Category: On Writing
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 […]
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 […]
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