]
On Writing my Memoir Wise Little One
Writing my memoir was an incredibly emotional and cathartic process. It required delving deep into my past and examining both the positive and the negative experiences that have shaped my life. The process of writing brought up a range of emotions, from joy and gratitude to sadness and grief. In this article, I’ll explore the […]
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