Category: On Writing
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 […]
Purple Lotus: Excerpt
Winner of the She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) contest, Purple Lotus is an invaluable #OwnVoices story personalizing the immigrant experience with a universal message: there’s hope even if you feel inadequate, powerless, fearful. It is never too late to take control of your life – we must choose to live, not just exist. Dealing […]
The Merriest Magnolia, An Excerpt
Home for the holidays has always meant cozy small-town traditions…but this year all that may change… Carrie Reed has always been known as her hometown Good Girl, yet she still loves Magnolia, North Carolina—after all, this is where her newly discovered sisters, Avery and Meredith, live. But Christmas is on its way and with it, […]
Excerpt of The Dogs Of Winter, by Ann Lambert
The Dogs of Winter (Second Story Press, October 28th 2020) is a compelling story full of hot button Canadian topics pulled from the headlines. Locations in this murder-mystery are personal to author Ann Lambert who taught at Dawson College across the street from where much of the action takes place and saw what went on every […]
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