Category: On Writing
Ruhi Choudhary Interviews Her Character
Ruhi Choudhary discovered her passion for writing when she was seven years old and wrote her first Star Trek episode. Being a fan of the dark and twisted, she found her calling in crime thriller. She likes to write stories that make you a little uncomfortable and characters that you struggle to make up your […]
Why We Write
As a writer and reader of mysteries, it’s always the why that intrigues me. So many things humans do – including murdering each other, in many cases – defies common sense. The urge to write seems equally illogical. Why do you write? I’ve been asked this repeatedly. My answers change every time. All my reasons […]
AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE SAND By Nancy Burkhalter
We are delighted to feature this imagined interview with George Sand, a character in Nancy Burkhalter’s historical novel, The Education of Delhomme: Chopin, Sand, & La France. It is about Chopin’s impoverished piano tuner, who is lured into spying on both Chopin and Sand to earn money and attention. AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE SAND As […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Robin Farmer
Inspired by Farmer’s own confrontation with a nun over a racist comment as a young girl, Malcolm and Me is a coming-of-age story about the adolescent trauma of a black Catholic schoolgirl in Philadelphia confronting racism and the hypocrisy that surrounds her, within her school, her family, her community, and the Oval Office as Watergate unfolds. Winner […]
Writing Inspirations – Clare Marchant
To be asked what inspires my writing is probably the best question in the world – It means I can wax lyrical about everything that I love (and I can certainly chatter on about things that fire up my creative Juices!). As a historical fiction author, a lot of my ideas and inspiration come from […]
Behind the Book: A FRENZY OF SPARKS
Kristin Fields A FRENZY OF SPARKS was inspired by a true family event: I have an uncle who overdosed before his eighteenth birthday. Even though he died years before I was born, it was too painful for my family to talk about. I didn’t know much about him, though I worried, growing up, that whatever […]
Life and Other Shortcomings: Excerpt
LIFE AND OTHER SHORTCOMINGS: EXCERPT Life and Other Shortcomings is a collection of linked short stories that takes the reader from New Orleans to New York City to Madrid, and from 1970 to the present day. The women in these twelve stories make a number of different choices: some work, others don’t; some stay married, some […]
Interview with Amy Jean
Amy Jean is a dreamer, a poet, mother, and writer sharing compelling stories. As a poet and writer, she has written numerous books. The Kingdom has Arrived: Foundations Volume 1, her debut memoir, is a compilation of poetry and prose that details her mystical and otherworldly encounters, including physical manifestations, visions, locutions, prophetic dreams, and […]
Telling the Story That Haunts You
Telling the Story That Haunts You I told my first ghost story in the fall of 2015 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the annual Women’s Fiction Writers Association Retreat. I was embarrassed at first, because the truth was, I believed it. I really did. I heard them. I saw them. At a writing workshop run […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: Ellen Alpsten Interviews Tsarina
Lover, murder, mother, Tsarina. Memoirs of a Geisha meets Game of Thrones in this page-turning epic charting the untold story – the extraordinary rags-to-riches tale of Catherine I Spring 1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in her remote Baltic village. Sold by her family into household labour at […]
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