Category: On Writing
Reflections on The Novice Author at Eighty, Now Eighty -One
One year ago, I wrote about the novice author becoming eighty. That novice author is me. Now as I approach a year to the day, I am eighty-one on the cusp of launching my new novel “Out of Place”. I posed a question to myself back then, in the words of Mary Oliver: Tell me […]
If Brevity is the Soul of Wit, Can I Ever Write a Funny Book?
By Audrey Burges My writing group’s conversation started, as it often does, with a question: can I write a funny novel? The topic started because I had been trying and failing to expand my satire writing into a full book. My most recent attempt to write a “lighthearted romantic comedy” took a hard left toward […]
Tammy Euliano on writing Fatal Intent
Tammy Euliano on writing Fatal Intent Embarking on the writing of a novel is a truly novel (ha!) experience. As a physician, researcher and teacher, who wrote extensively throughout my career in academic medicine, including an introductory anesthesiology textbook with my mentor, I assumed the words would flow and a book would appear. I couldn’t […]
But what about Penelope?
I have read Homer’s The Odyssey; I have studied it; I have taught it, yet at the end of every reading of the epic story, I always find myself staring at the ceiling in the middle of the night asking myself the same question. But what about Penelope? Don’t get me wrong, in classical literature, […]
Heather Frese Interviews Evie Austin of The Baddest Girl on the Planet
“Frese debuts with an impressive examination of small-town island life in coastal North Carolina . . . dynamic structure and strong voice . . . Readers will find lots to love.” —Publishers Weekly Heather Frese Interviews Evie Austin of The Baddest Girl on the Planet Heather Frese: Hi, Evie. Let’s get started. Hatteras Island, North […]
On Writing What You Don’t Know By Sarah Penner
On Writing What You Don’t Know By Sarah Penner Of all the writing advice I’ve come across in recent years, here is the old adage I despise the most: write what you know. They tell us to “write what we know” for several reasons: the sense of authority that comes across on the page; the speed and […]
The Author Who Predicted A Pandemic, Years Before Covid
When Susie Kearley from England started writing a book about a pandemic, she never imagined she’d live through one! I was just 16 when I penned the first draft of ‘Pestilence’. It was 1990, and I wanted to be a novelist. Inspired by the success of James Herbert’s Rats and similar stories around at that […]
Awesome
…You sure about that? My friend and fellow writer, Liz Flaherty did an article about words once. Her consideration of the word “ordinary” made me go right into Editor Nan mode and start thinking about words, how we use them, and how we misuse them. I confess I am a word nerd. It’s all my […]
Interview with Clara Falkenberg of The German Heiress by Anika Scott
About THE GERMAN HEIRESS Essen, 1946. Clara Falkenberg, once an iconic heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her dear friend Elisa missing, Clara enlists the help of Jakob, a charming young racketeer with his own reasons for wanting to find Elisa. As the two join forces, it’s not long before […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Rebecca Yarros
THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED by Rebecca Yarros A new heart-wrenching novel from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros that examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can’t bring ourselves to see coming. Publishers Weekly gives it a STARRED REVIEW, saying that “readers will be […]
Recent Comments