Category: On Writing
Adult Bibs, Evasive Mint: Creating Character Memes
My family of Boomers and Millennials is just concluding a week-long reunion. We have matured and ripened over the years so this recent gathering was rife with laughter and devoid of the tensions from gatherings in the past. The twenty-and-thirty-something cousins all get along now, respecting each other’s differences, and embracing each other’s partners, and […]
Authors Interviewing Characters Series: Jaye Viner
Character Interview with Jane Dalton, wife of the Vanguard terrorist known as Bones, from JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner About JANE OF BATTERY PARK Jane is a Los Angeles nurse who grew up in a Christian cult that puts celebrities on trial for their sins. Daniel is a has-been actor whose career ended […]
Leadership Flow: Excerpt
In Leadership Flow: The Unstoppable Power of Connection, author Peri Chickering offers a refreshing approach to leadership development—a philosophy that is bold and current and yet, in many respects, as old as humanity. Peri proposes there is a flow—an underlying rhythm to life—that fuels and evokes effective leadership. We can all lead more productively and […]
Inspiration for THE RECEPTIONIST
Seasoned Los Angeles TV producer Kate Myles makes her fiction debut with THE RECEPTIONIST (Thomas & Mercer; 8/1), a blazing love triangle situated in the world that churns after “Cut!” A top reality talent agent can only look past her TED-Talking business guru husband’s infidelity for so long before she has to take matters into […]
Why I Write Romance: Lilac Mills
Happy Ever After… It’s such an evocative phrase, isn’t it? We are brought up on a diet of it from an early age, usually with the words “once upon a time” at the beginning, and it’s woven into the very fabric of our society. But is it really possible to have a happy ever after? […]
Seeing Inside The Unseen
Many years ago, before I became a writer, I worked for a boutique investment firm in Silicon Valley writing business plans for start-ups. I would sit in plush Palo Alto living rooms with two or three men, always older, always white, who’d already made their fortunes but were looking to make another, bigger one. They […]
EXCERPT: Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections From Back Home
From the award-winning author of Army Wife: A Story of Love and Family in the Heart of the Army AND Your Soldier, Your Army: A Family Guide comes an intimate story of love across oceans by Vicki Cody, an established senior Army spouse mentor. Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections From Back Home NON-FICTION: Operation Desert Storm, military families, marriage It […]
Writing My Husband’s Memoir
I imagine all writers know it’s a big decision to write a book. There’s the time involved, the commitment to follow through, and wanting to get all the details right. It’s a daunting process. After my husband Michael died in a tragic plane crash outside Denver in 2001, ending a remarkable and colorful life that […]
My Path to Publication During Lockdown
My Path to Publication with One More Chapter, HarperCollins – Julie Shackman I have been infatuated by books and creative writing from an early age. I would buy so many exercise jotters and note books and fill them with my stories and when it was time to write creative essays at school, I was in […]
Dew on the Morning Grass and Other Precious Things
When I was a little girl we weren’t to go barefoot until the summer sun had dried the morning dew on the grass. In those days lawns were “yards” and could’ve just as easily been called “fields” or “meadows”. Lush, long, green and growing, topped by wildflowers we collected to make chains or “tea” served […]
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