Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Laurel Schmidt
Laurel Schmidt, author of How To Be Dead: A Love Story, interviews the main character, Frances Beacon. How to Be Dead — A Love Story by Laurel Schmidt explores what it means to be fully alive — even in the afterlife. A tale told with humor, heart, and intelligence, it celebrates the power of memory and […]
Unstuck: Writing the Beginning Over and Over
This blog series, Unstuck, explores some of the ways fiction writers find themselves stuck and offers tips from successful writers for getting unstuck. Unstuck is a six-month series published the first Monday of the month. Every writer gets stuck at one time or another. Being stuck can trigger feelings of anxiety and self-doubt (to name […]
15 Fall Must-Reads
There is nothing better than curling up with a good book as the weather gets colder for the fall season. In case you haven’t already curated your own reading list, we’ve gathered 15 of the best books for you to binge-read this fall that will make you forget about all your responsibilities. This list is […]
Getting to know Jen Shaw, the Protagonist of On The Edge
The opening scene of On The Edge – a lighthouse in a storm with an unconscious and dreaming young woman hanging from its top – came to me one night when I stopped to watch one of the lighthouses that litter the dangerous stretch of coast where I live. The lighthouse came first but Jen […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Michelle Major
In Mistletoe Season by Michelle Major,(The Carolina Girls book 2, out now), Angi Guilardi needs a man for Christmas—at least, according to her mother. What she really needs is to grow her fledgling catering business. Partnering with Magnolia’s Wildflower Inn holds promise, but when her mother falls ill, Angi’s pulled back to the responsibility of the family restaurant. While […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rektok Ross, author of Ski Weekend
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rektok Ross, author of Ski Weekend Rektok Ross is the pen name of Liani Kotcher, a trial attorney turned award-winning young adult author and book blogger. An avid reader since childhood, Liani writes exactly the kind of books she loves to escape into herself: exciting thrillers with strong female leads, swoonworthy love […]
Q&A With Justine Hardy: Author of DUST
DUST [October 26, 2021; Batik Press] by bestselling author and trauma therapist Justine Hardy takes readers on a journey for the search of a missing aid worker, diving into some of the true complexities of the aid and NGO world in the region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and China. We are delighted to feature this interview with Justine! […]
Writing and Painting: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
It’s not really surprising that so many authors are also artists – the disciplines are two sides of the same coin. You can write a story in pictures and you can paint a picture with words. If you are blessed – or cursed – with a creative streak that creativity will out. I come from […]
Excerpt of Brassy Broad: How one Journalist Helped Pave the way to #MeToo
This is an excerpt from the Prologue of my memoir, Brassy Broad: How one journalist helped pave the way to #MeToo, now available on Bookshop, Amazon and wherever books are sold. I wrote this memoir in part to understand why I, a woman from a comfortable middle-class background, became an investigative journalist who has repeatedly […]
A Tribute to the Inbetweens
A Tribute to the Inbetweens By Kerri Schlottman It looked like any other aging brownstone in the East Village with its chipped facade, weathered cement stairs and bars on the ground-floor windows. I’d walked past it hundreds of times and never imagined that it detained dozens of teens from the neighborhood. Inside, they piled on […]
Recent Comments