Category: On Writing
Author Interviewing Characters Series: Cheryl Grey Bostrom
Authors Interviewing Characters Series Author Cheryl Grey Bostrom interviews protagonist Celia Burke from Sugar Birds *** “Bostrom’s prose is propulsive and detailed . . . a true page-turner all the way to the end. An engrossing tale of survival and redemption in the Pacific Northwest .” ―KIRKUS REVIEWS “Suspenseful. Lyrical. Redemptive. Bostrom’s voice reminds me […]
10 Indie Summer Must-Reads
10 Indie Summer Must-Reads Summer isn’t over just yet, and neither is our summer reading binge! Just in case you’ve already burned through your summer TBR pile (burning books not encouraged), we’ve decided to put together 10 of the hottest new indie releases on the shelves right now for you to sink your teeth into […]
What Inspired Me to Write Rebellion, 1967: A Memoir by Janet Luongo
What Inspired Me to Write Rebellion, 1967: A Memoir by Janet Luongo To tell the truth, I feel I was less inspired and more driven to write my memoir. I needed to come to terms with dysfunction in my family and turbulence in society the year I came of age. My story begins in spring, […]
Love Blooms Character Interview – Jo McNally
We’re delighted to share this latest piece for our Authors Interviewing Characters series! Jo McNally is an award-winning author who writes contemporary romances with love, laughter and hard-won HEAs, her latest novel LOVE BLOOMS is out now! Here’s what Love Blooms is about: Tonight should be the best night of Lucy Higgins’s life. Tomorrow she’s […]
Writing Without A Net
My closest companions after the death of my husband were the books I wrote. Long into the exhaustion of countless nights after finishing my day as a psychotherapist and throughout the weekends where the sounds of my aloneness were deafening, I wrote my second book on a contractual deadline that taught me I could write […]
My Inspiration from Women on the Front Line in WW1 and During the Time of Covid
Juliet Greenwood One of my inspirations for The Girl with the Silver Clasp was a passage I’d come across in my research into the First World War, which talked about the many 1920s women who experienced what we would now call PTSD, as a result of their experiences. I’d read about men coming back from […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Susan Schoenberger
For those who enjoyed The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer and The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett, The Liabilities of Love is an ambitious and masterful portrayal of the complex journey of how trauma can reverberate throughout a woman’s life, the differing perspectives people have on intimacy and the unintended consequences and risks of falling in love. Following the death […]
Writing a Gothic Novel—Victorian Serial Style
Writing a Gothic Novel—Victorian Serial Style By Mimi Matthews My upcoming supernatural Victorian gothic novel John Eyre has been an experiment on so many levels. Not only is it a new genre for me, I wrote it in an entirely new way. Well…new for me. In the Victorian era, many authors wrote their novels in […]
TELL ME A STORY, MY FRIEND
TELL ME A STORY, MY FRIEND My friends often asked, “Where do you get your ideas for your stories?” I’d just tell them, “Keep on talking.” They’d laugh, unaware that many of my ideas did, indeed, come from them. Make me laugh, and I promise that your amusing story will become a punchline for one […]
The Story Behind The Rules of Arrangement and a Journey to Writing
By ANISHA BHATIA. One hot Sunday in Bombay, my auntie rushed into our apartment, vexed. Her skin was flushed, and she faced my parents and demanded, “What are you all doing?” The focus was me, all of 22 years old, and the topic was my marriage. Her urgency was palpable in her rushing out of […]
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