Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters series: Amber Daulton
About Arresting Mason, book one in the sexy romantic suspense series Arresting Onyx Once you’re in a prison gang, you’re in it for life. That’s what Mason Harding thought until the boss accepted his resignation. After the State releases him on parole, a sexy divorcée behind the wheel of a car almost ends his life […]
An Open Letter to the Seven Men Who Broke My Heart
Hi All, You know who you are – at least I hope you do. We went out together for a while way back when. Blonde. Tall. Hoping to be a writer one day. Ring any bells? This is just to let you know that I did it! My tenth novel comes out this September and […]
Isabel del Rio: Writing A Woman Alone
I worked on my recently published memoir ‘A Woman Alone’ for about a decade, recounting not only my own experiences but the historical context in which I grew up. It all began with a poem discussing several dramatic events that I had lived through, and it built up from there. As the 2020 pandemic so […]
Palimpsest
Palimpsest Heather Martin, author of The Reacher Guy It started as a conversation and ended as a book. That was the story I told, and it wasn’t a lie. But the truth is there is no beginning, and there is no end, when it comes to books. One book always comes from and leads to […]
BRING THE HEAT by Bethany Crandell
(The slightly-less than inspiring inspiration behind my title: SEE JANE SNAP) I have a lot of hair. It’s thick. And curly. And thanks to the temperate San Diego climate looks pretty darn good most days. (For a frame of reference, one friend refers to me as, “Shakira”. Rest assured, the only viable comparison between the […]
Joanna Fitzpatrick: On Writing
Inspiration has the power to shut off that critical inner voice that resides in our heads no matter how many books we successfully publish or how many awards we achieve. Mute that voice and the Muses will rush in. My earliest listeners inspired me to become a storyteller. I was a ten-year-old in a summer […]
Inspired by Sisterhood: Anarchy In High Heels
In the 1970s and early ‘80s I was a member of an all-female troupe of performers. This group, Les Nickelettes, occupied a defining place in my life story. Based in San Francisco, Les Nickelettes was a bit too radical for the mainstream of the time, but received a lot of attention in the underground counterculture. […]
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 […]
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