Category: On Writing
Clay-Writer Turned Creativity Evangelist
Clay-Writer Turned Creativity Evangelist Several years ago, my husband dubbed me a “clay-writer”. “You sculpt with words and write in clay,” he elaborated. His description referenced the fact I was a potter and enjoyed sculpting vignettes out of polymer clay (think Sculpey or Fimo vinyl plastic clay which can be baked in the oven.) At […]
Jessica K. Foster interviews Andy and Lucas from Andy and the Extroverts
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jessica K. Foster interviews Andy and Lucas from Andy and the Extroverts Andy and the Extroverts Seventeen-year-old Andy Stevens has no friends. She’d rather chew rusty nails than talk to anyone ever since her bestie ditched her freshman year. Her oblivious mom has the audacity to pack her up and send her […]
How Lockdown Life in 2020 inspired The Bad Neighbour
How Lockdown Life in 2020 inspired The Bad Neighbour As awful and unsettling as it was at the time, my experience of living through the Covid-induced lockdowns had one positive outcome, as far as I’m concerned: it inspired my fifth book. Set in an English village in 2020 from the start of the first lockdown […]
THE ENDANGERED PROTAGONIST By Christina Hamlett
THE ENDANGERED PROTAGONIST By Christina Hamlett The book jacket premise was intriguing enough for me to part with $7 at the airport gift shop: A beautiful woman, suffocated by the demands of wealth and public adoration, decides to take a break and go incognito. (Oh, but that we should all be cursed with such problems…) […]
When Your Book Features a Misunderstood Career
When Your Book Features a Misunderstood Career When I first got the idea for my debut novel, ONE TOUGH COOKIE, I knew it would be set at a food manufacturing plant, similar to the one I used to work at. I have a PhD in Food Science and previous work experience as a quality assurance […]
In Praise of Meandering
In Praise of Meandering Meandering. It’s one of those words that’s come to have almost entirely negative connotations. From its source in the name of a winding river, Maiandros, it made its way from Greek into Latin and then the vernacular by the 16th century. Indirect. Winding. Circuitous. Aimless. Despite its unhappy associations, I’m here […]
The Hems of Their Skirts By Grace Sammon
The Hems of Their Skirts By Grace Sammon When it comes to novels, I love flawed characters. They endear themselves to us and enrage us all at the same time. You know who they are – those characters that can’t get out of their own way as they stumble through the plot. In my novel, […]
I’ll Know It When I Feel It: How a Spark becomes a Novel By Barbara Josselsohn
I’ll Know It When I Feel It: How a Spark becomes a Novel By Barbara Josselsohn “I finally figured out how to arrange my two computer screens so I can see them both at the same time,” my husband tells me after wrestling with the layout of his desk for days. “We came up with […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Ann Putnam
New York Times bestselling authors are calling I Will Leave You Never (May 9, She Writes Press) by Hemingway scholar Ann Putnam “extraordinary” and “heartbreaking” and we are thrilled to feature this Authors Interviewing Characters piece! Ann Putnam Interviews Zoë Penney from I WILL LEAVE YOU NEVER The main character’s most devout wish is to […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Hannah Dolby
We’re thrilled to feature this character interview by author Hannah Dolby! No Life for a Lady The most joyful book of 2023! Violet Hamilton is a woman who knows her own mind. Which, in 1896, can make things a little complicated… At 28, Violet’s father is beginning to worry she will never find a husband. […]
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