Category: On Writing
Good Grief: The A to Z Approach of Modern Day Grief Healing
I learned many moons ago that there is no such thing as coincidence and everything is a beautiful synchronicity in our life. Good Grief: The A to Z Approach of Modern Day Grief Healing is a book for your grief journey, but the book itself has been on its own unique journey to be able […]
Writing and Music: Why it’s Essential to my Creative Process and How I’ve Ruined Entire Albums for my Husband
“Writing and Music: Why it’s essential to my creative process and how I’ve ruined entire albums for my husband” by Helena Hunting Once upon a time, before I spent my days sitting in front of a monitor, creating characters, worlds and stories, I worked in an office and had a colleague who didn’t like music. […]
Write What You Know: Is she Based on You?
Write what you know… ‘Is the woman based on you?’ my friend asks. ‘I mean, have you really behaved like that?’ Her eyes are widening, her brow furrowing; I can imagine the kind of thoughts crowding through her head. She has just read my novel and is wondering whether the protagonist I’ve created, may be […]
Writing The Silence of Scheherazade
I grew up in Istanbul, The New York city of Turkey. Being immersed in the rich, layered history of my own town and in the imminent vibrancy of it at the time of my youth I didn’t pay much attention to Smyrna (Izmir), the third biggest city of Turkey. For me it was a nice […]
Tori Eldridge Interviews Lily Wong and Ma
Tori Eldridge is the Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity Awards-nominated author of the Lily Wong mystery thriller series—The Ninja Daughter, The Ninja’s Blade, and The Ninja Betrayed—and the upcoming dark Brazilian fantasy, Dance Among the Flames (out May 2022). She agreed to interview Lily Wong and Ma from her novel THE NINJA BETRAYED About THE NINJA BETRAYED Things get personal […]
The Writing of a Memoir: Insanities Nobody Tells You About
I birthed my book twice: after growing it in my gut and on the page for eight years. The first time—self-publishing—was agony and disappointing. The second time—with a legit hybrid press—was dignifying and empowering. Do all authors feel like they “birth” their books? I imagine memoirists, like myself, do because more than birthing a book […]
Writing and Witchcraft
I think that, by and large, writers are a superstitious bunch. We rely on inspiration at lot and it’s a whimsical force which often fails us. We go for walks to find it, as if it’s a wood sprite hiding in a forest. On the other side of things, we fear the dreaded demon known […]
ON WRITING: The Anxiety Sisters
After ten years of dreaming of a big publisher acquiring our book, it finally happened in March of 2020. We were over-the-moon excited and immediately started making plans to get together (as we live far apart) for some quality writing time. Most of you probably know what else happened in March of 2020—COVID showed up […]
Authors Interviewing Characters Series: Codi Schneider
About Cold Snap: A Viking Cat Mystery: When a murder shocks her peaceful mountain town, Bijou, a plucky house cat with a Viking spirit, must dive paws-first into solving the mystery before another life is taken—maybe even her own. Codi Schneider (author): Hi, Bijou, thanks for agreeing to this interview. Here is your pint of […]
Writing Home: My Dark Dreams of Copenhagen
By Heidi Amsinck The past is a foreign country. Literally in my case. I left Denmark to become a London Correspondent mere days after graduating as a journalist and never moved back home. Over the course of my life, I have spent more time in London than I ever did in Copenhagen. Yet, the city […]
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