Category: On Writing
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 […]
Writing about War and Survival: Nadija Mujagić
I am a woman. I am a writer. I am a war survivor. A few days after I celebrated my fourteenth birthday, I watched tanks move into the Sarajevo airport across the street from my home. The year was 1992, and Yugoslavia had already fallen apart. My mother, my sister, and I stood at the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Tessa Wegert
Dead Wind The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can’t shake the feeling that she knows the victim – and the subsequent identification sends shockwaves through their community in the Thousand Islands of Upstate […]
Reading With Rochelle Weinstein: April
Hello Readers and Friends, Spring has sprung, and I’m excited to share this month’s fabulous books. Some authors will tell you they can’t read while they’re writing, but I was a reader before I was a writer, and it’s impossible to give up something that gives me this much joy. While […]
Excerpt from The Homecoming, by Anna Enquist, translated by Eileen Stevens
An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel that explores the passions and sorrows of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook. The Homecoming by Anna Enquist Translated by Eileen Stevens After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laila Ibrahim
In an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice, class divides, and WWI, two women fight for their dreams in a galvanizing novel by the bestselling author of Golden Poppies. 1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. […]
Writing Voting Day
By Clare O’Dea Imagine if you could speak to a time traveller? Well, you can. If you want to know what it was like to live in 1950s Switzerland, as I did, you can ask the people who were there. It’s wonderful. Always a compulsive story collector, I never miss a chance to find out […]
Interview with N. Griffin, author of TRIGGER
For fans of books such as Speak, The Hunger Games, and Educated, TRIGGER is a harrowing thriller, a tour de force young adult novel about a teen girl manipulated and isolated by her father. It would be an unbelievable tale, if it weren’t drawn from N. Griffin’s own childhood experiences. TRIGGER by N. Griffin (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, March 29, […]
THE WEDDING VEIL by Kristy Woodson Harvey: Excerpt
New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey is bringing “her signature wit, charm, and heart” (Woman’s World) to her much-anticipated historical fiction release, THE WEDDING VEIL (Hardcover, March 29, Gallery). In the vein of Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman and Jennifer Robson’s The Gown, The Wedding Veil brings to life a group of remarkable women forging their own paths and explores the mystery […]
How The Dinner Club came to be Served – Helen Aitchison
How The Dinner Club came to be Served – Helen Aitchison I didn’t read much in my 20’s and most of my 30’s. University, my career and life got in the way! Then I began reading again, after a colleague wrote a book about his time in the police. It resurrected the love I had […]
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