Category: On Writing
Then a Wind Blew
The question I have been asked most frequently by friends since they’ve learned about my debut novel, Then a Wind Blew, is: What made you want to write fiction? I’ve been in book publishing for much of my working life, in all its many facets, and have loved it, particularly the editorial side. And, like […]
Dare Boys to Embrace Healthy Masculinity and Help Achieve Real Gender Equity
By Anna Marie Johnson Teague Co-author, The Book of Dares My son was three months old when I first heard my co-author Ted Bunch speaking to a group of 300+ high school boys in New Orleans, LA. We were in a huge gymnasium and the boys were seated in long rows of folding chairs. Ted started […]
Musings For The Memoir
After writing and publishing two novels, one set during WW11, and another in the 1970’s, a tale of a lonely suburban housewife in New Jersey, Sande Boritz Berger is ready to tackle her memoir and share her own emotional journey. Baby GirlI was a war baby, the first child and only girl. In the years […]
The Road to Fairy Godmothers Inc. By Saranna DeWylde
The road to Fairy Godmothers Inc. was not the primrose path you might expect for a book that’s about adorable meddling fairy godmothers, silly hijinks, and happily ever afters. In fact, I’d just signed the contract for the first three books in the series right before we rolled over into the hellscape that was 2020. […]
Change in Creative Mindsets with Change in Leadership: Kamala Harris as the Vice President
In May 2020, I taught a virtual writing workshop in partnership with a chic, independent bookstore called Kew & Willow Books. It was a fully sold-out virtual workshop where we wrote all kinds of stories about women who have made an impression in our lives—our mothers, grandmothers, teachers, friends, or any other woman who helped shape […]
Excerpt from GERTA by Kateřina Tučková
We are excited to partake in the blogtour of Czech author Kateřina Tučková and her award-winning novel, GERTA, her first to be translated into English by the talented Véronique Firkusny (Amazon Crossing; February 1, 2021; $24.95). Set in Brno, a city in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic and the author’s hometown, GERTA […]
Why I Wrote A Horse Book
The answer isn’t as simple as “Because you love horses.” While it’s part of the answer, it doesn’t tell the whole story. It was May 2018. I had just submitted my semester grades as a psychology instructor teaching a subject and students I adored. However, a few days later, without any warning, my teaching contract […]
On Writing Api’s Berlin Diaries
Imagine if you found out that someone you loved had a dark past. That happened to author Gabrielle Robinson, as she tried to reconcile the grandfather she knew with his complex past in her memoir Api’s Berlin Diaries (She Writes Press, September 15, 2020). After her mother’s death, Robinson found two diaries her grandfather had […]
The Power Of The Tiara
With two previous posts in WWWB in 2020 about Kathy L. Murphy’s International Pulpwood Queens Girlfriends Weekend, I’m not here to repeat all of the somewhat unbelievable details of this annual book extravaganza … all of which are in fact true, by the way! Rather, I am here to attest that no pandemic was going […]
Sylvia True Talks About the Heritage of Madness
Where Madness Lies by Sylvia True will be published by John Hunt Publishing on January 31st 2021 and is based on her own Grandmothers experiences in Nazi Germany with strong mental health, human survival and spiritual experiences. When families pretend all is right, nothing ever is. The inside didn’t match the outside. My childhood home […]
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