Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Joy Jordan-Lake
“Crawdads meets the Crawleys…Threaded through with a meticulously researched, well-crafted mystery, this is historical fiction at its best.” —Fiona Davis, nationally bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue From the bestselling author of A Tangled Mercy comes an enthralling novel of secrets, a tumultuous war of ideas, and murder as classes collide in the shadow of Biltmore House. […]
Writing Pandemonium
The process of writing Pandemonium: a picture book for children 2–7 years By Gail Aldwin A few years ago, I began thinking about writing a children’s picture book. At the time I was delivering a module on writing for children to undergraduates at the University of South Wales. We were studying aspects of anthropomorphism […]
Excerpt of EDGE OF THE MAP by Johanna Garton
Voted a “must-read of 2020” by REI’s Uncommon Path Magazine, Johanna Garton’s Edge of the Map is the story of Christine Boskoff, one of the world’s top alpinists and a trailblazing record holder who overcame challenge after challenge… until she and her partner, renowned climber Charlie Fowler, disappeared. The story is equal parts climbing history, […]
Receiving Is Just As Important As Giving
Receiving Is Just As Important As Giving By Ginny Sassaman, author of Preaching Happiness: Creating a Just and Joyful World Sometimes I am asked, which sermon do I like best in my book, Preaching Happiness: Creating a Just and Joyful World. That’s like asking a mother to choose her favorite child. Not possible! But I […]
Wanting Radiance, by Karen Salyer McElmurray
Wanting Radiance is at once a murder mystery, and a love. It is a road trip novel focusing on a late-thirties something woman who reads cards in bars and restaurants to earn as she travels from town to town. It’s a novel about an imaginary Knoxville, Tennessee Museum of Freaks and Oddities called Willy’s Wonderama. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Julie Valerie
Julie Valerie, author of The Peculiar Fate of Holly Banks, interviews her character Holly! “Picking up where Valerie’s first novel, Holly Banks Full of Angst, left off, this will fit right in with loyal Kinsella readers, fans of Tom Perotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, and those who enjoyed the suburban intrigue of the Netflix show Dead to Me.” —Booklist “Valerie combines […]
Symmetry in Life and Art: Writing About Cancer In The Time Of COVID
I began The Transit of Lola Jones many years ago, in the wake of my first bout of breast cancer. Note the key word: first. I’ll return to that, noting that Art and Life often circle each other in a bizarre relentless dance. The journey of Lola Jones from frantic energetic beginnings to publication was […]
Writing The Second Novel
In Autumn of 2018, I was riding high. I’d recently signed with an agent for my debut Little White Lies and we were soon to go ‘on sub’ to publishers. I was developing plans for ‘Book 2’, so that we could pitch for a two-book deal: I had a first chapter and a punchy blurb […]
The Process of Writing UNCOUPLING: From School Secretary to Published Author
The Process of Writing UNCOUPLING: From School Secretary to Published Author In September 2009 I started a job as a secretary at a school in North London and had one very clear goal: to leave within the year (two years max), by which time I would be the successful, working actress I’d always dreamed of […]
Writing My Dad My Dog
Rosalynn Carter said it best: “There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers. My Dad My Dog is about a daughter, Rachel Morgan, who moves her Alzheimer’s-afflicted dad from an assisted living facility (ALF) into the […]
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