Category: On Writing
FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD: Excerpt
FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD Eighteen-year-old Sonya Hudson has been gripped by phobia since she was thirteen. What would make navigating the world so difficult for this budding visual artist? When the story opens, she lives with her mother and her sister in a suburb in New York in the late 1970s. The narrative carries us […]
Vin de Noix, the Drunken Poetry of Walnuts
….It was 1995. France beckoned, and a home I had long forgotten was found again. It was the beginning of how I thought of bread as a character. And the beginning of writing Tales of the Mistress… “When I said I’d like to drive past the Eiffel Tower I didn’t mean through the belly of Paris.” My husband, Rich, glared […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Lydia Travers
Murder in the Scottish Hills When Maud McIntyre and her lady’s maid Daisy travel into the Scottish Highlands, the last thing they expect to find is a body on the train… Will these keen amateur sleuths stop a murderer in his tracks? Edinburgh, 1911: When Maud McIntyre receives a letter from a maid called Rose, […]
SHE WHO WINS: Excerpt
“Renee has you on a roller coaster of emotions from happiness to heartache and everything in between. She will call you out on your sh*t (in the most thoughtful way!) because she believes we can achieve excellence. It’s time we break the rules, trust ourselves, and follow Renee’s lead. Bold. Strong. Fierce.” Jennifer Hurvitz, Dating […]
From Stage Zero Breast Cancer Patient to Author: The writing of “A Breast Cancer Journey”
Jennifer A. Douglas From Stage Zero Breast Cancer Patient to Author The writing of “A Breast Cancer Journey” In the quiet of the early morning, I opened my laptop to the document no one knew about. I began writing, words flowing out of my soul, fast and unfiltered. Once they left my fingers, I dared […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Livy Hart
Planes, Trains, And All the Feels Fans of Christina Lauren and Tessa Bailey will adore this witty and unforgettable rom-com about skyways, highways, and all the perfectly wrong ways to fall in love. As the black sheep of the family, choreographer Cassidy Bliss vowed she’d do anything to get home in time to help with […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: JJ Cook & AL Cook
JJ Cook & AL Cook, MD in conversation with Ophelia Sasaki: The Percivious Trilogy, Author/Character Interview About PERCIVIOUS: Every day, society seems to step closer and closer to becoming a world straight out of a dystopian novel. Throughout the series, the Percivious trilogy has pushed against this path by showing the world a more utopian […]
Book Origins and the Ongoing Journey
Book Origins and the Ongoing Journey By Beth Fisher-Yoshida New Story, New Power: A Woman’s Guide to Negotiation, took a few years to research and write, but it was a lifetime in the making. I have been working in the area of negotiation for more than 30 years, with its origins in my experience in intercultural communications. […]
Confessions of a Currently Failed Novelist
Confessions of a Currently Failed Novelist By Sandra Hutchison I haven’t written a word of fiction for over a year now, except for some half-hearted editing of a romantic comedy that ought to have been released a year ago and still hasn’t been. That’s because the ending needs a little work, in theory. In reality, […]
Why do we need Older Characters in Books?
Why do we need older characters in books? One of the joys of reading is when you can relate to a character and feel as though you could be best friends with them. I loved reading rom-coms in my twenties and thirties with fun female characters navigating the dating scene. However, as I reached my […]
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