Category: On Writing
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Alison Hammer
Alison Hammer, author of YOU AND ME AND US interviews her character CeCe. Recommended for fans of Jojo Moyes and Marisa de los Santos, Alison Hammer’s debut ought to be sold with a box of tissues. When Tommy is diagnosed with stage four cancer, his partner Alexis and daughter Cece must face their differences and […]
My Downton Abbey-Like Family History and the Writing of Greedy Heart, a Novel
My Downton Abbey-Like Family History and the Writing of Greedy Heart, a Novel Descending from the inventor who brought electrical power to New York City. Having your portrait done by an artist who painted presidents. Living with a world-famous fashion model as your mother. Wondering if a hushed-up family suicide was really foul play. Sounds […]
Interview With Barbara Probst
Barbara Probst’s novel QUEEN OF THE OWLS (April 2020) is the powerful story of a woman’s search for wholeness, framed around the art and life of iconic painter Georgia O’Keeffe. QUEEN OF THE OWLS has been selected as one of the 20 most anticipated books of 2020 by Working Mother and will be the May […]
Finding Myself at The Great Big Ball of Hair in Jefferson, Texas
Barbara Linn Probst If you know what I’m referring to in the title of this piece, then you’ve been to the Pulpwood Queens’ Girlfriends Weekend, and you probably have a good idea what this essay will be about. But if you haven’t, and don’t, then read on. On second thought, read on either way. The […]
My obsession with Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
She built a monument, then was lost in its shadow. My obsession with Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge I grew up in northern New Jersey, and New York City was like Oz to us. Not being able to afford the fancy restaurants and shows, we did the free stuff. My father loved to […]
Living and Writing and Faith: Dispatch from Self-Isolation, Day 30
All I want to do is have coffee with my parents under a shade tree. It’s day 30 of self-isolating in the era of Covid-19. I’m sixty-five and immunosuppressed (a double-organ transplant patient) so I started drawing back during my spring break from N.C. State. The first week, I went out for groceries and once […]
CHARIS IN THE WORLD OF WONDERS: Excerpt
“When I swung over that windowsill, everything changed for me. We are meant to go in and out of doors in civilized style, but my mother bade me climb into woodsy wildness and a darkness flushed with crimson light and torches …” And so begins the long journey through the wilderness as Charis is forced […]
Unsealing Divorce
While researching the third novel in a trilogy for the Durant Family Saga, I tracked down and unsealed a divorce file from 1898. After this, I was left with a dilemma, what to do and how to unfurl the story about a man who covered up his adultery in an attempt to protect his reputation […]
The Magnolia Sisters: An Excerpt
I grew up in Ohio but have lived in Colorado for over twenty-five years. No matter how long I’m here, I’ll always consider myself a Midwestern girl at heart. I write sweet and sexy contemporary romance and have published over thirty books. I’m so excited about the release of The Magnolia Sisters, which kicks off […]
The 20th Anniversary of the Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend
Why would an isolative writer pack her tiara, hot pink tee, and leopard tunic, leave her husband and three codependent dogs, and drive five hundred miles in a driving rainstorm? There is only one answer, of course: to attend the 20th Anniversary of The Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend. As the original Pulpwood Queen, Kathy L. […]
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