Category: On Writing
On Writing I’ll Stop The World by Lauren Thoman
I get asked a lot what inspired me to write my debut novel, I’ll Stop the World. In the book, a modern teenager named Justin finds himself suddenly and inexplicably transported back to the year 1985, one week before the tragic deaths of his grandparents in a mysterious fire. The first person he meets in […]
REVIEW: INDIGO FIELD by Marjorie Hudson
Marjorie Hudson knows the “Land Between Two Rivers” intimately, as a writer, farmer, activist, teacher, and member of a small Southern community for three decades. This deep knowledge of people and place suffuses every page of her stunning debut novel, Indigo Field. In central North Carolina, where broad fields stretch out under the shadow of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Jennifer Banash
Jennifer Banash’s new novel THE RISE AND FALL OF AVA ARCANA (Lake Union Publishing; on sale April 1, 2023) is inspired by a twisted Lady Gaga conspiracy theory (talk about going down internet rabbit holes!) and transports us to the gritty exhilarating streets of New York City where two young talented women hope to be noticed, loved, and transformed into […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Harper Kincaid
About the book: A Midsummer Night’s Scheme All the world’s a stage, but it may be curtains for bookbinder Quinn Caine’s brother if she can’t bring the lights down on an actor’s killer, in this mystery perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Kate Carlisle. Just when everything is returning to the calm that Quinn […]
Exclusive Excerpt from SO CLOSE by SYLVIA DAY
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crossfire saga comes the beginning of a twisty tale of obsession and rage, as a trinity of women protect what they covet at any cost. You can’t believe all of them, but can you trust any of them? Widower Kane Black is still ruinously married […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marcy McCreary Interviews The Ford Family
The Murder of Madison Garcia is a contemporary police procedural that pairs a by-the-book female detective with her by-the-gut father (a retired detective) and takes place in the Catskills region of New York—The Borscht Belt—where the old storied hotels once dotted the landscape. It is the second book in a three-book standalone series, “The Ford Family […]
The Inspiration for Daughter Dalloway
The Inspiration for Daughter Dalloway By Emily France In 2018, I came across an article about Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I had not read the book since college, so I picked it up again. As I read, I noticed a character I had never seen before: Mrs. Dalloway’s only child, Elizabeth. She plays the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: KRISTINA GORCHEVA-NEWBERRY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANYA RANEVA: THE ORCHARD
KRISTINA GORCHEVA-NEWBERRY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANYA RANEVA: THE ORCHARD, Author/Character Interview About THE ORCHARD Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. “Spectacular . . . intensely […]
Character Interview: Kate Mueser interviews Sarah Johnson of The Girl with Twenty Fingers
Character Interview: Kate Mueser interviews Sarah Johnson of The Girl with Twenty Fingers Sarah Johnson’s hope of becoming a concert pianist was shattered when she bombed an important performance of a Mozart concerto. Now in Munich, she feels like an imposter in her job as a food magazine editor. A chance encounter in a music […]
From Book to Hallmark Movie: 8 Things You Didn’t Know
From Book to Hallmark Movie: 8 Things You Didn’t Know by Denise Hunter Most novelists dream of having one of their books adapted into a movie. I know I did. And somehow I’ve been blessed to have three Hallmark movie adaptations. (The Convenient Groom, A December Bride, and The Goodbye Bride). When my first movie […]
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