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ISABEL COSTELLO – (Writing) Each Book Is A Different Story

ISABEL COSTELLO – (Writing) Each Book Is A Different Story

ISABEL COSTELLO – (Writing) each book is a different story I have written three novels over twelve years: one which got me an agent (as yet unpublished); my debut Paris Mon Amour (2016) and my new novel, Scent.  Each has been a unique experience and part of a learning curve which will never end. I […]

May 12, 2021 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Characters : Loren Stephens

Authors Interviewing Characters : Loren Stephens

Loren Stephens is a published essayist, short story writer and president of two ghostwriting companies, Write Wisdom and Bright Star Memoirs, which she founded to help her client/authors write their memoirs, self-help books and novels. ALL SORROWS CAN BE BORNE published on May 11, 2021 by Rare Bird Books will be her first novel penned under her own name. […]

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Art For the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives

Art For the Ladylike: An Autobiography Through Other Lives

By Whitney Otto I always knew that I would never write a traditional memoir or autobiography. I felt my life wasn’t eventful enough in any sort of significant way, which can be good in the real world, but can be something of a liability in the memoir world. Also, my favorite memoirs/autobiographies run along less […]

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When Your Book is on a Topic Nobody Wants to Think About

When Your Book is on a Topic Nobody Wants to Think About

When your book is on a topic nobody wants to think about Kathleen Basi Bear with me a minute, because I’m going to start with a cliché: a book is like a baby. I know, I know. But it really is! You dream about it, you conceive it, you gestate it, you labor over it, […]

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Finding The Words As A #WRITERMOM

Finding The Words As A #WRITERMOM

Finding the words as a #writermom By Casey Dembowski #writermom It’s one of my favorite hashtags and something I’m always quick to point out—I’m a writer mom. I’ve been a writer nearly my whole life, but being a writer mom is something different. The two roles are often at odds with each other. If I’m […]

May 9, 2021 | By | Reply More
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Ryan McGue

Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Ryan McGue

Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Ryan McGue Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging is not just another tale of an adoptee’s desire for personal history. This is a real-life story of twin sisters–adopted at birth and raised together–who face the daunting task of locating and connecting with birth relatives because one of […]

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Call Yourself A Writer by Anne Leigh Parrish

Call Yourself A Writer by Anne Leigh Parrish

I recently took part in a virtual author event with two other women writers. Let me say how much I have come to appreciate the magic of Zoom video conferencing, aside from not having a paid account which meant getting dumped off the call after forty minutes. No problem, everyone, including the audience, was able […]

May 5, 2021 | By | Reply More
Ann Garvin interviews the characters of her novel I Thought You Said This Would Work

Ann Garvin interviews the characters of her novel I Thought You Said This Would Work

Three Frenemies risk their sanity on a cross country road trip with an enormous dog in a dilapidated camper all for the mutual love of a best friend in the hospital.  “Ann Garvin navigates the twists and turns of female friendship like few writers working today. I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS WOULD WORK is at once profound, […]

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TEARS OF AMBER by Sofía Segovia

TEARS OF AMBER by Sofía Segovia

When Mexican literary star Sofía Segovia’s Spanish language novel, El murmullo de las Abejas, was translated and published in English in 2019, The Washington Post praised Segovia as “a writer whose absorbing yet accessible prose and gift for sprinkling the mystical into a deeply human narrative is sure to draw comparisons to Latin American greats, […]

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Dear Black Woman Writer

Dear Black Woman Writer

Dear Black Woman With A Pen, You say you want to be a writer. Here is how. Write. That is it. Writers write.  You want to be a writer. You write. You are not stealing time. It may feel like there are more important things. There are children to feed; partners to tend to; elder […]

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