Category: On Writing
My Road To Writing
I’m always fascinated by people who live their lives in a very intentional way. I always aim to live that way, and yet somehow, find myself often stumbling into things that change the course of my life. I rarely seem to take an intentional first step. Rather, an event nudges (sometimes shoves) me onto a […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Janet Stilson
Charisma becomes a superpower in Janet Stilson’s new book, The Juice, a cyberpunk, dystopian tale that’s written in the spirit of William Gibson’s work and The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood. A large part of the novel takes place within a big media company, Nuhope, decades into the future. One of the company’s executives, Rico […]
Character Interview: Briana Cole
The first book in a sexy, smart new series that takes unconventional relationships to a whole new level,The Marriage Pass follows Dr. Dorian Graham, whose wife proposes they both spend a no-consequences, no-questions-asked night with their greatest temptations for their one-year anniversary. Dorian can’t resist, especially because his wife’s younger sister is the-one-who-got away. However, when Dorian’s one […]
How the Pandemic Inspired a Love Story
After my grandfather had a heart attack four years ago, I moved in with my grandparents during his recovery. Late in the evenings, as my grandmother slept in her recliner beside him and my poodle sprawled across his feet, he and I would watch movies. His preference, inevitably and humorously, was Hallmark movies. I worked […]
Interview with Ann Gosslin, Author of The Double
Ann Gosslin spent the early part of her life in the US, before heeding the call of distant shores and eventually settling in Europe. The Shadow Bird is Ann’s debut novel. Her second novel, The Double, will be published by Legend Press in July 2021. With a lifelong interest in psychology and psychiatry, Ann is […]
The Internet of Trees – or How Plants Gave Me a Novel
The Internet of Trees – or How Plants Gave Me a Novel By Margaret Ann Spence If you are reading this, you are on the internet. We are connecting. In the short thirty years since the internet was invented, we take it for granted. Such an extraordinary explosion of knowledge has occurred because we can […]
In Defense of the Sex Scene
In Defense of the Sex Scene Do you have a favorite sex scene? I do. It’s the library scene in the movie Atonement. There’s no nudity. There’s no visible touching of intimate parts. My personal favorite moment involves a foot, but the sex act itself is filmed almost entirely from the neck up. I saw […]
I Don’t Hate Norma Bates: How Studying Film and Television Can Make You a Better Writer
To be a good writer, you must be an avid reader. You should study other writers’ work. We’ve all heard this advice—and it’s true. But “reading” and “studying” doesn’t pertain only to books. We can examine stories that come to life on screen and teach so much about setting, character development, pacing, and plot. As […]
This Valentine’s Day, Be Glad You Don’t Live In The Times Of Bridgerton…
This Valentine’s Day, be glad you don’t live in the times of Bridgerton… If you ever write a book, you’ll get used to answering silly questions. As a writer of historical fiction, there’s one in particular that gets me every single time. “Would you like to have lived in the nineteenth century?” people ask me, […]
Much More Than a Group Blog
I’ve been part of a group blog for nearly nine years. The six Wicked Authors were all starting our careers as mystery writers when we started the blog in 2013. Today we have eighty published books among us. But our blog is so much more than a five-days-a-week web presence. Each of us would tell […]
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