Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marcia Bradley, The Home for Wayward Girls
About THE HOME FOR WAYWARD GIRLS Growing up in the 1990s, Loretta escapes her abusive parents–and the “ranch” they run for “bad” girls—eventually becoming an advocate for teen runaways and a foe of today’s Troubled Teen Industry where teens are sent to programs in isolated locales and wilderness camps. This heartfelt novel offers hope despite […]
Exclusive Excerpt from THE HALF OF IT by Juliette Fay
We are delighted to feature an exclusive excerpt from THE HALF OF IT by Juliette Fay! THE HALF OF IT Fay beautifully navigates the layers of family and friendship, the great loves we lose, the imperfect marriages we manage with grace, and the unexpected miracles that will astonish us.” —Randy Susan Meyers, international bestselling author […]
MUSCLE MEMORY: Essay by Claudia Hinz
My mother hobbles into the kitchen. Her gait is a wide, see-sawing lurch, reminiscent of my children as toddlers who barreled headlong into everything. I watch helplessly, certain this is the moment she crashes into a table or snags the edge of a rug and hits the ground. This morning, her flannel nightgown is crusted […]
On Publishing My Mother’s Memoir
Two years ago, I broke. Crumbled. Oh, I struggled for a few months using whatever energy bursts I could muster to stay in the game, but by early 2022, no amount of priming could restart the flow and I prepared to step away from it all. After seven plus years of writing, publishing, promoting, volunteering […]
Writing By The Seat of my Yoga Pants By Donnaldson Brown
Writing By The Seat of my Yoga Pants By Donnaldson Brown Have you ever been asked, ‘are you a pantser or an outliner?’ Meaning, do you fly by the seat of your pants when you write, or do you know where you’re headed when you start and outline it? I’m a ‘pantser,’ who thinks I […]
CHARACTER REDEMPTION ARCS
CHARACTER REDEMPTION ARCS In fiction books, redemption arcs are tied to a character—the protagonist, antagonist, or even a secondary character—and vary by the author’s intention, genre, plot, and characters. The dictionary defines redemption as “An act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake.” In the definition, the word “act” implies action. Choices create […]
How One Special Dinner Went From Meal to Memoir
Leslie Karst—Justice is Served: A Tale of Scallops, the Law, and Cooking for RBG It may seem odd, but even though I’d been tapped to personally host an intimate dinner party for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her charming and witty tax law professor husband Marty, it never occurred to me at the […]
READING WITH ROCHELLE WEINSTEIN: MARCH
Hello Readers & Friends, Spring has sprung, and I hope everyone had a great month of reading. Can you say March Madness?! Yeah, the headlines can be depressing at times, so it’s always good to have a fabulous book nearby. With books you can escape and lose yourself in another world. Like I did! I […]
Inspiration for The Secret Sister
The Secret Sister – Liz Trenow — The story of the Bevin Boys and the contribution of these so-called ‘forgotten conscripts’ to World War Two is little known and barely recognised. In fact I probably would not have known about them myself, had I not been fortunate enough to meet Ivor Singer – the father […]
Exploding Family Land-Mines
Exploding family land-mines Czeslaw Milosz, the great poet, said, “When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.” Gary Shteyngart added, “If the family isn’t finished, then the writer is.” When I set out to write Our Lying Kin, it was intended specifically to be the second book in what is becoming […]
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