Category: On Writing
A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT ART AND WRITING
When I was seventeen my father gave me an autobiography called The Magic of a Line. It’s out of print now and the author Laura Knight, an English Impressionist artist, is relatively unknown in America. The book has sat on my bookshelf for years. I’ve always kept it despite many moves, partly because it was […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Avery Flynn
Avery Flynn interviews Hadley Donovan, the protagonist in her new rom-com, The Wedding Date Disaster, about snipe hunting, evil twins, and surviving family get-togethers. Giggles, slow dances, hot kisses and happy sighs, that’s The Wedding Date Disaster. It’s a romance about embracing yourself (warts and all) even when your life isn’t as picture perfect as […]
Almost
Almost could go either way. A potential—for the negative or positive. The glass is almost full. It’s almost empty. Almost is about just barely, a narrow margin, coming close. A seed that germinates and turns to fruit or flower, or doesn’t. It’s about fate. If you think about the two words all and most, your […]
Scary Clowns are so Passé: On Writing an Evil Mime Artist
Scary Clowns are so Passé: On Writing an Evil Mime Artist By Chrissey Harrison A phobia of clowns is known as coulrophobia. With their exaggerated features, clowns are very “other”, even monstrous – it only takes a small shift in perspective to turn a caricature into a grotesque. They also behave in challenging, transgressive ways, […]
A Confederacy of Authors
L B Gschwandtner A few years back, I read an article on HuffPo titled Sticks & Stones: The Changing Politics of the Self-Publishing by Terri Giuliano. She made the case that a) self publishing or, as it’s now known Indie Pubbing, is growing fast, b) some authors published by traditional houses resent this, c) sales for ebooks are climbing, d) sales of paperback books are […]
On Change Meetings
Caroline won her first National Poetry competition at 10 years old and from that moment dreamed of being a writer. After juggling motherhood with modelling assignments, she founded an Interior Design Company working on many projects in the UK and abroad. Her second marriage to the widowed Conroy Harrowby brought four stepchildren into her life, […]
Writing Miracle Country
The first words that appear in Miracle Country came from an essay I wrote when I was twenty years old. The essay was called “Charade” and I wrote it in a college class taught by the writer Marcia Aldrich, the very first creative nonfiction class I ever took—my introduction to the genre that would become […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Terri Boas
TWO SCOOPS, NOT THREE Briony, Natalie and Lauren have been best friends since school. Now in their thirties, their lives couldn’t be more different. Eternally single Briony is desperate to find ‘the one’, while Lauren, a singer onboard cruise ships, is having far too much carefree fun to even think about settling down with ‘Mrs […]
IF YOU’RE A WRITER, YOU HAVE TO GET ON WITH WRITING THE BOOK, RIGHT?
Anyone who has ever tried to write a book will know the pressure of finishing that first draft. It can take months, maybe even years. You get up every morning, stare at the blinking curser and wait for the words to come. Then, when they don’t, you try to force them onto the page – […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING CHARACTERS: LIZA NASH TAYLOR
A sweeping Jazz Age tale of regret, ambition, and redemption inspired by true events, including Josephine Baker’s 1925 Paris debut in Le Revue Nègre. “Fasten your seatbelts…this is one fabulous book that will keep you turning pages.” —Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer Listed in PARADE MAGAZINE’S 30 Best Beach […]
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