Category: On Writing
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 […]
Esme Addison interviews Alex Sobieski, the amateur sleuth featured in A Hex For Danger!
A HEX FOR DANGER by Esme Addison (July 13, Crooked Lane Books) is the second sunny-yet-sinister release in the Enchanted Bay Mystery series, perfect for fans of Heather Blake and Bailey Cates. Kirkus Reviews said: “Magical mysteries, romance, and a Harry Potter–like storyline add up to an enchanting read.” Filled with fantasy, Polish American culture and tradition, mermaids and mythology. Helping run her family herbal apothecary while keeping her supernatural secret hidden is no easy feat for […]
Authors Interviewing Characters – This Is Our Undoing, by Lorraine Wilson
Authors Interviewing Characters – This Is Our Undoing, by Lorraine Wilson This Is Our Undoing is a compelling speculative novel exploring identity, loss, family and acceptance. Is it out on the 3rd August from Luna Press. The story follows Lina, a scientist whose safe haven – a remote research station in the Rila Mountains in […]
Ellen Alpsten interviews The Tsarina’s Daughter
Ellen Alpsten’s stunning new novel, The Tsarina’s Daughter, is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine I and Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by love, danger, passion and scandal. Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and Catherine I, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the […]
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