Category: On Writing
Interview with Rhys Bowen
Rhys Bowen is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels. Her latest novel, WHERE THE SKY BEGINS is just out! We are delighted to feature this interview with Rhys. Tell us about your beginning, where are you from? I was born in Bath, England, educated at London University and then worked in […]
My Path to Writing My Debut Memoir, Accidental Sisters
Katherine Linn Caire I have always loved writing… in my English and Lit classes growing up, in my own journals, actually, anywhere the opportunity presented itself. My grandmother instilled in me an intense love of the written letter, and to this day, I find its genuine authenticity to always trump an email, text, or brief […]
Why I Wrote A Book about Helping My Husband Die
Why I Wrote A Book about Helping My Husband Die By Joanne Tubbs Kelly When interviewers ask me what inspired me to write about my experience helping my husband die using Colorado’s End-of-Life Options Act, I have an easy answer: I have always depended on books to give me insight into whatever new situation I […]
How to Get Your Medical References Right by Adele Holmes M.D.
How to Get Your Medical References Right Readers have medical knowledge from their own forays into the world of illness. Medical professionals are even more savvy to the peculiarities of medicine. Every single person who picks up your writing will have some first-hand experience with drugs, disease, tests, and such. It only takes one error, […]
One Writer’s Beginnings: The Bitter Gift of Trauma, by Barbara Quick
“For any novel—or any poem, for that matter—to really speak to readers, there has to be emotional juice there for the writer.” by Barbara Quick I grew up in Los Angeles in the 1950s and ‘60s. My father was an extremely sensitive, artistic, and intelligent man who, from, the get-go in his marriage with my […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: August
Hello, Readers & Friends! July was a fantastic month for books—I feel as though I say that every month, but I’m amazed every time I finish a wonderful story and the amount of talent out there. Here are my latest reads as well as this August’s picks featured on NBC 6 in The Mix: The […]
Inspiration for THE PRECIOUS JULES
Even as a young child, I knew Rosewood was a horrid place. The Rosewood Center, formerly known as The Maryland State Asylum and Training School for the Feeble Minded, was the kind of place you drove past in the family wagon and held your breath to ward off a curse. It was the insult you […]
The Inspiration behind THE WRONG KIND OF WOMAN
Sarah McCraw Crow Years ago, when I arrived at Dartmouth College, in small-town New Hampshire, I was a fish out of water, a Southern girl encountering northern New England for the first time. I was enchanted by the unfamiliar landscape—sugar maples, granite outcroppings, distant mountains, the snow—and by almost everything about Dartmouth. I loved my […]
The Inspiration Behind THE CHILD FROM UKRAINE
Between the ages of 7 and 18, I lived with my Ukrainian grandmother Yulia, and I exclusively spoke Ukrainian with her, as she did not speak much English. We had mornings together, we had afternoons after school together when she would talk to me about gathering mushrooms in the local forest… we would watch soap […]
Writing High Flyers: 15 Inspiring Women Aviators and Astronauts
Powerful Stories for Women of Power By Ann McCallum Staats They did what? They went where? I didn’t write about humdrum women. There is nothing boring about the subjects I chose to include in my latest book, High Flyers: 15 Inspiring Women Aviators and Astronauts. Instead, I interviewed and researched exceptional leaders, doers and risk-takers, […]
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