Category: On Writing
Rediscovering Wonder by Laura Whitfield, author of Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
Rediscovering Wonder by Laura Whitfield, author of Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.” Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Have you ever felt like you’ve lost your sense […]
Excerpt from THE HUMAN HERD: AWAKENING OUR NATURAL LEADERSHIP
THE HUMAN HERD, Beth Anstandig Part guidebook, part manifesto, part wake-up call, The Human Herd: Awakening Our Natural Leadership unleashes our mammal instincts with a framework for living, relating, and leading a more empowered life. We are human animals. Yet in the modern world, the natural signals of our mammal bodies are suppressed. Our instincts […]
The Inspiration Behind Open Deeply
As Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have become more transparent about their open relationship journey,it isn’t a shock to learn that one-fifth of the United States has engaged in consensual non-monogamy (CNM). Picking up where Janet W. Hardy’s The Ethical Slut left off, Kate Loree, LMFT, has penned the perfect self-help book to help couples tackle the ins and […]
Why I Wanted to Write An Upside-Down Sky
Linda Dahl ‘s riveting travel novel invites readers to challenge assumptions, discover their true selves, and broaden their horizons… AN UPSIDE-DOWN SKY (April 19, She Writes Press) follows Lidia, a blocked artist in her 60s, who goes on a tour to Namyan (a fictional country partially based on Myanmar/Burma) once it opens after a long dictatorship. Not only does […]
HILDE ON THE RECORD: MEMOIR OF A KID CRIME REPORTER Excerpt
Hilde Kate Lysiak, American journalist and founder of the Orange Street News, has been profiled by the New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, NBC Today, the Washington Post and more. She’s interviewed former First Lady Michelle Obama for The National, is the youngest member of the Society of Professional Journalists, has a six-book series with […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: G.G. Kellner
HOPE, A HISTORY OF THE FUTURE (April 19, SparkPress) is the passion project of writer and artist G.G. Kellner and is truly unique as a philosophical cli-fi (climate fiction) dream of what could happen with our earth if we save it. In a literal and physical climate that is bogged down by hopelessness and worry, […]
From New York to Rome: Authors in Conversation: Connie Hertzberg Mayo and Crystal King
From New York to Rome: An interview with authors Connie Hertzberg Mayo and Crystal King Crystal: We both write historical fiction. I do it because I love uncovering lost moments in time and trying to imagine the lives of people in those eras and those places. I was so drawn to Italy and I fell […]
Karen Hugg: On Writing
When I was a child in the 1970s, I felt like an outsider. While other kids had the usual set of two parents, I only had a mother. And among kids I knew whose parents had divorced, oftentimes the father was involved in their child’s life, albeit distantly. But for me, my father was permanently […]
Artists in My Life: Process and Product
Margaret Randall Of the many books I have written in my 85 years, Artists in My Life may seem like a departure. It’s not. I have always had a profound relationship with visual artists. My mother was a sculptor and the original work of many artists hung on the walls of my childhood home. Visiting […]
Crossing the Border Between this World and Another Dimension
By SC Skillman I’m delighted to have this chance to tell you about my newly-completed novel Director’s Cut, which is currently on submission to publishers and agents. As a writer of psychological, paranormal and mystery fiction and non-fiction, I always like to include an element of magic in my stories, something that shifts the action […]
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