Category: On Writing
How Writing has led me on Unexpected Adventures
I was asked to describe how writing has led me on unexpected adventures. This is one of those stories. Writers tend to collect stories like we’re magpies. Sometimes we chase those stories, and sometimes we fall into them accidentally. Blogging was something I sort of fell into that, in turn, opened up a lot of […]
Writing The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy—A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
The genesis for my new book, The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy—A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry came from listening to my father’s epic stories of his childhood in Austin, Minnesota. No snowstorm out there was less than five feet deep. The Cedar River which ran by his […]
The inspiration behind The Garden of Second Chances by Mona Alvarado Frazier
The inspiration behind The Garden of Second Chances by Mona Alvarado Frazier “Behind every incarcerated girl or woman, there is a story of trauma, abuse, or neglect that needs to be told.” A photo from early in my career, the 1980s, shows my caseload of teenage girls incarcerated in a youth correctional facility. I’m twenty-two […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: May Round-Up
Hello Readers & Friends, Summer is officially here, and these are the books I’ve been reading as well as two that are going inside my beach bag. Do you have any plans to get away? We’re flying to NYC this Saturday to watch our son run his very first half marathon. Then we’re off to […]
‘Journey of the Self’ by Ruth Poniarski
‘Journey of the Self’ by Ruth Poniarski Originally, I wrote “Journey of the Self” as an autobiography, 420 pages. Then, an editor informed me that it was too long for an author who is not well-known and too drawn out. So, I condensed it to half the size, and I wrote about a specific time […]
How a childhood imaginary friend inspired the thriller You Look Beautiful Tonight
How a childhood imaginary friend inspired the thriller You Look Beautiful Tonight by L.R. Jones You Look Beautiful Tonight is a story rooted in insecurity and vulnerability as well as a sense of being overlooked and invisible. Things that we have all felt at some point in our lives. It’s also about obsession and addiction […]
A chat with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS; A chat with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni By Melissa Muldoon, author of “Dreaming Sophia — because dreaming is an art.” Seated comfortably in an upholstered chair with the name “Sophia Loren” displayed prominently on the back, the Italian diva flipped through the pages of her screenplay. When her co-star Marcello Mastroianni […]
What We Remember: Telling Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Story
What We Remember: Telling Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Story (Logan Steiner) At the end of my life, reflecting on my life experiences, what will my memory hold onto? I find that asking myself this question provides a dose of instant perspective—a way to sift the worries that matter out from a mental sandbox full of the […]
Shakespeare and me – Stories from Family History
Shakespeare and me – stories from family history Juliet Greenwood The advice when you are beginning as a writer is often to write what you know. So it felt strange to realise that it was only with my fifth published novel that I’ve actually done just that, drawing both on Shakespeare’s plays and my own […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Karen Heuler
“A sharp, lively, funny contemporary fantasy with the feel of an up-to-date, more adult version of L Frank Baum’s Ozbooks.” – The Guardian Eleanor and Stan (the man she changed into a cat) are exiled to Liberty (formerly Texas) to find a missing witch and pay for their transgressions (novice witches do not do transformation spells, […]
Recent Comments