Category: On Writing
Never Say “Never!” Our Passions as Writers May Take Us to Unexpected Places by Lynn Slaughter
My fiction writing journey began with writing for young adults. Members of my Sisters in Crime chapter routinely referred to me as the “young adult writer” of their group. I was fine with that. I love writing YA fiction. Adolescence is such an intense, dramatic, perfectly awful and wonderful period in our lives in which […]
On Writing The Butterfly In You by Sheri Mandell
The Butterfly in You began in a place I didn’t have language for at the time. From the outside, my life looked full…family, work, connection but internally, I felt a quiet, persistent loneliness that didn’t make sense. It wasn’t about being alone. It was about feeling disconnected from myself. I didn’t set out to write […]
I Never Set Out to Write a Book About Leadership By Kerry-Lyn Stanton-Downes
I set out to understand something much more personal than that. How humans heal, change and grow in relationship with each other. That one question has been with me as long as I can remember. Long before I had the language for it. Long before I knew it would eventually become a book – or […]
Anne Shaw Heinrich: Authors Interviewing Characters
With House of Teeth, Book Three in the captivating world of The Women of Paradise County Series, Anne Shaw Heinrich draws readers back into the complex confines of Poulson, a small town that simmers with unspoken rules, quiet surprises and truths that are hard to contain. Just like any young man, Jules Marks is happy […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Linda Hartley
ANGEL WING It’s 1955. Ellen is driving to Belfast to search for the mother she has never known, and had thought long dead, when she has an accident. As her life hangs in the balance, flashbacks of her loveless childhood and memories of her experience as a teenage evacuee during WW2 unfold. ANGEL WING is […]
I Had to Write the Story, By Jean Trounstine
By Jean Trounstine I have always thought of myself as a non-fiction writer. After all, I worked in prison, directing plays for almost ten years, and wrote my first book, Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison about that work. I’ve published articles about prison and parole, and almost all of […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Melinda Leigh
YOU CAN TELL ME Crime writer Olivia Cruz is drawn into the dark secrets of a missing friend in a terrifying novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh. On the three-year anniversary of true crime writer Olivia Cruz’s horrific kidnapping, she’s scheduled to walk her podcaster friend Zoe March through the crime […]
The Truth Beneath the Paint
The phrase “painting over cracks” is simple. It brings to mind the small imperfections in a wall—tiny fractures that form over time, the kind you might notice in the corner of a room or above a doorway. They’re easy to dismiss and even easier to cover. A fresh coat of paint makes everything look new […]
The Real Toffee Factory Which Inspired my Books by Glenda Young
Many years ago, I wrote my debut novel Belle of the Back Streets which was published by Headline. It’s about a young woman who takes on her dad’s rag and bone round after he returns from WW1. She becomes responsible for looking after her family and faces hardship along the way, before I give her […]
How Emotional Posture Came to Be By Dr. Colette D. Sinclair, PhD
The Events that Propelled me to Examine Energetic States to Create Inner Alignment By outward measure, I had done everything right. By the time I was twenty-seven, I was established, at the top of a career I had worked toward without pause. I had followed every prescribed rule, checked every box society handed me, and […]
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