Category: On Writing
Author Taylor Hahn interviews THE LIFESTYLE’s Georgina and Nathan about their experience joining the NYC swingers’ scene
Authors Interviewing Characters Author Taylor Hahn interviews THE LIFESTYLE’s Georgina and Nathan about their experience joining the NYC swingers’ scene About the book: THE LIFESTYLE follows Georgina Wagman’s adventure as she dives headfirst into New York City’s swinger scene in an attempt to save her marriage. Does she know what she’s in for? Spoiler: Not […]
Interview with Elissa Grossell Dickey
Elissa Grossell Dickey’s second novel IRIS IN THE DARK is out 7th of June and we’re delighted to feature this interview with her! Early praise for IRIS IN THE DARK “A lucky few of us walk in the sunshine, and the rest of us have to fight our way out of the dark. Elissa Grossell […]
My Gig As Knoxville Poet Laureate
My Gig As Knoxville Poet Laureate I was lucky! Within a few days of retiring from teaching at the University of Tennessee, I was named Knoxville Poet Laureate. So, even though I had been teaching at UT for 37 years, my transition was painless. Pre-pandemic, I was invited to speak at writing conferences and in […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Namrata Patel
Namrata Patel interviews Neha Patel from The Candid Life of Meena Dave About THE CANDID LIFE OF MEENA DAVE A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, family secrets, and rediscovering the need to belong. Meena Dave is a photojournalist and a nomad. She has no family, […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: B.L. Blanchard interviews Chibenashi
THE PEACEKEEPER Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and finding himself. North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don’t exist. The Great Lakes are surrounded by an independent Ojibwe nation. And in the […]
On Writing LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era
My writing has always begun in wanting to know, in wanting to better understand. In high school and college I had columns in the school newspaper entitled variations of C’est la vie, depending upon which language I was currently studying. I co-wrote my first published book, Stuttering, with my soon-to-be husband, then a professor of […]
Falling Through the Net: A Foray into Fiction
Falling Through the Net: A Foray into Fiction Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Virginia Woolf By Lisa Russ Spaar I think it’s worth saying at the outset that fiction isn’t the opposite of poetry. […]
The Process of Writing Reiki’s Highest Potential By Sarina Korotane
The Process of Writing Reiki’s Highest Potential By Sarina Korotane Writing Reiki’s Highest Potential was an idea that I had had for a few years, but I hadn’t made the time for it. Then the first Covid lockdown began and as most of my clients preferred one-to-one treatments, my work completely slowed down. Having already […]
Writing Historical Fiction: Catherine Kullmann
With history becoming more and more of a niche subject at schools and universities, it is historical fiction that offers millions of readers a connection to the past, a past which casts long shadows. The first quarter of the nineteenth century – the extended Regency era – was one of the most significant periods of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Marilyn Simon Rothstein
Speaking Of—And To—My Protagonist My new book, Crazy to Leave You, is published by Lake Union. Maddie Dawson, author of The Magic of Found Objects, said “Crazy to Leave You is the funniest book I’ve read in practically forever.” The protagonist, Lauren Leo, is a forty-one-year-old, scale-obsessed, advertising executive. She is the last of her […]
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