Category: On Writing
A Writer’s Dream
“When will you stop checking out books from the library and start writing?” My husband asked me this more than six months after my announcement that I was going to write a novel set in Spain during both medieval and modern times. In it, I would explore endangered connections between cultures that are vital to […]
The Process Of Writing THE NIGHT OF THE FLOOD
The process of writing The Night of the Flood I wanted to describe the process of writing my debut novel in a way that would be helpful to other writers so I thought I would tell it as a narrative. This story, like most classic tales, is in three acts. Act One. Beginning. It was […]
Certain Cure Origins
Would you be willing to have a nanochip implanted if it could cure cancer? What if it’s the fountain of youth? That’s the premise of Jennifer Valoppi’s novel CERTAIN CURE: WHERE SCIENCE MEETS RELIGION. By Jennifer Valoppi “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Sir Arthur C. Clarke, scientist, author and futurist. As a […]
From Nurse to Author by Nancy J. Cohen
In my early days, I wrote poetry, short stories, a Shakespearian-type play and multiple travel journals. But my main ambition was to become a nurse. I wanted to help relieve a patient’s anxiety about being sick and in the hospital. To this end, I worked as a paid nurse’s aide during my college summers. I […]
On Writing MATRIMONY, INC.: From Personal Ads to Swiping Right, a Story of America Looking for Love
I’ve always been interested in the history of the everyday. My first book was about the pineapple – yes, the pineapple! It may sound like a joke, but it was based upon my Cambridge University dissertation on the subject which revealed that the pineapple was one of the most potent status symbols of the eighteenth […]
The Men & Boys of Sybelia Drive
by Karin Cecile Davidson A friend’s introduction to Tim Hetherington’s photographs of American soldiers asleep in their bunks in Afghanistan led me to thinking about the men and boys of my novel Sybelia Drive. I’d spent so much time thinking of this book in terms of the narratives of the women and girls that I […]
The Makings Of A Wolf Den Hollow
Essay by Donna Murray Growing up as a child, I lived vicariously through my grandmother . . . a Native American Cherokee. I never knew or met her, but from the time I was born, her blood ran through me. I was a war baby, born during World War II, and lived on a farm […]
My Tiger: Living With Anxiety
Living with anxiety is like sharing a house with a tiger. Going about my daily business pretending it’s not there is not only pointless, it’s guaranteed to result in damage. Inevitably, something I do agitates the tiger and it bites. Growing up with undiagnosed anxiety meant nobody around me acknowledged the tiger, so I thought […]
A Long And Winding Roller Coaster
By Daisy Bateman I thought I had experienced everything publishing could throw at me. Then 2020 showed up and said, “Hold my beer.” My first book is being published this year. Not the first book I wrote, which was begun longhand in a loose leaf binder, sitting on the lawn outside my college dorm. Not […]
All In
My first book, Poetic License-A Memoir, was released in August. Publication day culminated a twenty-year quest to figure out who my father was to me over our long and complex relationship and to better define myself outside the shadow of his literary fame. The manuscript had been threaded through two full decades of my life, […]
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