Category: On Writing
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, […]
TOWARD THAT WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL: EXCERPT
TOWARD THAT WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL On an ordinary day in June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine (formerly known as Kate), a young American nun recently arrived in this very foreign place, walks away from her convent with no money and no destination. Desperate and afraid of […]
Writing And Research: On Wilder Seas
Nikki Marmery is the author of On Wilder Seas, a historical novel inspired by the true story of Maria, the woman who sailed on the Golden Hind during Francis Drake’s circumnavigation voyage in 1579. I first read about Maria in a popular history book, seven years ago. Though details about her life are scarce, she […]
Character Interview – Crystal King
Character Interview – Crystal King About The Chef’s Secret When Bartolomeo Scappi dies in 1577, he leaves his vast estate—properties, money, and his position—to his nephew and apprentice Giovanni. He also gives Giovanni the keys to two strongboxes and strict instructions to burn their contents. Despite Scappi’s dire warning that the information concealed in those […]
Writing and Receiving Reviews
Indie authors have a lot to learn about how to make their book visible to the wide world of readers and it takes time, lots of research, and some money. A first step was to post my book on Goodreads, hoping for reviews there. To encourage followers I was urged to review a few books myself. […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Carol M. Cram
Carol M. Cram is the author of Love Among the Recipes in which cookbook author Genna McGraw takes off for Paris to write a crossover cookbook/guidebook, while also picking up the pieces of her shattered marriage. Carol’s other novels include three award-winning works of historical fiction about women in the arts: The Towers of Tuscany […]
Excerpt from DEATHWALKER -Journeys of Life, Death & Beyond
Excerpt from “DEATHWALKER-Journeys of Life, Death & Beyond” by Theresa Dominguez-Weiss, Family Nurse Practitioner, retired (copyright 2020) “Near-Death on the Nile” Surrounded by desert, smack in the middle of nowhere, Jackie was suffocating to death. Lying on a table, her knees bent, legs spread wide, I wondered, “Why does this remind me of all the […]
GONE: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life: Excerpt
At age twenty-nine, Linda Olson, M.D. FACR was vacationing with her husband in Germany when their van was hit by a train, shattering their lives as well as her body. “I didn’t marry your arms or your legs. If you can do it, I can do it,” was the first thing her husband said to […]
The Writer With The Snake Tattoo
Sometimes your latest book has a way of getting under your skin, staying with you long after publication – as author Louisa Treger explains. I decided to get a tattoo to commemorate the publication of my second novel, The Dragon Lady, and to celebrate its protagonist, Lady Virginia Courtauld. She was a woman who refused […]
Gratitude in the Time Of COVID
Gratitude in the Time of COVID by Saralyn Richard I was rocking along, teaching my creative writing and literature classes, volunteering at the doctor’s office, working on a couple of local boards of directors, and preparing for the launch of my newest mystery, A Palette for Love and Murder. Invitations were out; books were in […]
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