Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber
We’re featuring TWO authors interviewing their characters today! About CURSED CROWNS The second book in the swoony and high-stakes fantasy rom-com series that began with Twin Crowns, about twin princesses separated at birth—from bestselling authors Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber. Twin queens Wren and Rose have claimed their crowns…but not everyone is happy about witches […]
Excerpt from OUR MOTHERS, OUR DAUGHTERS
The mother-daughter relationship defines who we are, how we view ourselves, and what we want for our lives. Much like this multi-faceted relationship, the lessons in Our Mothers, Our Daughters are strong, yet soft. Through a collection of curated stories, readers journey alongside moms and daughters as they share poignant moments and messages of an everlasting bond. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marina Antropow Cramer
ABOUT THE BOOK MARFA’S RIVER Marfa, a Ukrainian woman living in Brussels in the 1950s, is haunted by the catastrophic death of her child ten years before, at the end of World War II. Torn from her home in her teens, she struggles with dark memories and profound loneliness, exacerbated by her introspective nature. Her story […]
Isabella de Medici: In Her Words, She Tells the Truth of How she Died
Isabella de Medici: In her words, she tells the truth of how she died. By Melissa Muldoon, author of “Waking Isabella, because beauty can’t sleep forever” Image Credit: Melissa Muldoon original illustration of Isabella de Medici Greetings, my dear friends. My name is Isabella de’ Medici, but many called me the Star of Florence! I […]
Writing Through Grief: Ana Veciana-Suarez
I was on the fourth draft — or was it the fifth? — of my historical novel, Dulcinea, when my father died. Seven weeks later my daughter, the eldest of my five children, passed away, too. Neither death was unexpected, but recognizing the inevitable didn’t lessen the grief. Nor did it help me deal with […]
On Writing The Twenty: One Woman’s Trek Across Corsica
We were about to turn sixty, ready to retire. While friends celebrated professional achievements and milestone birthdays with a dinner or cruise, the prospect of leaving our careers and our fifties made my husband, Joe, and me restless for adventure. The backpacking-around-Europe days of our youth, remained our standard for travel, and so we opted […]
Pandemics Make Strange Bedfellows By Jean Copeland
Pandemics Make Strange Bedfellows By Jean Copeland “There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” Among all the insanity happening in the world during […]
Out of Ireland : Turning Family Lore into Fiction
Out of Ireland : Turning Family Lore into Fiction When my mother died at the age of ninety-nine, her memory gone, I had already begun a novel inspired by the life of her grandmother, an Irish Immigrant, named Ellen Hickey Sullivan Jewett. In the year before my mother’s death, I read to her the first […]
Writing Romance with a Broken Heart
Writing Romance with a Broken Heart by Nan Reinhardt Okay, so maybe that title is slightly misleading. My heart isn’t actually broken in the lost-love sense of the word, and it’s not actually what medical professionals would refer to as broken either. The real word for my heart is failing. Let me explain. Six months […]
How My Lifelong Affair with Stamps influenced my Writing
The Philatelist Many readers have asked me if and how events, interests, and people in my life have influenced my writing. Since my stories all take place in the Los Angeles garment center, my career as a sales exec in the ladies’ apparel industry has certainly had a significant influence on my writing. Customers, colleagues, […]
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