Category: On Writing
Why I Love Writing Flash
By Pamela Gay Many years ago at a conference after reading a “little story” I wrote called “The Angry Woman,” two women came up to tell me how much they enjoyed it. “But we have a question. Is it a poem or a story?” I smiled. “It’s a poetic story,” I replied. I began writing […]
Excerpt of The Nun’s Bethrothal
The Nun’s Betrothal “It is refreshing to see a tale achieve such titillating, erotic heights without resorting to a more unabashed, not to say lurid, style, a sign of the author’s novelistic subtlety…..An engaging love story, historically captivating and romantically gripping.” –Kirkus Reviews Set in ninth-century France, just before taking her vows, Sister Gilda, along with […]
Winter Of The Wolf
BY MARTHA HUNT HANDLER I was born and raised in rural northern Illinois. With few neighbors and two older brothers who had little interest in me, I spent a good deal of my time wandering alone in the woodlands that surrounded my home. Except I was never really alone because I could hear flora and […]
Road To Publication: Zoë Sharp
Zoë Sharp I have been in this writing game long enough to have started out in an entirely analogue world. When I wrote my very first novel there was no internet, no social media, no email, no mobile phones, and precious little by way of computerisation. (I should point out here that I was only […]
Unusual Inspiration
When you think of inspiration, what are your initial thoughts? Could it have something to do with your muse, creativity or perhaps you think of something far more abstract and intangible? Whatever the inspiration; it’s often the universal question asked of writers, artists, designers, photographers, filmmakers, performers, musicians…in fact, anyone who is creating any form […]
Research In A Latex Dress
Merge “The Big Short” & “50 Shades” by way of “Billions,” but give the women the whips and make the men submit, and you get Jane Boon’s new novel “EDGE PLAY.” Jane tells us all about her inspiration and research! There was no class called “The Novel” at the engineering school I attended in the […]
MUSCLE MEMORY: Excerpt
Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown s a collection of essays about the author’s personal struggles with cerebral palsy, and her evolving understanding of the intersection between her physical body and that intangible other that she has come to call the soul. Molly is known for her award-winning poetry collection, The Virginia […]
Waiting for the Parade
They would not leave me alone; the lonely virgin who stumbles on a breast feeder’s group and decides to pose as a mother and stay, the aging beauty queen who covers all her mirrors but helps a friend with Alzheimer’s remember what it felt like to be sixteen, the mother who finds an unlikely way […]
When a World Crisis Makes Your Backlist Historical Fiction Novel Suddenly Relevant Again: Is It Still Your Story to Tell?
When George Floyd’s televised murder and reaction, is startlingly similar to a historical incident depicted in your own two-year-old novel, how do you manage privilege and political correctness to revitalize interest in your story . . . and should you? Since my protest days, I’ve been concerned about the hamster wheel of history, how we […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Sarah Lahey
The first book in a brand-new science fiction romance trilogy, Gravity is Heartless by Sarah Lahey is bold, speculative fiction that propels readers into a deeply imaginative world on the brink of climate catastrophe. The year is 2049, and when an unexpected tragedy occurs and her famous mother is presumed dead, cloud scientist Quinn Buyers is imprisoned on […]
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