Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol Van Den Hende
If you like heart-wrenching romances and magnanimous heroes, then you’ll love this emotionally-charged story. For fans of Me Before You and Fault in Our Stars, Goodbye, Orchid (a winner of Pinnacle Book Award for multicultural fiction) asks… “What choice does a wounded hero have when loving his woman means breaking his own heart?” Thirty-two year-old Phoenix Walker is an […]
Excerpt from THE STILLNESS OF WINTER by Barbara Mahany
From the front pages of The Chicago Tribune and her revered page-two columns to her sought-after blog, Pull Up a Chair, Barbara Mahany has shared stories of her family’s life that have drawn in thousands of readers for decades. In her new elegantly illustrated gift book, THE STILLNESS OF WINTER: Sacred Blessings of the Season (Abingdon Press Hardcover; October 6, 2020; $19.99), Barbara […]
MAKING THE DEAD LIVE AGAIN
MAKING THE DEAD LIVE AGAIN By J.P. Reedman When I was a little girl growing up in Canada, Ancient Egypt meant more to me than dolls. Cleopatra was my hero and at age six, I wrote my first historical fiction story about her. At that young age, I also loved to wander through graveyards, looking […]
Making Sense of Family History
“Robinson bases her formidable novel on the lives of her great-grandparents, exposing the fragile and horrific state of affairs in the American South two decades after the end of the Civil War…. Robinson’s descriptive and imaginative prose sings; this book is a startling reminder of the immoral and lasting brutality visited on the South by […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Barbara Bottner
I AN HERE NOW Barbara Bottner has written (and sometimes illustrated) 45 titles for children, from wordless picture books to young adult novels. Her work has been translated, animated and adopted into musicals. The New York Times bestseller, Miss Brooks Loves Books, as well as Bootsie Barker Bites, Wallace’s Lists (with Gerald Kruglik) and Pricilla Gorilla are some of her favorites. At 77 years-old, […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Lisa Braxton
The fiery issue of urban gentrification is the steady beat thrumming beneath the surface of the novel, The Talking Drum. In 1972 the fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon that promises to transform the dying factory town. Sydney Stallworth steps away from her law studies […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alexa Recio de Fitch
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alexa Recio de Fitch About Alexa’s Mystery Novel, Triggers: Phillip Weatherly’s biggest secret is that he’s a killer with a sealed juvenile record who grew up to become a bestselling crime fiction author. Then, striking similarities between a homicide and his detective fiction novel get this adrenaline junkie—who trespasses into ruins—arrested. […]
The Inspiration And Process Of Writing The Returnees
The Returnees was the answer to a question I had asked a documentary photographer for the interview series, YAMI (Young And Making It) I was running on my blog in 2014. I wanted to know the philosophy behind his alternative take on documentary photography at a time when most of his contemporaries in the Nigerian […]
Does Our Cultural Upbringing Influence What We Write About?
I have always been curious about the world even before I learned to spell the word CURIOUS. Even as a kid, I noticed what most adults missed: be it the nine-year-old in me in India who witnessed my dark-skinned aunt rub skin whitening cream on her face daily so someone would ask for her hand […]
Fighting Against Myself and My Past
Fighting Against Myself and My Past: The Story Behind “Saving Ruby King” By Catherine Adel West “You should write a book!” It was a comment made in passing at a friend’s wedding sparking the first wisps of inspiration that eventually became my debut novel “Saving Ruby King”. That statement shouldn’t have affected me so deeply, […]
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