Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Cleyvis Natera
Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification “Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an […]
Q&A with Rosie Acosta, Author of YOU ARE RADICALLY LOVED: A Healing Journey to Self Love
Q&A with Rosie Acosta, Author of YOU ARE RADICALLY LOVED: A Healing Journey to Self Love (Tarcher/Perigee; February 2022) From the award-winning host of the Radically Loved podcast, comes an invitation to discover the healing power of who you are, body, mind, and spirit. Rosie Acosta is a world-renowned yoga and meditation teacher, host of the top-rated iTunes podcast, Radically Loved, and author of YOU […]
An Interview with Kathleen Courtenay Stone
THEY CALLED US GIRLS: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men by Kathleen C. Stone is a wonderful new collective biography of seven women who aspired to professional jobs in the mid-twentieth century. It was an era when women were expected to find fulfillment at home, in the mold of television’s June Cleaver. But these women […]
For the Birds
For the Birds, by Claudia Hinz I became a birder out of desperation in the early days of the pandemic, on an afternoon when the hours felt both flabby and flimsy, so that I couldn’t tell you if it was one o’clock or almost dinner time. Tuesday or Thursday. Until that day, I’d always been […]
She Will Soar: Why Women Write about Escape and Freedom
My second anthology of poems by women, She Will Soar, aimed again at an 11+ audience as She Is Fierce was, takes as its themes wanderlust, freedom and escape – themes which suddenly took on a strange relevance as I edited the book during lockdown. I have always believed in books and poetry as magic […]
Writing and My Search for a Balance of East and West By Diane Dreher, author of The Tao of Inner Peace
Writing and My Search for a Balance of East and West By Diane Dreher, author of The Tao of Inner Peace Each of our lives tells a story with its own recurrent lessons. My story combines East and West in a personal quest for balance that led to my book, The Tao of Inner Peace. […]
LIKE ME, by Hayley Phelan, Excerpt
LIKE ME by Hayley Phelan A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, illusion, and female identity in the digital age. Though beautiful, cunning, and privileged, nineteen-year-old Mickey finds herself with a stalled modeling career, an escalating drinking problem, few friends, and next to nothing in the bank. To numb her growing despair, she spends her days […]
Here’s What My Savvy 24-year-old Protagonist Taught Me … By Lisa Barr
Here’s What My Savvy 24-year-old Protagonist Taught Me … By Lisa Barr Every author knows that putting out a new book into the world comes with a 24/7 “I’m-SO-Sick-of-Me” social media presence. I made a pact with myself this time around that I needed to do something meaningful to me personally to promote my third […]
Where It All Began: My Southern Roots
Where It All Began: My Southern Roots As a country singer croons, “Blame it all on my roots…” He might as well add, especially in the South. From the time we are children in small towns across the south, we absorb our surroundings, family, and culture. Some of us lived in tumultuous times and apologized […]
Unapologetically Me: A Healing Writing Practice to Reconnect to Self & Own Your Story
Four years ago, when I lived in a palatial California basement apartment with French doors that opened up onto a lush garden with lemon, orange, and fig trees, I found myself lying face down on the earth, in mourning. My father, my number one fan of my writer Self, had died a few months earlier. […]
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