Category: On Writing
Historical Fiction and Accuracy
I cannot remember a time in my life that I was not in love with history. From sitting at my aunts’feet as a young child and listening to their stories, to enjoying learning new things about history in my classes in school. I can remember in a literature class learning about corduroy roads in the […]
Inspiration For The Best Part Of Us
My first memory of reading amazing works of fiction was in junior year of high school. Mrs. Barnes started the semester with E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, moved on to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and ended with A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Yikes. I’m sure I […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Iris Mitlin Lav
A Wife in Bangkok by Iris Miltin Lav (September 8, She Writes Press) is a beautiful tale of one woman who dropped everything for a journey across the globe. It’s 1975, and Crystal is doing her best to be a “good wife” for her family. However, when her husband’s job relocates her family to Thailand, she finds betrayal and isolation among the beauty. Fighting intense loneliness and buffeted by a series frightening and shocking […]
Cooking Up A Book by Cauvery Madhavan
by Cauvery Madhavan Twenty years ago, I abandoned my husband and three children for a brief ten days and headed down to deepest West Cork to figure out if I wanted to be a writer or a cook. Was I going to start my first novel or was I going to make something out of […]
Twins As Fictional Characters
People often ask me why I chose to have twins as two of the main characters in my debut novel, The Takeaway Men. And also, since I am not a twin myself, how did I get into their heads and depict them accurately? The fraternal twin girls in my Historical Fiction book, Bronka and JoJo, […]
Writing A Girl Made of Air – Nydia Hetherington
Writers are often asked about their process, about the hows and wherefores of getting a novel onto the page. In truth, I’m not sure what my process is. For me, writing A Girl Made of Air was a leap of faith. In my former life I’d created fictional worlds through devised theatre in Paris, where […]
From Translating Dostoyevski to Writing Fiction
Natasha Randall’s debut novel Love Orange is out now from riverrun (Hachette). She has translated many novels from the Russian including Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground, Zamyatin’s We, and Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time. Her words have appeared in The Yale Review, the TLS, the LATimes Book Review, The Moscow Times and in Strad magazine. We asked her how translating […]
When A Title Is Magic
Some writers have a tough time coming up with titles. Others don’t. I usually don’t have a difficult time with titles; however, I did find myself in that position recently. I thought about why I was stuck and what I realized was that I had forced the title on the story rather than let it […]
Author A.R. TAYLOR interviews her main character, JENNA MCCANN from her new novel, JENNA TAKES THE FALL.
Perfect for fans of Followers by Megan Angelo and If You’re Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin, JENNA TAKES THE FALL by A. R. Taylor (September 1, She Writes Press) is a darkly humorous, at times absurd, coming-of-age novel that examines the life of a young woman who becomes infamous before she becomes anybody at all. At just twenty-four, Jenna McCann […]
Catch a Passing Thought – Writing Dreams They Forgot
My new book Dreams They Forgot is a collection of twenty-three short stories, a mosaic of diverse characters travelling the high and low roads of time and place. An Irish woman immigrates to 1800s South Australia in search of the land of plenty. A man burdened by secrets appears on a 1970s TV game show. […]
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